International Metabody Forum 2015

7-9 April

Tuesday 7th 1’25-2’40
Performance technology class – Artists talk.
In 1515 Hull Avenue, Rear – the SLIPPAGE laboratory.
Presentation of Metabody and of 4 artists projects under development in the Metabody framework:

Jaime del Val – Reverso Institute, Madrid – Metabody project coordinator, artist and philosopher.

Wednesday 8th ate 4’30-5’30 pm
Lecture – Performance – Workshop.
In 1515 Hull Avenue, Rear – the SLIPPAGE laboratory.
Introducing Metabody concepts through embodied thinking in motion and the projects Disalignments and Microsexes.

Microsexes is a Metaformance – ongoing process of transformation of perception – in which surveillance cameras placed on the skin become the eyes of the body, undoing the usual perceptual framing and with it the conditions of possibility of form and identity. The body becomes an amorphogenetic process of becoming, an unravelling of endless microsexes that defy binary and morphological construcionts of sex. JaiVal is an alien preacher, a microsex worker that disseminates posthuman affects through postintimate encounters for an ecology to come.
Jaime del Val – Reverso Institute, Madrid – Metabody project coordinator, artist and philosopher.

[followed by an outdoors collective performance]

Metakinesphere-Disalignments.
Urban performance/metaformance.
Reverso: Jaime del Val & Cristian García

Metakinesphere is an analogue prototype for interactive/intra-active wearable architecture. A wearable structure made of flexible materials and translucent textiles that blurs the limits of the body and its legibility. A metabody, a body-space without recognisable form or function, that physically transforms in an elastic relation to bodily movement, bound by elastics to the “human” body which moves suspended in the relation to the architecture, while projecting its skin on the textiles through cameras placed on the skin and projecting the electronically processed voice. Metakinesphere challenges the reducibility of the body and its movement to any spherical or geometric form (Laban, Parmenides, or Leonardos Vitruvian man). Never aquiring a form, movement unfolds in indeterminate potentials. Hybrid of architecture, wearable and textile, this metabody is enacted as movement, metaformed and performed, an anti-object in permanent amorphogenesis. Alien bride and posthuman cocoon, it is also an hommage to the amorphogeneitc multisensorial performances of dancescientist Loïe Fuller.

Thursday 9th April 1’25-2’40 pm
Performance technology class visit in 1515 Hull Avenue, Rear – the SLIPPAGE laboratory.

Thursday 9th April 4’30-5’30 pm
In Smith Warehouse,Bay 10 2^nd floor, room 266
Duke Media Arts + Sciences Rendezvous?
Metabody Project Presentation.
METABODY – Embodied media as response to global surveillance culture.
By Jaime del Val – Reverso Institute, Madrid – Metabody project coordinator, artist and philosopher.

11-15 April.

Concordia University – Senselab – Hexagram – Urban spaces.

• 11th-15th April 19:00-22:00.
  At Hexagram – Black Box – 1515 Sainte Catherine Street West EV OS3-845/855.
  Hexagram contact.

• 14th April 16:00-19:00.
  Amorphogenesis
  Antiplatonic Cave (Zarathustrian Cave – Anaximandrian Cave)

• 13th and 15th April – 14:00-17:00.
  Seminar with the Senselab.
  Concordia University 1250 Guy street (Faubourg building) – Room 630.
  Reversing Cybernetics, Queering Control – Media, Embodiment and the Politics of Indeterminacy.

• Tuesday 14th April – 20:00-22:00.
  Microsexes – metaformance in a home space.
  Information and requests to cyborgdelval@gmail.com
  Reverso – Jaime del Val – JaiVal

• Tuesday 14th April – 22:30.
  In urban space to be announced – info to cyborgdelval@gmail.com
  Metakinesphere
  Urban performance/metaformance
  Reverso: Jaime del Val & Cristian García

International Metabody Forum – IMF 2015 – Montreal

Concordia University – Senselab – Hexagram – Urban spaces

11th-15th April at Hexagram
Black Box 1515 Sainte Catherine Street West EV OS3-845/855.

• 11th April 19’00-22’00

• 12th April 19’00-22’00

• 13th April 19’00-22’00

• 14th April 16’00-19’00

• 15th April 19’00-22’00

Produced by Reverso – in collaboration with Dtr-lab and Hyperbody – TUDelft
With the support of the Culture Programme of the EU

Conception, visuals and sound: Jaime del Val
Physical Structure: Jaime del Val and Cristian Garcia
Projection system: Dieter Vandoren
Computer Programming: Dieter Vandoren
Digital meshes: Jia Rey Chang

13th and 15th April – 14’00-17’00
Seminar with the Senselab
Concordia University 1250 Guy street (Faubourg building) – Room 630

Reversing Cybernetics, Queering Control – Media, Embodiment and the Politics of Indeterminacy.
The workshop will focus on experimentation with perception, movement, spatial and bodily affordances for researching into the way interfaces capture and reduce movement to traceable discreet units, proposing an ontological critique of control society from the perspective of a philosophy of movement. At the same time the workshop will propose to reinvent the affordances of the interface by involving bodily motion in non-reductive ways that foreground the indeterminacy and unquantifiability of movement as experienced through proprioception and other sensing modalities, thus exceeding the rationalistic visual paradigm of Renaissance perspective that pervades current control technologies.

• 1st session – embodied readings
  ·Deleuze ,….

• 2nd session – physical thinking-praxis – indoors and outdoors improvisations
  ·Disalignments – Metakinesphere/Metatents

Bring your own pop-up tents for a collective performance-workshop

Tuesday 14th April – 20’00-22’00

Microsexes – metaformance in a home space

Microsexes is a Metaformance – ongoing process of transformation of perception – in which surveillance cameras placed on the skin become the eyes of the body, undoing the usual perceptual framing and with it the conditions of possibility of form and identity. The body becomes an amorphogenetic process of becoming, an unravelling of endless microsexes that defy binary and morphological construcionts of sex. JaiVal is an alien preacher, a microsex worker that disseminates posthuman affects through postintimate encounters for an ecology to come.

Information and requests to cyborgdelval@gmail.com
Reverso – Jaime del Val – JaiVal

Tuesday 14th April – 22’30
In urban space to be announced.

Metakinesphere Urban performance/metaformance.

Is an analogue prototype for interactive/intra-active wearable architecture. A wearable structure made of flexible materials and translucent textiles that blurs the limits of the body and its legibility. A metabody, a body-space without recognisable form or function, that physically transforms in an elastic relation to bodily movement, bound by elastics to the “human” body which moves suspended in the relation to the architecture, while projecting its skin on the textiles through cameras placed on the skin and projecting the electronically processed voice. Metakinesphere challenges the reducibility of the body and its movement to any spherical or geometric form (Laban, Parmenides, or Leonardos Vitruvian man). Never aquiring a form, movement unfolds in indeterminate potentials. Hybrid of architecture, wearable and textile, this metabody is enacted as movement, metaformed and performed, an anti-object in permanent amorphogenesis. Alien bride and posthuman cocoon, it is also an hommage to the amorphogeneitc multisensorial performances of dancescientist Loïe Fuller.
Reverso: Jaime del Val & Cristian García
Information and requests to cyborgdelval@gmail.com

17-21 April

• Friday 17th April 18:00-20:00.
  At NYIT Manhattan: 1855 Broadway, New York, NY 10023
  Symposium: “Metabody: Technologies, Cultures and Movement”

• Saturday 18th April – 20:00-23:00.
  Microsexes – metaformance in a home space – By invitation only.

• Sunday 19th at 22:00.
  In urban space to be announced – Metakinesphere.
  Urban performance/metaformance

• Monday 21st at 17:00.
  In Washington Square Park, starting by the arch – Metakinesphere-Disalignments.
  Collective performance workshop.
  And subsequent metahuman derive in the city.

International Metabody Forum – IMF 2015 – New York

17-20 April – New York

Friday 17th April 18:00-20:00.
at NYIT Manhattan: 1855 Broadway, New York, NY 10023

Symposium: “Metabody: Technologies, Cultures and Movement”

Jaime del Val – Reverso Institute, Madrid – is Metabody project coordinator, metamedia metaformance artist and metahumanist philosopher, director of Reverso Institute of Metahuman Technologies.

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D.
Emotional Robots, Personhood, and Extended Ideas of Embodiment
Kevin will discuss his recent work in connection with Metabody, including his research on the idea of building emotions and ethics into robots; his research on the ethical treatment of non-human persons—which expands notions of personhood beyond anthropocentric models; and finally, his research on notions of distributed cognition and its implicit expansion of our ideas of embodiment beyond traditional boundaries. These projects all have in common the critique of current technology use or, in the case of the last two projects, the expansion of normal boundaries in our traditional relation to technology. Such expansions of boundaries are exploratory interventions in traditional human-technology interaction.

