Performing Captured Data is an experimental process that artist Citlali Hernández has been developing through her artistic practice. The project traces personal data digitally captured by dominant corporate systems, focusing on gestures such as likes, scrolling, and clicks – small bodily movements translated into information that typically feeds systems of identification. It explores how this digital information and its underlying structures can be related to physical gestures and material forms charged with personal and biographical significance, seeking artistic ways of returning agency to the data we produce.
During PIFcamp, Citlali will present a prototype of this work in the form of a workshop or a series of small actions, working with data, bodily movement, and technological systems. The project builds on methods she has previously explored, including Markov chains and text-to-speech, while deliberately avoiding the use of large language models (LLMs) or pre-trained models from corporate platforms. Her aim is to experiment with artistic ways of reusing the information we generate and to invite the PIFcamp community to join the process and discover what reflections emerge along the way.