Yastay

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Organised by

Cineteca Madrid

Director

Paula Gaetano Adi

Premiere

Yes

Awards

Creative Capital 2023, Golden Nica 2025 (Ars Electronica), first prize VIDA 9.0, LIMBØ Prize from the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, Art and Artificial Life Award from the Telefónica Foundation

What's it about

Two centuries after the historic crossing of the Andes that led to the liberation of South America from Spanish colonization, a group of engineers and Andean muleteers embark on an expedition across the mountain range to free a robot. Paula Gaetano Adi is an Argentine visual artist working in the fields of robotics, craftsmanship, cinema, and performance. She has been awarded the Creative Capital 2023 prize, the first VIDA 9.0 prize, the LIMBØ prize from the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, and the Arte y Vida Artificial prize from the Telefónica Foundation for Ibero-American artists. Her first feature film, Yastay, emerges from her long-term robotics project Guanaquerx, which was distinguished with the Golden Nica 2025 at Ars Electronica. Over the past two decades, her work has been widely exhibited internationally in Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She resides between San Juan (Argentina) and the United States, where she serves as a full professor at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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