Dr. Kevin LaGrandeur is a Professor at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), and a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technology, an international think tank. He explores the intersections between digital technology, culture, philosophy, and English studies. Dr. LaGrandeur has written many articles and conference presentations on these topics, which have appeared in journals such as Computers & Texts, Computers and the Humanities, and Science Fiction Studies; in books such as Eloquent Images: Word and Image in the Age of New Media and Beyond Artificial Intelligence: The Disappearing Human-Machine Divide, which contains his most recent essay, ‘Emotion, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics.’ His writing has also appeared in popular publications such as United Press International (UPI) news agency, where he recently published an Op-Ed piece titled “The Mars Landing and Artificial Intelligence,” which discusses future ethical protocols for developing AI. His new book titled Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Routledge, 2013) is about the premodern cultural history of Artificial Intelligence, and it was Awarded a 2014 Science Fiction and Technoculture Studies Prize. He is one of the founders of the NY Posthuman Research Group, and also recently founded the Visual Pathways Consortium, a collection of academic researchers, non-profit groups, and corporations which collaborate to develop adaptive technology for the blind.

Francesca Ferrando, Ph.D.
Glamorous MetaBodies, the Politics of Amorphogenesis and the Will to Global Surveillance
We are… glamorous metabodies in amorphogenetic processes of constant becomings. The desire for surveillance is an attempt to re-constitute the order of things, a panopticon googlemap interactive picture of hyperrealities, in the anthropocentric genealogy of the will to master. In tune with New Materialisms, Deleuze and Guattari, yoga, rainbows and herstories, metabodies are: multiversal, passages from nowhere to everywhere (and vice versa), embodied narratives and im/pure potential. In this talk, we will explore the significance of loosing the body and accessing post-biological embodiments as intra-acting ecologies of relations, diffractions and absolute emptiness.

Dr. Francesca Ferrando, Ph.D in Philosophy, M.A. in Gender Studies, is a philosopher of the posthuman. She teaches Philosophy at NYU, as an Adjunct Faculty Member at the Program of Liberal Studies. Dr. Ferrando has published extensively on the topic of Posthumanism; in 2014 she was awarded the Philosophical Prize “Vittorio Sainati” with the Acknowledgment of the President of the Italian Republic. In the history of TED talks, Dr. Ferrando was the first TED Speaker giving a talk on the subject of the posthuman. Actively involved in the international debate as a visionary thinker and organizer, she is one the founders of the NY Posthuman Research Group. Info: www.theposthuman.org

Yunus Tuncel, Ph.D.
Metaformance and the Problem of Spectacle/Spectator Divide
My short talk will be a reflection on one of Jaime del Val’s projects, namely metaformance, based on my personal experience in Lesbos, Greece, in September 2011. Jaime del Val’s metaformance operates in a space that sets forces in motion and projects them towards a re-generation of new forms, as it breaks down stereotypes based on identity-formations, mind-body and subject-object dualisms, and rigid constructs of sexuality. This is a calligrammatic operation where we have a live performance and an immediate projection of that performance onto a screen: two simulacra, two media, the medium of the bodily performance is integrated with the medium of digital projection. Neither is the origin of the other; they do not resemble one another, theirs is at most a relationship of similitude. The series, or rather the matrix, which is established through sound, since the sound permeates all media and belongs to both, opens itself up to the audience. This is why it is better to refer to this spectacle as a matrix where there are many open ends, instead of two ends as in a series, into which a spectator can insert himself/herself as yet another simulacrum. In this way, the metaformer plays with the active-passive roles of the spectator, as he projects and receives an active participation from his audience and as spectators themselves become spectacle. Through technologies of becoming and the fluidity of media, such a performance presents movement against identity and metabody against our ordinary conceptions of the isolated, unitarian body. Out of this spectacular process, new affects are formed, as the performance echoes in and becomes one with its audience, as in Dionysian rituals.

Yunus Tuncel, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Nietzsche Circle based in New York City and serves on its Board of Directors and the Editorial Board of its electronic journal, The Agonist. He is one of the organizers of the NY Posthuman Research Group and is an advisor to Metabody. Yunus Tuncel has been teaching philosophy at the New School since 1999 and NYU’s Liberal Studies Program since 2001. In addition to typical philosophy classes, he teaches inter-disciplinary topical classes on power, taboo & transgression, gai saber & the troubadours, crime & punishment, and spectacle. He organizes textual workshops to read philosophical texts closely. In addition to Nietzsche and history of philosophy, he is interested in the twentieth century French thought and recent artistic, philosophical, and cultural movements, including trans-humanism and post-humanism. His primary areas of research are art, culture, myth, sports, and spectacle. He is interested in the fusion of art (all forms of art) and philosophy in various cultural formations. In recent times he has undertaken a project called Philomobile to explore, with interested searchers, the works and lives of philosophers on location within their historical context. His recent book, Agon in Nietzsche, was published in 2013 by Marquette University Press. His most recent and on-going work explores Nietzsche’s relationship to trans- and posthumanism.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Saturday 18th April – 20:00-23:00.

Microsexes – metaformance in a home space – by invitation only.
Information and requests to cyborgdelval@gmail.com.
Reverso – Jaime del Val – JaiVal.

Microsexes is a Metaformance – ongoing process of transformation of perception – in which surveillance cameras placed on the skin become the eyes of the body, undoing the usual perceptual framing and with it the conditions of possibility of form and identity. The body becomes an amorphogenetic process of becoming, an unravelling of endless microsexes that defy binary and morphological construcionts of sex. JaiVal is an alien preacher, a microsex worker that disseminates posthuman affects through postintimate encounters for an ecology to come.

Sunday 19th at 22:00.
In space to be announced – info to cyborgdelval@gmail.com.

Metakinesphere.
Urban performance/metaformance.
Reverso: Jaime del Val & Cristian García.

Metakinesphere is an analogue prototype for interactive/intra-active wearable architecture. A wearable structure made of flexible materials and translucent textiles that blurs the limits of the body and its legibility. A metabody, a body-space without recognisable form or function, that physically transforms in an elastic relation to bodily movement, bound by elastics to the “human” body which moves suspended in the relation to the architecture, while projecting its skin on the textiles through cameras placed on the skin and projecting the electronically processed voice. Metakinesphere challenges the reducibility of the body and its movement to any spherical or geometric form (Laban, Parmenides, or Leonardos Vitruvian man). Never aquiring a form, movement unfolds in indeterminate potentials. Hybrid of architecture, wearable and textile, this metabody is enacted as movement, metaformed and performed, an anti-object in permanent amorphogenesis. Alien bride and posthuman cocoon, it is also an hommage to the amorphogeneitc multisensorial performances of dancescientist Loïe Fuller.

Monday 21st at 17:00.
In Washington Square Park, starting by the arch – for more info write to cyborgdelval@gmail.com
And subsequent metahuman derive in the city.

Metakinesphere-Disalignments.
Collective performance workshop.

7-9 May 2015

University of California Berkeley
at the Z-Lab – in Zellerbach Auditorium Building.
Organized by TDPS:Theater Dance & Performance Studies.

Symposium and Workshops
Reversing Cybernetics – Queering Control.
Media, Embodiment and the Politics of Indeterminacy.

The Symposium will examine how cybernetics and current computer technology often promotes a problematic erasure of diverse bodies and movements. Within the workshops digital interfaces such as body based sensors and motion detecting cameras will allow for a range of interactive responses to occur between the human and the machine. People of all abilities are encouraged to participate.

Day 1: 7th May.

• 10:00-14:00 – Setup.

• 18:00-22:00 – Performances by Jaime del Val and Robert Wechsler
  • Metakinesphere/Microsexes/Disalingments
  • Affording Differences

Day 2: 8th May.

• 10:00-12:00 – Set up and “open studio”.

• 12:00-13:00 – Lunch break.

• 13:00-14:00 – Open studio, invite campus community to engage with the various sensors and technology set up in the space.
  Note: the open studio will involve.

• 14:00-15:00 – Local intermedia artists including Adrian Freed from CNMAT.

• 14:00-14:45 – Metabody presentation by Jaime del Val.

• Short break

• 15:00-16:30 – Panel discussion moderated by a faculty member reflecting on the open studio and Metabody project.
  • Abigail DeKosnick from BCNM (Berkeley Center for New Media)
  • Adrian Freed from CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technologies)
  • Lisa Wymore (Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley)
  • Ian Hiester (intermedia artist)
  • John MacCallum and Teoma Naccarto (working with breath sensors and wearable technology)
  • Robert Wechsler (Metabody partner)
  • Jaime del Val (Metabody coordinator)

• 16:30-17:30 – Reception.

• 18:00-20:00 – Performances by Jaime del Val and Robert Wechsler:
  • Amorphogenesis/Metakinesphere/Disalignments/Microsexes
  • Affording Differences

Day 3: 9th May.

Open to the public workshop on Metabody ideas: led by Jaime del Val and Robert Wechsler.

