Art and Digital Culture

Guest Speaker: Alejandro Albornoz, Ignacio Nieto, Italo Tello, Ricardo Vega Chilean Collective TROYANO Date: May 29th, 2007 Time: 4:00pm - 7:00pm Location: Calit2 Auditorium, Atkinson Hall, UCSD [webcast] Host: CRCA and Calit2

DESCRIPTION/ABSTRACT: The Chilean art collective TROYANO will present their recent bilingual publication, Art and Digital Culture. The event is organized by the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA). TROYANO’s members, Alejandro Albornoz, Ignacio Nieto, Italo Tello and Ricardo Vega, will discuss their past projects with moderator Eduardo Navas. For more information, visit TROYANO's website at http://www.t-r-o-y-a-n-o.cl. SPEAKER BIO: TROYANO is an artist collective from Chile which formed in 2005 to do interdisciplinary research on art and digital culture. Their recent publication, Art and Digital Culture, brought together work from contributors as diverse as artists and theorists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Russia, Slovenia, and the U.S. This publication grew out of two major conferences TROYANO organized in 2005 and 2006 with the support of the Spanish Cultural Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santiago, Chile: Elena (2005) and Updating, Art and Technology (2006).