ArtFutura 2015
Collective Intelligence
November / Madrid (Fundación Telefónica)
London (Watermans) and Lisbon (Espacio Revolver)
CircuitoFutura: Buenos Aires, Granada, Lisbon, London, Madrid, Montevideo, Sao Paulo, Torino, Vitoria-Gasteiz and Zaragoza
Pau Waelder. Vicente Matallana . Alejandro Sacristán . Carlos T. Mori . Pablo Ganguli . Tomas Auksas (Liberatum).
The 2015 festival opens on November 6th in Madrid (at Fundación Telefónica), and it will be presented in London on the 15th (at Watermans – Digital Weekender) and in Lisbon on the 19th of the same month at Espacio Revolver, as part of the “Espanha 2015” exhibition.
The theme of the 2015 edition is “Collective Intelligence”: New technologies have generated dense networks of global, fast, and low-cost communication that foster interaction between individual intelligences. Collective Intelligence is a concept that encompasses everything from Epistemic Communities to Group Thinking, Smart Mobs, Crowdwisdom, and Wikinomics.
Neuroscientists have concluded that we cannot study an isolated brain. Jerome Bruner, one of the greatest psychologists, writes: “Human intelligence is a common well, and its development and improvement depend on the ability to provide culturally appropriate tools.”
And according to Clay Shirky, the existence of a distributed and coordinated intelligence in real-time reveals itself as a characteristic of an era in which we enjoy unprecedented access to information and participation in collective actions.
In Lisbon, ArtFutura presents its audiovisual program, which lasts for more than six hours and includes: Liberatum, Artworks, 3D Futura Show, Futura Graphics, Feeding the Web, Dramas & Landscapes, and Trailing the Games. It features works such as Flow (Mathijs Demaeght), If You Go Away (Ashkan Rahgozar), Primordial (Peter Clarky), Grand Soleil (Benjamin Artola), Digitized Me (Yukai Du), Wanderers (Erik Wernquist), and Dark Noir (Red Knuckles)
The “Liberatum” program features the participation of some of the greatest visionaries, including creators like David Hockney, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Gehry, and Ed Ruscha. It also includes other cultural leaders, artists, filmmakers, actors, musicians, and designers such as Susan Sarandon, Francesco Vezzoli, MIA, Marc Quinn, Miranda July, Kehinde Wiley, Daniel Arsham, Brett Ratner, Jonas Akerlund, Marcel Wanders, and Simon de Pury.
Collective intelligence is an intelligence distributed everywhere, coordinated in real-time. And this collective intelligence is made possible by information technologies, in the realm of cyberspace. It’s a universal distributed intelligence, constantly enhanced, resulting from the effective mobilization of all our capacities… Nobody knows everything; everyone knows something.
Pierre Levy
Against all odds, we are evolving thanks to what might possibly be the forgotten revolution of the 20th century; the ability to see ourselves in others.
Vicente Matallana
