Talks
•Lock-in vol.12
When: May 31, Saturday
Place: Punta Begoña Galleries (Ereaga dock 6)
Prize: 20€
•Total REC
• One of our favorite meetings.
• A remote place, with no escape for speakers or attendees.
• Conversations during a morning with fascinating people.
• A space for reviewing and questioning issues related to contemporary image.
All this and more will held in Encerrona vol. 12. A program designed this time to ask ourselves if we are becoming immune to the avalanche of images that bombard us daily, to reflect on the immense accumulation of archives, and, by the way, to think about the future of the image in a world of extreme, immaterial, easily manipulable, and seemingly infinite REC.
•Tickets
•Program
9:30 – Presentation and welcome
09:45 – The exhaustion of sensitivity (In English)
Nathalie Herschdofer – Photo Elysée Museum (Lausanne)
Clothilde Morette – Maison Européene de la Photographie (Paris)
Jon Uriarte – Independent digital curator (Hondarribia)
11:00 – Coffee break
11:30 – Spoiler alert: all the information will not be preserved (In Spanish)
Marina Otero – Architect, researcher and lecturer at Columbia University (New York)
Joana Moll – Artist and researcher (Berlin / Barcelona)
María Ptqk – Getxophoto curator (Bilbao)
12:50 – The algorithm, AI and company (In Spanish)
Roc Albalat, Estampa – Collective of programmers and digital researchers (Barcelona)
Pita Arreola – Digital art curator and contributor to the Victoria and Albert Museum (Mexico / London)
Jon Uriarte – Independent digital curator (Hondarribia)
14:10 – Closing and bonus track
Nathalie Herschdofer
Director of the museum Photo Elysée in Lausanne
Born in Switzerland in 1972, Nathalie Herschdorfer is a curator and art historian specializing in the history of photography. She is the Director of the museum Photo Elysée, the photography museum in Lausanne, Switzerland. Before that, as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts Le Locle, she organized important shows featuring the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, Stanley Kubrick, Vik Muniz, Alex Prager, Viviane Sassen, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Andy Warhol, amongst others. She is an active voice in contemporary photography and has been invited to organize numerous exhibitions outside Switzerland. She teaches History of Photography at the Lausanne University of Art and Design, ECAL, and is the author of several books, including: Man Ray: Liberating Photography (2024); Deborah Turbeville Photocollage (2023); 160 Years of Photography from the Collections of the Red Cross (2022); Body: The Photography Book (2019); Mountains by Magnum Photographers (2019); The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Photography (2018); Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast (2012) and Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past (2011).
Clothilde Morette
Artistic Director of MEP
Born in Dijon in 1987, Clothilde Morette is the Artistic Director of MEP (Maison Européenne de la Photographie) in Paris. Her responsibilities include oversight of the exhibition and events programme, as well as curatorial direction of The Studio: MEP’s exhibition space dedicated to emerging talent. Recent projects at MEP have included curating the major retrospective of artist Samuel Fosso; Rineke Dijkstra’s exhibition I See You; Viviane Sassen’s acclaimed solo show Phosphor: Art and Fashion, and the collective exhibition Science/Fiction — A Non-History of Plants. She also taught contemporary photography at l’ECAL (Ecole d’art cantonal de Lausanne). She also practices independently as both a critic and curator, working between literary narratives and both historic and contemporary art. She is a founding editor of the forthcoming magazine Leonora, which explores affinities between the short stories of Leonora Carrington and contemporary artistic practice.
Jon Uriarte
Independent curator and Screen Walks (The Photographers’ Gallery)
Born in Hondarribia (Basque Country) in 1980, Jon Uriarte studied Photography at the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics of Catalunya and the ICP of New York. He also holds a master in Projects and Artistic Theories by PhotoEspaña and the European University of Madrid. His work as artist has been exhibited at different galleries and centers such as La Casa Encendida (Madrid), Koldo Mitxelena (Donostia), Studio 304 (New York), HBC center (Berlin) or Sala d’Art Jove (Barcelona). He was founder of the independent platform Widephoto and conceptual director of DONE Programme, a project on reflection and visual creation promoted by Foto Colectania. He has been curator of Getxophoto Festival (2020–2022) and digital curator at The Photographers’ Gallery (2019–2023). Currently, he co-curates Screen Walks, a series of live-streamed explorations of digital spaces, a program between Fotomuseum Winterthur and The Photographers’ Gallery. At the same time, he coordinates POV, a series of meetings for the digestion of digital culture in Medialab, Tabakalera, San Sebastian.
