Art & Media Symposium - First Encounter between latin-america and the iberian peninsula

SEASON OF ART AND MULTIMEDIA
Art & Media Symposium
First encounter of new tendencies in art and technology between latin-america and the iberian peninsula
http://www.mediatecaonline.net/artemedia/eng/

2, 3 and 4 June

Media art is becoming more and more relevant in the world scene of contemporary art. Creation activity is particularly prolific in the different countries of Latin America, as well as in Spain and Portugal, although the international resounding effects of this strong activity are small.
On the other hand, the contacts and interchanges among the different Latin American countries, as well as among them, Spain and Portugal are minimum.

Under these circumstances and in view of the need to establish an approach and a greater diffusion of the productions and originating agents, we have organized this First Latin American Meeting, which brings together artists, theorists, commissioners and representatives of academic and cultural institutions, that are developing a relevant role in the production, training, comprehension and diffusion of media art.

During the three days of the Symposium, more than 30 experts and artists of the various countries of Latin America, Portugal and Spain will talk, discuss and organize debates, to deal with the most cutting edge subjects related to the latest trends in art and digital technologies, paying special attention to Latin America.

The main objectives of this symposium are to create a first public forum -an unavoidable opportunity to know many of the most important figures that currently stand out, but also some younger proposals and related institutions-, as well as to promote the interchange of ideas and information about the present circumstances of media art in Latin America.

In order to achieve that, apart from the lectures, discussions and debates, the Symposium offers a parallel programme, including exhibitions of media art in Spain, Portugal, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

Every day the Symposium will deal with a specific subject, about which the guest speakers will discuss.

Coordination: Claudia Giannetti, director of MECAD/ESDI.
Coorganized with MECAD/Media Centre d’Art i Disseny d’ESDi (FUNDIT).
In collaboration with Digi-Arts, portal of UNESCO.



PROGRAMME:

- Thursday 2
- Friday 3
- Saturday 4


THURSDAY 2
ARTS/EXPANDED SYSTEMS: LABORATORIES IN COURSE

The interaction of disciplines, technologies and supports is one of the characteristics of current media art. We can confirm a clear process of expansion and interrelation of the media, which culminates in new formats, as interactive installations, robotic art, virtual reality, media performance, etc.

10.00 - 10:50 h.
Authorizations

11.00 - 11.30 h.
Opening

Claudia Giannetti, theoretician, curator, writer, Director of MECAD/ESDi
Carmen Garrido, head of Mediateca of CaixaForum

11.30 - 12.30 h.
Lecture"Critical Lab? Electronic art and scientific essays"

Jose-Carlos Mariategui, scientist and media theoretician. Director of Alta Tecnologia Andina - ATA, an NGO dedicated to research and development in art, science and technology in Latin America (Peru)

12.30 - 12.50 h. Break

12.50 - 13.10 h.
Communication “Digi-Arts program of UNESCO: a unique experience to promote digital arts”

Tereza Wagner, coordinator of Digi-Arts, Arts Division and the Cultural Enterprise UNESCO, Paris, France
13.10 - 13.30 h.
Monographic exhibition of media art from Portugal

Curated and presented by David Barro
13.30 - 13.50 h.
Communication"Interactivity, artificial life and time/space in the immersing installations "

Iliana Hernandez, responsible of the Aesthetics Department of the Javeriana University (Bogota)
13.50 - 15.00 h. Break

15.00 - 15.20 h.
Communication"MIDE: A selection of Electronic Art works and projects"

Jose Ramon Alcala, professor of Arts and Director of MIDE (International Museum of Electrography), Cuenca. With the cooperation of Bartomeu Pascual and Fernando Fuentes

15.20 - 15.40 h.
Exhibition "Chile Selection, VI Biennale of Video and New Technologies of Santiago", by Margarita Schultz.

Commissioners Nestor Olhagaray (Biennale Director) and Margarita Schultz

15.40 - 16.40 h.
Lecture-"Why reality? (Is it real?)

Lucas Bambozzi, media artist and independent curator (Brazil)

16.40 - 17.00 h.
Communication"50 years of art and technology in Latin America"

Ricardo Dal Farra, compositor, performer, multimedia artist, investigator and curator(Buenos Aires)

17.00 - 17.15 h. Break

17.15 - 17.35 h.
Introduction. Mediateca of CaixaForum. Multimedia Creation: Archive, documentation, preservation and divulgation.

Valenti Farras, head of mediatecaonline.net
17.35 - 18.35 h.
Lecture"Interaction within the framework of re-shaping networks of audio objects"

Gonzalo Biffarella, electro-acoustic music composer and media artist. Professor of the Arts School of the National University of Cordoba (Argentina)

18.35 - 18.55 h.
Introducing the exhibition of the productions realized by MECAD and/o ESDi.

By Claudia Giannetti, director of MECAD/ESDi, with the cooperation ofPedro Silva (MECAD) and Ricard Montoliu (ESDi)
19.00-19.45
Debate

Jose Carlos Mariategui, Lucas Bambozzi, Gonzalo Biffarella, Claudia Giannetti




FRIDAY 3
NETTERRITORIES, NO-TERRITORIES?

Internet has become a platform to trylanguages, styles, behaviours, aesthetics, but also a place of resistance and activism or a point of reference for virtual communities or tele-collaborative systems.We have passed from the first tele-matic art to the net art, web art, network, tele-presence, video-streaming and many otherexpressions that offer new proposals and contents in the web.

