The third culture at Kosmopolis
K13 brings us closer to the passage between the world of science and the humanities with an inspiring program designed for diverse audiences.
Kosmopolis. The Amplified Literature Fest is a biennial literary event, born within the new century and held at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona. It is a feast-laboratory where Literature is the main focus of attention. Several days to celebrate a universalistic discourse, a feast to emancipate readers, to stimulate the canon’s mutation, to shake genres, to sail in languages and to revise myths, traditions and identities.
In a context where the oral word, the printed word and the electronic word reflect the tremors of a globalized world, a prospect of mutating genres, formats and storage systems is emerging. Kosmopolis condenses and amplifies this process, placing literature in the centre of the scene and interacting with the Arts and Sciences.
The American publisher and writer John Brockman posits a "third culture" in action featuring scientists who occupy the role of traditional intellectuals. In the European ambit the transition from natural science to the humanities was attempted in the Renaissance, yet divisions and preconceptions remained. There are no definitive maps for these territories. Kosmopolis addressed the challenges and dilemmas of an emerging third culture that affects the relations between scientists, artists and intellectuals.
The Third Culture Program:
- Sonia Fernández-Vidal
Science: Reality or Fiction? - talk on quantum physics
- Tamara Vázquez Schröder, Martine Bosman and Sònia Fernández-Vidal
The Hunting of the Boson - lecture
- Pau Vidal, Ricard Solé i Roderic Guigó
The Genome: A Literary Language? - talk
- Fernando Abilleira, Jacinto Antón, Lara Saiz
Martian Time-Slip - talk
- Vital Zippering
Patricia Saragueta. 8 de agosto. 2010. 3’. SD
- Tears of Steel [PREMIERE]
Blender Foundation. Amsterdam. 2012. 12’. OVSS
- Tres Relatos de Ciencia Ficción
Nacho Vigalondo. Spain. 2010. 3’. Spanish
- Everybody's free (to wear sunscreen)
Soy Cámara – El programa del CCCB. 2010. 2’. VOSE
- Colors of Maths [PREMIERE]
Ekaterina Eremenka. Germany. 2012. 60’. OVCS
- Brain Power: from Neurons to Networks
Tiffany Shlain. Let it Ripple. 2011. 11’. OVCS
- The Higgs Boson [PREMIERE]
Jorge Cham & Daniel Whiteson. PHDComics. 2012. 8’. English
- The Symphony of Science. The Case for Mars
John Boswell. 2010. 4’. Musical Video
- Sólo se mueven [PREMIERE]
Arturo Fuentes. Spain. 2011. 27’. OV. Spanish
- The Symphony of Science. The Poetry of Reality
John Boswell. 2010. 3’. Music Video
- Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus [PREMIERE]
Patrick Clair. Australia. 2010. 4’. VO. English
- Connected
Tiffany Shlain. NY. 2012. 80’. VOSE
- My Favourite Scientist. Albert Einstein
Brady Haran. Nottingham Trent University. 2012. 7’. VOSC
- Jorge Carrión and Nacho Vigalondo
Battle of the series
- Joan Colomo, Alícia Fernández, Isidre del Valle, David Jou, Marta García-Matos
Light on the Waves - concert and talk
Further information: KOSMOPOLIS