«Blockchain in the cultural and creative industries»

Presented Sergi Manaut, mentor of Blockets and Infinitpixel
Time: from 6.15 pm to 7.30 pm
Venue: room in the Tallers area. UPF Poblenou campus (Roc Boronat, 138. Barcelona)

Blockets, presented by Víctor Ferrer, Co-founder
Blockets revolutionizes ticket sales and cultural management with an innovative technological platform. It provides a user-centric ticketing portal and efficient management software that streamlines payments, enhancing liquidity and working conditions in the sector. Additionally, it offers an intuitive data analytics service for all professionals in the cultural field.  

Infinitpixel, presented by Nil Soler, CEO
Infinitpixel is a platform that transforms the memories of event attendees into a collective mural of digital assets, capturing unique moments. An immersion in the shared essence of the event, where each image tells a story and contributes to a digital legacy that lasts in the collective memory.

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«GAMEPLAY: Indie games and contemporary video game culture»

Presented by: Department of Communication of the UPF. 
Time: from 6.15 pm to 7.30 pm
Venue: Sala "En Construcció" Tallers area. UPF Poblenou campus (Roc Boronat, 138. Barcelona)

Maya, presented by Mario Barranco.
Maya is an abstract walking simulator that reflects on memory, oblivion, mechanical consumption, and the influence of algorithms on the meaning and form of images.

The project was born as part of a doctoral thesis on the aesthetic theory of video games, cinema, and image, and the concept of video game-essay.

Femme Futura, presented by Arnau Aizpitarte.
Femme Futura is a worldbuilding exercise presented in various formats at an artistic, participatory performance exhibition.  The project includes a video game that features an avatar generation system, allowing visitors to create their own avatars. The goal is to create a drag queen-themed party where participants can immerse themselves in the world of Chromatica, a dystopian Barcelona, and meet its protagonists.

Femme Futura originated as a TFG in Audiovisual Communication.

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«Research and creative process» 

Presented by Roc Parés, digital artist, professor and researcher at the UPF Department of Communication
Time: from 6.15 pm to 7.30 pm
Venue: Atrium of the Tallers area. UPF Poblenou campus (Roc Boronat, 138. Barcelona)

De Lluny, presentwd by Verónica Navas, artista.
De Lluny is a performative installation, a “wandering film” that questions the traditional formats of cinema, exhibition architecture and the publishing standards

Research through practice. Creative process, notebooks and theoretical inquiry, presented by Matilde Obradors, curator
With this exhibition, the curator highlights the importance of research through practice. It presents a methodology that articulates theory and practice and places importance on not separating subject and object. And reflect on whether experience can generate knowledge.

As a case study of research through practice, a doctoral thesis by the artist and researcher Diana Coca that makes use of this methodology is presented.

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