L'animal a l'esquena and the Master MACAPD (Master in Contemporary Arts Practice and dissemination) organized in collaboration with the FUdGiF and the Càtedra Unesco, presents Roc Parés' seminar. Roc Parés.

Intensive Seminar

2, 4, 5, 6 March 2009

Notice: the seminar will be taught only in Spanish.

Technical requirements:

Please bring your laptop computers: Your computer must meet these requirements , or you may not be able to successfully participate in Second Life. http://secondlife.com/support/sysreqs.php

Seminar:

• Monday, March the 2nd:
  
  I Session: The human body in Human Computer Interaction (HCI).
  
  Interface/ sensors/actuators/social communication


• Monday, March 2nd:
  
  II Session: Dematerialization of art /dematerialization of body.


• Wednesday, March 4th:
  
  Practical work I: Real-Time generated multi-user Interaction with standard User Interfaces
  
  Creating an avatar in Second Life /Recording a video


• Thursday, March 5th:
  
  III  Session: Virtual subjectiveness.
  
  Agency, Presence, Connectivity/Gender and micropolitics


• Thursday, March 5th:
  
  IV. Session: Inhabiting the interface
  
  Computer as mind, Computer as body, Network as Universe...


• Friday, March 6 th :
  
  V. Session: Interactive Installations and their Context.


• Friday, March 6 th :
  
  Practical work II: Experimental full-body interaction