• 10:00-13:00 – Setup.

• 13:00-16:00 – Workshop with Sensor based technology and sound/gesture (Bancroft Dance Studio) and Metabody technologies.

Z-Lab is run by Lisa Wymore, Associate Professor of Dance/Choreography within the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley.The Z-Lab explores tele-presence, co-location, real time media within performance, and embodied media technology.Z-lab.

¿Is it possible to excercise a creative resistance to the windmills of cultural homogenisation in global capitalism? ¿Is a XXI Century Don Quixote possible? This forum focuses on Karen Barad’s notion of Intra-action as paradigm for new kinds of agency and participation, as well as in the relation between dance, performance, sound and music, visual arts and architecture, in new formats and urban spaces as quixotic tools for an engaged art in the XXI Century.

The INTERNATIONAL METABODY FORUM 2015 proposes that one of the most far-reaching problems of our time is the new paradigm of government and control that advances through digitization and cybernetics, that poses unprecedented challenges to rights and freedoms as well as inducing unprecedented homogenization of expressions and relations, since it operates simplifying and giving form to our behavior patterns. Metabody proposes to not only analyze this process but also resist it inventing techniques and technologies that mobilize the complexity and richness of embodied interactions, as opposed to the reductive tendency of current information technologies.

The body as technology against massive surveillance.

Metabody proposes to reappropriate and reinvent technologies through the body focusing on expanding the richness of expressions, against the simplification induced by current information technologies.

Its the 3rd IMF 2015 in Madrid and nº 8 in total after forums in Dresden, Génova, Amsterdam, Weimar y USA-Canada, and it will present an ensemble of performances, installations, (dis-)conerts and metaformances under the name METATOPIA, a metaopera and metagaming platform that will disseminate actions in the urban space while having its main site in the auditorium of Medialab Prado, where it will offer a transformative and intimate experience to the audience across a series of 15 installations-performances, preceded by 9 days of open production and research process, the Metamedialab. The audience can expand their experience demanding performances in homes.

Metaformance Studies will have its main site in La Casa Encendida where an international Unconference on Hacking Big Data Brother: from Biometrics to Intra-action and 8 workshops will take place, and the collaboration with ONCE Foundation for inclusiveness people with disabilities/diverse abilities.

This call contemplates a integrative perspective in favour of diverse abled bodies, facilitated through ONCE Foundation and Marta Leirado, artist working with diverse abled corporealities.

·Medialab Prado
Plaza de las Letras. C/ Alameda, 15 – 28014 Madrid (Spain)?
Auditorio & salas C & D

·La Casa Encendida
Ronda de Valencia, 2 – 28012 Madrid ?
Torreón

·Conservatorio Profesional de danza Fortea
Calle Comandante Fortea 42, 28008 Madrid ?

·Espacios urbanos – en AZCA ? y lugares céntricos en torno a Medialab
A domicilio y online

METATOPIA 1.0 – Occupy 2.0

Metatopia is a metaopera, metaformance, and metagaming platform, a laboratory of perception, embodiment and space that extends in a series of installations / dis-concerts / performances / metaformances / urban interventions and home performances.

In an apparent future that could be the present a planetary cyberorganism, or hipercyborg, called Big Data Brother, traces, cuantifies and modulates every movement of every human and non-human body and space. There is a diffuse guerilla of Metabody agents that aim at deprogramming the hipercyborg (Big Data Brother) through mobilizing unquantifiable movements, untraceable behaviors, emergent perceptions and illegible affects, in a counter-reductive move towards increasing diversity of bodies and behaviours, infusing indeterminacy into the system. Metatopia is the architectural, kinetic and perceptual laboratory of the Metabody agents (also called mutant bitches 2.0) who develop dynamic, intra-active spaces, illegible behaviors and unquantifiable affects that exceed reduction to data. Metabody agents are affecthackers and perception hackers that operate in theontological substrata of power and control, XXI century Quixotes that undo the invisible strata of power disseminating diffuse actions across all spaces, a metapolitics for a potential Occupy 2.0 movement in the era of global surveillance.

Auditorium- 22-25 July – several daily passes for small groups up to 10 people: 16’30, 17’30, 18’30, 19’30

Experience for small groups across 15 installations-performances-disconcerts-metaformances:

METATOPIA 1.0 – Occupy 2.0

Metatopia is a metaopera, metaformance, and metagaming platform, a laboratory of perception, embodiment and space that extends in a series of installations / dis-concerts / performances / metaformances / urban interventions and home performances.

In an apparent future that could be the present a planetary cyberorganism, or hipercyborg, called Big Data Brother, traces, cuantifies and modulates every movement of every human and non-human body and space. There is a diffuse guerilla of Metabody agents that aim at deprogramming the hipercyborg (Big Data Brother) through mobilizing unquantifiable movements, untraceable behaviors, emergent perceptions and illegible affects, in a counter-reductive move towards increasing diversity of bodies and behaviours, infusing indeterminacy into the system. Metatopia is the architectural, kinetic and perceptual laboratory of the Metabody agents (also called mutant bitches 2.0) who develop dynamic, intra-active spaces, illegible behaviors and unquantifiable affects that exceed reduction to data. Metabody agents are affecthackers and perception hackers that operate in theontological substrata of power and control, XXI century Quixotes that undo the invisible strata of power disseminating diffuse actions across all spaces, a metapolitics for a potential Occupy 2.0 movement in the era of global surveillance.

• 20th July in AZCA – between 19’00 and 23’30
• 21-25 July around Medialab – meeting point in Plaza de las Letras at 22’00

Days 1 to 17 July and after 26th July indefinitely subject to prior booking
• In the agent’s consultation
• In your home/hotel
• Online

Call for participants for the testing and development of prototypes of the Metabody project

Workshop of selfconstruction of dynamic spaces, wearable architectures and expanded bodies, and testing of prototypes for the Metabody project.

9 to 25 July
• Workshop from 9 to 17
• Participation in meeting of partners and conference 18 to 22
• Performances and installations from 22 to 25 July

In the year 2015 Big Data, the sophisticated processing of infinite data bases, is advancing a new era of ubiquitous control and surveillance that traverse all actual and virtual strata of matter, bodies and affects, configuring a new economy, a new ontology and a new politics that is yet to be accounted for.

In this scenario biometrics, understood as the reduction of bodies, movements and affects to measurable parameters, acquires unprecedented dimensions, while having a long history of biologization of bodies, species, genders and races going at least back to the XVIII century, a moment identified by Foucault as the birth of biopolitics. By the 1870s with the beginning of photography and specially cinema, nature studies, the theory of evolution, eugenics, psychology, anthropology and other sciences, there was a turning point in the processes leading to biometrics.It involved measurement gathering, the interpretation and standardization of gestures and emotions, and their massive dissemination. It also implied the installment of the belief that the results (“data”) unquestionably represented what they claimed to measure through technical and aseptic means and that the emotions read in certain gestures-movements were universal.

A new turning point took place with the birth of information in the mid 20th Century and with the emergence of ubiquitous computing, mobile computing and cloud computing in the 21st century. These “data”, whose aim is to portray us actually end up being incorporated into and comprising us, excluding anything that is removed in the process of their creation, and thus creating new behaviors that in turn reinforce biometric theories.

This scenario demands new ontologies, histories and politics, for new modes of hacking Big Data in which it seems of primary importance to understand data, how they come about, what they leave out. It is essential to analyze the origins and changes in biometrics, its practices, tools, performativity, the role of biometric apparatuses in the generation of scientists’ identities, the interpretations involved in the understanding of their results and the gradual conversion thereof into disembodied “data”, alongside the social and cultural implications, whereby what escaped measurements was and is categorized as irrelevant or abnormal.

Is all reality discrete, or is it made discrete by very precise perceptual, epistemological and ontological processes? Is politics reduced to operating within Big Data, visualizing what is yet unrepresented, or can we mobilize a politics of devisualization in which to become illegible to Big Data Brother?

In this scenario the paradigm of intra-action, as proposed by Karen Barad, points to a relational ontology of agential realism in which agencies, rather than entities, co-constitute in emergent processes. Intra-action as a mode of posthuman performativity that traverses all scales of matter and meaning production, may provide a creative ground for escaping biometrics while reinventing ourselves beyond it, since it potentially questions the very ontology of data, bodies and space-time as given and measurable items.

We will propose to take the paradigm of intra-action further into redefinitions of movement, bodies, space-time, affects and desires: how to build an intra-active architecture for an ontological politics capable of responding to the new challenges of Big Data Brother, for a social ecology to come?

Topics:
• Ontology and history of Big Data
• Ontology and history of data
• Ontology and history of Biometrics
• Antibiometrics and Biometric failure
• Biometric hacking and Big Data hacking
• Intra-action
• Posthuman performativity
• Posthuman queerness
• Agential realism
• Intra-active architecture
• Biometrics, Big Data and ecology

Organizing Committee:
· Jaime del Val – Reverso
· Eva Botella Ordinas – Depto. Historia Moderna, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

7 workshops.

