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ISEA2022
International Symposium
on Electronic Art
from 10 to 16 June, Barcelona
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01 Introduction 3
02 Organizers 4
03 Programme 8
CONFERENCE 8
EXHIBITION 10
EXTENDED PROGRAM 12
• Barcelona 12
• Catalonia 22
04 Partners 27
INDEX
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Introduction 01
ISEA is one of the longest-running annual international events, and acts
as a meeting point to explore the direct intersection between art, design,
science, technology and society. ISEA has travelled around the world to
cities including Montreal, Durban, Manizales, Hong Kong and Sydney, and
has enabled artists, scientists, technologists and theorists to share their
research and their latest prototypes, technological breakthroughs and
artistic works linked to science and technology. What makes ISEA unique
is that it is not so much an academic conference as an event that features
a wide range of activities, which surprises visitors with newly created
formats at each edition of the event.
After more than ten years away from Europe, ISEA will touch down in
Barcelona from 10 to 16 June thanks to the involvement of an enthusiastic
local and international community. ISEA2022 will thereby strengthen
Barcelona’s position as a leader in research, scientific production,
knowledge creation and cultural creativity, both at home and abroad,
having recently regained its status as the cultural and scientific capital of
Spain.
Organized by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), in partnership
with the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB), Santa
Mònica, the New Art Foundation, the new art, science and technology
hub Hac Te, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA),
Barcelona City Council, through Barcelona Science and Universities and
the Institute of Culture, and the Ministry of Culture of the Government
of Catalonia, and Institut Ramon Llull, ISEA2022 Barcelona includes
exhibitions, workshops, outdoor projects, round table discussions, talks
by artists, school initiatives and other activities, with the involvement
of various institutions and communities in the city of Barcelona and in
Catalonia.
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Organizers 02
ORGANIZED BY
UOC
Based in Catalonia and open to the world, the UOC is an innovative
university which is at the forefront of research in the knowledge society
and digital transformation. The UOC has maintained its commitment
to interconnecting academic and interdisciplinary actors and fostering
synergies between branches of teaching for many years. These synergies
have led to the creation of active research groups working in the fields
of culture and the creative industries, fused with disciplines related to
technology and innovation.
The UOC is convinced that the expressive skills of the arts will play a key role
in social transformation in a world of interconnected and interdisciplinary
knowledge. The asynchronous and relocated nature of online teaching also
enables the UOC to develop and establish an international educational
context, involving students from different artistic, scientific, technical and
geographical backgrounds, with the consequent value that this brings.
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) is a
multidisciplinary cultural centre which addresses the key challenges of
contemporary society through different languages and formats. It offers
an extensive programme which includes major thematic exhibitions,
conference series and literary meet-ups, film screenings and festivals.
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Its work focuses on creative research and the production of knowledge
02 through a series of core projects which it produces itself, as well as other
associated projects and festivals.
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It also works as part of a network with international agents and institutions,
and simultaneously has links with artists, groups of creators, curators and
independent cultural agents in the Barcelona region, and supports their
projects in order to share in their creative capital and raise their profile.
Santa Mònica
Santa Mònica is a multidisciplinary centre with a particular focus on the
culture surrounding the digital media produced in Catalonia. The centre acts
as a platform for disseminating our country’s contemporary creativity.
It also offers the public a space for reflection that stimulates debate and
generates ideas about the various concepts involved in artistic creation
and their relationship with the public: creativity, awareness, innovation,
knowledge, aesthetics, philosophy, etc.
Furthermore, it provides an exhibition space where international artists and
creators have the opportunity to present their works.
Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
The mission of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) is to bring
contemporary art to life, with a particular focus on Catalan contemporary art.
By means of research and the generation and dissemination of knowledge,
it aims to stimulate enjoyment and interest in contemporary art and culture,
based on a transformational desire and impact on people and society. At the
same time, it aims to take part in building a freer and more critical society.
The MACBA is an institution that combines the responsibility of looking at
art’s recent past with constructing its future. Its work is based on art and
artistic experiences, and it rejects monosemous and hegemonic readings.
