Judit Carrera and Priv.-Doz. Dr. Martina Leeker. Artistic intervention by Mònica Rikic. Moderation: Gila Kolb & Aina Tur.
One year after a global sanitary emergency artists, curators, researchers and cultural institutions more than ever are dissolving boundaries in between the digital, the public space and the traditional ways of coming together sharing a cultural experience.
As an opening of the talk series, Judit Carrera (CCCB General Director) and Priv.-Doz. Dr. Martina Leeker (Artist and researcher) will engage a conversation focused on cultural practices and research in the digital realms.
How can a multidisciplinary cultural centre shift its knowledge production from analog to digital? And how does the content shift? How does the space shift? How does digitality shift the perception and the staging of the performing body?
Project funded by Institut Ramon Llull in collaboration with Goethe-Institut
Judit Carrera is, since 2018, the General Director of the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB). A columnist for the newspaper El País, she is also a member of the plenary assembly of the Barcelona City Council’s Board of Culture. After studying in Paris, she worked with UNESCO’s Analysis and Forecasting Office. Later, she worked in the Department of International Relations of the Barcelona City Council coordinating worldwide networks of cities with the United Nations System and, subsequently, setting up the umbrella organization United Cities and Local Governments. Carrera has a degree in Political Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and received a Master’s of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Political Philosophy from the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris.
Martina Leeker has a background in theatre studies and media studies, as well as in theatre/performance practice. She held an assistant professorship in “Theatre and Media” at the University of Bayreuth from 2002 to 2010 and was a senior researcher at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Centre for Digital Cultures from 2013 until 2018. She had been guest professor for media studies, and theatre pedagogy. Her research interests include: digital cultures; theatre/performance and media; theatre, performativity and digitality; art and technology; critique; posthuman (art) education; mimesis. As part of her academic work, Leeker is building on research with artistic methods, in particular performative methods, within lecture-performances and speculation-labs.
Mónica Rikić (Barcelona 1986) is a New Media Artist. She focuses her work in code, electronics and non-digital objects to create interactive projects often framed as experimental games. Her interest lies in the social impact of technology, human-machine-human coexistence and the reappropriation of technological systems to rethink them through art. From educational approaches to sociological experimentation, her projects propose new ways of interacting with the digital environment that surrounds us. With her projects she’s participated in international festivals such as Ars Electronica in Linz, Creative Tech Week in New York, Robotronica in Australia and FILE Festival in Brazil, among others, and exhibited at local institutions such as CCCB, Arts Santa Monica or the Design Hub. She’s been awarded at Japan Media Arts Festival, AMAZE Berlin, Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition (Atlanta) and with a BBVA Foundation Leonardo grant. She has participated in different artistic residencies around the world. Currently she’s part of two Creative Europe projects: Contested Desires and ARTificial Intelligence Lab, and recently one of the pieces has been acquired by the BEEP Collection of Electronic Art.
Gila Kolb is a researching art educator. Currently she teaches at MA art education, Berne University of Arts & University of Teacher Education Berne, Switzerland. She is co-founder of agency art education and editor of the trilingual blog the art educator’s talk. Her research and teaching focuses on post digital art education, strategies of agency and unlearning in art education, contemporary drawing practices in art education.
Aina Tur is a playwrighter and cultural manager. Currently she is overseeing Programming at the Sala Beckett/Obrador Internacional de Dramatúrgia and she is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Centro Dramático Nacional. She published theatre, narrative and essay. She has studied Pharmacy (Universitat de Barcelona), Agricultural Engineering (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya), Acting (Col·legi de Teatre de Barcelona), Playwriting (Sala Beckett) and an Advanced Course in Project Management (Universidad de Deusto). She is currently studying for her degree in Catalan Language and Literature (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya).
