In 2008 Art, Architecture and Digital Society receives a new subsidy by the Ministry of Science and Innovation in order to develop the project Art, Architecture and Virtual Universes (HAR2008-01446/ARTE); in this phase the group changes its lines of investigation in order to focus on the phenomenon of Virtual Universes and Communities in the context of Web 2.0.
Based on the emerging scene of communication and creative action, we aim to study the diverse artistic languages that explore the potential of the digital media and moreover to look into the suggestive modalities of the reception of the artwork, open due to the massive access to this media.
This project that will go on until 2011 is what defines our actual paths of work.
- Universes and Metaverses: artistic implementations of the new media.
- Artistic projects related to the technology of the game.
- Virtual Reality and immersive experience. Body and Identity. The evolution of the screens: transformations of the image and the movement.
- Networks as universes of knowledge. Interculturality and participation. Communication and cultural hybridizations.
- Genetic and biodigital architecture in the virtual communities and universes. Space, territories, subjects and digital geographies.
ADA.20_21
Project ADA.20_21: Digital Archive of the 20th and 21st century
October 2009
Research Group Art, Architecture and Digital Society
Direction: Dra. Anna Casanovas
Coordination: Modesta di Paola
Department of History of Art
University of Barcelona
The project has a double aim. On the one hand, the digitalization of artistic artworks that are currently in VHS format, running the risk of disappearance. The loss of these artworks selected during 25 years of teaching would make it impossible to study a fundamental part of the history of art of the 20th and 21st century: the audiovisual photo-chemical, electronic and digital creations.
On the other hand, we would like to make these works available to the professors, investigators and students of the UB by uploading them in the UB web page.
At the moment, thanks to the help of the library of the Faculty of Geography and History, we have already digitalized a considerable quantity of material into DVD and/or external hard disk dumps. These works are already properly put into order and classified.
But we have been working on it for a year now and progress is slow. For that reason, in October we came into contact with the recently created Research Help Service, asking for assistance and collaboration in order to carry out our project.
After we had explained the objectives and the lack of specific material for the digitalization and the creation of a database, they redirected us to the Media Library of the UB (formed by Audiovisual and GREC coordinated by Olegario López), that took great interest in the project. Therefore, in November 2009 we started working together in order to preserve, classify and diffuse throughout the UB the artistic creation documentation, that is necessary in order to understand the evolution in all the fields of the 20th and 21st century.
Considering the quantity of existing videos, we estimate that the project will not be finished before the end of 2011.
Cinematographic Research
Cinematographic Research
Dra. Anna Casanovas
Dr. Juan José Caballero
Dr. Alexis Racionero
Virginia Ruisánchez Acebal (doctoranda)
This proposal is part of the Research Group Art, Architecture and Digital Society. Ten years after its creation, the group has evolved and incorporated new researchers; in other words, it has maintained its efficiency and the enthusiasm in all its steps. During its history, it has demonstrated that it is able to adapt itself to the evolution of the times, opening different lines of investigation, manifold and innovative. Despite this, we consider that one should keep an eye on the possibility to keep on exploring an ambient that forms an inherent part of the group: cinematography.
Cinema, as we see it, should be approached as a privileged platform where all kinds of vanguard proposals experimental or linked to the more alternative scene or underground, converge; at the same time we should approach it as an exceptional patrimonial archive that nourishes all these creative traditions that have mutatis mutandis crystallized in what is called expanded cinema.
For all these reasons, we propose a variety of subjects that can serve as a base for classes, master and doctorate studies, conferences etc. and also as a starting point for new and innovative cinematographic research.
This new line of research within the group Art, Architecture and Digital Society is, as usual, open to all the researchers inside and outside the group, natives and foreigners, that are willing to inquire into the subject.