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Hac Te
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Exploring and developing the intersections between art, science and
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technology to strengthen the digital transformation of society. Those are
the aims of Hac Te (Art, Science and Technology Hub), created by renowned
Catalan institutions -Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), Universitat
Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Fira de
Barcelona, Institut de Ciències Fotòniques (ICFO), Barcelona Supercomputing
Center (BSC), Tech Barcelona, Hangar, the New Art Foundation, Barcelona
Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Sónar and Museu Nacional d’Art
de Catalunya (MNAC)- in order to make Barcelona a global hub for research,
training, dissemination, transfer and production in this field.
Hac Te seeks to interconnect and encourage collaboration between artistic
and scientific-technical disciplines, the business, cultural and academic
spheres, and the public and private sectors to take advantage of the multiplier
effect of bringing together forces and talents. We are convinced that fostering
the relationship and strengthening the links between all these agents will
provide us with essential knowledge for overcoming the challenges involved
in sustainable digital transformation.
New Art Foundation
The New Art Foundation was created to help the artistic community to
position new scientific, technical and conceptual approaches in art, to
raise awareness of them, and to educate society. Its goal is to enable the
public to appreciate art at the point where it intersects with science and
technology, as a cutting-edge expression of emerging new ideas.
In line with this mission, its art collection is based around cybernetics, so
that with the invaluable help of industry and scientific and technological
researchers, artists can create new horizons that fuse art, science and
technology in an innovative, experimental and creative way.
Barcelona City Council
Barcelona City Council is supporting ISEA2022 Barcelona through its
Barcelona Science Programme, which is an initiative for promoting
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scientific knowledge and involving the public in its development. This
02 programme invites everyone to participate and make themselves heard
in the preparation, methods and results of scientific research, based
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on criteria including ethics, transparency, equality and equal access to
knowledge.
With this vision as the starting point, the city becomes a forum where
science and society meet to engage in a dialogue, understand each other
and make a joint effort to address the local and global challenges of the
21st century.
Government of Catalonia
Ministry of Culture
La Generalitat de Catalunya dona suport institucional a l’ISEA2022 des The
Government of Catalonia has provided institutional support for ISEA2022
since its inception, with the involvement of the Ministry of Culture. Its
primary mission is to preserve, promote and disseminate all forms of
Catalan art and culture.
In specific terms, either directly or through its support, the Directorate-
General for Innovation and Digital Culture of the Ministry of Culture has
made it possible to roll out the programme all over Catalonia, in order to
provide access to initiatives in digital art and culture across the country.
Institut Ramon Llull
The Institut Ramon Llull is a public body founded with the purpose of
promoting Catalan language studies at universities abroad, the translation
of literature and thought written in Catalan, and Catalan cultural production
in other areas like theatre, film, circus, dance, music, the visual arts, design
and architecture.
To this end, the Institut Ramon Llull signs agreements with foreign
universities in order to promote Catalan teaching in them and it coordinates
and offers support to over 140 centres all over the world where Catalan
studies are present.
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Programme 03
CONFERENCE
The ISEA2022 Barcelona symposium invites participants to join the
growing debate on the “Possibles” in today’s world, not only by exploring
the future we need to build, but also by opening the doors to the past and
the present through four subthemes. The first, “Human and Non-Human”,
considers our relationship with machines and animals; the second,
“Natures and Worlds”, explores climate change and the viability of living
off-world; the third, “Futures and Heritages”, considers the role of history
and data excess; and the last, “Educations and Societies”, focuses on
challenges such as how to embrace art as a part of scientific and technical
knowledge.
The branch entitled ISEA Conference includes presentations, round tables,
institutional presentations, talks by artists, performances, screenings and
workshops addressing the intersections between art, science, technology
and society. The content of the programme was selected by a committee
of more than 200 experts from all over the world after reviewing around
one thousand entries received through the public call for proposals.
