Pau Alsina
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Associate Professor
Spain
Pau Alsina, PhD, is Associate Professor at the Arts and Humanities Department of the Open University of Catalonia where he coordinates, teaches and does research in the Arts and Contemporary Thought area. He is director of the DARTS (Design, Art,TechnoScience and Society) Interdisciplinary Research Group. Since 2002 is director of the ARTNODES Journal of Art, Science and Technology, where he has coordinated special issues on Arts and Sciences such as Mathematics, Biology or Complexity Sciences. He has authored /coauthored several publications on Art, Science and Technology and Contemporary Philosophy, as well as has co-curated exhibitions such as "Cultures of Change: social atoms and electronic lives" (2009-2010) on Complexity Sciences and Digital Technologies at Arts Santa Monica, in Barcelona. He has also co-chaired conferences such as Interface Politics Conference (2016), Arts and Speculative Futures Conference (2016) or Art Matters Conference (2014). He is member of the Board of Trustees of HANGAR Foundation, Barcelona Center for Research Arts, and the New Art Foundation, devoted to promoting New Media Art Collections and Conservation. He has been doing research in four areas which he tends to blend: 1) Software Studies and Bioart 2) Media Archaeology 3) New Materialist Philosophies 4) Science and Technology Studies, and specifically Actor Network Theory, applied to Art and Design.