Authors

José Luis de Vicente

Periodista, comisario especializado en cultura digital, arte y tecnología y creador del weblog elastico.net.

José Luis de Vicente is a cultural researcher and an expert in society, culture and digital art. In 2001 he became assistant director of ArtFutura, Spain's longest-established art and technology festival. He formed part of the team behind RESFEST, the global travelling digital film festival (2002-2006), and since 2004 has been a member of the programming committee for Sónar, the annual festival of progressive music and multimedia art in Barcelona, co-curating with Oscar Abril Ascaso and Advanced Music for its last three editions. He was also artistic co-director from 2005 to 2007 of OFFF, the International Festival for Post-Digital Creation Culture.

At present he is working on several research projects, such as "Visualizar" (Visualising) Medialab Matadero Madrid and "Atlas del Espacio Radioeléctrico" (Atlas of Radio-electric Space) for NOW: Meetings in the Present Continuous, CCCB Barcelona / AV Festival Newcastle. With Montxo Algora, he is the curator of the exhibition "Maquinas y Almas" (Machines and Souls) CARS (2008, in preparation).

He also contributes to numerous media outlets, as well as editing the Elastico.net web on digital culture and society, and works as a professor of interactive media theory for the Master's programme on Digital Media at the Elisava School in Barcelona.

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