In addition to these presentations, taking place from 10 to 16 June, the
CCCB will host presentations of articles, panel discussions, screenings,
demos and posters. These sessions will address current issues such as the
creative capacity of artificial intelligence, the possibilities of immersive
experiences, the imaginary of biotechnologies in the arts, the predictive
potential of machines, new ways of managing our legacy and milestones
in human-robot communication. To round things off, the CCCB will be
hosting workshops and performances for the general public.
As a complement to this programme, the CCCB will also be the venue
for projects that are open to the public, including the installation entitled
DïaloG, which will be in Plaça Coromines from 10 to 18 June. This
interactive installation by Refik Anadol and Maurice Benayoun emerged
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from the European project MindSpaces by S+T+Arts, and is a performative
03 exploration of the themes of otherness, strangeness and immigration. The
work presents two pieces which are both works of art and extraterrestrial,
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facing a new environment to which they do not belong. They will have to
adapt their language, construct shared knowledge and integrate all the
new mechanisms and natural phenomena that make up their current
environment, including the audience. DïaloG is a reflection on the difficulty
involved in building a mutual understanding that goes beyond social and
cultural differences, and endeavours to capture the emergence of the work
of art as a subject, which is not only able to learn from its environment but
also able to engage in a dialogue with its audience.
On 10 and 11 June, the MACBA, as part of its Possible Archives project,
will play host to a landmark international archiving summit called the
Second Summit on New Media Art Archiving. This summit will act as an
incubator for innovative ideas, production techniques and infrastructure
development, and help connect people with like-minded ideas in an effort
to create a unified approach to solving the complex problem of preserving
the history of art of new media.
In addition, throughout the symposium, the exhibition hall of the Convent
dels Àngels will host a laboratory-relational space which will be the
venue for more than thirty talks by international artists, an interactive
workshop inviting visitors to enjoy a technological space, a performance
in which household objects become musical instruments, and a round
table discussion addressing innovative ways to make museums become
collaborative spaces. The space will be open to initiatives from the public
such as Cultura Viva’s Open Archives and will pay particular attention to
memory projects focused on the Raval neighbourhood.
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EXHIBITION
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ISEA2022 Barcelona will bring together a splendid display of new
electronic media and emerging arts, including immersive installations,
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interactive and online works, animations, performances and screenings,
all linked to the intersections between art, science and technology. The
selected artworks also fit the symposium’s theme of “Possibles”, and
challenge visitors to question the relationship they have with their bodies,
non-humans and the planet, among other themes.
The main exhibition at ISEA2022 will be held at Arts Santa Mònica from
9 June to 21 August. Under the title The irruption, the exhibition, curated
by Marta Gracia, Jara Rocha and Enric Puig Punyet, will feature more than
twenty pieces presented as a result of the call. While remaining within
the local context and the centre, the works will discuss the complex
circumstances we are experiencing around the world after the great
disruption caused by the pandemic. It will include projects by leading
international and local artists.
La Capella will be hosting an exhibition creating a dialogue between works
by artists from Barcelona Producció (Anna Pascó, Ariadna Parreu, Mario
Santamaría and Estampa) and pieces by local artists, including Josep
Manuel Berenguer, Anna Carreras, Mónica Rikic, Roc Parés and Yolanda
Uriz, all submitted for the ISEA2022 call. The exhibition intersects content
arising from the two main themes of the centre, bringing together a number
of significant artists working in emerging artistic currents while fostering a
generational exchange with a strong contextual intensity.
“What is possible and what is not” is also a challenge to the opportunities
presented by technological breakthroughs. Despite their ability to make
possible things we could not have imagined a few years ago, this same
attitude often clashes with its own boundaries. At the same time, science
is able to explore these boundaries in depth, and finds that in the short
term, what we cannot do right now will be possible in the future.
Also, from 9 June to 30 June, the Sant Pau Recinte Modernista will be
the venue for the digital art exhibition entitled Possibles, containing five
works from the ISEA2022 Barcelona call and twenty pieces from the
.Beep Collection. Taking the interdisciplinary legacy that characterizes
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03 art reflects this same cross-disciplinary spirit by bringing together artists,
scientists and technologists. The works from the open call include
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Sightseeing, Thierry Fournier’s CCTV camera which reflects aloud on its
own burnout, and Liquid Views, a digital mirror created by the pioneering
artists Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss which will enable
the viewer to have a narcissistic experience surrounded by waves. The
exhibition will also include twenty works of digital art from the .Beep
Collection.
