Photo Credit: AI- Adobe Firefly + Moisés Mañas
In collaboration with LASER VALENCIA
Moderation
Luca Forcucci (LASER NOMAD / ubqtlab.org) + Moisés Mañas (UPV) + Guillermo Muñoz (UV)
Invited Speakers
Paz Tornero + Alberto Conejero
Topics
Ecology of epistemologies, impacts of ‘into the wild’ methodologies
Performance AV / Sonic Rituals
Composition and Performance: Luca Forcucci
Visuals: Paz Tornero + Jorge Dabaliña
Schedule
7pm Moderated discussion
8.30 pm Concert
Location
C/ de Pavia, 37, 46011 València
Introduction (Spanish below)
Performative knowledge resides in the idea a continuum, an epistemology ‘in the making’, an epistemology of wandering without stable states of equilibrium, leading to nomadic propagation ‘in the wild’. In this discussion, which is as an encounter between two LASER Talks, one NOMAD and the one based in Valencia, we explore why an epistemology ‘in the wild’, namely developed outside controlled environments, brings different results than a framed one. The idea beyond LASER Nomad is a living, developing organism and system. In reference to the term ecosophy by Félix Guattari, the notion is within site-specific situations (environments) according to encounters in specific geographic nodes (social relationships) to develop ideas emerging from the encounters between ancestral cultures and ancestral indigenous epistemology and contemporary ones (human subjectivity). However, it must be underlined that a global system with global solutions is not what is envisioned here; instead, the promotion of an ecosystem of knowledges local and site specific. All knowledge systems are local, including art and sciences. In the current world, many challenges are rapidly appearing and increasing (e.g. environmental issues; the movement of diasporas, authoritarian and retrograde political influences). What is the wild ? Why it may well changes our epistemologies and ontologies ? for who and from whom?
Text: Luca Forcucci
(Español)
El conocimiento en acción, performativo, se asienta sobre un principio de desplazamiento continuo. Una epistemología “en hacer”, errante y apartada de los estados estables de equilibrio. Una epistemología que viaja de forma nómada propagándose “en lo salvaje”. En el debate que ofrecemos, un encuentro entre dos nodos LASER (Nomad + Valencia) exploramos por qué esa epistemología en estado salvaje, aquella alejada de los entornos controlados, nos proporciona resultados muy distintos de la que permanece fiel a un marco estático. La figura que da forma al proyecto LASER Nomad es la de organismo y sistema vivo en permanente desarrollo. La identidad del proyecto LASER es la multiplicidad forjada mediante la acogida y la diferencia. Usando el término “ecosofía” de Félix Guattari, el principal registro son los ambientes situados [el medio ambiente], para poner en correspondencia a nodos geográficos específicos [relaciones sociales]. Con esta descomposición emergen ideas desde el encuentro entre los saberes y epistemologías ancestrales e indígenas y las defendidas por el norte geográfico [subjetividad humana]. Pero conviene advertir que esta reunión no tratará de construir y edificar un sistema de soluciones globales, sino más bien la promoción de una ecología del conocimiento de programas que siempre serán situados y locales. Todos los sistemas de conocimiento son locales, incluidas las artes y la ciencias. El mundo de hoy queda atravesado por múltiples retos que piden una atención y análisis cada vez a mayor ritmo: el autoritarismo, las diásporas, las crisis climáticas multidimensionales, la vigilancia y la transformación digital, la pérdida de sentido o nuestra relación con la imagen de nuestros futuros, … En este contexto nuestras preguntas son: ¿qué es lo salvaje? ¿por qué “lo salvaje” puede cambiar nuestras epistemologías y ontologías? ¿para quién y por quién?
Texto: Luca Forcucci
Invited Speakers:
Paz Tornero is a Ph.D. in Art, Science and Technocreativity at Complutense University of Madrid. Her thesis is about the relationship between art, science and creativity from 20th century to present and it explores new art forms that incorporate technological and scientific aspects. She has an MA in Fine Arts and Digital Arts from Pompeu Fabra University and a BFA in Fine Arts from Polytechnic University of Valencia. She also studied at Carnegie Mellon University (USA). She was a visiting fellow at Harvard University as well as MIT Media Lab, to expand her knowledge by studying the innovative educational program Idea Translation Lab, led by scientist David Edwards and supported by the Le Laboratoire art center in Paris. Also, visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in its notorious Media Lab center, where she had the honor of being Antoni Muntadas and Krzysztof Wodiczko’s student. She teaches seminars and writes about science, digital art, dance, theatre, humanities, and transdisciplinarity research-learning. Her projects have been showed in international festivals and galleries. She has been artist-in-residence in important programs such as: The Finnish Bioart Society in Finland; a stay on research, ecology and artistic production in the Arctic Circle. Artist-in-Residence for the investigation of transdisciplinary methodologies at the Casa Tres Patios Cultural Foundation in Medellín, Colombia. Or, NIDA SummerSchool for Artistic Research at NIDA Art Colony in Lithuania”. She has been artist-in-residence in ArtScience programs. Currently, she is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Granada in Spain.
Artist and professor expert in theory and practice related to the synergies between Art-Science-Technology. Catching the attention of scientists and collaborating with them in their laboratories is something she is definitely very passionate about. She calls herself the “intruder artist”, which she defines as a visitant-invader of scientific spaces with the goal of understanding their processes and generating new knowledge in between disciplines.
J. Alberto Conejero has a degree in Mathematics from the Universitat de València (1998) and PhD in Applied Mathematics from the UPV (2004), with the Extraordinary Thesis Award. He also holds a Master’s degree in Bioinformatics and Biostatistics by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Universitat de Barcelona (2020). He is currently Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Informática (ETSINF) of the UPV. He is also a researcher at the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics (IUMPA), director of the Master’s Degree in Mathematical Research, director of the Department of Applied Mathematics and coordinator of department directors at the UPV. Previously, he has held the positions of Vice-Dean of the ETSINF (former Faculty of Computer Science) (2004-2009), Secretary of the Strategic Plan Commission for the period 2007-2014 (2005-2007). Director of the Academic Performance and Curricular Evaluation of Students Curricular Evaluation of Students (2009-2013) and Deputy Secretary General (2013-2016).
He has taught for more than 20 years different mathematics courses: Algebra, Mathematical Analysis, Discrete Mathematics, Graph Theory, Network Science and Data Science Projects in Computer Science and Data Science degrees. He has also taught Biology, Synthetic Biology, Soft Skills, and Art and Science at the UPV. He is the author of two MOOCs in edX, which were awarded by Universia and Telefónica (2013). In addition, he has received the Teaching Excellence Award from the Social Council of the UPV (2014).
His research activity began in the areas of Functional Analysis and Operator Theory in Mathematics, combining it later with interdisciplinary collaborations in various fields.
He is the author of more than 120 research papers published in research journals and international conferences. In addition, he has carried out short stays in the following academic institutions: Bowling Green (OH) and Kent (OH) (USA), Lecce (Italy), Academy of Sciences of Prague (Czech Rep.), and Tübingen (Germany).
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