In a global context of accelerated digital transformation, culture needs spaces for reflection and action that allow us to rethink the policies that sustain and guide it. To this end, the Open University of Catalonia (UOC) is organising this conference to put at the centre of the international debate the need to develop digital culture policies that are more critical, inclusive and aligned with the great social and technological challenges of our time. From HacTe, we participated in these conferences with the interventions of the director of the association, Tere Badia, as well as several members (UOC, UPC and Sónar).
This meeting aims to become a space for strategic dialogue between diverse voices from the cultural, technological and social worlds, with the aim of generating ideas and proposals with a vision for the future.
The program will include:
- A round table with experts in digital culture and cultural policies, to share perspectives, diagnoses and proposals for action.
- A dialogue with Santi Vilanova (Playmodes collective), creator of Constellations, a generative work that unites art, science and technology.
- A guided tour of the exhibition of the pieces of the work at the UOC’s facilities.
PROGRAM
15:30 – Registration and welcome
16:00 – Institutional inauguration
Manel Jiménez-Morales, Vice-Rector for Alliances, Community and Culture, UOC
16:15 – Opening words:
Maria Lladó Ribot, Director of the Creative Area, Institut Ramón Llull
Eva Soria Puig, Director of Cultural Sectors ICUB (Barcelona City Council) and Doctor of Law
Marisol López, Director General of Innovation and Digital Culture, Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia
16:20 – Introduction: contextual framework of the conference
Initial intervention by the creator of the conference, who will offer a brief frame of reference to understand the main thematic axes and challenges that will guide the debate on the future of digital culture policies
Pau Alsina, Professor, UOC
16:30 – Round table: digital culture and policies for the future
Moderated debate between professionals from the cultural, academic and technological fields on ways to rethink cultural policies in the digital age.
Alba Colombo, Professor, UOC
Pep Salazar, Director Festival OFFF
Tere Badia, Director, HacTe
Roc Parés i Burgués, Research Artist, UPF
Antonia Folguera Bañeres, curator of Sónar+D and communicator
Carles Sora-Domenjó, Director of the CITM-UPC
Pau Alsina, Professor, UOC (moderator)
17:45 – Conversation with Playmodes:
Conversation between the artist and the curator around Constellations, a work that fuses disciplines and activates new perspectives on digital culture.
Irma Vilà Òdena, Lecturer and curator of the exhibition ‘Constellations’, UOC
Santi Vilanova, Artist of the Playmodes collective
18:00 – Inauguration of the exhibition ‘Containments’:
Manel Jiménez-Morales, Vice-Rector for Alliances, Community and Culture, UOC
Irma Vilà Òdena, Lecturer and curator of the exhibition ‘Constellations’, UOC
Santi Vilanova, Artist of the Playmodes collective
There will be a catering service during the day.