In addition, as part of the Extended Programme detailed below, from 26
May to 23 July, Cal Massó in Reus will host the exhibition entitled .Beep
Collection: Origins. Curated by Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldana, this
exhibition will feature the latest digital works of art added to the .Beep
Collection, and present the results of one of the production grants awarded
by ISEA2022 Barcelona, to Rain Beats by Josecarlos Flórez.
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This 27th ISEA includes unprecedented involvement by the local
community in the programme. To make this extension and consolidation
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possible, Barcelona’s new Art, Science and Technology hub Hac Te has
created connections between around fifty organizations in Barcelona
and Catalonia, by promoting synergies between institutions in various
areas and aligning their programming with projects from the open call by
ISEA2022 Barcelona.
The result is exhibitions, workshops, outdoor projects, guided tours, round
table discussions and talks by artists and projects in schools, taking place in
four areas: the artistic, museum and archival, scientific and educational
spheres, which will be happening all over Catalonia. With this project, Hac
Te aims to gather the legacy of ISEA2022 Barcelona and to consolidate
the links begun through the symposium, exploring common languages and
structures and enhancing the project’s cross-disciplinary spirit.
BARCELONA
IED
Designing for the Many
14 February – 10 May
Designing for the Many (DFTM) is an interdisciplinary academic laboratory
consisting of all the students on the master’s degree courses at IED
Barcelona Design Centre. Using creative and experimental practices, DFTM
bases its methodology on research through design and design by doing,
and aims to investigate the capacity, strategies and impact of design on the
construction of our society, questioning its cultural, productive, economic
and political aspects. DFTM thereby explores the limits of the possible, and
brings them closer to the continuum of the present.
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03 IN RESiDENCE
5 May
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This activity is part of Martí Madaula’s creative process IN RESiDENCE,
involving a group of first-year students from the Vapor del Fil School (Sant
Andreu) and their teachers. Martí Madaula’s creative process at the Vapor
del Fil secondary school is one of 26 creative processes that are taking
place as part of the 13th IN RESiDENCE (September 2021-June 2022).
People, technology and objects linked to space expeditions – and to the
moon in particular – are one of the mainstays of the explorations and
research being carried out by Martí Madaula and the young people involved
in this creative process. This process is still ongoing, and can be followed
on the blog documenting the daily progress of this residency.
ESDi
Medusa Alga
12 May
The artist Tue Greenfort talks about his participation in the 2022 Venice
Biennale. Chaired by Christian Alonso (ESDi School of Design-Ramon Llull
University).
Tue Greenfort’s interdisciplinary practice addresses topics such as
the public space, nature, and culture. Interweaving these themes with
the language of art and research, the artist formulates a critique of
contemporary economic and scientific modes of production. Greenfort is
fascinated by the dynamics of the natural world, and his work often revolves
around ecological thought and its history, including the environment, social
relationships, and human subjectivity.
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03 Possibles and Impossibles: a Perspective
from Art and Speculative Design
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Lecture by Pau Alsina
18 May
The aim of this talk is to share some key insights into the role of design
as a builder of worlds – possible or impossible, probable or unlikely, in
connection with the event that is taking place in 2022 in Barcelona
and eleven other cities – ISEA2022 Barcelona, the 27th International
Symposium of Electronic Arts. This is a major international event at the
intersections between art, design, science, technology and society,
featuring the participation of institutions, creators and communities related
to this fertile cross-disciplinary field, who have been invited to explore the
concept of “Possibles” together.
ESDi
Onformative Studio: Searching for New Ways
of Creative Expression of Art, Design and
Technology
20 May
Cedric Kiefer will be talking about the projects undertaken at Onformative
Studio. Chaired by Christian Alonso (ESDi School of Design-Ramon Llull
University).
