ILIDI

Category: Workshops

Hubs.mozilla platform

Saturday, May 28, 2022

Although the process of acceptance of virtual reality is still growing, the appearance of COVID-19 has drastically accelerated the use of this technology, and allowed the creation of various immersive experiences that include images, videos, sounds, and avatars of third parties. This workshop will look at the possibilities of Mozilla Hubs, the features that the platform offers to foster virtual encounters, its limitations, and everything that is required to generate a virtual environment.

Presented by :

  • Luis Guzmán-Zirate

    Bio With a degree in arts and a keen user of computers and systems, he is interested in the implications of creativity and programming for activism and social development. The use of open source platforms and web spaces is the current forum for his research.

Mobile platforms and social media

Friday, May 13 and thursday, May 19, 2022

Alfonso Hernández presented some of the achievements of the company Atypic Labs, which creates experiences enriched by technology, design and creativity, by combining touch, movement, narrative and ritual. The Atypic Labs team seeks to generate meaning and reflection as well as promote exchange and connections between individuals. The two sessions of this activity allowed participants to familiarize themselves with original projects and to take part in a collective creation experience via the Agora platform. On the agenda: gamification, shared experience, symbolism of place, live performance, interaction between performers, machine assistance, collaborative theater, community experience, comfort and discomfort zones in an immersive environment.

Presented by :

  • Alfonso Hernández

    Bio Alfonso Hernández has a heterogeneous profile between arts and technologies that allows him to create magical stories, narratives and rich human experiences using surprising and atypical technologies or approaches. His innovative spirit allows him to imagine, and quickly put into practice, original and refreshing concepts that would not otherwise be accessible. At Atypic Labs,……

LiveCoding

Sunday, May 22, 2022

The workshop was developed around the concept of digital collage, mixing visuals, sounds and code. During the sessions, two programming languages for artists were reviewed.

Session 1

Presentation of the Estuary platform and introduction to CineCer0 for live playback and editing of video files, still images and text for the web. At the end of the workshop, there was a group activity on the https://estuary.mcmaster.ca/ platform, a networked performance platform.

Presented by :

  • Jessica A. Rodríguez

    Bio Multimedia artist, designer and researcher. She is currently studying a doctorate program in Communications, New Media, & Cultural Studies at McMaster. Her practice and research projects focus on audiovisual practices such as visual music, electronic literature, video experimentation, sound art, visualization/sonification, live coding, among others, collaborating with composers, writers, designers, and other visual artists.……

Session 2

Live coding + E-lit, creative possibilities of code. During the first half hour, Mario Guzman presented his work with code. Artist Kofi Oduro used the remaining time for his presentation. In his online workshop, participants saw how code can be used in the musical, performative and literary arts. Using tools such as livecodingYoutube, Hydra, Inverse.website and Sonic Pi to name a few. They saw how expressive and creative code is, while having the benefit of testing how it can be used in a collaborative setting. Participants found that writing and improvising code can lead to varied outcomes musically, as well as using networked elements to their advantage when writing or producing work.

Presented by :

  • Mario Guzmán

    I am a mexican researcher, experimental writer and new media artist merging language with audiovisual phenomena, web development, electronic art, algorithmic literature, and robotics. In my work, I explore the communication between human and non-human agents, robot-human interaction, and different methods to encode perception and narrative through technology. I want to bring code, storytelling, and…

  • Kofi Oduro (Illestpreacha)

    Bio My artistic practice is an observation of the world around us, that I then put into artworks for others to relate to or disagree with. Through Videography, Poetry and Creative Coding, I try to highlight the realms of human performance and the human mind in different scenarios. These situations can be described as social,……

Audiovisual

Saturday, May 21, 2022

Session 1

This activity used the materials generated in the visual workshop (digital collage) and the sound workshop (soundscape). The two facilitators proposed tools to bring together the sound and visual compositions made in the two previous workshops.

Presented by :

  • Maria Paula Jaramillo

    Bio Visual Designer and Master in Social Sciences from the University of Caldas. Master’s student in technology and aesthetics of electronic arts. Teacher in areas of graphic, visual and digital design in relation to current technologies and cultural processes. Flexible, willing to work collaboratively and as part of a team. Member of the collaborative platform……

  • Alejandro Brianza

    Composer, researcher and teacher. Master in Methodology of Scientific Research, Bachelor in….

