Advanced Interaction // Final Presentations

This year’s Advanced Interaction Research Studio, led by the Senior Faculty Carlos Gomez and the Guest Faculty Eugenio Tisselli, took place on Tuesday the 21st of June at the Studio P52 Art Gallery in Barcelona, where the projects remained exhibited.

To foment the discussion on the projects presented were IAAC’s Academic Director Areti Markopoulou, Academic Coordinator Mathilde Marengo, as well as Director of Communications Silvia Brandi; Monica Bello (Head of Arts@CERN), Roberta Bosco (El País Digital), Boris Magrini (Art Historian and Curator), Roc Parés (Universidad Pompeu Fabra), Javier Peña (Xpiral, IAAC Senior Faculty).

Jury Members testing the Interactive Installations

One of the aims of the Advanced Interaction Research Studio is to determine whether technology is really helping us reach solutions or, on the contrary, if it is making us forget the impact of its own development and implementation. On the light of the above observation, students were asked to think and reflect about an ethic of the use of technology, and to design systems that could somehow help revert the problems generated by our own technological development.

The projects presented were:

The Color of Memory – by Anna Abduraimova – is a study on objectivity and subjectivity revolving on the themes of perception and reality. Barcelona Soundscape – by Robert Chacon – provides a visual representation of acoustic data collected in different areas of the city. Kinetic Migrations – by Luis Bonilla – is a kinetic installation using Barcelona public space to rise awareness on the refugees’ condition. Eroticism & New Technologies – by Lina Salamanca – proposes a bioplastic interactive cabin, a boundary between intimate and public space. InfoSphere – by Lalin Keyvan – is an interactive observatory detecting and reacting to the changes of the informational atmosphere.

Students Setting up the Final Exhibition