[Zamora·Spain 1926]

He is an emeritus cathedratic in Classical Philology at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid. Thinker, linguist, writer, translator, poet... Awarded with the Premio Nacional de Ensayo 1990, Premio Nacional de Literatura Dramática 2003 and Premio Nacional de Traducción 2006.

Author of numerous works of diverse genres. (His complete works have been published by Editorial Lucina, Zamora). It’s worth to mention his endeavour to continue practising the Socratic method by talking directly with his audience in the many issues of his “Tertulia Política” at the Ateneo de Madrid, every Wednesday at eight thirty p.m.


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Either Line or Dot

His conference confronts the definition of a straight line by two dots with the creation of a dot by two straight lines, and fathom thereof the problems in the relations between ideas and reality.


Listen to an excerpt [Spanish]
[La Casa Encendida, Madrid, September 1st, 2007]





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[Madrid·Spain 1954]

José Antonio Millán
José Antonio Millán is a linguist interested in signs (about which he published ¡No! and ¡Contra!, Gustavo Gili) and in etymology (El candidato melancólico. De dónde vienen las palabras, cómo viajan, por qué cambian, y qué historias cuentan, RBA). Regarding punctuation he wrote Perdón imposible. Guía para una puntuación más rica y consciente (RBA) and an introduction for children: Me como esa coma. ¡Glups! Parece que la puntuación es importante... (Serres) His website verses about this and many other things:
http://jamillan.com


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The graphic representation of language in the Western World

The graphic representation of language in the Western World begins as a continuous stream of characters that try to reproduce the continuity of sound emission. The Signs –-dots and lines-– begin to emerge through the centuries trying to indicate pauses and voice inflections, and therefore, the subtleties of meaning itself. The history of dots and lines in written language (what we still call today “punctuation”) narrates the passionate tale of the attempts to write out the human breath.




Listen to an excerpt [Spanish]
[La Casa Encendida, Madrid, September 2nd, 2007]




Listen to his interview at Cápsula [Spanish]
[La Casa Encendida's podcast, Madrid]






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[Buenos Aires·Argentina 1959]

BA in Fine Arts specialised in Cinema and Video.
He is a professor, curator, programmer, director of photography and cinema and video artist. His renown work has been exhibited in important festivals and screenings around the world.


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Punto y Raya, Freedom and Order

The essence of Form; economy in times of war; Rudolf Arnheim; content vehicles; communication vehicles; the concept of Time and finally, back to basics.




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[Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, March 13th, 2008]







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Fundación Telefónica
Arenales 1540
C1061AAR
Buenos Aires · Argentina
+54 11 4333 1300

Coordinated by Adam Hyman from the L. A. Filmforum, this is a Q&A session featuring various of the finalist and awarded authors in our first edition 2007.

What inspired them? What technique did they use? How did they develope the soundtrack? And more...





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Coordinated by Marcelo Rondinone, this is a presentation by the artists above mentioned, offering some ideas on what software they use to create/mix realtime imagery and more.




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FABRO Nicaragua 4677 Buenos Aires www.fabrolab.com info@fabrolab.com

[thursday 26th novembre 20.30 hs.]

Scientific studies of complex systems show that all networks - from epidemics to the electric power grid, from the cell to the Internet - share similar properties, regardless of their origins. That is, what is relevant to understand their global organization is not the specific details of "nodes and links" but how these elements are interconnected and assembled to form the complex network.  Here, visualization is an indispensable tool that provides deep insights into the structure and the evolutionary and creative processes generating complexity.

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Sergi Valverde

Sergi Valverde is a computer scientist with a PhD in Applied Physics by the Polytechnical University of Catalonia (UPC). He’s specialized in evolution and dynamics of Information Networks.



with the support of:

Arts Santa Mònica la Rambla, 7 08002 Barcelona www.artssantamonica.cat