Jose Luis de Vicente

José Luis de Vicente is a journalist and curator specialized in digital culture, art and technology. In his own words, he works around the edges of New Media Arts, Digital Creativity, and Innovation in Design and Culture.

Since 1999 he is part of ArtFutura organization committee. He has also carried out curation projects for organizations and festivals such as RESFEST, FAD, La Caixa, Sónar, OFFF among others, speaks in conferences and festivals, and does research in schools and cultural labs. He is co-founder of ZZZINC, an Office for Research and Innovation in Culture based in Barcelona. Creator and member of Elástico, a platform of content generation about emerging cultures, producing the project COPYFIGHT with them. He lectures in theory and history of the internet and interactive media in the Escuela de Diseño Elisava of Barcelona.

A recent project is the international exhibition: Playtime: Videogame Mythologies, a show addresses the symbolic and iconic potential of gaming, one of the essential cultural forms of our time, through innovative new media projects, art pieces, emerging technologies and historial artifacts.

Recent fields of interest include Data Visualization, Green Design, Information Infrastructures, Media Architecture and Networked Cities, Software Aesthetics, Game Strategies, Archaeology and Histories of Digital Culture.

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