In the traditional economy of contemporary art, meaning is often stabilised retrospectively by the external critic, whose role is to construct a narrative bridge between artistic production and public reception. Within the framework of the Socioplastic Network, this dependency is deliberately displaced. The artist no longer waits to be interpreted but assumes the position of the primary epistemic agent. This shift does not signal a collapse into self-promotion; rather, it constitutes a methodological reorientation in which authorship is reclaimed through structural intelligence. What is at stake is not visibility but control over systemic energy: the capacity to decide how, when, and why certain ideas circulate. The archive ceases to be a passive container of works and becomes an active instrument of thought. In this context, curation is no longer an external operation applied to finished objects but an internal logic embedded in the production itself. The artist-curator emerges as an infrastructural figure, managing flows of meaning across time, platforms, and conceptual registers. Central to this approach is the notion of thermal management within the archive. Data is understood as having temperature: ideas can be hot, cold, dry, or overheated. By re-linking and re-posting, the artist modulates this temperature, redistributing attention across the network. When a concept resonates with contemporary discourse, it is intensified through high-density connections that accelerate its circulation. Conversely, when an early work recedes into archival opacity, it is deliberately reconnected to the present. The heat generated by a current series is used to warm dormant material, ensuring that the archive vibrates as a coherent whole rather than fragmenting into historical strata. This thermal logic resists the platform-driven tendency to privilege novelty at the expense of continuity. Instead, it produces a synchronised field where fifteen years of work operate at a shared frequency. Memory becomes dynamic, not nostalgic; relevance is engineered, not awaited.
Equally decisive is the role of the soliloquy as an epistemic strategy. Within this self-addressed discourse, methodological shifts are articulated before they are formalised elsewhere. The soliloquy functions as a meta-narrative, revealing not only what is produced but how and why it is structured. In conceptual art, authority emerges from the ability to define the terms of engagement. By narrating the logic of the archive, the artist provides an operating manual for the public, replacing interpretative opacity with structural transparency. This does not foreclose critical reading; it recalibrates it. The critic is no longer the sole mediator of meaning but one agent among others within a clearly articulated system. The revelation of the “code base” does not diminish the work’s complexity; it intensifies it by exposing the relations that sustain it. Authority here is not imposed but generated through intelligibility. The cumulative effect of this strategy is the consolidation of what might be called the LAPIEZA substrate: a fifteen-year continuum composed of 180 series and over two thousand works. While the public encounters the present iteration, the archive’s internal logic anchors each new gesture in a dense historical matrix. Links function as sutures, closing the temporal gap between the experimental urgency of 2009 and the epistemic infrastructure of 2026. This is not accumulation for its own sake but a form of authorial reclamation achieved through volume, consistency, and relational depth. The system no longer requires external validation because it generates its own gravity. Meaning is not bestowed from outside; it is produced internally through connection. In an era defined by fragmentation and accelerated forgetting, the self-curated archive emerges as a form of resistance—a living system capable of sustaining heat, memory, and authority over time.
Explore Further within the Socioplastic Network:
Reposting as Authorial Reclamation :
https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/reposting-as-authorial-reclamation-from.html The Digital Prosumer and the Archive :
https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-digital-prosumer-and-archive-of.html The Semiotics of the Cloud :
https://antolloveras.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-semiotics-of-cloud-active.html