Session 2

Santiago Tavera focused his intervention on the use of text and writing in the composition of audiovisual spaces, in the creation of image, sound, so that an immersive and interactive experience is created.

Presented by :

  • Santiago Tavera

    Bio Santiago Tavera is a Colombian-Canadian artist based in Montréal. Tavera’s practice revolves around constructing immersive and interactive projects that expand the body through digital media, to evoke virtual simulations of migrant and queer narratives of dislocation. In Tavera’s work, mixed media compositions of videos, 3D graphic animations, text, sound and reflective surfaces create blurred……

Sound

Thursday, May 12 and Friday, May 20, 2022

What do these urban places we usually frequent hide? Can we unveil them through reflection? Let’s rediscover the city, but by listening to it. The concept of soundscape was coined by Murray Schaffer in the late 1960s, and defined as the whole of everything that emits sound and surrounds us. In this workshop we will learn to listen, understand, discuss and explore the expressive potential of urban soundscapes, their relationship to heritage, cultural practices and traditions, opening the doors to field recording, which is now possible from almost any mobile device.

Presented by :

  • Alejandro Brianza

    Composer, researcher and teacher. Master in Methodology of Scientific Research, Bachelor in….

Visuals

Saturday and Sunday, May 14 and 15, 2022

The collage technique allows us to break away from the rigidity, limitations and restrictions imposed by traditional methods of image making. It invites us to experiment with visual language through already constructed images, to create and recreate their narratives, meanings and interpretations. It is also a way to stimulate the spontaneity of the process, to transform the tools and to look for our own way to find our own language of expression. In this workshop, we approach this technique by discussing references, techniques, materials, repertoires and narrative constructions, seeking to have each participant find an approach to their own visual language from texts or literary compositions.

Presented by :

  • Maria Paula Jaramillo

    Bio Visual Designer and Master in Social Sciences from the University of Caldas. Master’s student in technology and aesthetics of electronic arts. Teacher in areas of graphic, visual and digital design in relation to current technologies and cultural processes. Flexible, willing to work collaboratively and as part of a team. Member of the collaborative platform……

Performance and Digital Literature

Friday, May 6 and 13, 2022

In recent years, reflections and readings of the body, coming from different fields and areas of study, show that there is an infinite field of generative possibilities that we ourselves do not recognize. Being able to reflect together on the relationship between the body and digital literature allows us to visualize them, from a wide panorama of references, in order to produce much more collaborative and enriching projects.

Presented by :

  • Rolando Rodriguez

    Bio He holds a doctorate in Art and Design, a master’s degree in Contemporary Art and a second one in Education. His work focuses on the exploration of three elements: image, text and sound. He has research and production projects that use analog and digital technologies as tools to explore expanded possibilities through text.

  • Jessica A. Rodríguez

    Bio Multimedia artist, designer and researcher. She is currently studying a doctorate program in Communications, New Media, & Cultural Studies at McMaster. Her practice and research projects focus on audiovisual practices such as visual music, electronic literature, video experimentation, sound art, visualization/sonification, live coding, among others, collaborating with composers, writers, designers, and other visual artists.……

Anthology of Digital Literature in the Americas

Friday, April 29, 2022

Session 1 – Presentation of the Centro de Cultura Digital (CCD) of Mexico City.

Introduction to the e-literature platform and presentation of some of the most relevant works. Creators are invited to exhibit their works on our platform and networks.

Presented by :

  • Ximena Atristain López

    Bio Ximena Atristain López (1978) is an editor and translator who graduated from the College of English Literature at UNAM. Since 2014, she has been working as an editor at the Centro de Cultura Digital de Mexico, and is currently in charge of the editorial coordination of the Center’s editorial collections as well as Revista……

Session 2 – Laboratoire NT2

Overview of the main figures of digital literary art in Quebec and, more specifically, in Canada and North America. As a representative of Laboratoire NT2, she will also talk about research and creation initiatives in the field.

Presented by :

  • Alexandra L Martin

    Bio Alexandra L Martin (she/her) is a digital literary arts PhD and researcher living and working in the unceded territory of Tiohtià:ke. Since 2019, she has been working at the NT2 laboratory at the University of Quebec in Montreal, where she also collaborates as a curator, notably on the exhibition “S’éclipser | Phases of Resilience”……