Guided by an emotional approach, Berlin’s Onformative studio is constantly
seeking new forms of creative expression. Through experimental practice
they create meaningful digital works of art which challenge the boundaries
between art, design and technology. Their results and interpretations
take different forms through the media, by means of self-initiated and
commissioned works ranging from interactive media installations,
generative design and dynamic visuals to data-based narratives.
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03 Active Activism Act
25 April – 31 May
Programme
Active Activism Act (AAA) is an exhibition co-created and co-organized
by the team at VIBE, a consortium of European cultural agents, which
after being presented at the IDEAL Centre for Digital Arts in Barcelona,
will continue in digital format until 31 May. AAA proposes a new model for
cultural and content consumption both online and in person, and aims to
attract generation Z audiences and place activism by young people at the
forefront.
Sala Beckett
Machine Person
20 April – 5 June
The debate over the complex phenomenon of the human/machine
relationship is highly topical. Beyond the technological complexity of
the issue, the Machine Person series curated by Pau Alsina and Susanna
Tesconi at the Sala Beckett theatre in collaboration with the UOC, aims to
stimulate reflections on artificial intelligence based on philosophical and
artistic assumptions in hybrid creative processes.
FAD (Foment de les Arts i del Disseny)
The Best Design of the Year
2 June – 28 August
This is an essential exhibition for discovering what has happened in design
and architecture in the last year. The exhibition includes more than four
hundred works, finalists and winners of awards in the various design
disciplines organized by the FAD associations for over fifty years, assessed
by prestigious professional juries in the fields of industrial design (ADI
Awards), graphic design and visual communication (ADG Laus Awards), and
architecture and interior design (FAD Awards).
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03 Youth, Vision and Future
7 June
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The EDIVI network (Education for design for living, a network of design
higher education centres for social innovation and sustainability) is holding
an event on design focused on people and the planet as the key to a
sustainable future, in the context of the European Year of Youth.
EINA
Workshop: Texture Beyond Type, Giorgia
Scavo and Angelo Stitz
10 June
In this workshop, the participants are invited to use a text editor as a tool
for creating visual textures from typographic symbols. It begins with an
initial entry to produce possible results, then a collaborative exploration
of aesthetic, historical and social values to work on them from alternative
perspectives and produce an end result.
Casa Amèrica Catalunya
Tortuous Drift, Karla Brunet
10 June
Layers of materials intertwine in this performance to construct a narrative
with visuals and sounds. The effect of live cinema is ephemeral; an event
based on time that recreates the experience of feeling the Mediterranean
Sea. Tortuous Drift creates a statement for this journey. It is not merely
drifting – it is complex, sinuous and intertwined like the feelings and stories
experienced at sea.
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03 Art as cyber-interoceptive Interfaces,
Mark-David Hosale and Alan J. Macy
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10 and 11 June
This workshop incorporates bioinformatics measurement technology to
explore new modes of artistic expression that directly incorporate the
senses as part of the work. The aim of this effort is to monitor a participant’s
emotional inclination in order to use it as an interactive modality in
computational and performance art.
Mercat de les Flors
Multiple Intelligences In_Exo Corpòries
10 and 11 June
A project that relates dance, science, technology and society in an
unconventional theatrical format. It deals with the relationship between
the human and the non-human, and seeks to reflect on the hierarchy
that the human species imposes on other species. The stage space is a
mechanism that intelligently synchronizes image, sound and light, which
are made visible or audible by the participatory interaction of the five
performers. An integrated interactive sound and visual system in 3D, for a
sensitive and participatory eco-techno-scenography.
Mercat de les Flors
Embodied Machine
11 and 12 June
This work focuses on how creativity that arises from a bodily experience
can be captured and provide the basis for artistic creation in other
disciplines. Embodied Machine is an experiment based on translating the
human body into abstractions that is the basis for transforming it into other
static manifestations. In this piece, Muriel Romero relates on stage with
avatars of herself that take the form of light and sound, presences that
behave autonomously and with which it is possible to interact, maintaining
a multi-sensory dialogue.
