ETOPIA Centro de Arte y Tecnología
Etopia Art and Technology Centre is the place where citizens come to discover new ideas about art, technology, science, and contemporary society. An urban facility of the Zaragoza City Council that houses laboratories, creation spaces, exhibition halls, incubators for cultural and creative industries, and a residence for multidisciplinary creators, with a human team that favors the interconnection between all of them. In Etopia the borders between disciplines are blurred, and all kinds of people come to its spaces to meet others with whom they share the desire to experiment.
From Ideas Digitales we celebrate the 10 years of work of Etopia with the special edition Ideas Digitales Aragon Edition, June 15th, 2023.
Néstor Lizalde
Artist, an expert in new media and visual arts, and coordinator of Etopia's Dance and New Media Laboratory. With a degree in Fine Arts, an official master's degree in Visual Arts and Multimedia, and higher studies in Design and Electronics, his work as an artist focuses on generating a dialogue between technological experimentation and artistic tradition, a practical investigation based on the creation of new media and audiovisual forms through programming, electronic design, and optical image systems.
Marta Pérez Campos
She is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Art and Technology of the UPV/EHU Bilbao and holds a Master's degree in Interface Cultures from the Kunstuniversität Linz in Austria. With a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Zaragoza, she is the author of the work 1914 - 2014: Diccionario cementerio del español, which brings together in one publication the 2793 words that have been eliminated from the Diccionario de la Lengua Española over the last 100 years. From the website http://19142014.martapcampos.com, you can access an online forum that allows you to look up each of these words together with their definition and even start a discussion about their old meaning and speculate about creating a new one for them.
Marta L. Lázaro
Marta L. Lázaro has had an idyll with audiovisual creation for more than a decade, exploring facets from camera operator to director and video jockey. The II Hedy Llamar Residence, promoted by the Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation and the Zaragoza City Council, consolidates her as a video artist. She is currently taking a postgraduate course in Archive at the EQZE in Donostia.
Transdisciplinary creation, digitalisation and new media
Artistic creation has undergone a significant transformation through the use of digital tools and environments. These media allow artists to explore new transdisciplinary forms of expression, which dialogue with new media and emerging technologies, and propose new frameworks of meaning, action, and participation. In this roundtable, we propose a dialogue around the use of digital tools and environments and how they have transformed the current creative landscape, encouraging the exploration of new art forms that transcend the traditional boundaries of specific disciplines and open up new avenues of artistic expression. How digital media can articulate new capacities in individuals, collectives, and communities and act as levers of transformation.
María Angulo Egea
Ph.D. in Journalism from the University of Malaga and a Ph.D. in Philosophy and Arts (Philology) from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She is a Professor of Journalism at the University of Zaragoza (Spain) and, for the last 9 years, she has co-directed the digital magazine of cultural and narrative journalism Zero Grados, which was created at the University of Zaragoza as part of the Bachelor's Degree in Journalism and which focuses on culture and narrative journalism as two of its main pillars. The project has transcended the university environment and today is an opportunity for professional development for students once they finish their degrees. She is also in charge of the communication of Ellas Son Campo, a research and teaching innovation project on the situation of the Aragonese rural world from a gender perspective.
Felisa Ferraz
He researches literary routes as a cultural practice linked to the development of the territory, the promotion of reading, and the dissemination of intangible heritage. He directs Pirineo Literario, a platform that seeks to create a network of agents linked to the world of reading (creators, readers, librarians, booksellers, cultural managers, etc.) throughout the Pyrenees mountain range, in order to connect, inform and create synergies. A digital strategy based on the digital cartography of reading lovers.
Apadrina un olivo
Thanks to ICT and digital tools, we have managed to change the paradigm of depopulated rural areas, applying new logics to traditional processes, we are managing to recover the abandoned centenary olive grove and generate illusion and hope that a future in rural areas is possible.
Alberto Alfonso Pordomingo
He is passionate about telecommunications and digital tools and is sure that ICTs and digital tools will revolutionize the rural environment in a model of ecological, digital, and inclusive transition. His project Apadrina un Olivo seeks to recover the abandoned olive trees of Oliete, a village in Teruel that has seen its population decline in recent years.
Lucía Camón
She is an artist, poet, actress, and cultural agitator. In 2014 she created Pueblos en Arte, a non-profit association in Torralba de Ribota, a small Aragonese town with less than two hundred inhabitants, which has become one of the reference projects for a new way of understanding rurality in the 21st century. Pueblos en Arte forms a team that coordinates artistic residencies and carries out numerous participatory projects linked to different artistic disciplines.