Marina Otero
Architect, researcher and lecturer at Columbia University
Born in A Coruña, Spain, in 1981, Marina Otero is an architect and researcher. She is a professor at Columbia University (New York), where she leads The Data Mourning Clinic. In 2022, she received the Wheelwright Prize from Harvard University for her project Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse, which explores new architectural paradigms for data storage. She collaborated with the Supercomputing Center of the Donostia International Physics Center and presented the project Computational Compost at Tabakalera. Otero was also invited by the Ministry of Science, Technology, Knowledge, and Innovation of Chile to participate in the development of the country’s first National Data Center Plan. Otero is the author of In the Depths of the Cloud (2024), a book about data storage and sovereignty in the age of artificial intelligence. She has co-edited books such as Automated Landscapes (2023), Lithium: States of Exhaustion (2021), More-than-Human (2020), or Work, Body, Leisure (2018), among others.
Joana Moll
Artist and researcher
Born in Barcelona in 1982, Joana Moll is a Barcelona – Berlin based artist and researcher. Her work critically explores the way techno-capitalist narratives affect the alphabetization of machines, humans and ecosystems. She has presented her work in renowned institutions, museums, universities and festivals around the world such as Venice Biennale, Art Basel, MAXXI, MMOMA, MACBA, Laboral, CCCB, among others. She’s been a research fellow at BBVA Foundation, a fellow at The Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin, and an artistic researcher in residence at the Critical Media Lab at HGK in Basel. Moll is the co-founder of the Critical Interface Politics Research Group at HANGAR (Barcelona). Currently, she holds a professorship position in the Art Department at KHM (Academy of Media Arts) in Cologne, is a visiting lecturer at Escola Elisava in Barcelona, and a fellow at Disruption Netwok Lab Insitute in Berlin.
Estampa
Collective of programmers and digital researchers
Estampa is a collective of filmmakers, programmers, and researchers working in the fields of experimental audiovisual media and digital environments. Their practice is based on a critical and archaeological approach to audiovisual technologies, the study of artificial intelligence tools and ideologies, and the resources of experimental animation. Estampa is composed of Roc Albalat, Pau Artigas, Marcel Pié, Marc Padró, and Daniel Pitarch. They have been selected for national and international calls and have participated in various art centers such as CCCB (Marte. El espejo rojo, 2021; IA. Inteligencia artificial, 2024 and Experimentos con el archivo del CCCB, 2024), Sala de Arte Joven in Madrid (Un cambio de paradigma, 2024), ArtScience Museum in Singapore (Mars: The Red Mirror, 2023), CCCC in Valencia (Biennal 2064, 2023), La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in Barcelona (Biennal 2064, 2022), La Capella (Lo que es posible y lo que no, 2022), Tabakalera (Festival Inmaterial, 2021), Foto Colectània (DONE 4, 2020), among others. They have just received the Premi Ciutat de Barcelon in the field of digital culture.
Pita Arreola
Digital art curator and collaborator at the Victoria & Albert Museum
Born in Mexico City in 1989, Pita is an independent curator and researcher. She is the co-founder of Off Site Project, a curatorial platform that promotes the work of emerging creators focused on digital culture through exhibitions, events, and residencies. Through her curatorial work, Pita has supported over 200 creatives from the UK, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, the United States, and Latin America. She was curator of Digital Art at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London) from 2021 to 2024 and currently continues to collaborate with that institution. Arreola is the co-editor of Digital Art: 1960s-Now (V&A/Thames & Hudson, 2024), a book that presents a global history of digital art through the museum’s collection.
María Ptqk
Cultural researcher and curator of Getxophoto
Born in Bilbao in 1976, María Ptqk holds a PhD in Artistic Research, as well as degrees in Law, Economics, DEA in International Public Law and Cultural Law, and a Master’s in Cultural Management. Her work focuses on the intersections between arts and technoscientific culture. She has collaborated with renowned institutions such as Medialab Prado, Fundación Daniel y Nina Carasso, CCCB, Jeu de Paume, La Gaité Lyrique, and GenderArtNet. Some of the exhibitions she has curated include À propos du Chthulucène et de ses espèces camarades (Espace virtuel du Jeu de Paume), Ciencia fricción. Vida entre especies compañeras (CCCB and Azkuna Zentroa), Extinción Remota Detectada (LABoral) or Máquinas de ingenio (Tabakalera), among others. She is an advisor for the Chaire Arts & Sciences (École polytechnique, l’École des Arts Décoratifs–PSL, Fondation Daniel et Nina Carasso) and a member of the programming committee for ISEA Paris 2023 (International Symposium on Electronic Art).
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