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03 Re-embodiment and Dis/abilities:
Performing River, Johannes Birringer
Programme
13 June
Re-embodiment and Dis/abilities: Performing River is a workshop that
explores immersive, ritualized and intimate movement experiences for
participants with mixed capacities willing to wear Oculus Quest2 VR
headphones, as well as wearable sensors or fabrics. The participants are
invited to examine their responses to sounds and tactile images (imagined
relationships) of water, river, flows, motions, liquidity, etc.
Sónar
SónarÀgora & Screenings
11 – 16 June
ISEA2022 Barcelona and Sónar, with the coordination of the new Art,
Science and Technology Hub from Barcelona, Hac Te, present an alliance
with the aim of promoting the rellations between the academic and
research community, the artists and the public.
Within this collaboration, Sónar co-presents three sessions of screenings
from ISEA Conference Program on the topic of future possibilities regarding
gender, environment, human rights and machines. At the same time,
ISEA2022 Barcelona collaborates in the new SonarÀgora debate area,
which will host a series of masterclasses, workshops and other activities.
These are aimed at professionals in the creative industries, designed
to help them get to grips with the themes of Sónar+D 2022 (Web3, AI,
Ecology).
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03 Psychedelic Trips, Varvara & Mar
10 – 30 October
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Varvara & Mar’s solo exhibition focuses on creative processes in the
field of deep learning. The pieces of art on display express the search for
aesthetics or psychedelic journeys in the neural darkness of the processes
and calculations involved in algorithms, while at the same time expanding
the limits of the neural network, as well as the artist’s imagination and
language of expression. The exhibition will be opened at 5 p.m. on 10 June.
CosmoCaixa
Projeccions in the planetarium
10 – 16 June
This is a collection of three of the projections presented at the CosmoCaixa
planetarium as part of the La Caixa Foundation’s NEO programme, which
combines various scientific and technological disciplines to approach
today’s major challenges through the most innovative artistic forms and
practices. The projections that will be on display will be Hinter by Alba G.
Corral, Paradoxa by Onionlab and Radical Compromise by Daniel Červenka,
Signal Production and Planetum (Prague Planetarium).
Espronceda
Digital Awareness. From Education to
Social Impact and Human Identity
10 – 18 June
Espronceda – Institute of Art & Culture is organizing a major exhibition
and workshops in collaboration with Spanish and international artists and
organisations, curated by Alejandro Martín and also available online at
Espronceda virtual. The following projects are included in this exhibition:
• Introns
• Cultural heritage, art and design knowledge
• Digital awareness for sustainable futures, with Leonardo
• AI4FUTURE
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03 Sons en causa
15 June
Programme
Using recordings by Sons en causa, we will be creating a multifocal
installation involving eight speakers in the courtyard of the Barcelona
Biomedical Research Park on 15 June. In this case, one of the main features
is that these sound recordings have been chosen by artificial intelligence
with multilayer perceptrons.
Canòdrom
Panels
16 June
As part of ISEA2022 Barcelona, the Canòdrom – Ateneu d’Innovació
Digital i Democràtica will be hosting four panels from the open call that
will reflect on the role of the arts, science and technology in the face of the
challenges of 21st century society:
• Crypo Land: Blockchain as a Challenge for Art and Digital Art
Collections of the Future
• Implementing STEAM Approaches in Higher Education
• Critical contact: The Climate Crisis, Human/Nonhuman Thinking,
and Sensing the Possible
• Tools for a Warming Planet
FAD Fòrum
Artificial Intelligence, Arts and Design
17 June
The FAD Forum is the annual series in which topics of interest to the
professional community in the various creative disciplines are addressed
in a cross-disciplinary manner, and the topics are always chosen with a
view to their social, economic and environmental significance. In 2022,
the FAD Forum will focus on “Artificial Intelligence, Arts and Design”, or in
other words, creation in the era of algorithms and data.
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03 Birding the future, Krista Caballero
10 to 16 June
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Birding the future is a work of art in progress that explores current
extinction rates by focusing on the role of the warnings provided by birds
as bioindicators of environmental change. The installation encourages
visitors to hear the cries of endangered and extinct birds, and to look at
visionary bird landscapes through stereographs and videos.
