April 7 and 14, 2010
Aula Magna, Faculty of Geography and History, University of Barcelona
Carrer Montalegre 6-8, Barcelona (4th floor)
Registration: http://www.artyarqdigital.com/en/conferences/currents/registration/
Limited seats
Free entrance
2 free election credits
PROGRAM
Wednesday April 7:
9:00-9:20. Conference presentation
9:20-10:20. Projects. Art, Architecture and Digital Society and UB Virtual Museum
Lourdes CIRLOT, Professor of Art History, Vice-Rector of Art, Culture and Heritage of the UB and Director of the Research Group AASD.
10:20-11:30. Lecture. Towards a media art material history?: Concerning the technological in art
Pau ALSINA, Professor of Studies in Arts and Humanities of the Open University of Catalunya. Director of the magazine Artnodes.
11:30-11:40. Information on the Coordination of the Conference
11:40-12:10. Break
12:10-13:10. Lecture. Biodigital and Genetic Architecture (‘Gencity Project’)
Alberto T. ESTÉVEZ, Professor of Architecture, Director of the Master of Biodigital Architecture, ESARQ (UIC) and member of the research group AASD.
13:10-14:10. Lecture. Nanoart: Towards a re-modeling of contemporary art
Alessandro SCALI, artist and founder/ creative director of Kut communications srl.
Alessandro CHIOLERIO, researcher of the Department of Physics at the School of Polytechnics of Turin.
14:10-14:30. Recollection of the simultaneous interpretation equipment
16:00-20:30. Round table Universes: subjects, places, spaces in the global present
16:00-16:30. Introduction
Michela ROSSO (moderator), PhD student of the Department of Art History of the UB and collaborator of the research group AASD.
16:30-17:00. New ways of conceiving the body and the identity: bionics and biotechnology as new tools in artistic creation.
Daniel LÓPEZ, PhD student and grant holder at the Department of History of Art and member of the research group AASD of the UB.
17:00-17:30: Cyberbreath: Encounters of body and technology
Christina GRAMMATIKOPOULOU, PhD student at the Department of Art History of the UB and collaborator of the research group AASD.
17:30-18:00. Break
18:00-18:30. Augmented Reality and Artistic Practices: Transformations of the Experience of the Real
M. Luisa GÓMEZ, PhD student and grant holder at the department of Art History and member of the research group AASD of the UB.
18:30-19:00. Digital Geography. New forms of mapping the immaterial space
Modesta DI PAOLA, PhD student and grant holder at the Department of Art History and member of the research group AASD of the UB.
19:00-19:30. Dialogue Spaces. Criticism Zones. Flows of Knowledge
Herman BASHIRON, PhD student and grant holder at the Department of Art History and member of the research group AASD of the UB.
19:30-20:30. Discussion
Wednesday April 14:
9:00-10:10. Lecture. Culture and Cyberpunk cinema. Dystopias, virtualities and resistances.
Anna CASANOVAS, Professor of the Department of Art History of the UB and member of the research group AASD.
10:10-11:20. Lecture. METAHUMAN / METAFORMANCE / METASEX– Challenging the paradigms of simulation in the information society
Jaime DEL VAL, transdisciplinary artist, philosopher, activist and Director of the REVERSO Institute.
11:20-11:30. Conference Information and Coordination
11:30-12:00. Break
12:00-13:10. Lecture. Emerging Technologies, Technological Singularity and the Transhumanist Vision
Giulio PRISCO, Transhumanist, futurist, expert in emergent technologies, with a degree in Theoretical and Computational Physics.
13:10-14:20. Lecture. After the Information Bomb: The Subject in the Era of the Big Data
José Luis DE VICENTE, Cultural Researcher, journalist and curator specialized in new media, technology and innovation.
14:20-14:30. Questions on assistance certificates and free election credits
16:00-20:00. Round Table Artistic projects related to the technology of the game
16:00-16:30. Artistic Expansions: applications of the technology of the game
Virginia RUISÁNCHEZ (moderator), PhD student at the Department of Art History of the UB and collaborator of the research group AASD.
16:30-17:15. Me, myself and I – theoretical presentation and contextualization of the performance and video art project in Second Life
Clara GAMES, Artist, researcher and teaching assistant. PhD student at the University of Barcelona and the Nova University of Lisboa.
17:15-18:00. Bordergames: Everything else will look like a game
David RODRÍGUEZ, Coordinator of the project Bordergames.
18:00-18:30. Break
18:30-19:15. The Mare Nostrum Spaceship
David APFEL, artist, researcher and founder of the Astronauts' C lub.
19:15-20:00. Discussion
20:00-20:30. Closing of the conference
