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.

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.

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.

Shared Folder. “Red box” was my official artwork. However, at the last moment, I produced a couple of unlisted ones: CODE and Susurros.

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.

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.

Remember a factory… an early 20th-century one. You may recall some iconic images by Lewis W. Hine.

We need to photograph our 21st-century factories. I capture the spaces where I work as a software engineer.

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.

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. A bunch of prints on a wall will never be able to explain to the public what this new photographic paradigm really means. Our full statement can be found here.

Barcelona Visió ha entrevistat al nostre amic i company David Lladó per parlar del nostre nou projecte Ubiquography. Moltes gràcies!

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.

Noticias Cuatro emitió ayer domingo un pequeño reportaje sobre nuestro nuevo proyecto Ubiquography. ¡Muchas gracias!

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.

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. I ended up adapting the program. I wanted the last photos to be seen first; the photos had to be of large size, taking up the whole screen, unobstructed; and I wanted viewers to be able to leave comments.

El programa Infodia de Barcelona Televisió ha emès un petit reportatge sobre l’exposició “Al Detall” organitzada per Barcelona Photobloggers i Maremagnum. Moltes gràcies!

“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.

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:

1. Using only Creative Commons derivatives allowed images
2. Creating flickrGramas by tags (e.g., a face formed by thousands of face images, a rainy day formed by thousands of rain-related images)
3. Improving color indexing techniques

Higher resolution available here (1,800px)
Full resolution available here (18,000px, 106MB).

This flickrGrama contains 43,200 pixels represented by 22,938 different images.

El programa Hola Barcelona de Barcelona Televisió ha emès un reportatge sobre l’exposició “elements” organitzada per Barcelona Photobloggers i Maremagnum. Moltes gràcies!

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. A total of 22 photobloggers from Barcelona area will exhibit more than 300 photographs at the  Fotonauta gallery until November 9.