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


2nd CONFERENCE “ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN DIGITAL SOCIETY. CONTEMPORARY CITY AND GENETIC CITY”

The research group “Art, Architecture and Digital Society” organized the second conference dedicated to the subject of the city. The Conference was held on March 22nd and 29th 2006 in the University of Barcelona. This conference aimed at studying the new technologies and their impact on contemporary urban society.

The technological applications in the realm of the world of design, architecture, urbanism, landscape etc. and their relations with the contemporary artistic practices were the main object of study and debate.

The revitalization of the images of the renaissance body in the work of Bill Viola
Lourdes Cirlot

Esthetics and technoethics for the robotic enculturation in digital culture
María Jesús Buxó

Architecture of the city With and After the Location, METALOCUS
José Juan Barba

Architectures of (and in) the Net: Dynamic Evolution for a possible cartography of the (no)electronic place.
José Ramón Alcalá

Image and imaginary of the city. From the bidimensional city to the digital city
Arturo Colmado

The city, today and tomorrow: territory, identity and imaginary
Michela Rosso

The configuration of the city in contemporary cinema
Virginia Ruisánchez

The vision of the city of the future in comics
Jordi Górriz

Expanded space: Between (De)territorialization and virtuality
Claudia Giannetti

Between the appropriate and the foreign: Wa-Yo, classification and mimesis in Japanese representation.
Blai Guarné

Dreaming of real spaces, realizing dream spaces: The anthropologic construction of the hyperreal space
Victor Renobell

Architecture as an interface
Rodrigo Alonso

The Art of the Light and the City
Anna Casanovas

Project Genetic Barcelona: Towards a genetic architecture
Alberto T. Estévez

The nets of heritage and the vertebration of the new peripheries
Pere Vall

Mutations, morphogenesis and monsters
Mike Weinstock

Infiltrations and Interferences. Scientific Methods in Art and Architecture
Akos Moravanszky

science in architectural design, or should we intervene, opening up new spaces of freedom?

Digital-Biomimetic Architecture
Dennis Dollens