24.5. Guest lecture by Prof. Ricardo Dal Farra »A transdisciplinary journey. From electroacoustic music and media art to the environmental crisis and beyond.«
From the rich Latin American electroacoustic music history, spanning over 60 years, to the world flourishment of the media arts connected to an (until recently) unthinkable variety of scientific and technology disciplines, this lecture will be presenting a journey of research-creation joining art, science and technology, at times from a multi or interdisciplinary perspective, while other times also leading to a transdisciplinary approach.
How the Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection, big data, electronic art educational programs, conference series such as Balance-Unbalance and Understanding Visual Music, sound art, and the Red Cross Climate Centre, could be linked? This presentation will be an overview of projects that have been crossing some boundaries and proposing to learn from our past, to better understand our present, and to work on designing a (human) future.
About Ricardo Dal Farra:
Dr. Ricardo Dal Farra (Buenos Aires, 1957 ) is a composer and new media artist, educator, historian, and curator. He is Associate Professor at the Music Department of Concordia University, Canada and founder-director of the Electronic Arts Experimentation and Research Centre (CEIArtE) of UNTREF University, Argentina.
Dal Farra has presented his electroacoustic and visual-music work in more than 40 countries, and recordings of his pieces are published in 23 international editions (CDs by Computer Music Journal and Leonardo Music Journal, on MIT Press).
Dr. Dal Farra is founder-director of the international conference series Understanding Visual Music - UVM (held in Canada, Argentina, and Brazil); and Balance-Unbalance - on how the media arts could contribute to solving the environmental crisis (held in Argentina, Canada, Australia, United States, Colombia, the UK, and soon in The Netherlands). He has also been curator and juror in fulldome international competitions, and the director of the Fulldome UVM Workshop held in the Planetarium of Buenos Aires during 2016-2017. Dr. Dal Farra was in 2015 the artistic director of the Mexican electronic arts biennale Transitio.
Related links:
Latin American Electroacoustic Music Collection - goo.gl/xaN1Sj
Balance-Unbalance - balance-unbalance2017.org
All Bauhaus-Universiät Weimar and HfM Fanz Liszt students are invited to attend the guest lecture by Prof. Ricardo Dal Farra, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Date:
Thursday, 24 Mai 2018, 13.30 – 15.30 p.m.
Location:
Medienzentrum of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
house D, Cinema room 112
Steubenstraße 6 a
99423 Weimar