Self and Other Liquids. Credit: Roc Parés / Joan Soler-Adillon
IN DIALOGUE
On Bio_Sonic_Agencies
Roundtable hosted by Biofriction
Bionic sound machina – non human composer by Oscar Martin. Credit: Oscar Matin
This panel proposes a conversation between Brandon LaBelle, author of Sonic Agency, and artists who work with biomaterials, sound and critically listening as an encounter(s) where other possibilities of relations with what we call nature or to non-human agents can be articulated. In a world dominated by the visual, could contemporary resistances be auditory? In Sonic Agency, Brandon LaBelle highlights sound’s invisible, disruptive, and affective qualities and asks whether the unseen nature of sound can support a political transformation. What is the materiality of sound? How does the materiality of sound affect listening? What resistances can be configured from working with biomaterials and sound? Do these bio_sonic_agencies open up other possible spaces that do not exist in the visual regime?
Participants: conductor Laura Benítez Valero (ES) with Brandon LaBelle (US), Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Óscar Martín (ES), Vanessa Lorenzo (ES) *
Date: Wednesday 9.9.2020
Time: from 3:30 to 5 p.m. CEST
Format: Live. Streaming / on site
Language: English
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Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona. Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 38. Barcelona, Spain.
Entrance: Free entrance. Prior registration required
* Brandon LaBelle (US), Robertina Šebjanič (SI), Óscar Martín (ES) and Vanessa Lorenzo (ES) will participate virtually
Art and Science of the Political Ecology of Disasters
Roundtable hosted by UOC
DEFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOREST. Credit: Joana Moll
Catastrophes and vulnerability has once again brought us to the forefront the urgency of assuming and acting against the consequences of an Anthropocene that advances inexorably. Being aware of the interconnectedness of all has been our daily life, facing the interactions between biological and ecological systems, but also the media ecology, within a relational ecology of practices where art, science and technology collide. In this panel artists, scientists and theoricians will explore all those possible futures ahead of us.
Participants: conductor Pau Alsina (ES) con Joana Moll (ES), Andy Gracie (UK), Israel Rodríguez (ES), Ingrid Guardiola (ES). Relator Vanina Hofman (AR)
Date: Wednesday 9.9.2020
Time: from 6 to 7:25 p.m. CEST
Format: Live. Streaming / on site
Language: English
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Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona. Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 38. Barcelona, Spain.
Entrance: Free entrance. Prior registration required
An Uncertain but Irresistible Revolution
Roundtable hosted by OFFF
An Irresistible Revolution. Credit: Boldtron
In a technological world in which the present has eternalized and the oblivion is the security of the next innovation, what we call reality is a magma in which floats an endless number of images, data, pieces of information, flashbacks and promises of liberation. This fact requires us to find other rules, other ways of reading and new ways of looking through unexpected paths.
Participants: conductor Héctor Ayuso (ES) with Carla Cascales Alimbau (ES), Xavi Cardona / Boldtron (ES), Enric Godes / Vasava (ES)
Date: Wednesday 9.9.2020
Time: from 8 to 9 p.m. CEST
Format: Live. Streaming / on site
Language: English
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Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona. Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 38. Barcelona, Spain.
Entrance: Free entrance. Prior registration required
Facing Uncertainty And Its Discontents
Roundtable hosted by UOC
Self and Other Liquids. Credit: Roc Parés / Joan Soler-Adillon
While we are getting used to deal with those events in which the probability of a certain situation occurring is not known, we ask ourselves what does it mean to live in a context of extreme uncertainty? How to take the risk of uncertainty and try to slide their gains? How arts, sciences, technologies and thought have learned from it and propelled their practices of uncertainty? In this panel, we will explore different approaches to this topic in the global context of an imperfect predictability of the facts.
Participants: conductor Pau Alsina (ES) con Roc Parés (MX), Marina Garcés (ES), Joan Soler-Adillon (ES), Tere Badia (ES) y Pau Waelder (ES)
Date: Thursday 10.9.2020
Time: from 3.30 to 4:55 p.m. CEST
Format: Live. Streaming / on site
Language: English
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Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona. Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 38. Barcelona, Spain.
Entrance: Free entrance. Prior registration required
On Code. The Uncertainty Of Meaning And Doing
Roundtable hosted by Hangar
Live Coding session. Credit: Luciana Della Villa
Code may be apprehended as a sort of text that tells a machine what to do, but also as text that helps us (inferring the human component of the cyborg) to make sense. In this panel, we delve into the interference of code in the listening process. Code allows the ear to navigate the listening interface, despite it happens to narrow its sensitive scope; code crosses the interface as the membrane which separates but also connects, and which unfolds at least two different dimensions: the vibration of the air from a sound source to our ears, and the zone of inter/intra-action, mediation, negotiation and distribution of attention and meanings, between the (dis)orders of the emitted and of the heard sounds.
Participants: Lina Bautista (CO), Daniel Moreno Roldán (ES), Ángel Faraldo (ES), Lluís Nacenta (ES), Agnès Pe (ES) y Carolina Jiménez (ES)
Date: Thursday 10.9.2020
Time: from 6 to 7:25 p.m. CEST
Format: Live. Streaming / on site
Language: English
Visitor information
Location: Disseny Hub Barcelona, Barcelona. Plaça de les Glòries Catalanes, 38. Barcelona, Spain.
Entrance: Free entrance. Prior registration required