• Big Data Hacker – Affect, desire and sexes hackers in the era of Big Data Brother. By Jaime del Val.
  Date: Wednesday 1 July
  Hours: from 16.00 to 20.00 h

• History of gesture and politics of movement. By Eva Botella.
  Date: Thursday 2 de julio
  Hours: from 10.00 to 14.00 h

• Urban parcours, reappropriations and recreations. By José Luis Carles y Cristina Palmese.
  Date: Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 of July
  Hours: Tuesda (from 10.00 to 14.00 h and 16.00 to 20.00 h) and Wednesday (from 10.00 to 14.00 h)

• Alternaive poetic movement II. By Marta Leirado.
  Date: Thursday 9 and Friday 10 of July
  Hours: Thursday (from 10.00 to 14.00 h and 16.00 to 20.00 h) and Friday (from 10.00 to 14.00 h)
  Price: 40 €

• Posthuman coroporealities: somatic-technological dance for participatory performance in mixed reality. By Isabel Valverde.
  Date: Wednesday 14 of July
  Hours: from 16.00 toa 20.00 h

• “GoD Bye is dead“. training session for thinkers in motion. By Salud López.
  Date: Thursday 15 of July
  Hours: from 11.00 to 13.30 h and 16.00 to 18.30 h. Presentations from 19.00 to 20.00 h

• CUERPO++ HACK. By Brisa MP.
  Date: Friday 17 of July
  Hourso: from 11.00 to 14.00 h and 16.00 to 19.00 h
  (Included materials).

All the workshops will celebrate in the Torreón 1.

Free inscriptions – before July 6 writing to talleres@metabody.eu

Asociación Transdisciplinar REVERSO

Based in Madrid, Coordinator of the Metabody project, Reverso is a non profit organization working in the convergence of the arts (dance, performance, music, visual arts, architecture), technosciences, philosophy and (queer & environmental) activism. Reverso promotes transidisciplinary projects that propose critical reinventions of technologies of the body, redefining embodiment, sexuality and affects, highlighting indeterminacy and plurality of expressions and communication, challenging the foundations of contemporary control society and outlining potentials for a social ecology to come.

Jaime del Val is a meta-media artist, philosopher, performer, director of Reverso Institute www.reverso.org and coordinator of the METABODY Project www.metabody.eu. He develops transdisciplinary projects in the convergence of arts, technologies, critical theory and activism, that have been presented all over Europe, North and South America. His projects propose redefinitions of embodiment, perception and affects that challenge the ontological foundations of contemporary control society.

Infomus -Universitá di Genova – Antonio Camurri

The Casa Paganini–InfoMus Research Centre of University of Genoa cultivates the intersection of scientific research in ICT with artistic and humanistic research in new media.
The mission of Casa Paganini–InfoMus consists of carrying out scientific and technological research on human-centered computing where art and humanistic culture are the fundamental source of inspiration, capable of cross-fertilizing computer science and engineering, interaction design, bioengineering, operation research, neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, cognitive sciences, experimental psychology, empirical aesthetics, cognitive musicology and artistic disciplines.
Founded in 1984, InfoMus Lab originated the Casa Paganini-InfoMus multidisciplinary research centre in 2005.
Main research focus includes the understanding and development of computational models of non-verbal multimodal expressive and social behavior.
Scientific and technological research: sound and music computing, independent living, therapy and rehabilitation, multimodal interactive systems for entertainment, sport, edutainment, multimedia systems and services for creative industry (digital music industry, ICT for dance, theatre, cultural heritage), user-centric media, mobile distributed multimedia systems.
Casa Paganini–InfoMus participates in many international projects on scientific and technological research, education, and develops multimedia systems, platforms, and applications for industry partners.
The multimedia software platform EyesWeb, conceived, designed, and developed by Casa Paganini – InfoMus, is adopted by thousands of users worldwide for scientific research, education, and industry applications.

Antonio Camurri (Genova, 1959; ’84 Master Degree in Electric Engineering; 1991 PhD in Computer Engineering) is Full Professor at DIST-University of Genova (Faculty of Engineering), where he teaches “Human Computer Interaction” and “Multimodal Systems” (Master Degree on Computer Engineering). His research interests include multimodal interfaces, computational models of non-verbal expressive gesture, emotion and KANSEI information processing, non-verbal social behavior, sound and music computing, multimodal interactive systems for theatre, music, dance, museums, and for therapy and rehabilitation. Founder and scientific director of InfoMus Lab and of Casa Paganini – InfoMus Research Centre of University of Genoa (www.casapaganini.org), he coordinates and is local project manager of several European Projects in FP5 IST, FP6, CRAFT, FP7 ICT, Culture 2007. Owner of patents on software and multimedia systems, he is responsible for University of Genoa of industry contracts. With collegues at InfoMus Lab, he conceived and designed the EyesWeb research project and software platform (www.eyesweb.org).

Trans-Media-Akademie – Hellerau – Thomas Dumke

Founded in 2001, Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau e.V. (TMA Hellerau) is a Dresden based nonprofit association for interdisciplinary research on theoretical and practical level focused on how new technologies influence human body, behavior and creative expression. Main activities of the organization are based on two pillars, TMA laboratory (TMA lab) projects on the one side and CYNETART festival on the other. The focal point of TMA lab Hellerau is media education, reflection on media and interactive media art practice. Its philosophy is to create and provide space for creative exchange and coproduction in the field of arts based on new technologies. It is dedicated to mediation of various ways to perceive and to apply new media

DAP_Lab – Brunel University – Johannes Birringer y Michele Danjoux

. DAP-Lab’s cross-media work highlights convergences between fashion/wearable design, physical movement choreography, and real-time interactive data environments. Danjoux is a fashion designer whose artistic research centers on design-in-motion and the interactive potentials of wearables. Birringer is a choreographer/filmmaker whose work has explored the fusion of dance and technology. He has also published widely on the performing and media arts (e.g. Performance, Technology and Science, Dance and Cognition, and Dance and Choreomania). They are coorganizers of the METABODY project.
The international ensemble participating in the Madrid presentations include Vanessa Michielon (choregrapher/dancer), Miri Lee (choreographer/dancer), Azzie McCutcheon (choreographer dancer), Jonathan Reus (electronic artist), and Christopher Bishop (network/software artist). DAP-Lab also closely collaborates with Nimish Biloria and Anisa Nachett’s team working with architectural origami patterns and skins, as well as with a stochastic-ergonomic poetics inspired by the collaboration with STOCOS, Jaime del Val, and Marcello Lussana.

K-Danse – Jean Marc Matos

The choreographic approach of the Compagnie K. Danse develops a contemporary movement language by the dialectic confrontation between the physical body (lived, experienced) and the visual body (seen, virtual). The performances question the borders between fiction and reality, the social construction of the body, and the psychological structures in human relationships. Since 1983, K. Danse has been present in major festivals and cultural events in France and abroad: Festivals of Aix en Provence, Avignon, la Rochelle, Châteauvallon, Métafort d’Aubervilliers, American Center of Paris, Georges Pompidou Center, Grande Halle de la Villette, Maison des Arts de Créteil, Maison de la Danse de Lyon, Centre National Art et Technologie de Reims, Centre National de la Danse, ISEA 2000 à Paris, Monaco Dance Forum, Espace Odyssud de Blagnac, Cité de l’Espace de Toulouse, Festival Electrochoc of Bourgoin-Jallieu, Digital Art Center Le Cube of Issy Les Moulineaux, Festival “Les Bains Numériques” of Enghien les Bains, etc.
Jean-Marc MATOS – Dancer, choreographer and artistic director. Trained at the Cunningham Studio in New-York, he has performed with David Gordon (Judson Church). He is interested in the impact of digital technology on society, in order to develop a meaningful relationship between dance and new media. He has choreographed more than 45 pieces, which have been presented extensively in France and in many countries (Europe, Central and South America, USA, Canada, North Africa, India, Pakistan).

Palindrome – Robert Wechsler

Palindrome Dance, Inc. (in the USA), and Palindrome, e.V. (in Germany) initiated the MotionComposer Project in 2012 with the motto, “Technology should serve people instead of the other way around.” Palindrome is a pioneer in the use of new technology for dance and has won the first prize at the Berlin Transmediale in the category “interactive art” among other prizes and awards. Palindrome is a founding member of the EU-consortium MetaBody.
Robert Wechsler – Director of the Palindrome Dance Company, Robert is a choreographer and dancer and was an early experimenter with interactive technology. Together with Palindrome, he has won numerous awards, include First Prize at the Berlin Transmediale for “best interactive art” in 2002. He is co-author of the book, “Assistive Technologies, Disability Informatics and Computer Access for Motor Limitations” and lives now in Weimar, Germany where he directs the MotionComposer project. He has been leading workshops with motion tracking since early 80’s all over the world, for persons with and without disabilities.

