Zielinski - Seminar

[2007]

Siegfried Zieleinski is one of the most recognized art and media theoreticians in Europe; I am organizing a seminar with him on the occasion of Zielienski visit to Universidad de Los Andes. The focus of the seminar are three texts by him representing different steps of his career, the texts are:

- Fortuitous Finds instead of Searching in Vain: Methodological Borrowings and Affinities for an An-archaeology of Seeing and Hearing by Technical Means.

- Good Machines, Bad Machines For Living Heterogeneity in the Arts of Picture and Sound.

- Loyolas Medienmodellierer. Athanasius Kircher im Kontext einer Archäologie der Medien.

http://aburbano.uniandes.edu.co/zielinski/

Visual Culture - Seminar

[2006]

Summer Course at los Andes University – Art Department, in collaboration with Phd Malcolm Ashmore from Loughborough University, England.

What is ‘visual culture’? This term has, of course, a variety of meanings. In ‘Art’ contexts (especially art education), where ‘visual culture’ has its oldest home, it seems to be shorthand for the ‘social context’ of art works and their production. In very recent times, an interest in ‘visual culture’ has traveled from the art college to our end of the campus: the borderland of interpretative sociology and cultural studies.
What is this module all about? The understanding of ‘visual culture’ articulated in this module has a particular set of emphases not necessarily found elsewhere: a sustained concern with the relations between ‘seeing’ and ‘being seen’, and with the cultural connections between ‘sight’, ‘truth’, and ‘identity’. We will, as well, be drawing on three main sets of literature that are infrequently combined: cultural studies of identity formation; art theory; and ‘epistemic sociology’ (a hybrid area from social studies of science and ethnomethodology).

http://aburbano.uniandes.edu.co/visual/

Intermedial

[2006]

Workshop in collaboration with Jorge Sofrony a PhD in electric engineering in England, the aim of the workshop is to create the technological infrastructure to develop experimental art projects in the public space of Bogota using different networks of communication from traditional fm radio to wireless networks. The objective of this kind of experiments is to contribute to the development of new and interactive artistic experiences on both the real public space and the virtual public space of information networks.

The workshop is based on several local experiences (we have designed a couple of WiFi games at the University campus) and also in the technical experience of Jorge Sofrony who was the technician for groups as Blast Theory.

http://atari.uniandes.edu.co/medios/cursos/intermedial/

Technology and Society

[2005- 2006]

The Technology and Society research group looks to create pertinent and valid knowledge on how technology is constructed, adapted or transferred to Colombia and on how these processes have a positive or negatively impact in our society. This knowledge is constructed thanks to an ample and rigorous empirical work.

The group of Technology and Society has consolidated its position in Universidad de Los Andes because is officially recognized in three different Schools (Engineering, Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities); and the group obtained a classification like group A in the Colciencias rank of research groups. Colciencias is the most important scientific institution in Colombia.

http://tecnologiaysociedad.uniandes.edu.co/

Red de redes

[1999 - 2006]

The course “Red de Redes” of the Art Department at Universidad de Los Andes, is a workshop oriented to develop applications that explore the creative and aesthetic dimensions of the World Wide web.

The first semester of 2006 a new work method was implemented oriented to give more free time to develop specific projects, it is because we appreciate the concept of autonomy in the conception and implementation of projects, artworks, designs for the class.

“Red de Redes” was created at the end of the last decade thinking on the importance of Internet for our contemporary society. Since 1999 students of Art, Design, Architecture and Engineering have implemented creative projects that explore the WWW in diverse creative and critical ways.

http://aburbano.uniandes.edu.co/redderedes

http://atari.uniandes.edu.co/medios/cursos/redderedes2006_1/