Municipal Library Network
Exhibition: The Ethics of Machines
Until late November – travelling exhibition
The Ethics of Machines is a travelling and participatory pop-up exhibition
focusing on exploring the complexities and ethical and social challenges
associated with the impact of the use, design and development of smart
systems in everyday life. The exhibition is divided into three main areas:
1) Smart technologies, 2) Areas where smart technologies are commonly
found (care and the body, leisure and home, professional field and
education), 3) The use and design of smart technologies entail ethical and
social challenges. The Cosicosa Association is responsible for the original
idea, content and coordination.
Municipal Library Network
Exhibition: 100 Years of Science Fiction
Until late November – travelling exhibition
The science fiction genre as we know it today was born one hundred
years ago, and this exhibition uses extensive graphic media to present the
history of the genre in literature, cinema and television, from its earliest
beginnings to the present day. Each of its thirteen panels contains a QR
code with which attendees can use their mobile phone to access additional
information and content, as well as plenty of bibliographic information.
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03 Other Voices
Until late November – online series
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Other Voices is a series of lectures in libraries and live interviews via the
@bibliotequesXBM Instagram channel, discussing current issues with
experts. This year the series will be divided into three thematic areas:
“Ukraine Special” coordinated by Manel Alías, “Artificial Intelligence and
5G” coordinated by Albert Cuesta, and “Persecuted Culture” coordinated
by Laura Huerga.
CATALONIA
ISEA2022 is not tied to Barcelona, however. Either directly or through its
support, the Directorate-General for Innovation and Digital Culture of
the Ministry of Culture aims to roll out the event throughout Catalonia, in
order to enable access to digital art and culture proposals all over.
Cal Massó and Casa Navàs, Reus
.Beep Collection: Origins
26 May – 23 July
The .Beep Collection returns to Reus, its home town, with a new exhibition
curated by Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldana, Origins, which will be on
display at the Cal Massó Art Centre, an ambitious selection of new projects
and foundational works of electronic art by international artists.
Origins refers to the idea of birth from different perspectives through some
of the foundational works of this pioneering collection and fundamental
pieces in the development of electronic art, which .Beep has been rescuing
and restoring in order to highlight the legacy of pioneering artists who
are now part of the history of contemporary art, including Peter Weibel,
Marcel·lí Antúnez and Antoni Abad.
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03 us, as well as the unstoppable development of life in its broadest sense.
Some of the works exhibited at Cal Massó consider concepts such as
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identity and appearance (Joan Fontcuberta and Pilar Rosado, and Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer), life and nature (Marina Núñez and Robertina Šebjanič),
memories and memory (Eduardo Kac and Ken Matsubaro) and artificial
intelligence and perceptions of reality through the senses and the human
body (Ricardo Iglesias and Gerald Kogler, Albert Barqué-Duran and Marc
Marzenit and Anaisa Franco).
There are also pieces that deal with our material and cosmic environments,
including Rain Beats by Josecarlos Flórez, the new production produced
thanks to a grant from the Fundació Privada Reddis de Reus, which is being
shown for the first time on this occasion.
The display is completed with the mapping that Alba G. Corral will present
on the facade of Casa Navás, transferring the decorative elements of the
marvellous Modernista interior of the building to the exterior. The mapping
will take place on the opening day, the following weekend and the dates on
which ISEA2022 Barcelona takes place. Barcelona.
Mèdol, Tarragona
Transceiver Body, Citlali Hernández
14 May
Using streaming platforms, Transceiver Body aims to understand how body
languages are constantly changing when hybrid identities are constructed
between the multiplicity of the digital world, the complexity of the physical
realm and the exploitation of our own privacy by means of the internet. The
piece is the result of a cross-disciplinary experimentation presented as a
performance based on electronic art, performance and net.art.
