Art, science and technology are intertwined in new hybrid centres, in light of the “new culture” generated by the network society. This is the idea which will be discussed in “Networks, Nodes and Bridges”, part of the Now Festival which takes place this week in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB).

At 19:00 on Friday, March 27th, Ramon Sangüesa, director of innovation at Citilab, will moderate a discussion about the role, function and formats of hybrid centres.

It is a process of research, creation and dissemination that aims to bring together different local and international agents involved in the actions that are promoting a change of paradigm in the information and knowledge society and in globalised cultures.

The participants of the panel are:

Marcos García, Head of content development at Medialab-Prado in Madrid
Michael John Gorman, Director of the Science Gallery in Dublin
Adam Bly, founder, CEO and Editor-in-Chief, Seed Media Group
Theun Karelse, illustrator, artist and builder

Now, Meetings in the Present Continuos
From March 25-28 the CCCB will reflect on the present based on the scientific, technological, artistic, social and spiritual transformations that are taking place at the start of the 21st century with Now, Meetings in the Present Continuos through a series of workshops, debates, conferences & documentaries.

One of the objectives of the event is to better understand the current economic crisis and explore the tools needed to overcome it. The possible solutions increasingly feature theories of degrowth, while the connections between science, art, technology, design and nature define the tools available to us for addressing the necessary paradigm changes that the situation requires.

[From CCCB discussion on the role of the new hybrid centres for art, science and technology | Citilab]