IAAC LECTURES: ALEJANDRO TAMAYO

By admin | Published: May 1, 2013

Today Alejandro Tamayo took us through his journey of technology between magic and everyday life, presenting us 4 of his more technology orientated projects.
His first approach to technology was through a camera, using the camera to see something that can’t be seen with the naked eye, and using this both as a protection and as a projection tool. For example, the possibility of seeing things from different points of view simultaneously.
This pushed him to move outside of the objects studied, and more in to space, using technology as a poetic telescope to see beyond.

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Alejandro Tamayo lecturing at the IAAC

By admin | Published: April 28, 2013

ALEJANDRO TAMAYO lecturing at IAAC

Alejandro Tamayo at the IaaC

Lecture “Technology: between magic and everyday life“

29th of April // 19:30 // IAAC Auditorium // C/Pujades 102 BARCELONA

Alejandro Tamayo is an artist, researcher and teacher working in the intersections between artistic practice, science, technology and everyday life. He has been a tutor at Medialab Prado interactivos? workshops including Technologies of Laughter (Mexico) and Neighborhood Science (Madrid) and has teaching for over eight years at various art and design schools in Colombia including the Art Department from Los Andes University and the School of Fine Arts from the National University. He has been a guest speaker in various venues including Pixelache University-Reinventing the Teaching Situation (Helsinki), CIANT gallery (Prague), and the International Image Festival (Colombia).

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Xavi Hurtado Lecture 20/03/2013 19h

By admin | Published: March 17, 2013

BA in Fine Arts from the Universidad de Barcelona, 1986. Master in Arts, Art in Media Program (New York University) 1996.
Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia (1997-00), at the Universidad de los Andes (1996-00) and at the Universidad Pontificia Javeriana (98-00), Bogota. Jury member and tutor in New Media, Grant Programme of the Ministry of Culture (96-98), Bogota. Curator of the festivals Kybernetes, TELE-visión and Artrónica, Bogota. Colombia.
Programmer of OVNI (Observatorio de Video no Identificado / Unidentified Videos Observatory) videos, CCCB Barcelona. Professor at the Institut de l´Audiovisual (Master in Electronic Arts) Universidad Pompeu Fabra 2000-03, Barcelona. Associated professor at the Facultad de Bellas Artes Universidad de Barcelona (03-04). Professor EINA (00-04), Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona.

His work has been shown, among other places, in:
- “In-out”. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, (Barcelona. Spain)
- “Herejías”. Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (Canarias, Spain)
- In different OVNI exhibitions at the Centro de Cultura de Barcelona, (Barcelona, Spain)
- “Artist in Residence Program”. Banff Center of the Arts (Canada)
- “Singular Electrics ”. Fundació Miró, ESPAI-13, (Barcelona. Spain)
- “Works” .80 Washington Square East Galleries (New York. USA)
- “Cyberia 02”. Fundación Marcelo Botín (Santander. Spain)
- “Ciclo de autores de video”. Centro de Arte Santa Mónica (Barcelona, Spain)
- “Scratch”. Centre Wallonie Bruxelles (Paris, France)
- “Forum de l´Image” (Tolouse, France)
- “Open Show in Physical Computing”. Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University (New York, USA).

He has received grants from the Video and Cinematography Department and the Visual Arts Department of the government of Cataluña (Generalitat) en 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002 and 2005.

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Close to the Body Studio. Week 2 Final Presentations

By admin | Published: March 17, 2013

With the collaboration of

Martijn ten Bhömer, graduated cum laude in June 2010. During an internship at Microsoft Research in Cambridge (United Kingdom) he designed a now patented device for photo sharing. In his graduation project he investigated the topic of sharing experiences and cultural values in communication.After working as freelance interaction designer in projects related to surface computing and intelligent lighting he started in April 2011 with his three year PhD research on the changing role of the designer in multi-stakeholder design collaboration processes of intelligent products and services. This work is part of the Smart Textile Services project in the the Creative Industry Scientific Programme (CRISP)

and Eva Deckers graduated cum laude in June 2009 in Industrial Design. Her graduation project on how to design for perceptive qualities in artifacts continued in a three year PhD project which she started after a trip around the world in April 2010. Her work is founded in notion of the phenomenology of perception (Merleau-Ponty 1945) and of the ecological psychology (Gibson 1979). Intelligent Interior Textiles is the application field of her designs that support and show her research. By working with industrial partners out of the textile industry she tries to bring the academic, high tech and industry closer together.


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MAI Dialogues: Pablo Valbuena & Jaime Serra

By admin | Published: March 17, 2013

This Monday, March 18th, MAI Dialogues presents Pablo Valbuena & Jaime Serra talks. 19.00hs, IaaC Auditorium.

Pablo Valbuena has become internationally recognized for his augmented architectures, dynamic forms where light and phisical structures combine to create a new hybrid language for form and space. Trained as an architect and having worked previously in videogames, his art projects in galleries and public space interventions preludes the explosion of “projection mapping” as a technique and has been extensively exhibited worldwide.

Jaime Serra is one of the most important names in the field of infographics today. Currently head of graphics at La Vanguardia, his body of work goes beyond the conventions of graphics for journalism and enters into the territory of information visualization and even visual poetry. His work is currently being exhibited at Ars Santa Mónica.

The conference will be streaming LIVE from IaaC’s youtube channel.

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