Panel Discussion: Collaborative Ecosystems for a Sustainable World
Pau Alsina (ES) , Sara Dean (US), Beth Ferguson (US), Marina Monsonís (ES), Mónica Rikić (ES)

Only collaborative practices, based on the transversal sharing of knowledge and efforts, can allow us to generate proposals that lead to a project for a sustainable world. In this panel discussion we present and reflect on different projects at the crossroads between art, science and technology.

Tools for a Warming Planet
Sara Dean (US), Beth Ferguson (US), Marina Monsonís (ES)

Tools for a Warming Planet is a collection of present-day and speculative tools for adapting to a changing world. New tools are needed for understanding, responding, communicating, building, and living together through climate chaos.

FORMS — Screen Ensemble
Santiago Vilanova – Playmodes (ES)

FORMS — Screen Ensemble is a generative visual music jukebox. Driven by chance and probabilities, this automaton creates endless, unrepeated graphic scores that are immediately transformed into sound by means of sonification algorithms, making it possible to literally hear what you see.

Chemical Ecosystem
Yolanda Uriz Elizalde (ES)

Chemical Ecosystem reflects on the function of smell today, inviting the public to observe how its presence influences the environment and affects the beings that inhabit it, listening to the olfactory messages that these inhabitants emit.

Do Bodies Dream of Electromagnetic Organs?
Esther Rodríguez Barbero (ES)

Do bodies dream of electromagnetic organs? is a performative installation built by movement sensors that reflects on the relationship between body and electromagnetic biomedical implanted devices. It addresses the alterations in terms of perception, self-perception, movement and spatial relations that appear after some experiences where state of consciousness is suspended.

Species I, II and III
Mónica Rikić (ES)

This project is the result of the ISEA2022 Barcelona Grants promoted by ISEA, the .NewArt { foundation;}, Hac Te and DKV, presented at La Capella as part of the “What is Possible and What is Not” exhibition in the context of ISEA2022 Barcelona. Species I, II and III focuses on imagining alternative evolutions for artificial cognitive systems.

Tasmanian Tiger
Antoni Muntadas (ES/US)

Thylacinus Cynocephalus, a marsupial from Australia commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger, was declared extinct in 1936. It is an example of how a legend is established between reality, fiction and popular myth.