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New Festival in Alicante. Open Art Festival, Fifteen New Perspectives on Contemporary Art

September 29, 2022
Press
Alicante, Casa Planas, Open Art, Festival, Las Cigarreras, Exhibition, Residencies, Talks, Workshops, Casa Bardín, Contemporary Art, Museum Consortium
More than 15 professionals from the art sector will participate in nine events across different cultural centers in the city of Alicante. This is the core of ppt Open Art Festival, the first edition of a gathering aimed at presenting new visions of contemporary art. Exhibitions, talks, and workshops covering topics such as crypto art, sustainability, bio-art, and artificial intelligence are at the heart of this new festival, created by the founders of A Quemarropa residencies and Piedra Papel Tijera ALC, Juan Fuster, Miriam Martínez Guirao, and Ana Pastor. ...

Exhibition: The Massacre of the Body

October 3, 2021
Press, TV
Loop Barcelona, City Screen, Gabriela Berti, Francisca Trobok, Colectivo Fantasía Collage, Selfie_v2
As part of City Screen at the Loop Festival in Barcelona, the Ideograma Foundation presents the video art exhibition: “The Massacre of the Body.” This exhibition revolves around the construction of post-capitalist bodies, those that struggle to end the massacre imposed by systems of control and surplus value, inscribed within them. The selection of videos by various artists explores ways to decongest corporeality and reclaim the intensities crushed by phallocentrism, the identity of the image, or the construction of a self that dances to the rhythm of production structures. ...

function("innocence", 2019)

May 26, 2019
Exhibits, New Media Art
Festival, Functionfest, Mallorca
In January 2019, a group of digital artists met at Cultural Center Casa Planas. As a result, we created the first Digital & Electronic Art Festival Mallorca function(“innocence”, 2019), which became a reality for two days between May 24 and 25. An incredible list of artists exhibited, performed, taught new media art, and showcased interactive artworks. I’m especially grateful to Enric Socias, who truly was the soul of the festival. ...

Ciutat de vacances - Metrópolis - RTVE

September 27, 2017
Press, TV
Casa Planas, Es Baluard
Throughout the episode, guided by its curator, we explore the projects of artists: Juan Aizpitarte, Ángela Bonadies, Domènech, Idensitat (Ramon Parramon and Gaspar Maza), Left Hand Rotation, Ángel Marcos, Neus Marroig, Marc Morell, Ana A. Ochoa, Irene Pittatore, Marina Planas and Arxiu Planas, and Miguel Trillo, complemented by insights from anthropologist Marc Morell. Each selected project approaches the tourism phenomenon from different angles and perspectives, together forming a puzzle of diverse viewpoints. ...

Contact Sheets

June 25, 2013
New Media Art
Cybersecurity, E2dk, Edonkey, Found Photography, Grey Networks, Intimacy, Photography, Post Photography, Privacy

As part of my Artificial Intelligence research, I created these contact sheets of the faces that the algorithm detects. You can read more about my research here.

You can also view the full contact sheets archive on contacts or Flickr. The archive is updated every time the system finds a sufficient number of new faces.

Note that every picture is credited. This is not the appropriation of images from the internet; it’s the re-use of freely distributed content interpreted by an AI algorithm.

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Store fronts

June 3, 2013
Photography

2008-2012

In my routine drifts, I always get caught by store fronts, even though I no longer publish my project, I still capture images.

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Ubiquography a real-time world-wide mobile photography exhibition

May 20, 2012
Photography, Press, New Media Art, Barcelona Photobloggers
Ubiquography
Ubiquography is an exhibition that aims to make people think about the traits that define mobile photography: ubiquity and immediacy. http://ubiquography.com/ Participants capture, edit and publish their pictures using their phones and they are instantly displayed in the exhibition (inreal-time) emphasizing the immediacy aspect. The exhibition will be simultaneously held in different cities around the world, in very diverse and distant locations, making the exhibition ubiquitous. Mobile networked photography can’t be explained like traditional photography. ...

Fotografies: Street Photography

February 24, 2012
Press, TV
On February 24 at 21:45, Fotografies program on ‘channel 33’ showed a special on street photography for which I had the luck of getting interviewed. My adventure companions were incredible: Eugeni Forcano, Paco Elvira and Rafa Perez. The 25 minute program can be seen here: http://www.ccma.cat/tv3/alacarta/fotografies/street-photography/video/3966610/ Some of my photographs can be viewed on Catalunya Television’s website in this online gallery. I recommend you check out Paco’s blog entry.

Calls for participative projects online for established cultural institutions: basic ideas

May 12, 2011
Last week a cultural center in Barcelona contacted me to get ideas regarding a project. We spoke for a few hours and I told them about my experience with Barcelona Photobloggers as far as organizing participative photographic projects. At the end, I had the feeling that this talk could help other centers so I decided to publish it, hoping that the quantity of calls for participative projects would increase, and above all, so would the quantity of participants. ...

Photoblogging

April 12, 2010
In 2002, the lab where I used to have my film developed reduced the price of ‘developing to CD’ and I started asking for the digital medium. By the beginning of 2003 I’d already decided to give paper up. The dematerialization of my photos implied that I didn’t have anything to take to work anymore to comment on in a café. A friend recommended some software that he was using for galleries. ...

Intuitive Photography

January 1, 2009
“The simply curious doesn’t have the right… Zen, like all mysticism, will only be understood by a mystic who… won’t give into the temptation to obtain by a surreptitious way that which the mystical experience denies” (Translator’s note from ‘Zen in the Art of Archery’) From Pepe Baeza’s talk I found out that Braque had recommended Henri Cartier-Bresson to read the book ‘Zen in the Art of Archery’ by Eugen Herrigel. ...

flickrGrama 3030122090

November 23, 2008
New Media Art
FlickrGramas
Rainy Day as flickrGrama. This is a project I’m working on called flickrGramas. This is a very early version, my first attempt. Future improvements include: Using only Creative Commons derivatives allowed images Creating flickrGramas by tags (e.g., a face formed by thousands of face images, a rainy day formed by thousands of rain-related images) Improving color indexing techniques Higher resolution available here (1,800px) Full resolution available here (18,000px, 106MB). ...

Exhibition “De la red a la pared” (From web to wall)

October 16, 2006
Barcelona Photobloggers, Exhibits
In recent years, the phenomenon of photoblogs, an extension of the blog culture where photography is the center of attention, has been acquiring adepts on the internet. Around this phenomenon, online communities in various cities around the world, Barcelona among them, have sprung up as a meeting place for the photobloggers. Barcelona Photobloggers come out of the online world to present their first collective exhibition entitled “De la red a la pared” on October 19 at 20:30. ...