Investing in cultural cooperation networks
State Society for Exterior Cultural Action of Spain (SEACEX)
Seduced by constantly changing images, one of the recurrent focuses of the contemporary gaze is the mobile surface of the screen, its increasingly fuzzy contours and its power to invent, reconstruct or interpret reality. Given this perspective, posing new and continuous challenges for the connection with science and technology, creative experimentation , assisted by the potential of digital advances, represents one of the most enthralling and promising realms for an activity overstepping the conventional boundaries of art. In this field, Spain’s current contribution has a special value and deserves the kind of attention we are now seeing in this exhibition. Its goal is to develop a system of relations between personal and international initiatives fo stering links between creation and research in consonance with present-day society. In this regard, this exhibition of digital art can be viewed as one of the core axes of a more ambitious project also embracing a project on computer research and a communication and production platform.
A project such as this fits in to perfection with the goals of SEACEX (State Society for Exterior Cultural Action of Spain), a public body acting as an agent for the promotion of our country’s cultural reality, with a strategy for international dissemination based on high standards of rigor concerning knowledge and representing a concerted effort to contain all the contributions from the most varied fields of knowledge and art that make up the structure of a modern nation whose most te lling sign of identity is plurality.
banquete_nodos y redes is a project responding to a shared effort to create and consolidate local, national and international cultural cooperation networks, endorsing interdisciplinary digital communities and exploring the potential for symbiosis between art, new technologies and social demands. And all of it grounded in close dialogue between sciences and humanities.
The alliance of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, ZKM Center for Art and Media, and Fundación Telefónica, allows SEACEX to continue furthering the profile of Spanish culture abroad, to in crease and strengthen the presence of Spain’s contemporary creation in international markets, to consolidate cultural cooperation, and to provide a framework for the relationship between art practitioners and professionals that will contribute to the emergence of su stainable networks.