Biography

Ricardo Ocaña

Grenada (Spain)

Visual artist and independent researcher. Their practice lies at the intersection of contemporary photography, generative technology, and critical thought. They hold a master's degree in Photographic Creation from Pompeu Fabra University and Elisava (Barcelona) and have completed a specialization in 21st Century Art, focusing on emerging and digital practices. Their work has been selected in various competitions, such as the Ciudad de Badajoz Awards and the Dijous Bo Visual Arts Contest, and has been a finalist in Kursala 100 (University of Cádiz) and the Visual Poetry and Video Poetry Competition «Un Cop d’Ull» (Fundació ACA). Additionally, they have exhibited in exhibition spaces and institutions such as the Luis de Morales Museum (Badajoz), the Sa Quartera Art Center (Inca, Mallorca), and the Yila’ob Cultural Center (Mexico). They have published several articles on contemporary imagery, post-photography, and generative artificial intelligence. Within this research framework, they have proposed the term «inagraphy» to define still images generated by artificial intelligence.

Espentana

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«The distance between them is to be measured not in terms of the relative force or originality of their work, but in terms of their conceptions of what a photograph is: is it a mirror, reflecting a portrait of the artist who made it, or a window, through which one might better know the world?»

John Szarkowski, 1978 («Mirrors and windows: American photography since 1960», p. 25)


«Espentana» comes from the union of the Spanish words «espejo» (mirror) and «ventana» (window)

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