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Emphaty Box (2012)
Artists: Concepción Huerta, Dalia Huerta, Israel Martínez, and Jorge Uriel Nájera
Taking its name from a book by Philip K. Dick, an empathy box is a device created to develop a bond of humanity between the users. In other words, the machine affects the user through the generation of one of the most basic feeling experienced by a human being: empathy.
The box installed at the Kadist Art Foundation San Francisco presents four videos made by artists from Guadalajara, in order to generate an affective participation of the reality of life in Mexico. Israel Martínez shows amateurs playing sports and Dalia Huerta offers a new look of a daily walk; while Jorge Uriel Nájera gives us an abstract close up of a familiar space and Concepción Huerta presents the freshness of a dip.
These artists have translated some aspects of Mexican life into a visual images and sound. They reveal the quotidian, the familiar and the daily in order get users closer to what it is to live and work in a place like Guadalajara. You are invited to get closer, put the headphones on and feel some empathy.