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03 Talk: Generative and Interactive Art:
Geek Artists Making Art with Code, Anna
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Carreras
31 May
Interactive installations and generative art foster the programming of
algorithms, the construction of mechanical inventions and electronic
circuits. It is all to create audiovisual experiences and artistic pieces in
which the public participates or which evolve and are never the same
twice. How do digital artists who use the medium as a raw material work?
Lo Pati, Terres de l’Ebre
Òrbita #3, Núria Nia and Citlali Hernández
4 June
Conceived in terms of a performance, Orbit #3 is the result of a series
of actions arising from the mixture of languages of live arts, live cinema
and livestreaming tools, creating a project with an artificial entity that
participates with Núria Nia and Citlali Hernández as an entity that presents
another type of corporality, highlighting its material, cognitive and relational
conditions, which are initially dependent on the two artists but which may
evolve according to their own learning and relationship with other entities.
M|A|C Mataró Art Contemporani, Mataró
The Pregnancy Sense. Concert by a Cyborg
Family
10 June
Moon Ribas and Quim Girón will use their new sense of pregnancy – a
cyborg organ that allows Quim to connect to his embryo to create music.
The concert will allow the audience to listen to the heartbeats of the
embryo and its parents, using their own bodies as an instrument.
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03 We Move Together Or Not At All, Sasha
Kleinplatz
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11 June
This choreographic installation engages consent, the multisensory
performance archive and the interdependence of species in a dialogue.
The performance by Sasha Kleinplatz takes the form of a greenhouse full
of plants, with a dancer moving in the centre. It can be seen on 11 June at
the Konvent, a former convent in Berga which has been converted into an
experimental laboratory.
Interdisciplinary choreographers, dancers and artists work together
to create performance scores designed to increase the temperature,
humidity, smell and bacteria in the greenhouse, and co-orchestrate the
states of sensory access with the gestures of the participants, humans or
none.
Planta, Balaguer
Call out, Abel Korinsky and Orhan
Kavrakoglu
11 and 12 June
The installation Call Out, by Abel Korinsky and Orhan Kavrakogl, was one
of the pieces to be awarded the ISEA2022 Barcelona grant by the Sorigué
Foundation. It deals with satellites spreading around the world and
building a large network/swarm in our orbit to connect the world virtually.
SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk, aims to place more than 12,000 satellites
in the Earth’s orbit by 2027. Since 1967, a decade after the launch of the
first “Sputnik” satellite, the Outer Space Treaty has provided the basic
framework for international space law.
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03 My Unruly Robot!
18 June
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An applied and participatory artificial intelligence workshop: Deep Fakes or
the Unruly Robot, by Taller Estampa. The workshop focuses on the production
of avatars generated with artificial intelligence. Starting with a photograph of
each participant, they will look for their “twin” characters in the machine’s
imagination (latent space). Once we have these characters, we will give them
a speech. To do this, we will run text generation neural networks (GPT-3).
Finally, we will make the avatars talk to each other: we will give them the
participants’ speech and expressiveness using deep fake tools.
La Panera, Lleida
Lleida Internet Tour
24 – 28 October
Internet Tour is an initiative by Mario Santamaría that involves a collective
exploration of the physical infrastructure of the internet, halfway
between tourism and non-tourism, between performance and profane
enlightenment. Accompanied by a guide who introduces each of the points
of interest on the visit, the visitors board a bus that takes them to the
places where our emails, messages, likes, comments, videos and photos
circulate.
Rounding off all this programming, on the night of 15 June, at 10.30 p.m.,
ISEA2022 Barcelona will be staging a drone show by Flock Drone Art
Barcelona, open to the public at the city’s Somorrostro Beach. Combining
technology, lights and electronic music, a set of synchronized drones will
provide an aerial show of unique shapes and figures for the first time in the
city of Barcelona.
You can find all the latest information on all
the activities at:
https://isea2022.isea-international.org/
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OPENING CEREMONY
MAIN CEREMONYCCCB
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
EXHIBITION PROGRAM
EXTENDED PROGRAM
Barcelona
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Barcelona
Partners
Territory
CLOSING NIGHT
WITH THE SUPPORT OF
MEDIA PARTNERS
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