Team

Joan Soler-Adillon is an artist and member of the Faculty of Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He has previously held academic positions at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Pompeu Fabra University. His research and practice revolve around interactive digital media and their manifestation in digital art, especially interactive installations, interactive and documentary storytelling, and virtual reality (VR). From a full-body interactive game on an inflatable sledge to an experimental VR documentary, he has been involved in multiple projects focusing on the design of system behaviours and interactivity, as well as audience collaboration and participation in these experiences. In recent years, his artwork has been selected for and received awards at major European extended reality festivals and exhibited in cities such as London, Paris, Berlin, Zurich, Barcelona, Beijing and New York.

Bachelor of Fine Arts (1993), Postgraduate in Visual Culture Studies at the University of Barcelona (2004) Degree in Graphic Design at Llotja School (2005), and Master in Multimedia Applications at the Open University of Catalunya (2013). She is currently the Director of the Arts Degree at Open University of Catalonia (UOC).

Since 2010, she is lecturer of Informatics, Multimedia and Telecommunication department at the Open University of Catalonia, she teaches in Multimedia Degree and in Design and Digital Creation Degree. She has also taught about creativity and graphic design in Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Autonomous University of Barcelona and in several vocational schools.

She has an extensive professional experience as a graphic designer, illustrator and pre-press specialist too. Nowadays she is enrolled at the Network and Information Technologies PhD program at the Open University of Catalunya. Her artistic and academic research is focused on the study and creation of visualizations as technological tools for exploration, experimentation and learning, with social, cultural, ideological and political implications

Graduated in audiovisuals and multimedia at ERAM – University of Girona (Spain), master in Graphical Interface Design at the University of Lincoln (UK), doing his PhD on Interfaces and Tools for Interactive Cinema and i-docs.

He is an assistant professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC.edu) where he teaches Video, Interactive Design, Interactive Media and Virtual Reality. He has given talks and workshops at several national and international institutions on art and technology.

He has been awarded with prizes on digital art, and some of his works have been shown in art centres and festivals in Spain, France, Serbia, Helsinki, Singapore and Canada. Amongst them, Arts Santa Monica (Barcelona), Sala de Arte Joven (Madrid), KC Grad (Belgrade, Serbia), KUVA Art University (Helsinky, Finland), VAD Festival (Girona, Spain), Ingràvid (Figueres, Spain), and the National Academy of Fine Arts, NAFA (Singapore).

He uses several techniques, from performance art to sculpture, coding and media art, to generate interactive artefacts. Most of his works -however beautiful in its surface- are there to challenge preconceptions about technology and a reminder of how it needs to adjust its potential to human measure and nature.

Jonathan Chacón holds a Computer Science Degree (2009) and has a PhD in Technologies of Information and Communication in Audiovisual Media (2016). He has been collaborating with the GTI from 2007 to 2016, conducting computer administration tasks to assist research project requirements. He also participated in the ICT IP European project TENCompetence, deploying and configuring the project infrastructure to support pilots. He was involved first in the LdShake team and later in the ILDE team (Learn3, EEE, METIS, IJIE projects). His research area is focused on educational technologies, with an emphasis on mechanism that can support Teachers’ communities in Learning Design Ecosystem. Particularly, focussing on supporting reuse of designs by teachers, mechanisms to guide teachers within LD Ecosystem and how can these designs and practices interoperate with each other. In 2016 he has also collaborated within the Teaching Quality and Innovation Support Unit (USQUID acronym in catalan) from UPF in innovative teaching projects.

A teacher and researcher who has developed and implemented innovative methodologies in interactive, creative and educational projects, collaborating with both private companies and public organisations with an approach that integrates a solid background and experience in technology, design, arts and communication.

Specialising in the evolution of digital creation, interaction, and the dynamics of power and control generated through technology, she has taught Design, Audiovisual Culture and UX at institutions such as Massana, BAU, Elisava, CITM and EINA. Since 2007, she has published the blog Uncovering Ctrl dedicated to media art, surveillance and privacy, included in the Spanish Media Art Archive (AEMA/SAOMA).

