Barcelona

Xerrada de Mark Farid a Sobtec. VI Congrés de Sobirania Tecnològica

2 de març de 2024, a les 17:50h

Mark Farid, artist in residence at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) as part of the S+T+ARTS in the City programme, will participate as a speaker at Sobtec, VI Congrés de Sobirania Tecnològica. During the event, which will take place at Hangar next March 2, Farid will present his project ‘Invisible Voice’ (IV), a platform that reveals the power structures and business practices behind the websites we interact with. The project seeks to leverage our collective action to bring about meaningful change through the empowerment of data.

Mark Farid is an Artist, Researcher, and Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. He specialises in the intersection of the virtual and physical world, and the effect new technologies have on the individual and their sense of self. Farid’s work embodies hacker ethics, such as a focus on privacy policies, use of surveillance technologies, and campaigning for data privacy and protection. His work forms a critique of social, legal, and political models.
Farid has given talks and participated in group and solo exhibitions in England, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, UAE, and Japan. He gave a TEDx talk in 2017 about his first two projects “Data Shadow” (2015), and “Poisonous Antidote” (2016). Farid was selected for the Sundance Institute’s ‘New Frontier’ Fellowship in Utah, USA (2016), for his on-going VR project, “Seeing I”. “Seeing I” was piloted as a solo exhibition at Ars Electronica Digital Arts Festival (2019), and was selected for the European Media Artist Residency Exchange, as part of the Creative Cultures Programme of the European Union (2020/21). In 2022, Farid received European Commission Horizon 2020 research and innovation funding to develop his browser extension, “Invisible Voice”, which was later presented at the Pompidou Centre, FR (2022). In 2023, Farid received European Commission ST+ARTS funding to further develop “Invisible Voice” into a mobile phone app, a cross-device platform, and an interactive artwork. This will be exhibited at Ars Electronica Digital Arts Festival, AT (2024).

The talk will be in English.

The S+T+ARTS program is funded by the European Commission, with the support of the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia and the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology – Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

See the full congress programme here.

Data i hora

2 de març de 2024, a les 17:50h

Ubicació

Hangar (C/Emilia Coranty, 16 08018 Barcelona)

Inscripcions (Accés gratuït amb registre)

Mark Farid, artist in residence at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) as part of the S+T+ARTS in the City programme, will participate as a speaker at Sobtec, VI Congrés de Sobirania Tecnològica. During the event, which will take place at Hangar next March 2, Farid will present his project ‘Invisible Voice’ (IV), a platform that reveals the power structures and business practices behind the websites we interact with. The project seeks to leverage our collective action to bring about meaningful change through the empowerment of data.

Mark Farid is an Artist, Researcher, and Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London. He specialises in the intersection of the virtual and physical world, and the effect new technologies have on the individual and their sense of self. Farid’s work embodies hacker ethics, such as a focus on privacy policies, use of surveillance technologies, and campaigning for data privacy and protection. His work forms a critique of social, legal, and political models.
Farid has given talks and participated in group and solo exhibitions in England, France, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, UAE, and Japan. He gave a TEDx talk in 2017 about his first two projects “Data Shadow” (2015), and “Poisonous Antidote” (2016). Farid was selected for the Sundance Institute’s ‘New Frontier’ Fellowship in Utah, USA (2016), for his on-going VR project, “Seeing I”. “Seeing I” was piloted as a solo exhibition at Ars Electronica Digital Arts Festival (2019), and was selected for the European Media Artist Residency Exchange, as part of the Creative Cultures Programme of the European Union (2020/21). In 2022, Farid received European Commission Horizon 2020 research and innovation funding to develop his browser extension, “Invisible Voice”, which was later presented at the Pompidou Centre, FR (2022). In 2023, Farid received European Commission ST+ARTS funding to further develop “Invisible Voice” into a mobile phone app, a cross-device platform, and an interactive artwork. This will be exhibited at Ars Electronica Digital Arts Festival, AT (2024).

The talk will be in English.

The S+T+ARTS program is funded by the European Commission, with the support of the Department of Culture of the Government of Catalonia and the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology – Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.

See the full congress programme here.