STEIM

(the STudio for Electro-Instrumental Music) is an independent electronic music center unique in its dedication to live performance. The foundation’s artistic and technical departments support an international community of performers, musicians, and visual artists, to develop unique instruments for their work. STEIM maintains a vibrant residency program whereby artists are provided with an artistic and technical environment in which concepts can be given concrete form. Ideas are catalyzed by providing critical feedback grounded in professional experience. Finally, new creations are then exposed to a receptive responsive niche public at STEIM before being groomed for a larger audience.
http://www.steim.org

Marije Baalman
Marije has a diverse background in physics, acoustics, electronic music
and sound art, and performance. In her artistic work Marije moves
between live performance, livecoding, and interactive installations
involving light and sound. Her focus is on composing of behaviours and
interaction modalities, creating processes driven by sensor data, rather
than fixed sound tracks. She has collaborated with various people,
amongst which Alberto de Campo, Chris Salter, Michael Schumacher,
Attakkalari Dance Company and Workspace Unlimited.
http://marijebaalman.eu

“Chi Ha Ucciso il Conte?” – Nicoló Merendino
“Chi Ha Ucciso il Conte?” (“Who Killed The Count?“) is a pseudonym for
the Amsterdam based (but originally from Rome) designer Nicolò
Merendino. It is not a random fact that “Chi Ha Ucciso Il Conte?” is a
question and not a statement. His approach to design starts from the
idea that design is a process that requires people to ask to themselves
many questions (preferably with other people).
http://chihauccisoilconte.tumblr.com/

Alberto Boem is a researcher and media designer working in the field of art and technology with a wide range of interest in interface and interaction
design research, with a special attention on sound and performing arts. http://www.albertoboem.com/

Tijmen Lohmeijer wants to create control possibilities and explore perspectives using unstable and new technology and is highly interested in dance, theatre, data visualization and electronic music (alias TAL WORKS). He is currently studying at the University of Arts Utrecht (HKU), The Netherlands.
http://www.tijmenlohmeijer.tumblr.com/

Hyperbody Research group -(Dutch: Technische Universiteit Delft, also known as TU Delft, is the largest and oldest Dutch public technical university, located in Delft, Netherlands. With eight faculties and numerous research institutes, it hosts over 19,000 students (undergraduate and postgraduate), more than 3,300 scientists and more than 2,200 people in the support and management staff. Hyperbody, is an academic chair within the TU Delft’s Faculty of Architecture and Built Environment. Hyperbody, specialises in the domains of Non-Standard and Interactive Architecture and has been operating at the forefront of fully parametric modes of design and computer numerically controlled production as well large scale real-time interactive environments since the past decade.

Dr. Nimish Biloria is an Architect and an Assistant Professor at Hyperbody, Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, The Netherlands. After being involved with investigating the inter-relation of Media and Architecture throughout his formative educational years at CEPT, Ahmadabad, India, he furthered his interests in the inter-disciplinary realm at the Architectural Association, London, UK, where he specialized in the field of Emergent Technologies and Design. He further attained a Doctorate at the TU Delft, Netherlands, with a focus on developing real time adaptive environments. He continues experimenting with the idea of formulating intelligence aided relational networks for the generation of performative morphologies. (Asst. Professor, Hyperbody, Architectural Engineering and Technology, TU Delft, Netherlands. Associate, Delft Robotics Institute, TU Delft, Netherlands, Website: www.info-matter.net, www.hyperbody.nl, Email: N.M.Biloria@tudelft.nl)

Jia Rey Chang is a Taiwanese Architect, Designer. After he got his M.Arch degree in Architecture and Urban Design Department, UCLA, under the direction of Neil Denari in 2009, he came back to his Alma mater, architecture department in TamKang University, Taiwan, doing research on interactive and parametric architecture. In 2010, he established “P&A LAB”(Programming AND Architecture LAB) exploring the new relationship between the programming and architecture. As the director of P&A LAB (http://pandalabccc.blogspot.com), he also worked in the Architecture Department of National Taipei University of Technology as a part-time lecturer. In 2011, He joined Hyperbody as a PhD candidate to further develop his interest in the domain of Interactive Architecture. (PhD candidate, Hyperbody, TU Delft, Netherlands,Website: www.hyperbody.nl,http://pandalabccc.blogspot.nl, Email: J.R.Chang@tudelft.nl)

Instituto STOCOS – Muriel Romero y Pablo Palacio

Muriel Romero and Pablo Palacio collaborate since 2007 in a project focused on the analysis and development of the interaction between body gesture and sonic gesture. The trilogy Acusmatrix, Catexis and Stocos constitute so far the result of this investigation. In this series of pieces the dancer’s activity evolve in a three dimensional sound space interacting with sonic objects that are successively transformed according to their trajectory and dynamic morphology. These works integrate in a performative context abstractions taken from other disciplines such as artificial intelligence, biology, mathematics or experimental psychology.

Fabrica de Movimentos – Alberto Magno

It’s a non-profit cultural association, that conceive and promote, in general, its own projects. Meanwhile, work as producer for other Entities. Started in 1998, and in 99 presents at Museu do Carro Eléctrico, a contemporary dance festival that lately become the Festival da Fábrica. A contemporary dance festival that presents artists, normally on their first performance on the city (and sometimes, on the country). Festival da Fábrica defines itself as an event that support and present new and emergent artists and artists that already have a recognizable corpus of work, but still unknown or never had been presented on the city and country. In this 11 years, a considerable wide range of artists had been presented on the festival. And the event itself continuously had been change in it strategy to reach the audience.

Universidad Autónoma de Madrid – Eva Botella-Ordinas

Eva Botella Ordinas, is Associated Professor in the Early Modern History Department at Autonomous University in Madrid. She has been Senior Lecturer Ramón y Cajal, and visiting scholar and fellow of institutions such as European University Institute, Harvard University, the Folger Shakespeare Library or the John Carter Brown Library. She participates in several research projects on political, legal, cultural, intellectual history and history of science and of emotions, coorganizing the European Project METABODY (https://www.metabody.eu/ ). Her publications cover imperial ideologies, history of political languages, history of philosophy and science (especially about John Locke´s concepts and their reception), postcolonialism, and humanimal studies.

Iris Rodríguez Alcaide es investigadora predoctoral en la UAM, y trabaja sobre la historia intelectual y cultural de los animales desde una perspectiva de género y postcolonial.

Autonomous University of Madrid Music Department –
José Luis Carles

Jose Luis Carles. Composer and ecologist. Doctor in Biology. Coordinator of the Iberomerican meetings on sound landscapes. Audiovisuals producer. Professor in the music department of the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid.

Cristina Palmese. Architect, she has developed on site projects alternating with research periods. Specialised in urban projects, with experience in themes related to architecture as cultural heritage and perception.

IMM – is a corporate association consisting of six companies at eight locations in and around Mittweida (Germany, Saxony) with about 200 employees at the moment. IMM is a medium-sized electonic service provider with the core business development and production of prototypes and (small) serial production. The product portfolio reaches from small electronic parts to professional and complex components and whole devices. IMM Holding GmbH deals with coordination and centralised management of corporate services (project management, personnel management, marketing and sales). IMM foundation supports and accompany regional projects in the fields of Art/Culture by events (Talent-Show, music, dance), exhibitions etc. IMM deals with innovation management, R6D and product development with the objective to open rewarding business fields with the certain commitment to integrate regional, social and cultural tasks within the company policy.

Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz. Barad’s Ph.D. is in theoretical particle physics and quantum field theory. Barad held a tenured appointment in a physics department before moving into more interdisciplinary spaces. Barad is the author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning (Duke University Press, 2007) and numerous articles in the fields of physics, philosophy, science studies, poststructuralist theory, and feminist theory. Barad’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Hughes Foundation, the Irvine Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Barad is the Co-Director of the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program at UCSC.

ICST – Daniel Bisig

was born in 1968 in Zürich, Switzerland. In 1994, he received a Master’s degree in Natural Sciences at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. In 1998, he received a PhD in Protein Crystallography at the same university. In 1999, he finished training in web-design with a diploma at the EB-Wolfbach, Zurich. In between 1999 and 2001, he was teaching web-design at the EB-Wolfbach and worked as designer and programmer at the web-company Ditoy. In 2001, he joined the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich as a senior researcher. He has also been working as a research associate at the Department of Art and Design, University of Applied Sciences, Aargau in 2003 and at the Institute Cultural Studies, University of Art and Design, Zurich in 2004. Since 2006, he has an additional research position at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology in Zurich. Since 1996, he has been active as an artist in the fields of computer animation, experimental video and software art. He’s most recent works include BioSonics, an interactive Artificial Life installation, Ostrawa, an experimental video film and MediaFlies, a flocking based video and audio remixing tool.

