Study group of the arts history department of the University of Barcelona - Art, architecture and the digital society


3rd International Conference “Digital Art and Architecture, Net.Art and Virtual Universes”

Faculty of Geography and History, University of Barcelona

March 5th and 12th, 2008

The imaginary in digital art: Background

Lourdes CIRLOT

From Cinema to cell phone: contemporary transformations of image-movement

Anna CASANOVAS

Art and Politics in the Web. Towards a Critical Culture

Gabriela BERTI

Reclaim the Backbone: Activism and public space in Internet

David CASACUBERTA

The creativity of the connected multitude and the meaning of art in the context of web 2.0

Juan Martín PRADA

Nanoaesthetics: Transfiguring Cultural Matter

M. Jesús BUXÓ

Architecture in Virtual Communities

Alberto T. ESTÉVEZ

The Architecture of Possible Worlds

Karl S. CHU

Round tables:

1. Artistic practices, Social control and resistance

Moderated by Michela ROSSO.

Participants: Fabiane Pianowski, Paloma G. Díaz, Fundación Rodríguez, Carlos Seda

Mail Art as a predecessor of Net.Art: Clemente Padín

Michela ROSSO

Mail Art: Internet out of control

Fabiane PIANOWSKI

Social and technological control in digital art:from the experimentation to radical criticism

Paloma G. DÍAZ

Presentation of Projects

Foundation RODRÍGUEZ

The artist as a generator of swarmings. Questioning Internet society

Carlos SEDA

2. Virtual Universes, Metaverso and Gameworlds

Moderated by VVirginia RUISÁNCHEZ

Participants: Carlos LÓPEZ, David ZEHNTER (APFEL), Aitor MORRÁS

Introduction to the Gameworld experience in diverse institutions

Virginia RUISÁNCHEZ

Virtual worlds as a marketing tool

The Astronauts' club and the Spaceship Mare Nostrum

David ZEHNTER (APFEL)

http://www.elclubdelosastronautas.com/

Metaverses, collaborative environments and creativity

Aitor MORRÁS

Filosofía y Empresa, la Dimensión Humana de los Negocios

http://filoempresa.wordpress.com/

III Jornades Internacionals Art i Arquitectura Digital, Net.art i Universos Virtuals