Medialab Prado

The Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico (AECI), in collaboration with Medialab Prado, organizes this Third Conference on Intellectual Property and New Techonologies, with the Free access to Culture as main subject. Alberto López-Cuenca and Eduardo Ramírez coordinate this meeting that will be broadcasted in a simoultaneos videcall between Mexico City and Madrid. (+ info)

Programme

Monday, December 10th:

Panel 1: “New Technologies and Cultural Policies”

What is the role of nations in relation to international agreements to foster local cultural industries while also promoting free access to culture?

What is role of culture in today’s society?

What contexts should cultural policies be active in to prevent North-South economic and infrastructure imbalances from being reproduced at the cultural level?


19:00h Madrid / 12:00h México DF

From Medialab Prado in Madrid:

Jesús Carrillo: The new factories of culture: locations for cultural creation and production in contemporary Spain

From the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico:

George Yúdice: Against fencing in the copyright to creativity
Eduardo Nivón: Intellectual property and cultural policy. The situation seen from a Mexican perspective
Lucina Jiménez: Art, education, and new technologies

Tuesday, December 11th:

Panel 2: “Technologies, artistic practices and social implications”

How does the removal of the distance between artistic and social practices modify the traditional concept of intellectual property and its distribution and optimal use?

Given the modifications in artistic practices, what is the scope of cultural action, how is consumption modified, and what is its impact on everyday life?

How have cultural practices been transformed and what new forms of exchange and symbolization are revealed by those changes?

19:00h Madrid / 12:00h México DF

From Medialab Prado in Madrid:

Daniel García Andujar: A castle in ruins, the decoding of the Empire

From the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico:

Ricardo Domínguez: After the Multitude _Distributed > > >Particle_Swarms
Daniel Miracle: Media-activism
José Luis Barrios: The constitutive impertinence of art or the aesthetization of technology

Wednesday, Decemebr 12th

Panel 3: “New Technologies: Legal Challenges”

Who is protected under copyright as currently defined?

What modifications or specifications in the industrial systems should be made to achieve a balance between the interests of the community and those of corporations involved in defending copyright?

Are they still relevant or should they be modified?


19:00h Madrid / 12:00h México DF

From Medialab Prado in Madrid:

Miquel Vidal: The new General Public License (GPLv3): copyleft in the 21st century
Javier de la Cueva: Law and technology: opening of Authorities on Intellectual Property.

From the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico:

Sergio Boeta: Legal limits on access to culture?
Carmen Arteaga: Copyright and the legal framework in Mexico