Breve registro del performance alternativo en una Bogotá de inteligencia artificial: el valor del proceso de creación

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the phenomenon of alternative performance in Bogotá within the context of technological acceleration and the rise of artificial intelligence, focusing on the tension between human creativity and digital instrumentalization in art. The research is based on the premise that technology, while expanding creative possibilities, poses a threat to authenticity and artistic diversity, especially due to AI’s ability to replicate and homogenize creative processes. The study employs a qualitative methodology, with an ethnographic and action-participatory approach, using interviews, observation, and photographic documentation at the AntiFashion event—an emblematic space of Bogotá’s alternative scene. The work gathers testimonies from artists, performers, DJs, and designers, who agree that the essence of performance lies in corporeality, sensory experience, and improvisation—dimensions that artificial intelligence cannot replicate. While they recognize the potential of AI as a technical tool and source of visual inspiration, they insist that genuine creative processes are irreducible to algorithmic logic. The theoretical framework addresses concepts such as the technological threat to art, corporeality, aesthetics, and transhumanism, highlighting that the body and situated experience are the last bastions of human creativity against automation. Alternative performance is presented as an act of cultural and political resistance, where aesthetics and the body re-signify urban space and challenge hegemonic discourses. As a creative product, the photobook “PIELES” was developed, visually documenting the performative process and the atmosphere of AntiFashion, reinforcing the idea that alternative art in Bogotá is a space for dialogue, transformation, and the vindication of diverse identities. The conclusions confirm that alternative performance constitutes an aesthetic, corporeal, and political practice that resists technological homogenization, reaffirming the value of the creative process and the power of the body as a territory of expression and resistance.