Commons
Memes as digital crafts
Felipe G. Gil
A democratic source of collective creativity, memes define our digital culture through transformative practices.
Storytelling
Literature and Music Are Part of Me
Julieta Venegas
Singer-songwriter reflects on creative processes, the relationship between music and literature, and autofiction.
Technology
Dank memes: the reaction to an unliveable Internet
Albert Lloreta
Emerging from the dawn of the first Internet, today dank memes can be understood as an absurd expression that condenses the spirt of our times and as an expression of fury that boycotts the marketing logic of the Internet.
Commons
Two Self-Managed Grecs
Joan Carbonell
What can we learn from the first two editions of the Grec, a self-managed, egalitarian and ground-breaking festival at the height of political and cultural upheaval?
Commons
Memes and Strange Politics
Jaron Rowan
Emerging from the tension between the political and politics is a form of aesthetic expression that renews the debate in the public sphere.
Technology
When Creativity Ceased To Be (Exclusively) Human
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
How do artistic artificial intelligences work? We analyse what seemed to be the last stronghold of human creativity.
Storytelling
Walking: A Thought Laboratory
Jorge Carrión
We’ve known it for centuries, but now it has been demonstrated by science and so seems to be even more certain than before. Walking stimulates creativity and thinking.
Storytelling
Provisional Language
Kenneth Goldsmith
Globalisation and digitalisation turns all language into provisional language.
Commons
Dossier
Laboratories
In recent years we have lived through an explosion of different models in cultural, artistic, technological and social laboratories.
Culture
Losers Create Things Too
Rubén Martínez
Music can be a stimulus for personal or collaborative reflection on the act of creation.
Education
To Gamify Means to Make People Play
Oriol Ripoll
Gamification is not measured in terms of prizes, but by the player’s enjoyment during the process. There is also room for game in the world of culture.
Culture
A Playful Attitude as the Basis of the Creative Process
Oriol Ripoll
When understood in a exploratory, free and relational way, the game becomes a powerful tool for research and production.