“La privadesa digital. El jo en la banda de Moebius”. Course for high school teachers within the framework of the Transversalia project. Ideas by Pau Waelder with the participation of the educator Jordi Ferreiro

Pau Waelder has designed the course “La privadesa digital. El jo en la banda de Moebius” with the participation of the educator Jordi Ferreiro. The course will be held at Museu d’Art de Castelló / Centre del Carme, València between 10-12 april 2018

In our daily interaction with digital devices and Internet services, we assume that both the devices and content platforms are at our service and that we obtain the network that we want, even without giving anything in return. But we are actually providing data constantly and feeding a system designed to help us to share more and more, to record, quantify and disseminate everything we do, where we are and even what we think. Our privacy is increasingly exposed, to the point where the private and the public are confused, alié and their own. But this is not the result of the imposition of a totalitarian government, as George Orwell imagined in 1984. It is not just Army control by a Great Brother, but the desire of each individual to show himself before others in a society that It celebrates individualism and a technology industry that facilitates the means to do it and finances it with our data.

However, the key is to ask: Why do we need to make ourselves visible on social networks? How do we build our ego based on likes? Digital technologies have created situations for which social norms have not yet been consolidated, the consequences of which cost us to foresee. The works of various artists who work with new media offer a frame of reflection and experimentation that reveals the ways in which our privacy is changing and how personal identity is shaped in the information society. Examining various artistic projects and the contributions of theorists and researchers, we will discuss some issues with which to work on the concept of privacy in the digital age and the formation of self in an uncertain space that, as a band of Möbius, does not distinguish between interior and exterior.

 

 

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Time spirals in the Anthropocene: an artistic approach to the visualization of environmental data

Quelic Berga, Pau Alsina and Javier Melenchon present at MACBA (Barcelona, Catalonia) “Time spirals in the Anthropocene: an artistic approach to the visualization of environmental data“, on February 21, 2018. They present it as part of the Mutating Ecologies in Contemporary Art program: Matter, Ethics and Subjectivity. II International Symposium.

The rhetoric of progress and the teleological linearity of Time, which helped to found our constitutive modernity, promised an improvement of the human condition that contrasts with the destructive and annihilating reality of the Now under the sign of the Anthropocene. This metaphysics of progress, already present in the Christian tradition and secularized in the form of techno-scientific optimism, was established as a will to control and dominate nature in all senses, as well as the supremacy of the new over the old (where we tend to find the narrative of the origins and a legitimating directionality of history). In opposition to this abstract background of continuity disposed on the incessant flow of modifications and discontinuities found in events, it is possible to enlight other conceptions of time that contrast with the meta-narrative of progress. Inside the directionality inscribed in the metaphor of the arrow of time there is the overcoming of the old epistemic matrix that makes it impossible to think the becoming and the multiplicity, neutralizing differences without delving into the thickness of novelty. In contrast to the foundational timeline of our western Christian and capitalist civilization, it is also possible to conceive, on the margins of that semantic-material framework, time as a fractal entity that contracts or folds, connecting with thousands of unprecedented forms. The spiral that takes us from the dawn of Natural History and the inert taxonomy of Linnaeus cataloging the living beings under the imprint of the botanical garden, going through the Evolutionism of Darwin that historicizes life and incorporates it into the ecological niche, until arriving at the gene as the foundation and guiding principle of decontextualized life in the form of a genetic data bank of a life redefined in terms of information that can be transported and transformed. That is, from this immense spiral fold that takes us to the botanical garden transmuted into a genetic data bank, we propose to rethink the ontological-visual metaphors of time in relation to ecological thinking and the possibility of thinking about the future of life in all its contingency. In this sense, and in relation to the ideas presented, we will present Spirals within Spirals, a work in process that explores the development of tools for data visualization, paying special attention to the spatial representation of time, being this mapped as a pseudo space -Fractal and three-dimensional. As an ongoing artistic-philosophical investigation, the project focuses on the poetics and the aesthetics of the interface for a non-linear model of time representation and environmental data.

 

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Darts @ Mutating Ecologies In Contemporary Art II (MACBA Barcelona)

Darts @ Mutating Ecologies In Contemporary Art II (MACBA Barcelona)

We are trilled to be presenting “Time Spirals in the Anthropocene: an artistic approach to environmental data visualization.” at MACBA auditorium on February 21th at the 2nd International Symposium with the Keynote Talk by Anne Sauvagnargues.

Find all the information in this link and join us! 

Thanks to the AGI research group of Universitat de Barcelona to invite us! 

 

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“Confianza”.

Aida Sánchez de Serdio Martín participates with “Confianza” (2018). Hablarenarte (eds.) Glosario imposible. pp. 113-123. Madrid: hablarenarte. ISBN 978-84-697-9168-4.

Glosario imposible is an editorial project of hablarenarte, which accompanies the CAPP project until 2018. The compendium of the current printed edition of 2018 is made up of ten chapters. In June 2016 we presented a first digital edition with texts and interviews about the terms: agents, autonomy, authorship, context, collaboration, work and return. This material forms the basis of this edition in which some contents of the digital version have been modified, as well as including the new concepts: key trust, failure and institution.

 

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