The project organized by Gabriela Mateescu consisted of 3 parts:

• A digital art exhibition with new works by artists present on spam-index.com (a sub category of Nucleu 0000 organization): George Crîngașu, Adrian Ganea, Edith Lázár, Thea Lazăr, Anastasia Manole, taietzel ticalos and a new guest Hortensia Mi Kafchin, known not only for her metaphysical painting but also for her interest in digital art.
• A performance program coordinated by Marina Oprea with artists: Alexandra Sand, Florin Flueraș, Raluca Croitoru.
• A gallery experimental concert by Diana Miron, Laurențiu Coțac and Outis Quartet, with a video mapping by Aural Eye group.

Exploring new trends in contemporary digital art, where the use of images, videos or texts (sometimes even text generators) in the online environment has been cemented as a creative process, the SEEN project proposed an exhibition of digital art, but also a foray into contemporary performance art and experimental music through a workshop open to teenagers from Sector 2 Bucharest interested in music, completed with a final concert.

SEEN is inscribed in the context of contemporary art from a late post-modernist view, where the theme of originality ends up being questioned and even abandoned. Art history has always sought to label, construct categories and delimit striking individualities into groups, currents, trends – depending on themes, subjects or techniques – as the myth of genius and uniqueness became one of the great obsessions on the cultural scene of the twentieth century. Subsequent nuances closely follow the changes brought about by the technological leap. The 21st century brings to the fore the thematic groups and communities, formed by versatile creators, with multiple interests and directions of artistic development, who collaborate in most often multidisciplinary initiatives. Adapting to the pace of technology, which currently allows them to exchange thoughts and ideas in online groups and communities, and social media, artists receive answers based on the algorithms with which they curate their feed. Uniqueness is no longer a desideratum, on the contrary the resemblance to others, belonging to trends and the ability to continuously adapt to contemporaneity is a standard today.

“SEEN”. A social media landmark. The recipient read the message but did not respond, thus canceling the existence of the sender. The sender is put on hold. Could this be a bridge to the “déjà vu” of today’s artistic creation? An immune response to the daily surplus of information, exposure dosing has become an option for safe consumption and energy conservation, both in artistic production and in personal space. We have the option of not accessing links and not responding to messages that assault us and that reassures us. What once might have meant annulment is now relativized by the illusion of a postponement. Maybe we’ll do this later.