Keynotes
Lucy Sante, Bard College, New York
“The American Photographic Postcard (1905-1930) as an Ancestor of Social Media”
Lucy Sante is the author of Low Life (1991), Evidence (1992), The Factory of Facts (1998), Walker Evans (1999), Kill All Your Darlings (2007), Folk Photography (2009), The Other Paris (2015), Maybe the People Would Be the Times (2020), and Nineteen Reservoirs (2022).
Her awards include a Whiting Writers Award, an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Grammy (for album notes), an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, and Guggenheim and Cullman fellowships.
She recently retired after 23 years of teaching the history of photography at Bard College, New York.
Romi Mikulinsky, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
"Digital Spaces, Creative Machines and Vigilant Humans"
This lecture will address the tectonic shift that emerging technologies advance in and for the creative industries (technologies like the generative AI, Metaverse and Web3.0)
I shall begin with a short overview of dominant trends and recent technological breakthroughs that have been popularized by artists and creatives. This will be followed by a series of examples from image-centered arts, fashion and architecture. I shall then present some of the dilemmas, questions and promises that virtual worlds and digital interactions can offer to the creative industries.
Drawing on notions stemming from counter-culture ideology and digital utopianism – and knowing all we now know today - I will try to outline what the creative class can be optimistic about? How can creativity and co-creation be remodeled and reconfigured given the new techno-social circumstances and platforms’ affordances?
Romi Mikulinsky is the head of the Master of Design (M.Des) program in Industrial Design and a senior lecturer at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. Her dissertation at the University of Toronto's English dept. was dedicated to photography, memory, and trauma in literature and film.
Dr. Mikulinsky researches and lectures about digital and counter-culture, algorithmic art, as well as design-led innovation.
Since 2018 she is leading the collaboration with the Design Lab (DLX) at the University of Tokyo and since 2019 spearheads Bezalel’s smart mobility collaboration with UTokyo Labs.
She has over 20 years of experience in Israeli and International industry: she has worked with various start-up companies and media websites, corporations and municipalities (Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Holon) on implementing technological innovation across the organization and has international experience in leading design and innovation workshops (Australia, Japan, and in several countries across Europe).
She served as the Director of The Shpilman Institute for Photography and worked with various art museums in Israel.
Carlos Machado e Moura, Faculty of Architecture, University of Porto
“Architecture, photography and creativity in the age of Artificial Intelligence"
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Carlos Machado e Moura is an architect (FAUP, 2006), postgraduate in Architectural Heritage (CEAPA-FAUP, 2013), PhD candidate (PDA-FAUP/FCT, 2015) and integrated researcher at the University of Porto (CEAU-FAUP).
He currently teaches history and theory of architecture at the University of Porto (FAUP) and the University of Minho (EAAD) and is deputy editor-in-chief of J–A Jornal Arquitectos (2022-24).
Carlos is also a working group leader at COST Action 18126, Writing Urban Places, a researcher of the project (EU)ROPA Rise of Portuguese Architecture (CES-UC), and the author of books like Building Views (Circo de Ideias, 2017) and Casas Quinhentistas de Castelo Branco (CMCB/Argumentum, 2008).
Alongside his practice as an architect with MAVAA, Carlos co-organised several initiatives about Drawing and was assistant curator of the "Physics of Portuguese Heritage" exhibition (DGPC, 2018-19) and Open House Porto 2016.
His work has received several awards and recognitions, including Premio Architettura Toscana 2022, Prémio Távora 2020, an honourable mention of Premio Architetto Italiano 2020 and the award of merit of AZ Awards 2019.