Participation in various digital culture events such as MHA RE:Source 2023, ISEA 2022: Possibles, the III International Congress Art and Politics of Identity: Visualities and Narratives of Resistance (2022), the Interface Politics Conference (2016/2018), and bodies_perceptions_design (2018), among others. As well as in conferences, congresses and symposiums at: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, the Universidad del País Vasco, the Universidad de Málaga, the Universidad de Murcia and the Universidad Autónoma de Diseño de Morelos (Mexico).

Javier Melenchón received his B.Sc. and M.Sc degree in Multimedia, B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Computer Science and PhD from Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain, in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004 and 2007, respectively. He worked as an Associate Professor in Universitat Ramon Llull from 2001 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been working as an Associate Professor in Universiat Oberta de Catalunya, teaching various subjects within the multimedia degree (digital image processing, video systems and image processing, music and acoustic systems, digital content integration).

His main interests are artificial vision, human-machine interaction, human voice analysis and its application to the improvement of teaching within the framework promoted by the European Higher Education Area. He is involved in various research projects in these areas, focusing his activity on the development of realistic interfaces and customizable media with an important component of the signal processing of video and audio.

Interaction designer, live-coding performer, researcher and educator. He is Associate Professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) where he teaches human-computer interaction, human-centered design and creative coding. He is the director of the master’s degree in Interaction Design and User Experience. His research is focused on technology-enhanced learning, human-computer interaction and design. Currently, he is focused on media art, interaction design and live coding. His practice is currently centered around educational tools, interactive installations, live coding and speculative artifacts. He is a member of the DARTS Research Group and TOPLAP BCN.

Aida Sánchez de Serdio Martín is a doctor in Fine Arts and an educator, researcher and cultural worker in the fields of visual culture, education and collaborative art practices. She is currently a lecturer at the UOC (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), where he teaches at the Bachelor of Arts.

Previously, she has been a consultant for the Departments of Education and Publics at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (2015-2016), and a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of Umeå University (Sweden) (2014-2015) as well as the Cultural Pedagogy Unit of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona (1998-2014).

She has been visiting professor at the University of Lisbon, Goldsmiths College (London), University of the Republic (Uruguay), and Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Switzerland), among others. She has written numerous articles and book chapters on the connections between art, education and visual culture.

She has also taken part or collaborated on educational and cultural projects such as Associació per a joves Teb, Artibarri, Pràctiques Dialògiques (Museu Es Baluard, Palma de Mallorca), Transductores, Zones de Contacte (La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona), Pedagogies de fricció (Fundació Joan Miró), and Centre de Cultura de Dones Francesca Bonnemaison.

Irma Vilà is a curator, researcher and cultural producer specialized in art, science, technology and society. Her career includes international projects that blend scientific or cultural research with curation, such as ‘Atlas of the electromagnetic space’ and ‘A chronology of the utopias of the radioelectric spectrum’ which she has exposed abroad. She has curated exhibitions at Arts Santa Monica Laboratory Space as well as at institutions such as CCCB and ArtFutura Festival. And she has curated screenings for Mapping Festivals as FIMG, Girona and FIMA, Morelia, Mexico.

She has a Multimedia Engineering Diploma from the Universitat Ramon Llull in Barcelona and a Master in Curation and Cultural Practices in Art and New Media from MECAD.

She is the Director of the journal Mosaic and Executive Co-Director of the scientific journal Artnodes. She lectures on the Bachelor Degrees in Multimedia, Digital Design and Creation, and Arts at UOC, specializing in the field of creativity, digital art and culture; sound art and design. She is a member of DARTS research group.

She forms part of the creative recycling group Luthiers Drapaires and the audiovisual artists collective Telenoika. She is one of the founders of the cultural research and innovation laboratory ZZZINC.