Panel Statement
Panel: Interface Play: Media Environments for Ludic Cyborgs
Starting with a concept of environment not only as “what is around us” but as the cultural and visual agents we interact with, it appears that situations and interactions between individuals and media content are building a new kind of citizen, a gamified citizen that needs strategies to cope with the curious order of public relations we call ludocracy.
- Dr. Moisés Mañas Carbonell is an artist, interactive designer and professor of Interactive Art in the Fine Arts Faculty of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (since 2001). He is member of the research group, Laboratorio de luz. He has also been a member of the Technical Committee of the International Congress ACE program 2005, 2006 and 2007 (International conference on Advances in computer entertainment technology, ACM SIGCHI), Member of the artistic committee of the DIME-ATS, 2006 and 2008 (Digital Interactive Media Entertainment & Arts). Festival Jury Ciber @ rt Bilbao 2004, between other more. His work has been presented and awarded in many festivals and exhibitions related to art and technology, in and out of Spain since 1998 as, MAM ( Santo Domingo) 2011, Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Mérida (Venezuela) 2010, Digital Image-Space Festival ENTER (Canary-2009), Neue Galerie – Graz (Austria) 2009, “MEIAC”.Badajoz (España) 2008, ZKM – Germany , 2008-09, La Laboral, Gijón (2009), Bienal de Valencia, 2007, File 04 (Sau Paulo. Brazil, 2004), Mediaterra 2000 and 04 (Atenas. Greece), Inmedia 2000 (Michigan, USA ) Observatory-2000, Valencia, Intertecno 2000, Valencia, Audiovisual Creation Festival of Navarra 98/99/00, Ciber@?rt 1999, “Les brassieres” , Liege. Belgium. 2001, etc. moisesmanas.com
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