Art, Architecture and Digital Society, is a Research Group that dates back to 1999 and that is linked to the Department of Art History of The University of Barcelona. Its objective is to focus on various artistic and architectonic disciplines, in relation to the technologies of communication and information and the digital world.

The development of technologies -first electronic and then digital- in all the fields of contemporary life, has been transforming the socio-cultural contemporary panorama for decades now. Within this context of growing diversification and intensification of the technologies of communication and information, the artistic practices have also turned to technology to find their means of creation and reflection. This process has given a rise to the transformation of the traditional notion of art and its models of production and distribution, representation and reception, imaginaries, iconographies, etc.

As a reply to the transcendence of these changes, the group aims to study the impact of these phenomena on the artistic and architectonic practices, as well as their relations with the social and other realms in digital culture.

Moreover, in relation to its interdisciplinary function, it seeks to demarcate new specific fields of investigation and create new methodology and teaching material for its growth/development.

This website has a double purpose. From one hand, we use it to make our activities and publications known to the public. From the other hand, it aims to be a source of information and resources about these subjects, and also serves as a platform of national and international contact among all the people that are interested in studying or contributing to the investigation by adding new knowledge.