…tricolor v.2007
This project was developed for the exhibition Colombian Net Art: It’s Ugly and It Doesn’t Like the Cursor curated by Juan Devis for Bogota’s Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango.
“Tricolor” describes, in Spanish, something with three colors. In this case, the Colombian flag (yellow, blue and red) is constantly reconfigured, not in its colors but in its content. This project critiques the at-times inherent, but at-times unknown, meaning in a country’s symbols, such as its flag. The flag is “updated” with live news feeds about Colombia from a variety of news sources. It therefore states the position of defining a country’s most untouchable symbol, not through our relationship with it, but through how others (ie. the media) see, and report on it.
The project’s title refers to the colloquial name with which Colombians refer to its flag, as well as the technological abbreviation of software versions. In reality, this “2007 Version” will continue to update itself, as long as the Flash coding that drives it is current with web technologies.
