Category: Research

Tracking Spaces of Transformation (2016-2019)

Tracking Spaces of Transformation- infographics

Tracking Spaces of Transformation* Sandra Álvaro (2016-2019) ‘Space of transformation’ is a concept borrowed from Serres’ communication theory and here redefined after the evolution of the post-digital milieu and the materialistic critique of the same. Hackerspaces, fablabs, medialabs and other shared machines shops are defined here as spaces of transformation, places for the encounter between …

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Entrevista para la exposición Robots – Cosmo Caixa

Banner Exposició Robots al Cosmo Caixa

Entrevista para la exposición Robots del Cosmo Caixa   El desarrollo de la Inteligencia Artificial se ha basado en el supuesto de que una máquina puede simular la inteligencia humana. De este modo el imaginario popular ha creado una IA antropomorfizada. En forma de voluntades ubicuas capaces de programar la extinción humana – como el …

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Lecture at the Open Fields Conference 2017: Virtualities and Realities

Behind the Black Mirror - Sandra Alvaro

RIXC ART SCIENCE FESTIVAL – October 19-21, 2017 Art Academy of Latvia, National Art Museum, kim? and RIXC Gallery in Riga   VIRTUALITIES AND REALITIES aims to establish a space for artistic interventions and conversations about the complex implications of augmented and virtual reality. Immersive technologies coupled with virtual environments, artificial intelligence algorithms, faster processors, …

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Ph.D thesis: PostDigital City: Aesthetics and Politics in the Space of Embodied Virtuality

Sandra Alvaro - PhD Disertation

Thesis Defense PostDigital City: Aesthetics and Politics in the Space of Embodied Virtuality Sandra Álvaro Sánchez Departament de Filosofia UAB Directors/tutors: Dr. Khaldoun Zreik (Université Paris8), Dr. David Casacuberta Sevilla (UAB) Jury:: Dr. Jean Attali (ENSA de Paris-Malaquais) Dra. Anna Estany Profitós (UAB) Dr. Ramón Sangüesa i Solé (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya) Venue: Monday, 28th …

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Lecture at Open Fields Conference

OpenFields Conference 2016

  “Open Fields will be investigating the use of data visualizations and other mappings of the contemporary. It will look into areas such as open commons, the future of social interaction, data representation and visualisation, critical design, sustainable infrastructures, eco-aesthetics, techno-ecologies, bio-hacking and other techniques of a transformative potential. No Field is excluded, yet there …

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Culture Analytics at IPAM-UCLA

Culture Analytics at IPAM - UCLA

Visiting Researcher from 5th March to 10th June 2016 CULTURE ANALYTICS The explosion in the widespread use of the Internet and social media and the ubiquity of low cost computing have increased the possibilities for understanding cultural behaviors and expressions, while at the same time have facilitated opportunities for making cultural artifacts both accessible and …

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