Vocalist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist Mar Vilaseca was born in 1998, in Barcelona, Spain. Mar grew up in a musical environment and learned how to play and sing at a very young age, being exposed to a wide variety of music. She was classically trained in piano and traditional harmony at the Conservatorio del Liceo. At the age of 14, she started singing professionally in her father’s band, where she began her career in jazz and modern music.
Prof. Josep Soler Carbonell is Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics at the Department of English, Stockholm University. He specialises in the study of language ideologies and on the macro-micro dynamics of language policy configuration in different settings, including internationalising higher education systems, family multilingualism, and minority language contexts. His research has appeared in journals of reference in sociolinguistics, such as Language in Society, Journal of Sociolinguistics, ...
In a long-lasting partnership with Institut Ramon Llull, the 2024 ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program will again ofer a mentorship for an emerging translator from the Catalan. In previous years, mentees Samantha Mateo, Tiago Miller, Marlena Gittleman, and Scott Shanahan have worked alongside some of the most prominent translator from the Catalan, such as Ronald Puppo, or Mara Faye Lethem. This year's ALTA mentor is Julia Sanches whose recent translation of Boulder by ...
This September, Catalan composer Marc Migó's Concerto Grosso #1 (The Seance) will be performed in two concerts under the title "Migó, Schubert & Vivaldi" by the Western New York Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Glen Cortese. Later this year, Migó, as a Suncoast Composer in Residence, will provide mentorship to emerging composers enrolled in the The Suncoast Composer Fellowship Program in Sarasota, Florida.
The work is an outcome of the first edition of the Randa Art|Science Residency organized by The Institut Ramon Llull and hosted by Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) and Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST) in collaboration with the Hub for Art, Science and Technology in Barcelona Hac Te and the NewArtFoundation.
Drawn from the institutional archives of the European Prize for Urban Public Space, the "Polis" exhibition, created in 2014, has shown the best projects presented for the Prize, thematically grouped in order to offer a broad overview of the democratic quality of Europe’s public spaces.
The 60th International Art Exhibition will be held in Venice from April 20 to November 24, 2024. The present edition is under the curation of Adriano Pedrosa, who has chosen the theme Foreigners Everywhere.
Children, mothers and siblings looking for one another, others not knowing they exist or believed to be dead, and others that will never be able to find one another. Thousands of cases of stolen children in Spain took place between the late thirties and early nineties.
The Franz Schubert Filharmonia led by Conductor and Artistic Director Tomàs Grau presents its first ever concert in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. The orchestra, which makes its primary home in Barcelona and also holds annual concerts in other Spanish cities, performs Casal's Sant Martí del Canigó, Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9, "From ...
Both set in the not-so-distant future, Jason Guriel’s and Miquel de Palol’s new novels imagine worlds shaped by natural and man-made disasters. Playful in form and deeply imaginative, these two stories explore the impact of pop culture, humanity’s impact on the planet, and the enduring power of story to get us through the darkest of times.
Since its founding in 1992, Art Omi Writers (previously known as Ledig House) has hosted hundreds of authors and translators, representing more than fifty countries. The colony's strong international emphasis reflects the spirit of cultural exchange that is part of Ledig's enduring legacy. The collaboration between Institut Ramon Llull and Art Omi started back in 2010. Since then, Art Omi has hosted at least one Catalan author per year.
The seminar Curing the Institutions with Francesc Tosquelles. Politics and exile, desalienation and outsider art. will discuss the legacy of the Franco-Catalan psychiatrist Francesc/François Tosquelles. In the occupied France of the 1940s, he healed his patients by “curing” the psychiatric institution itself.
Like any other digital technology, or the Internet itself, the current explosion of AI research and applications relies on their conceptualization as immaterial technologies. The idea of clean, ethereal networks whose data is stored in a bodiless Cloud is nothing but a fallacy that hides thousands of miles of fiber optic cables, innumerable data centers, and increasing global energy consumption. The Internet that feeds and fuels AI is made up of a series of materials, constructions, and interventions ...