Oxford Brookes University – Federica Frabetti is Senior Lecturer in the Communication, Media and Culture Programme at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She completed an MRes and PhD in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has a diverse professional and academic background in the humanities and ICT and has worked for a decade as a Software Engineer in telecommunications companies. She has published numerous articles on the cultural study of technology, digital media and software studies, cultural theory, and gender and queer theory. She is the author of Software Theory: A Philosophical Study (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2015).

NYIT – New York Institute of Technology – Kevin LaGrandeur

Kevin LaGrandeur, Ph.D, is Associate Professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT), and Director of Technical Writing Programs. He began exploring the intersections between digital technology, culture, philosophy, and English studies in the early 1990’s and has written many articles and conference presentations on digital culture; Artificial Intelligence and ethics; and literature and science.

Yvonne Förster , Junior professor for Philosophy of Culture and Art at Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. I received my PhD at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, on the topic: Experience and Ontology of Time. My research focuses on the relation of body and mind from an interdisciplinary perspective, on the cultural conditions of cognition and on the theory of fashion and art. She is an associated partner of the METABODY project.

Beatriz Pichel Pérezis Wellcome Trust Fellow in Medical Humanities, PHRC, de Montfort University holds a PhD in history and philosophy of sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain). Her work, at the crossroad of the history and theory of photography, the history emotions and the medical humanities, has examined the emergence of new meanings and experiences of death during the First World War in France, and it’s currently focused on the popularisation of psychological theories of emotions through photographs of theatrical actors at the turn of the nineteenth century. She is an associated partner of the METABODY project.

Dieter Vandoren (°1981, Belgium) is a media artist, performer and developer. Drawing from his diverse backgrounds in music, IT and experimental architecture, he is currently occupied with the development and performance of spatial, immersive audiovisual instruments with a strong focus on the embodied aspect of performance. He is a guest tutor and researcher at the Hyperbody and ID-StudioLab groups at the Delft University of Technology (departments of architecture and industrial design, respectively) and is founding member of the iii collective. He holds a master degree in ArtScience (Royal Academy of Art The Hague) and a bachelor in Digital Communication (University of Applied Sciences Utrecht). His works have been featured at Ars Electronica (AT), CTM (DE), TodaysArt (NL), STEIM (NL), STRP (NL), Electrochoc (FR), NIMk (NL) and others. He resides in Rotterdam (NL).

Marcello Lussana is a composer, a software engineer and free thinker specialized in interactive systems. Focal point of his work is the interaction between music and human movement, where body and computer are connected through a complex understanding of the body perception and dedicated interfaces. He produces computer music for audio-visual Performances, Dance, Theater and Live Electronics. He is musical director of the project Motioncomposer www.motioncomposer.com and co-founder of the Netlabel Fantomton. He led workshops with motion tracking in Spain, Italy and Czech Republic for persons with disabilities. He is based in Berlin. He is collaborator with several partners of the METABODY project.

Isabel Valverde is a transdisciplinary performer, choreographer and researcher. Develops experimental solo and collaborative intermedia performance art-dance work since 1986. Ph.D. in Dance History and Theory (UCR), MA Interdisciplinary Arts (IAC/SFSU), New Dance (SNDD/AHK) and Dance (FMH/UTL). Valverde’s doctoral thesis, Interfacing Dance and Technology: a theoretical framework for performance in the digital domain, has been translated to Portuguese and published by FCG/FCT (2010). After 2 postdoctoral research fellowships on Dances and Technologies (BPD/FCT, CAT/IHSIS, VIMMI/INESC-ID), Valverde continues somatics-technological cross-disciplinary arts and sciences collaborative research on posthuman corporealities (GAIPS/INESC-ID, CIAC-UAberta), including projects Senses Places (w/ T. Cochrane), and Touch Terrain (w/ Y. Melanitis). Organizes the Festival Danças Híbridas and the Posthuman Corporealities Network Festival Symposium.

Salud López Pineda is choreographer and gesture researcher, directing the LaboratorioSLD “La pensée en mouvement en « Tierra de nadie » De no man’s land à-nomal nomade. Expérience pédagogique en création y desarrolla la poesis “Parad is0 no hay billetes”. She has developed nnumerous projects such as PistaDigital, Proyecto Paso, Bauhaus Catedrales y Catedral Cinetica, Coreógrafas Pret à Porter, endanza en lugar de creación. Creaciones , El Gran juego, La Piedad infausta, Música callada… Investigaciones “… Nuevos yacimientos de empleo… de la danza”.

Marta Leirado. works on textual and physical theatre, contemporary dance, contact improvisation, butoh dance and movement arts. She also works as psicomotor therapist and in psicodrama and is sign language interpreter.

Brisa MP born in Chile, is transdisciplinary artist researching across body, science and technology. Her work deals with languages of dance and performance attempting to develop questions and investigations about new getualities and movements of the body, the relation body-city-technology, and the study of new methodologies, paradigms and artforms from the use of technology.

Shu Lea Cheang (born 1954, Taiwan) is a multimedia artist who works in the fields of net-based installation, social interface and film production. Over the past decade, she has emerged as a prominent figure in new media art. Cheang is one of the leading multimedia artists dealing with multidisciplinary studies. Her work is unique in allowing viewer interaction. She is most noted for her individual approach in the realm of art and technology, creatively intermingling social issues with artistic methods.[1] Cheang’s art ranges in mediums such as film, video, net-based installation, and interface, which explore “…ethnic stereotyping, the nature and excesses of popular media, institutional – and especially governmental – power, race relations, and sexual politics.” (“Shu Lea Cheang”) Most recently, she has moved to 35mm feature filmmaking. She has been a member of the Paper Tiger Television collective since 1981. Though originally based in New York, Cheang is currently living and working in Paris, France.

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (Erfurt), is a metahumanist philosopher, a Nietzsche scholar, a philosopher of music and an authority in the field of ethics of emerging technologies.

Adrian Freed (CNMAT – UCBerkeley) is Reseach ART SCIENTIST at University of California Berkeley in California, USA. His progression has been from mostly enginneering to a blend now of arts, sciences and humanities. Of special interest are creation of systems that invite engagement and leverage sensor and machine mediated augmentations to human collaboration explorations. Adrian is from England originally then to France byway of Australia before USA at Bell Labs and further West USA as Entrepreneur and Developer of Interactive systems for Expression of creative formatives. His philosophy interests are deep and wide and his electronic fabric library is one of the most extensive in the world.

Eleanor Freed (Berkeley), is trained at University of California Berkeley in Fine Art (painting, sculpture, dance, performance, music and photography/videography) with a concentration in Computer Science, focused on intra-action and interaction, community building and value systems relating to both social currencies and also monetary ones. Stand-up comedy and musicals are outlets that satisfy her performance urges while taking a tech company global satisfies her people-engagement muscle. Three things mark Eleanor’s every project: community building, unity and wholenes.

Peggy Reynolds (New York), The work of artist/scholar Peggy Reynolds explores the dynamic topologies of social and physical systems at the intersection of art, technoscience and the humanities. Her recently completed dissertation “Depth Technology: Remediating Orientation” examines how the on-going shift from a vision-centered to a body-centered mode of perception, as facilitated by digital technology, promotes posthumanist (non-linear, fractal, topological) modes of thought. Her interactive sculptures have been shown in galleries in New York City, North Carolina and Ohio, and she has been an invited speaker/panelist at venues such as New York University, the Elizabeth Dee Gallery in New York City, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Saint Louis University Law School, Coventry University and at the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts. She has been a founding member of a number of organizations including the WOW theater collective in NYC, the LIVE/WORK COALITION for the preservation of artist’s housing in NYC and, along with artist Ann Hamilton, the Living Culture Initiative for the promotion of transdiscplinary art practices. She received her doctoral degree in December of 2012 in the field of Science and Technology Studies from The Ohio State University under the direction of mediologist/ mathematician Brian Rotman.

Roberta Bosco is journalist specialised in media arts and contemporary arts working for El Pais since 1998.

FORO INTERNACIONAL METABODY 2015 COLOMBIA

Del 15 al 23 de Noviembre 2015
En Espacio “PERMANENTE”, Facultad de Artes ASAB, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá y espacios urbanos MAC.

¿DECOLONIZANDO CUERPOS?

METABODY es un proyecto europeo coordinado por Jaime del Val (Reverso) que desarrolla entornos y arquitecturas dinámicas e interactivas que involucran todo el espectro y la complejidad del movimiento, el cuerpo y la comunicación no verbal, frente al modelo predictivo y homogeneizador de los actuales modelos de comunicación, información y control que reducen el gesto a patrones simples y calculables. METATOPIA es el concepto de espacio dinámico e indeterminado del proyecto METABODY que se desarrolla con nuevas técnicas de construcción de módulos dinámicos y flexibles, que son la base para entornos interactivos para intervenciones urbanas. La arquitectura modular de METATOPIA es una red o enjambre de cuerpos expandidos, intervenciones en espacios urbanos que diseminan comportamientos ilegibles y gestos indeterminados, hackeando la predicción y el control del Big Data Brother, un Occupy 2.0 para una nueva ecología social.

