Metamètod. Centre Cultural El Carme 2014
Exhibition at the El Carme Cultural Center. Badalona, from September 4 to October 10, 2014
Dialogues between art and science
The exhibition shows the results of a series of meetings, dialogues and collaborations between artists and scientists, within the framework of the research project “MetaMethod: Shared methodologies and artistic processes in the knowledge society”, of the research group “Imarte”.
The exhibition contains nine projects by different artists who have worked to find methodological strategies for artistic research based on the interrelation with other disciplines. All the artists address in different ways the issues that directly affect our ways of life and sociability. To do so, some artists use scientific experiences to elaborate their discourse, and question themselves about key notions such as ethics, temporality, matter or technological processes; while others have chosen to explore the interaction of technologies as devices for multimedia installations or collective creation as a form of resistance to cultural and social models based on the mechanics of the current economy.
Today, artistic research is a convergence of different languages and an open field of exploration where different knowledge and perspectives dialogue. The Imarte research group at the University of Barcelona analyses the changes that have occurred in the conception of art in the knowledge society and emphasises the process of transformation of artistic practice through new forms of production.
Some artists use scientific experiences to develop their discourse and question themselves on issues such as matter, time, ethics or technological processes. Others explore the interaction of technologies with multimedia installations. Some projects raise differences and limits between scientific and artistic observation, while others have shared software or worked on data visualisation; there are also those that have applied printing technologies on hard and three-dimensional media, or that examine the conceptual scope of reproducibility. All of them speak to issues that affect our way of life.
The nature of the work of art does not have a single center, it is open and multidisciplinary, which is why the MetaMètode project wants to reflect the sense of processes in motion, of displacements between methods and concepts, of changes and plurality.
According to David Casacuberta, professor of Philosophy of Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, “MetaMètode is a special project because it seeks to have an impact beyond the work and the work of the artist in question. Thus, the works are not just another piece in the curriculum of their artists, but they seek to reflect on the relationships between science and art and understand a little better what it consists of doing artistic research, crossing the boundaries of the discipline itself.”
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