“Ruido en el sistema” is the first major compilation of artists from the Cuban underground, released via Ultramar. The cover frames the project through a materially degraded digital object, introducing noise as a central aesthetic and conceptual axis.
The artwork, produced with editing support from Daku, depicts a scratched CD inscribed with “RNS” and crossed by a strip of black tape. This intervention points to erosion, interruption, and interference, translating the compilation’s context into a direct, physical gesture.
Within the Cuban context, marked by restricted access to information and resources, the altered CD functions as a reappropriated medium, shifting from a symbol of technological control to one of autonomy. The piece echoes and displaces references to Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” and Kanye West’s “Yeezus” album cover, replacing irony and dematerialization with improvisation and survival.
Rather than treating censorship as absence, the work understands it as trace. Interference becomes a space where expression persists, positioning noise not as disruption, but as a condition of continuity.