ARTS AND HUMANITIES IN THE DIGITAL TRANSITION
July 6 and 7, 2023
International Conference
Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon)

Binaural Nodar will be present at the international conference “Arts and Humanities in the Digital Transition”, to be held on July 6th and 7th, at Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, organized by ICNOVA – NOVA University Lisbon.

On July 6th at 2:00 pm, the artist, researcher and curator Maile Colbert will make the presentation “Virtual and actual: time, place, sound and art in the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive”, which is authored by Maile Colbert, Luís Costa, Martín Baus, Hanna Kaszewska and Gardika Gigih.

The presentation will develop the concept and results of the first cycle of virtual artistic residencies “Virtual Rural”, which took place throughout 2022 and was based on processes of online artistic creation derived from the contents of the Binaural Nodar Digital Archive, having produced the following results:

https://www.binauralmedia.org/news/residencias-virtuais

“Arts and Humanities in the Digital Transition”, is an event designed to provoke reflection on the cognitive and creative ecology of the humanities and the arts in the context of the digital transition. In the two-day program, 29 thematic panels of communications, perspectives on culture, technology and the arts will be addressed, including topics of epistemology, cognition and creativity in the era of Artificial Intelligence and automation, cultural literacies and techniques, cognitive and creative industries, digital humanities, post-humanities and the post-digital.

The conference proposes a reflection on the widespread transition of culture towards a digital ecology and its impact on knowledge and creativity, its agents, practices and institutions. Understanding the digital condition is crucial to understand the anthropological, ecological and cosmological crisis of the present and to resist a unidirectional and unreflective universalization of technology. This crisis makes it urgent to imagine alternative futures, but also to take an interest in the digital and critically explore the transformative possibilities of this very being in transit.