Aprofitant la pròxima publicació del monogràfic 11 d‘Artnodes “New Media, Art-Science and Contemporary Art:Towards a Hybrid Discourse?” i la visita a Barcelona del professor Edward Shanken (pels encontres SINERGIA que fem a l’Arts Santa Mònica), el mateix dia 17/11, d’11 a 14h, farem un seminari al Wikilounge de la UOC (Rambla de Catalunya, 6. Barcelona). Si algú vol assistir cal reservar-ho abans doncs és sala reduïda (email a paualsina(at)gmail.com)
Impulsat des del grup de recerca GRECS dels Estudis d’Arts i Humanitats el seminari es centrarà en analitzar els punts de connexió i les tensions que es donen entre el món de l’art contemporani i les pràctiques artístiques vinculades tant als nous descobriments científics com als desenvolupaments tecnològics més innovadors.
Una breu bio del professor Shanken: Edward A. Shanken writes and teaches about the entwinement of art, science, and technology with a focus on interdisciplinary practices involving new media. He is a researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and a member of the Media Art History faculty at the Donau University in Krems, Austria. He was formerly Universitair Docent of New Media at UvA, Executive Director of the Information Science + Information Studies program at Duke University, and Professor of Art History and Media Theory at Savannah College of Art and Design. Fellowships include National Endowment for the Arts, American Council of Learned Societies, UCLA, University of Bremen, and Washington University in St. Louis. Recent and forthcoming publications include essays on art and technology in the 1960s; interactivity, agency, and responsibility; sound art and ecology; art historiography, and bridging the gap between new media and contemporary art. He edited and wrote the introduction to a collection of essays by Roy Ascott, “Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness (University of California Press, 2003, reprinted 2007). His critically praised survey, Art and Electronic Media, was published by Phaidon Press in 2009, reprinted 2010.