Summary
Workshops
17, 18 and 25 February. CCCB / HANGAR
The DATIFICATION: Transmutations / Art-Cos-Data conferences, organized by the research team of the IN>TRA* Project, address the question: Where does the frantic production of data that we generate daily in digital environments and the Internet come from? Datification is a phenomenon of abstraction from subjective bodily dimensions and physical reality, of translation into a mathematical language and of migration and insertion into a new living environment. This phenomenon is transforming a large part of contemporary artistic practices and, with it, the processes of art. The aim of the seminar is to help find new forms and research prototypes, as well as to visualize the phenomenon of dating.
* IN>TRA. Collaborative artistic practice as a model of experience: New forms and prototypes in research processes HAR2015-63952-C3-1-P (MINECO / FEDER)
Organizing team: Alejandra López Gabrielidis, Óscar Padilla Machó, Ramón Sangüesa, Beatriz Regueira Pons and Alicia Vela.
Workshop Somatize the Data
Directed by Alejandra López Gabrielidis and Mar Medina as part of the "Datificación. Transmutacions Art-Cos-Dades" conference"
Mar Medina trained as a dancer in different European cities, at MovementResearch in New York and with Anne Bogart's SITI Company. Her broader interest in the body in motion later led her to study the Alexander technique. He has worked in several dance companies and collaborated in independent projects with INFRA (Jara Rocha - Ester Jorndana), MovLab, the Fundació Antoni Tàpies and Oriol Fontdevila in Performing the Museum, MAMBO for Teatron, La Poderosa, Tirso Orive or Aimar Pérez Galí.
Alejandra Lopez Gabrielidis. Researcher specialized in philosophy and aesthetics of digital technologies. Since 2015, he has been carrying out his Doctorate Project "La datificación: Study on artistic experimentation around the digital splitting of the subject", under joint supervision between the University of Rennes 2 (France) and the University of Barcelona (Spain). Currently, along with her work as a researcher in training at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona, she carries out translation work and contributes to scientific and artistic magazines.
Understanding datification essentially as a process of abstraction and codification, which is constantly updated and expands in an unlimited way, the aim of this workshop has been to experience the body as a finite and ambiguous device that is at the same time concretion and abstraction. Based on the bodily localization of the four levels of abstraction proposed by Vilém Flusser in his text "The universe of technical images" somatic practices were proposed that would allow us to dwell on the gesture prior to the generation of the data to demonstrate the coextensive links between the material and the virtual and their degrees of attachment.
Workshop
Explore the Algorithm as an Identity Machine
Directed by Joana Moll, Ramón Sangüesa and Román Torre as part of the "Datificación. Transmutacions Art-Body-Data" conference.
The post-digital virtual environment operates with projections of our identity in the form of data but also, and above all, in a network of algorithms that collect, process and redistribute them. We are data and algorithms. Our identity has always had a component that was beyond ourselves, constructed continuously by the rest of the views of the social sphere in which we were. Other humans interpreted us and their interpretations were sent to us and in them we reflected and modified our own image. This basic mechanism is now intervened by the gaze of other humans through the representations and processes that non-human agents constantly elaborate. In this workshop, the mechanisms by which these algorithms shape or deform us have been explored and questioned.