quelic(at)caotic.net

(+34)669_844_225

Quelic Berga-Carreras

PhD on Interfaces for Generative Audiovisuals in the Network Information Technologies program at UOC (Barcelona, Spain). Master in Graphical Interface Design at the University of Lincoln (UK). Graduated in audiovisuals and multimedia at ERAM – University of Girona (Spain).

He is an assistant professor at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC.edu) and BAU (baued.org) where he teaches Creativity, Inclusive Signage, Interactive Design, Interactive Media and Interface Criticism.

He has given talks and workshops at several national and international institutions on art and technology.

He has been awarded with prizes on digital art, and some of his works have been shown in art centres and festivals in Spain, France, Serbia, Helsinki, Singapore and Canada. Amongst them, Arts Santa Monica (Barcelona), Sala de Arte Joven (Madrid), KC Grad (Belgrade, Serbia), KUVA Art University (Helsinky, Finland), VAD Festival (Girona, Spain), Ingràvid (Figueres, Spain), and the National Academy of Fine Arts, NAFA (Singapore).

In his artworks he uses several techniques, from performance art to sculpture, coding and media art, teaching and researching, to generate interactive artifacts. Most of his works -however beautiful in its surface- are there to challenge preconceptions about technology and a reminder of how it needs to adjust its potential to human measure and nature.

In his research he is concerned on the power of the interfaces as means to build up ways to interact, observing the poetical and the political implications of each proposal.

Researcher ORCID id and link:

 I use new technologies to create works that establish a dialogue with the public. Interested in how metaphores and interface and interaction design works, my concern is to reflect on the ways technologies shape our world and the way we perceive it. Through this works, researches and creations, I manage to confront the realities of the digital era with the way we cope with multicultural societies and ecology. In this process a space for reflection on humanity opens up.