Spanish sound and digital art at Digital Design Weekend in London

2018.9.20

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Digital Design Weekend gathers together artists, designers, engineers and the general public to focus on such issues as artificial intelligence, the human machine and potential worlds, using contemporary art and digital design in the form of installations, creative robotics, talks and workshops.

Within this framework, the PERRO project will be presented, which includes the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture and Sport, an exhibition with Spanish artists aimed a human projection online, digital materiality, time and fiction, and female presence in the scientific sector. The artists represented are Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet, Jaime de los Ríos, Fermín Serrano, Vicente Vázquez and Usue Arriete. Commissioned by Javier Galán, the project was inaugurated in Tallinn (Estonia) in 2017, and has been showcased in various European spaces.

Ministerio de Cultura y DeporteThe Victoria & Albert Museum is the most prestigious art and design museum in the world, with a permanent collection of more than 2.3 million objects, spanning more than 5,000 years of human creativity.

In parallel, and as part of the Digital Design Weekend, the gallery SCAN, a spotlight for the promotion of Spanish art in the British capital, presents the work by Javier "Javi Álvarez", a circuit-bending craftsman, who transforms electronic devices into musical instruments. His piece consists of a series of logos inspired by his work "VHZ", on display in the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, and of a live concert.

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