Artificial Art meeting
Wednesday 16 November 2022, 6 — 7:30 pm
- Participants
- Pilar Rosado, Pau Waelder, Lluís Nacenta, Pau García and Gisela Chillida Espinosa
- Moderator
- Pilar Rosado
- Venues
- Almanac Barcelona
- Language
- Español
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In March 2020, with the implementation of global confinement and since the WHO declared Covid-19 a pandemic, we thought we were living in a dystopia. The destabilization, the social isolation with severe limitations of movement, tahe hyper-connectivity of our guarded comfort capsules, the suspension of the usual functioning of living and working conditions for many and in many regions, accelerated some processes derived from globalization, post-capitalism and digitalization initiated decades ago. What is certain is that we inhabit an immense laboratory that generates data on the foundations of our culture and our civilization, our ideas and ideology; our customs, movements, philias and phobias. Material with which to experiment and use on the set of disciplines that revolve around the human being: philosophy, ethics, economics, psychology, science and art. The machinery of the digitalization process works inexorably, metadata, microdata, algorithms, artificial intelligence … significantly altering fundamental aspects of our reality and drastically changing the nature of creative processes. AI, NFTs, Machine Learning, Blockchain, Generative Art, Deep Learning, Genera-tive Adversarial Networks, Virtual Reality, Metaverse, autonomous robots, computational creativity, StyleGAN… The growing use of new concepts and digital technologies in numerous disciplines, as a creative tool, open the way to new forms of expression and raise debates on authorship or originality, on relations with the public, institutions or the market, which we must face.
Pilar Rosado
- Artist, Moderator, Participant
- www.pilarrosado.eu
Pilar Rosado is an artist and researcher. In her works she explores the impact of artificial intelligence on creative processes involving the application of machine learning technologies for the revision of collective visual memory and artificial creativity. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts and a degree in Biology. She combines her artistic career with research and teaching as a professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, in the framework of the Serra Húnter program, being a member of several R+D+i projects.
Last updated: Novemebr 11th, 2022
Pau Waelder
- Moderator, Participant
- pauwaelder.com
Art critic and independent curator, with a PhD in Information and Knowledge Society, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and Bachelor in Art History from the University of Barcelona. Waelder has curated several digital art exhibitions in museums and foundations and has been a member of the jury in various contemporary and digital art awards. He writes regularly for several specialized, international publications, as well as catalogues and monographs. Currently, he is a consulting professor in Humanities and Design as well as postgraduate courses at UOC. He is also a writer for the magazines ETC Media (Canada) and Estonian Art (Estonia), and he is section editor of Media Art in art.es contemporary art magazine.
Last update: May 15th, 2017
Lluís Nacenta
- Curator, Moderator, Participant, Speaker
Lluís Nacenta is a curator, writer, musician and researcher in the space of confluence of music, art, technology and science. He holds a degree in mathematics, a degree in piano, a master’s degree in comparative studies of literature, art and thought and a doctorate in humanities, with a thesis on musical repetition. He has been Head of Postgraduate Studies at Eina, University Center of Design and Art of Barcelona, from 2015 to 2017, Director of Hangar, Center for Production and Research of Visual Arts, from 2018 to 2021, and is Director of Quo Artis since September 2022.
Last updated, November 13th, 2022
Pau García
- Participant
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Freelance writer and curator. She writes regularly for A*Desk, La Maleta de Portbou, Bonart, Hänsel i Gretel, Núvol-Digital de Cultura, Politica & Prosa or Diario Levante. Recently, she has edited the book “Galeries d’art a Catalunya” and the catalogue of the exhibition “Tàpies / Alcaraz / Rubert” at the Kunst Lager Haas in Berlin. Some of her exhibitions as curator have been seen at àngels barcelona (Enésima Intempestiva), Arte Aurora (El ple and Seastanding), Àcid Sulfúric (€uropolis), Cera 13 (Moon and dust) or at FASE. Espacio de creación y pensamiento. Between 2018 and 2020, she coordinated the LOOP Discover Award, held within the framework of the LOOP Barcelona video art festival and fair. She has a Master in Art History and since 2011 she has been involved in teaching through conferences, talks and courses aimed at both children and adults. Among them, New economies for new communities. Can the rules of the game be changed? in the framework of the Mobile Week Congress; ¡Ay! Amor at the MACBA; David Hockney: a painter and a book at Galeria SENDA; A Century of Artistic Revolution, 1863-1964 and Painting in Europe, from Botticelli to Monet at Casa Elizalde (Barcelona); Two Italian Masterpieces at Can Palauet (Mataró).
Last update 22nd October 2020
