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Workshop “Interactive Art and Posthuman thought II” at Interface Cultures Program – Art University, Linz

Posthumanism Diagram

Interface Cultures lädt zum zweitägigen Gastworkshop von Sandra Alvaro, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. http://interface.ufg.ac.at/blog/sandra-alvaro/ Short intro“Interactive Art and Posthuman thought” is a theoretical workshop aimed to introduce the students to the development of this current of thought and the entanglements between art science, computation and politics that accompanied its evolution.The workshop consists of two sessions, …

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Lecture at POSTSENSORIUM – RIXC Art-Science Festival 2021

PostSensorium RIXC-2021

PostSensorium festival aims to provide a platform for artistic interventions and critical discussions on the 21st-century’s virtual sensing technologies, science, and aesthetics, reconsidering the relations between the actual and virtual, organic and artificial, natural and techno-social, human and “more-than-human”… https://festival2021.rixc.org/ Panel 4A. (AI/ECO) INTELLIGENT ECOSYSTEMS AND MORE-THAN-HUMAN CONDITIONS – 25th September Lecture – Aesthetics of …

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Lecture at the 5th Open Fields Conference: ECODATA

ECODATA 2020

October 8-10, online and in Riga, Latvia will take place the RIXC Art and Science festival: ECODATA.  The festival will feature exhibition in the physical space at The National Library of Latvia and the RIXC gallery, online conference as well as a hybrid program of online and onsite activities – artistic interventions, screenings, virtual bio/eco-artworks …

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Workshop “Interactive Art and Posthuman thought” at Interface Culture Program – Art University, Linz

Interactive Art and Posthuman Thought Visualizing the evolution of Posthuman Thought through the Interactions between Art-Philosophy-Science. Workshop by Sandra Alvaro Interface Culture Program – 6 and 9 of Mars 2020 https://www.ufg.at/News-detail.2042+M5da5309928b.0.html “Interactive Art and Posthuman thought” combines theory (lectures and in-class text commentaries) and practice (drawing networked diagrams) to illustrate the relationship between the evolution …

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New Publication at Acoustic Space Journal

Virtualities and Realities Book Cover

 Artistic production and embodied information. Tracking Spaces of Transformation by Sandra Álvaro Presented at the Open Fields Conference 2017 Abstract: Space of Transformation is a concept borrowed from the Communication theory by Serres and here redefined after the evolution of the postdigital milieu and the materialistic critique of the same. Things considered as Spaces of …

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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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