In collaboration with UOC
Teacher seminar 4th and 5th March 2010. Image: Noé Baranda
This course examines the relationship between art and life sciences through the fantasies associated with the dreams of transforming or modifying nature and the living, specifically through the fear of plagues, the fascination with the creation of monsters or the endeavour to conjure up chimeras.
If the history of humankind is dotted with references to plagues, monsters and chimeras in the popular imaginary, at the current moment in time we find a growing number of artists using plants, cells, genes and other biological materials in and for their creations. Practitioners creating eco-installations in the environment and alterations in the landscape to remind us of the importance of our surrounding environment. From a humanist approach, they all contribute to the key issues of recent decades, such as how we construct ourselves as subjects in our techno-scientific society.
Art has always played a hinge role in the change of perception of our environment. Art’s relationship with science leads to practices looking to impinge on the social, ethical and epistemological domains of contemporaneity. Nowadays, divesting life sciences of their practical function and recontextualising them in aesthetic forms, we are exploring the frontiers between nature and art.
Professors: Raquel Rennó and Pau Alsina
Registration for the two courses is already open. They will be held on the virtual campus of the ...
In collaboration with UOC
Jointly sponsored by: LABoral and UOC-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya [Open University of Catalonia]
The postgraduate course in Cultural Innovation: arts, digital media and popular culture provides ...
It begins October 28 and will last one year. Participants will receive 30 ECTS credits.
2nd edition of this seminar in collaboration with UOC-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
On-line summer courses UOC-LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
The course, to be held from February 3 to March 2 in the virtual classrooms of the UOC
In collaboration with UOC-Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Seminar for education professionals introduce the basic concepts linked to art, science and ...