10.00 - 10.20 h.
Introduction of the exhibition "Model to assemble"

Curated and presented by Rodrigo Alonso

10.20 - 11.10 h.
Communication"Proposals and models of new festivals of media art"

Pedro Jimenez Alvarez, audiovisual and audio projects developer. Co-organiser of zemos98, Sevilla
Paula Perissinotto, founder and organizer of FILE (International Festival of Electronic Language) Sao Paulo
Eduardo Polonio, music and composer, promoter of Confluences, Huelva

11.10 - 12.10 h.
Lecture "Romantic hackers, sublime artivists"

Domingo Hernandez Sanchez, professor of Aesthetics and Theory of Art at the University of Salamanca (Spain)

12.10 - 12.25 h. Break

12.25 - 13.25 h.
Lecture-"Another narr@tive is possible"

Fran Illich, media artist, writer, independent curator, founder of the Nettime-Latino mailing list and director of various media festivals in Mexico

13.25 - 13.45 h.
Monographic exhibition of media art from Spain: "From the lineal to the participative"

Curated and presented by Antoni Mercader, media-art historian, producer, curator, Professor and Director of the Department of Visual and Plastic Education at the University of Barcelona

13.45 - 15.00 h. Break

15.00 - 15.20 h.
Monographic exhibition of media art from Colombia

Curated and presented by Felipe Londono

15.20 - 15.40 h.
Communication-" Publication on-line of contents to teach arts and media: experiences and valuation"

Eugenio Tisselli, computers Engineer of Mexico, Member of Vaina Systems, Professor of MECAD and the Pompeu Fabra University
15.45 - 16.45 h.
Lecture: "Expanded digital cinema: production, interactivity and immersive worlds"

Jorge La Ferla, video, TV and multimedia producer. Director of the EuroAmerican Exhibitions of Film, Video and Digital Art of Buenos Aires; Professor at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
16.45 - 17.00 h. Break

17.00 - 17.20 h.
Comunication"Tekhne Re-situated: Re-drawing the critical and aesthetic paradigms of digital art within the framework of the Reverse Project

Jaime del Val, digital and visual artist, composer, choreograph, performer and Director of the Reverse Project (Madrid)
17.20 - 18.40 h.
Communication-"Interactiveon-line formats; the role of interface when articulating images and generating sense"

Ivan Marino, multimediadirector and videoartist, born inRosario, Argentina,. Professor of ESDi and MECAD
17.45 - 18.45 h.
Lecture -"Site*TAXI, channel *GITANO and other projects of audiovisual movable communication

Antoni Abad, media artist, one of the pioneers in Spain in the field of net art and network

18.45 - 19.30 h.
Round Table

Antoni Abad, Jorge La Ferla, Domingo Hernandez Sanchez, Fran Illich




SATURDAY 4
LOCAL, REGIONAL, TRANSNATIONAL, - GLOBAL?

The influence of the new media implies not only universalising its usage, butdefining trends and styles as well. One of the most interesting subjects, although one of the most controversial, is related to the questioning of the effects of globalisation within art.Can we talk about a Latin American, Spanish or Portuguese creative imaginary? May tastes and styles be homogeneous? Do we talk about identity and pluralism or about universalism?

10.30 - 10.50 h.
Communication"Internet and media tactics. Resistance and enthusiasm practices in Brazil"

Karla Schuch Brunet, graduated in Social Communication and Philology
10.50 - 11.10 h.
Communication - "The Multimedia Centre (Cenart) and their recent productions

Tania Aedo, director of the Multimedia Centre of Mexico

Lilia Perez, sub-Director
11.10-12.10 h.
Lecture "Immaterial Museum: hard disks, data bases and collective intelligence"

Antonio Cerveira Pinto, arts and technology consultant, director of projects, pedagogue and cultural producer (Lisbon)

12.10 - 12.25 h. Break

12.25-12.45 h.
Communication-"National University of the 3rd of February, Buenos Aires. Introducing the studies of Electronic Arts"

Mariela Yeregui, media artist and Professor of the University of the 3rd of February

12.45-13.45 h.
Lecture: « The impact of virtual communities on urban environments »

Felipe Londono, co-founder, Director and Professor of the Department of Visual Design at the University of Caldas. Co-ordinator of the Media Lab and Director of the International Festival of the Image in Manizales (Colombia)

13.45 - 15.00 h. Break

15.00-15.20 h.
Introduction of the exhibition "ViaSatellyte Remixed. A brief anthology of Peruan videoart"

Commissioned and introduced by Jose Carlos Mariategui
15.20 - 16.20 h.
Lecture: « Aesthetics of digital productions. A new ontology? »

Margarita Schultz, doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Chile in the areas of Aesthetics, Epistemology of Aesthetic Theories and Epistemology of the History of Art

16.20 - 17.20 h.
Lecture"Drifting for the Glocal Village"

Rodrigo Alonso, Independent Commissioner and Professor of the University of Buenos Aires, expert on technological art (Argentina)
17.20 - 17.40 h.
Communication-"Transpermia"

Marcel.li Antunez Roca, known internationally by his mecatronic performances and robotic installations
17.40 - 18.15 h.
Round Table

Felipe Londono, Rodrigo Alonso, Margarita Schultz, Antonio Cerveira Pinto

CLOSING



Prices
All sessions: 24,00 E
Students, pensioners and the unemployed: 20,00 E
Carnet Jove y Carnet +25: 12,00 E
Mediateca Members: admission free

Per session: 8,00 E
Students, pensioners and the unemployed: 6,00 E
Carnet Jove y Carnet +25: 4,00E
Mediateca Members: admission free



Ticket sales:


(In ServiCaixa, up to 1 hour before initiation of the activity;
and on the Internet and by telephone, up to 3 hours before)


• CaixaForum ticket offices.





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