Leaving Digital: A Critical Reading of Nicholas Negroponte’s Being Digital
Nanette Wylde - United States
Browser-based animated project that reconsiders Nicholas Negroponte's influential and visionary 1995 book, "Being Digital", nearly 30 years after its initial publication. The text for this piece was extracted from a physical copy of the book, "Being Digital".
The work consists of three immersive and navigable 3D scenarios, with integrated sound effects, which are housed within an interactive mobile application. Users can explore these scenarios by placing their cell phones in a virtual reality viewer.
This project is a machinima (video game-based video) showing the Bayan Obo mine site in Mongolia, highlighting its crucial role in the extraction of rare earths for the production of modern technology. Including mobile devices, electric car batteries and wind farm turbines.
Digital animation, a collaborative work strategy with rural women's communities to strengthen empowerment and social entrepreneurship.
Claudia Isabel Rojas Rodríguez - Lorena María Alarcón Aranguren - Martha Fernández Samacá - Henry Enrique García Solano - Colombia
This proposal is framed within the framework of the fifth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 5), specifically seeking to contribute to the empowerment of rural women and gender equality. In the context of the research, empowerment is understood as the individual and collective recognition of the knowledge, skills and capacities of the women who make up a productive community.
VillaBotero, a 3D single player video game designed for computers, reinterprets historical and heritage sites in Medellín's commune 9, Buenos Aires, such as the Café Sol de Oriente, the Puente de la Toma and the Cristo del Salvador.
Ana Teresa Arciniegas - Professor Pontificia Universidad Javeriana - Bogota - Colombia
It is a transmedia work on the archaeological, architectural and gastronomic heritage of eastern Colombia. Through audiovisuals, photographs, audios, texts and geo-spatial location, it tries to approach the material and immaterial heritage of the region.
Sonority as a corporeal element underlies an infinity of realities, conjectures, transmutations, and transfigurations. The elementality of the voice and its repercussion as an entity of wonder, is embodied in the oratory of historical narratives that enrich and eventually allow the subversion of reality.
José Alejandro López Pérez - Profesor Universidad Nacional de Colombia - sede de la Paz - Colombia
It is necessary that diverse powers have distances, approaches and intertwining in order for life to emerge. This also happens with our species, whose existence is gestated in the womb of women.
This research-creation project investigates the different effects that quarantine has had on us, our bodies and our relationship with others, human and non-human.
Diana Castelblanco Caicedo - Luna Sofía Puerto Oliveros - Silvia Alejandra Duarte - María Sofía Baigorri - Daniel Felipe Medina - Diego Andrés Páez - Pablo Andrés Gómez - Colombia
This work is a digital scenario developed by the Semillero Territorios y Estéticas Sociales, which addresses contemporary issues of territory and memory by showing and visualizing objects and stories associated with testimonies of victims of the Colombian social and armed conflict.
Fabian Stiven Valencia Cordoba - Javier Mauricio Reyes Vera - Paola Johanna Rodriguez Carrillo - Colombia
This project is placed in the context of metaverses, considered as an emerging revolution on the Internet, especially after the announcement of Facebook's transformation to Meta Platforms Inc. in 2021.
Juan Manuel Henao Bermúdez - Andrés Felipe Villegas Hidalgo - Edier Becerra Alvarez - Colombia
This work seeks to promote the recognition and appreciation of organic markets in Cali, such as Asoprorogánicos and the San Antonio Organic and Agrotourism Market, highlighting them as cultural centers and promoters of healthy lifestyles.
Multi-platform experience hosted in Spatial, featuring interactive missions designed to guide the user through the Colombian steppes full of frailejones, grasses, mosses and a variety of fauna including bears, tigrillos, birds and insects.
The story of the epic and fantastic journey of a Muisca warrior of the year 1500 before the arrival of the colonizers, traveling through almost all of pre-Hispanic Colombia, where he will have to search for 8 golden cultures along with Imurá, a Quimbaya warrior, Eretama the daughter of the cacique Guatavita and Muyso a small talking snake.
Exhibition Community Spaces, Collectives, Citizens
Esteban Armando Solarte Pinta - Colombia
This work is a 3D exhibition that arises from the research-creation "Participation, Architecture, Community and Development in Latin American cities, 1980-2015".