Las Actividades que se describen a continuación se inscriben en el Foro Internacional Metabody 2015 en Colombia y reflexionan sobre las nuevas formas de colonización de cuerpos y territorios y las nuevas prácticas de resistencia posibles.

Coordinación en Bogotá:
Adrián Gomez – Encuentro de Artes Relacionales y el Proyecto de Red con la Residencia Permanente – Facultad de Artes ASAB
Colabora:
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá
Universidad Nacional – Alejandro jaramillo

PROGRAMA

Domingo 15 a Lunes 23 de Noviembre – Residencia en Permanente.
Dirección: BAD “BOGOTA ART DISTRICT”

Martes 17 de Noviembre

• 2pm: Presentación oficial de Jaime del Val en Permanente Dirección: BAD “BOGOTA ART DISTRICT”

• 7pm a 9pm: Presentaciones en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá.
  Dirección:MAC

  • 7 pm: Conferencia presentación del proyecto METABODY
    ·METABODY: Tecnologías del cuerpo frente a la cultura del control global y el gobierno Facebook

  • 8:30 pm: Performance en espacios interior y/o exterior
    ·METATOPIA: Metakinesfera-Amorfogenesis-Microsexos – Una metaformance metahumana

Miércoles 18 de Noviembre:
5:00 pm. Decolonizando el cuerpo-espacio. Políticas perceptuales y el proyecto METABODY. Conversatorio de Jaime del Val con Maestría en Estudios Artísticos. Sala de Profesores. Facultad de Artes ASAB
Dirección: ASAB.

Jueves 19 de Noviembre:
2:00 pm Taller de Jaime del Val. Ensamble de Creación. Performance en Facultad de Artes ASAB
Dirección: ASAB

Viernes 20 de Noviembre:

• 9 am – 1 pm Socialización de la Residencia y taller: Facultad de Artes ASAB

Sábado 21 de Noviembre:

• 7 pm Intervenciones y muestras en Circuito Centro. Configuración Espacial y Electiva Cuerpo. Carrera 7^a con Eje Ambiental. Invitado Internacional Jaime del Val (España)

RESIDENCIA EN ESPACIO “PERMANENTE”:

Desarrollo de una nueva fase de METATOPIA 2.0: Arquitecturas dinámicas portables como extensiones corporales, modificaciones perceptuales con cámaras de vigilancia diseminadas en la piel con voz procesada en vivo, y arquitecturas digitales amorfas con sonido espacializado interactivo modificado a través de sensores en la piel, son tres capas de un metacuerpo metahumano, atmosférico y distribuido, cuyos límites con el entorno y otros cuerpos se difuminan en gestos indeterminados y afectos ilegibles, un cuerpo emergente de infinitos sexos potenciales.

Metaformance/performance duracional durante toda la semana. El público podrá visitar al artista, participar de su proceso y tener encuentros íntimos uno a uno previa solicitud. Escribir a: cyborgdelval@gmail.com

TALLER METABODY EN ASAB – 4 horas

1. Estudios de metaformance – Introducción teórica – sustrato perceptual de los imperios y colonizaciones – los actuales modelos de “gobierno facebook-google-apple” y la emergencia de una nueva forma de vida en la era del Big Data: el hiperciborg planetario – genealogía de la percepción desde Platón a la Información – el sustrato corpóreo de la Información – reinventando la percepción – metaformance.

2. Prácticas de metaformance 1 – Microsexos: modificaciones perceptuales, dehaciendo la máquina de visión perspectívica, deshaciendo la anatomía, el cuerpo postanatómico – traslaciones propioceptivas – cámaras de vigilancia en la piel, demontando el dispositivo de control – procesamiento en vivo de la voz – dispositivos portables para intervenciones urbanas y móviles.

3. Prácticas de metaformance 2 – Amorfogénesis: deshaciendo la forma y el espacio cartesiano – metagaming – sensores de movimiento y arquitectura 3D – sonido espacializado interactivo – mapeando parámetros y estableciendo relaciones – el metacuerpo como ecología distibuida de no-control – de la interfaz a la metafaz.

4. Prácticas de metaformance 3 – Metakinesferas – Metatopia: técnicas de autoconstrucción de estructuras flexinámicas – extensiones corporales y arquitectura física dinámica – intervenciones urbanas – improvisaciones de movimiento – técnicas de desalineamiento – espacio como movimiento – transformación del espacio y temporalidad – espacio múltiple – del polytope al metatope – improvisaciones en interior y exterior – añadir capas electrónicas y digitales.

PERFORMANCE-METAFORMANCE – urbana y en interior – en Circuito Centro y en el Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Bogotá

METATOPIA: Metakinesfera-Amorfogenesis-Microsexos – Una metaformance metahumana

Performance y concepto: Jaime del Val
Estructuras físicas de metakinesferas: Cristian García y Jaime del Val
Visuales 3d – concepto: Jaime del Val
Visuales 3d – programación: Dieter Vandoren
Mayas 3d: Jia Rey Chang
Sonido: Jaime del Val a partir de un programa de Gregorio Garcia Karman
Video en vivo y voz procesada: Jaime del Val

Arquitecturas dinámicas portables como extensiones corporales, modificaciones perceptuales con cámaras de vigilancia diseminadas en la piel con voz procesada en vivo, y arquitecturas digitales amorfas con sonido espacializado interactivo modificado a través de sensores en la piel, son tres capas de un metacuerpo metahumano, atmosférico y distribuido, cuyos límites con el entorno y otros cuerpos se difuminan en gestos indeterminados y afectos ilegibles, un cuerpo emergente de infinitos sexos potenciales.

CHARLA-CONFERENCIA – en Facultad de Artes ASAB, en residencia Permanente y en el MAC.

METATOPIA: decolonizando el cuerpo-espacio. Políticas perceptuales y el proyecto METABODY

Los imperios y procesos colonizadores tienen un sustrato de diseño perceptual, de organizaciones sensoriales de los flujos y fuerzas, de los cuerpos y arquitecturas. Veremos como, desde Platón a la cibernética, somos parte de una tradición imperial que ha despreciado el cuerpo, la sensorialidad y el devenir, fijándolo en patrones mensurables y predecibles, una tendencia que vive actualmente una revolución en la era Big Data y los nuevos modos de gobierno mundial y neocolonización de Facebook y Google. Estudiaremos algunos sustratos históricos de esta tradición y veremos como el proyecto Metabody propone cuestionar estos procesos con redefiniciones peculiares de la percepción como potenciales estrategias de decolonización de cuerpos.

Biografía:
Jaime del Val es artista metamedia, filósofo metahumanista, activista, director de REVERSO, y coordinador del proyecto europeo METABODY. Sus proyectos transdisciplinares plantean redefiniciones de la corporalidad, la percepción y los afectos, cuestionando los fundamentos ontológicos de la sociedad del control.

FORO INTERNACIONAL METABODY 2015 CHILE/INTERFACE CHILE

Coordinación en Chile: Brisa MP – INTERFACE – Arte, Cuerpo, Ciencia y Tecnología

Actividades en el CCE – Centro Cultural de España en Santiago de Chile

Del 24 al 27 Noviembre 2015

Mas información en: www.cuerpoytecnologia.cl/imf_chile

Simposio: 24-25 de Noviembre de 10:30 a 14:30

Taller: 24-27 de Noviembre de 16:00 a 18:00

Performance: 27 Noviembre a las 21:00

SIMPOSIO METABODY

¿DECOLONIZANDO CUERPOS?
CUERPO COMÚN Y TECNOLOGÍAS PLURALES: Creación y crítica transcultural y transdisciplinar en la Era Neocolonial

En Latinoamérica conviven viejas colonizaciones europeas y nuevas colonizaciones angloamericanas. ¿Es posible plantear estrategias transversales de descolonización o estamos abocados a círculos colonizadores de un discurso occidental hegemónico?

En América Latina existe un movimiento de artistas y activistas que desarrollan proyectos de resistencia política, económica y social a través del uso recombinado de diversas tecnologías ya sean ancestrales o contemporáneas, que intentan transformar los sistemas de vida, la pobreza o la marginación como estrategias de resistencia política, económica o de género.

¿Podemos pensar América Latina como un continente en vías de Decolonización? ¿O somos parte de una nueva Colonización? Qué forma tienen estos nuevos modelos de colonización y como nos afectan y transforman nuestras vidas?

Podemos hablar de un cierto borramiento de los conceptos binarios Colonizador-Colonizado en la era informacional en que todas parecemos estar inter-conectadas, sin embargo tras este camiflaje se movilizan nuevos modos de colonización y dominación.

