Obradors Barba, Matilde
OBRADORS BARBA, MATILDE
Departament de Comunicació
DigiDoc Group
Associate Professor
Personal website
Current position:
Associate professor at the Communication Department. DigiDoc research group.
Academic training:
BA in Psychology (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 1984), PhD in Social Communication (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2003).
Research interests:
Art practice as research. Videoart - Moving images. Streaming performance art. Digital Storytelling in social innovation. Ideation and creatvity processes. Teaching innohvation.
Current research projects:
- Researcher at the project, “Narración interactiva y visibilidad digital en el documental interactivo y periodismo estructurado”, RTI2018-095714-B-C21, European Fund of Regional Development (Feder) and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
- The exhibition, Solitude and the Seeds, by Matilde Obradors, has been shown at Espai 7, at the Casino Cultural Center in Manresa (Barcelona) from June 26 to July 26, 2020. It is the second exhibition that is part of the program, "Gender and Territory", a project curated by Roser Oduber, director of the CACIS, artist and cultural manager. It has been carried out with the support of Manresa City Council and the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya: https://www.m-arteyculturavisual.com/2020/08/20/recorrer-el-bosque-ver-caer-las-hojas-proteger-las-semillas/
- 2020 InNER SIDE-Virtual residence at Rad’Art in collaboration with Library Rates. A website where all the participating artists have created our own art page from the condition of confined. Covid-19. Project coordinator and creator Anton Roca. Web designer Myriam Lambert: https://ca.innerside.org/matildeobradors
Recent publications:
- Obradors, Matilde. Practice as Research. La investigación a través de la práctica en las artes creativas. Enfoques y métodos. Barcelona: Grupo DigiDoc. Departamento de Comunicación (UPF) (2020). 45 p.
- Obradors, Matilde. El videoarte, creatividad salvaje y disección social. Revista ICONO14 Revista Científica De Comunicación Y Tecnologías Emergentes (2019); 17(1), 111-132.
- Obradors, Matilde; Rocha, Irene; Fernández-Aballí, Ana. Approach to the new videographies analysis: Case study of immigrant representations in the Social Innovation Laboratory videos (SIL UBIQA). Semiotica, 2018 (224), pp. 85-110. doi:10.1515/sem-2015-0151.