8M Conference / Art, Technology and Critical Thinking

In the context of 8M, International Women’s Day, two lectures will be given by Claudia GiannettI and Fefa Vila in the fields of art, technology and feminist critical thinking. It will be held on March 9 and 11 at the Alfons Roig Auditorium of the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Faculty of Fine Arts / UPV

Papers

Claudia Giannetti

Theorist, writer and exhibition curator. Specialist in contemporary art, aesthetics, media art and the relationship between art-science-technology. For 18 years she was director of cultural centers in Germany, Portugal and Spain. Curator of more than a hundred and a half exhibitions in international museums, such as Centre George Pompidou (Paris), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), ZKM – Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe), Neue Galerie (Graz), Caixaforum (Barcelona), Fundación Telefónica (Madrid), Casa de América (Madrid), Centro Nacional de las Artes (México D.F.), among others. In the academic field, for two decades she has been a professor at universities in Spain, director of several master’s and doctoral programs in the field of art and technologies, and professor in Portugal. She has numerous catalogs, more than 160 articles and eighteen books published in different languages, such as “Media Culture” (1995), “Ars Telematica” (1998), “Digital Aesthetics: syntopia of art, science and technology” (2002), “Something Other tan Photography” (2013) and “Artificial Intelligence and Post-Representation: Black Boxes Are Not Hungry” (2023).

Fefa Vila

He graduated in Political Science and Sociology from the Complutense University of Madrid. He later completed his training at the University of Utrecht, the University of Manchester and the University of Santa Cruz in California. He worked in the coordination of European projects and social research for the FOREM Foundation until 2017. She currently combines her teaching activity at UCM with creation, research and independent curating on sexual politics and dissident cultural practices.In addition, she was the driving force behind the lesbian collective LSD, which together with La Radical Gai, were reference groups in the introduction of queer/cuir activist debates and practices in Spain, and more specifically in Madrid, in the 1990s. Their publications includeThe Book of Good ∀mor. Queer sexualities and queer politics.. Madrid City Council. 978-84-7812-815-0. Editor and co-author with  Javier Saéz del Álamo (2019),The axis of evil is heterosexual: feminist and queer fictions and discourses.. Ed Traficantes de Sueños. Madrid, 2005.