<nettime-ann> Online summer course: INNOVATION IN DIGITAL ART AND CULTUR

Hello, everyone

This is an online course that is taking place on the month of July. It will be mainly in Spanish (and partly in English), so it may be interesting to some of you.

Best,

Pau

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Innovación en arte y cultura digital/INNOVATION IN DIGITAL ART AND CULTURE

Online course: UOC, LABoral, Universidad de Oviedo

July, 6 - 30, 2009

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) are promoting a summer course on “Innovation in Digital Art and Culture” to be held this July at UOC’s virtual classrooms. The course is part of a joint collaboration by the two institutions together with the Universidad de Oviedo with the goal of responding to theoretical and practical training needs of students, professionals and academics working in the sphere of audiovisual communication and contemporary digital culture. The course is directed by Pau Alsina, director of Artnodes and lecturer in Arts and Humanities at UOC, Rosina Gómez-Baeza, director of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, and Aquilino A. Juan Fuente, director of the Universidad de Oviedo’s Centre for Innovation.

The course Innovation in Digital Art and Culture is conceived to study the ongoing changes and transformations in contemporary art and cultural production under the influence of information and communication technologies, from an interdisciplinary context and in tune with the wider debates on an international scale in the fields of arts, humanities, communication and social sciences The programme is continued with the Feedforward International Symposium, scheduled for October 24th and 25th at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, open to all participants at this course.

Innovation in Digital Art and Culture is aimed at cultural producers (artists, critics, curators, journalists) and professionals related with art, social and cultural intervention. Its concerns range from critical and creative productions in and about the world of culture and art in several formats (artistic, journalistic, exhibitions, advertising) to educational and social practices carried out through culture (teachers, social educators, social workers, youth workers). It also targets the cultural industry and system (managers, directors, centres, politicians) and professionals from creative industries and cultural institutions in the wider sense of the term, involved in the processes of cultural management, production, planning, promotion and dissemination, and interested in studying the impact of ICTs on the industry.

Lecturers:

Pau Alsina teaches Arts and Humanities at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Director of Artnodes (art, science and technology space) at UOC. www.uoc.edu/artnodes.

Tere Badía is an Art Historian and Master in Sociology from IN3. She is a freelance consultant to art networks and collectives on organisational processes. Badía is the author of a number of research papers and manuals examining cooperation in the field of culture and R&D and innovation in visual arts.

Steve Dietz is Art Director of 01SJ Biennial, a global festival of emerging art in San Jose, California. He is co-curating, together with Christiane Paul, the upcoming show Feedforward: Angel of History to be presented at Laboral, Asturias, Spain, in October 2009.

Jose Luis de Vicente is a cultural researcher focused on culture, technology and innovation. He has been deputy director of the ArtFutura festival (2001-2007), associated curator of digital art at the Sonar festival (2004-2007) and art director at OFFF (2005-2007).

Raquel Rennó is a doctor in Communication and Semiotics from Pontifícia Universidade Católica, Sao Paulo (2007).

Jaron Rowan, is co-founder of YProductions, a production company working on the development of cultural production, management and research projects since 2003. www.ypsite.net

Pau Waelder is an art critic, curator and researcher in art and digital culture. He has curated exhibitions, including Metapaisajes (Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró in Mallorca/ Deichtorcenter Hamburg) and FLOW (CCA Andratx).

DURATION: 30 hours

FEES: €219 / €234

CERTIFICATE: university extension certificate

CREDITS: 1 ECTS credit (participation at the Feedforward symposium will grant 1 extra ECTS credit).

ENROLMENT: from 27th May to 16th June 2009 (1st period)

from 17th June to 26th June / 2nd July 2009 (2nd period)

Information: on http://www.uoc.edu/uvv/3/2_presentacion.html

or by phone +34 902 141 141

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