¿Como opera el poder en la actualidad a diferencia de hace unas décadas? ¿Somos colonias de Google y Facebook? ¿Como resistirlo desde prácticas estético-políticas? ¿Como resistir la asimilación? ¿Cuales son las nuevas técnicas de colonización en las que participamos como colonizados y colonizadores tanto europeos como latinoamericanos? ¿Cuales son las nuevas ontologías del poder en la era del afectocapital? ¿Es posible una política que no reproduzca gestos colonizadores? ¿Es posible un movimiento descolonizador en la era Neocolonial?

El Proyecto METABODY se desplaza desde Europa a Chile en el marco de INTERFACE, insertándose en un contexto Latinoamericano, para comprender, debatir y reflexionar desde este aquí sobre las nuevas y viejas homogeneizaciones, técnicas de control y producción de los cuerpos, entendidos como expresiones, movimientos y afectos, y las derivas más recientes del poder en la era del control global, donde cada gesto se coreografía a golpe de click, rastreado en interfaces ubicuas.

En este sentido el Simposio vendría siendo un espacio de convergencia y divergencia de ideas posibles y búsqueda de pensamiento, que posibilita la transversalidad y alteración de los saberes tradicionales.

Desde INTERFACE – METABODY nos planteamos este encuentro a modo transversal y no jerárquico.

¿Como elaborar al mismo tiempo una crítica y un reinvención de las tecnologías del control, desde la convergencia de artes, ciencias, discursos y políticas?

El simposio es parte de los Estudios de Metaformance del proyecto europeo METABODY.

PROGRAMA

Simposio

Dia 1 – 24 de Noviembre de 10’30 a 14’30.

Sesión proyectos artista 1:
Arte y Tecnologías ancestrales y contemporáneas.

• 10:30-10:50 – “Protobody” movimiento- cuerpo- robótica . Brisa MP ( Artista, Licenciada en Artes Visuales U Arcis. Postgraduada Cultura Visual Universidad de Barcelona, egresada Magister Tecnología y estética de las artes electrónicas. UNTREF).

• 10:50-11:10 – “De Naturaleza Elemental”. Yto Aranda (Artista e Investigadora, Licenciada en Artes mención pinturas, U. de Chile. Fundadora revista Online Escáner Cultural. Chile).

• 11:10-11:30 – “Devenir resonancia, Performance de voz y tecnología contra-humana”
  Agustin Genoud (Académico Universidad Nacional de las Artes. Programador y técnico de obras de arte electrónico. Universidad Nacional de las Artes- Argentina).

• 11:30-11:50 – “Performance Acoplamentos Sensíveis ll – Sonoplanta”. Iana cabral y Guto. (Núcleo de Arte e Novos Organismos- Brasil).

• 11:50- 12:10 – Ronda de preguntas y debate.

• 12:25 – Pausa (15 minutos).

Sesión proyectos artista 2
Estrategias de resistencia y decolonización.

• 12:25-12:45 – “YAKANA un video exploración del tiempo, el cuerpo y las danzas andinas”. Andrea Chamorro Pérez (Antropóloga, investigadora, Académica Universidad de Tarapacá, Chile).

• 12:45-13:05 – “Intercambios trans-orgánicos”. Gala González- Martín Aranda (Estudiantes Artes Electrónicas UNTREF, Argentina).

• 13:05-13:25 – “Alberto Kurapel: un metalenguaje escénico de subversión artística, tecnológica, mestiza y contemporánea”. Susana Cáceres ( Investigadora Teatral y Gestora Cultural. CELTEP / Centro Latinoamericano de Teatro Performance. Chile).

• 13:25-13:45 – “Rituales Posthumanos: vida biocíbrida y ritual en la experimentación y reflexión de la artista brasileña Diana Domingués”. Joaquín Zerené Harcha (Docente de la Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Construcción de la Universidad Mayor, Chile).

• 13:45-14:05 – “De-poscolonizando la Realidad virtual por dentro del capitalismo global de Ambientes Virtuales Multi-utilizador (MUVE): Ejemplos de movimento artístico contra cultura en Second Life®” Isabel Valverde (Artista , investigadora . Portugal) (vía streaming).

• 14:05-14:30 – Ronda de preguntas y debate.

Dia 2 – 25 de Noviembre de 10’30 a 14’30.

Sesión teórica 1
Nuevas y viejas formas de colonización.

• 10:30-10:50 – “ENCAJA/INSERT: S vs. L ¿Cómo decolonizar cuerpos jugando?”. Lorena Lo Peña, M.A. “Creative Producing for Live Performance” Birkbeck College, University. Cecilia Vilca Ocharan, M.A. Artes Digitales, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. (Perú).

• 10:50-11:10 – “Cuerpo, acción y tecnología en los espacios de interacción digital con monitoreo remoto en Colombia”. Isabel Restrepo ( Académica asociada e investigadora Universidad de Antioquia.(Colombia) .

• 11:10-11:30 – “Cuerpos líquidos: (otras) estrategias de descolonización en América Latina” . Marla Freire-Smith (Investigadora y académica. Doctora en Historia y Teoría del Arte por la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Chile).

• 11:30-11:50 – “Metropolis: sobre cidades e corpos“. Maria Julia Stella Martins (Académica.. Núcleo de Estudos de Habitares Interativos, Instituto de Arquitectura e Urbanismo Univerisad de São Paulo,Brasil).

• 11:50-12:15 – Ronda de preguntas y debate.

• 12:15 – Pausa (15 minutos).

• 12:30-13:00 – Intermedio:
  Onto-colonizaciones y el diseño de la percepción.
  Políticas perceptuales y el proyecto METABODY – Jaime del Val – Coordinador de Metabody

  Sesión teórica 2:
  Cuerpos, normalidades y subterfugios.

• 13:00-14:00 – Diagnósticos y propuestas desde una escena trans – PANEL del Grupo de Estudios Cuerpo y Transdisciplina (Chile ) – Escuela de Teatro Universidad de Valparaíso.
  Dirigido por: Profesora Valeria Radrigán.
  Compuesto por: Estefanía Villalobos, María José Razón, Claudio Marín, Valeria Véjar y Nicol Rivera. Facultad de Teatro Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile)

• 14:00 – Ronda de preguntas y debate.

TALLER METABODY por Jaime del Val
4 sesiones de 2 horas cada una
Del 24 al 27 Noviembre de 16:00 a 18:00.

• DIA 1 – estudios de metaformance – Introducción teórica – sustrato perceptual de los imperios y colonizaciones – los actuales modelos de “gobierno facebook-google-apple” y la emergencia de una nueva forma de vida en la era del Big Data: el hiperciborg planetario – genealogía de la percepción desde Platón a la Información – el sustrato corpóreo de la Información – reinventando la percepción – metaformance.

• DIA 2 – prácticas de metaformance 1 – Microsexos: modificaciones perceptuales, dehaciendo la máquina de visión perspectívica, deshaciendo la anatomía, el cuerpo postanatómico – traslaciones propioceptivas – cámaras de vigilancia en la piel, demontando el dispositivo de control – procesamiento en vivo de la voz – dispositivos portables para intervenciones urbanas y móviles.

• DIA 3 – prácticas de metaformance 2 – Amorfogénesis: deshaciendo la forma y el espacio cartesiano – metagaming – sensores de movimiento y arquitectura 3D – sonido espacializado interactivo – mapeando parámetros y estableciendo relaciones – el metacuerpo como ecología distibuida de no-control – de la interfaz a la metafaz.

• DIA 4 – prácticas de metaformance 3 – Metakinesferas – Metatopia: técnicas de autoconstrucción de estructuras flexinámicas – extensiones corporales y arquitectura física dinámica – intervenciones urbanas – improvisaciones de movimiento – técnicas de desalineamiento – espacio como movimiento – transformación del espacio y temporalidad – espacio múltiple – del polytope al metatope – improvisaciones en interior y exterior – añadir capas electrónicas y digitales.

PERFORMANCE de Jaime del Val
27 de Noviembre a las 21:00.

Metakinesfera-Amorfogenesis-Microsexos – Una metaformance metahumana.
Performance y concepto: Jaime del Val
Estructuras físicas de metakinesferas: Cristian García y Jaime del Val
Visuales 3d – concepto: Jaime del Val
Visuales 3d – programación: Dieter Vandoren
Mayas 3d: Jia Rey Chang
Sonido: Jaime del Val a partir de un programa de Gregorio Garcia Karman
Video en vivo y voz procesada: Jaime del Val

Arquitecturas dinámicas portables como extensiones corporales, modificaciones perceptuales con cámaras de vigilancia diseminadas en la piel con voz procesada en vivo, y arquitecturas digitales amorfas con sonido espacializado interactivo modificado a través de sensores en la piel, son tres capas de un metacuerpo metahumano, atmosférico y distribuido, cuyos límites con el entorno y otros cuerpos se difuminan en gestos indeterminados y afectos ilegibles, un cuerpo emergente de infinitos sexos potenciales.