22-25 de julio, 2026
20 Conferencias del
EXPERIMENTAL 2026
ONLINE
20 conferencias, 60 artistas y 28 horas de duración, del 22 al 26 de julio, de 10:00 a 19:00 (hora española). Puedes verlas simultáneamente en directo o grabadas posteriormente.
El idioma del título indica el idioma de la conferencia.
MIE. 22/07
10.00 - 13.00 Experimental 2026 Exhibitions: Artists, Spaces and Experimental Practices with Tommy Goguely, Erik Johansson, Maarten Rots, Irina Cheremisina, Dasha Podoltseva & Alexey Shmurak, Barbara Justice, Nic Ma, Isabelle Gagné, Lisa Murzin, Katel Delia and Thomas Lafuente
A conference bringing together international artists and practitioners to discuss experimental approaches in contemporary image-making. Through diverse methodologies and practices, the speakers explore new relationships between photography, space, and visual experimentation. Featuring Tommy Goguely, Erik Johansson, Maarten Rots, Irina Cheremisina, Dasha Podoltseva & Alexey Shmurak, Barbara Justice, Nic Ma, Isabelle Gagne, Lisa Murzin, Katel Delia and Thomas Lafuente.
15.00 - 16.00 Digital Negatives: from Simple to Complex with Christina Z. Anderson
The lecture “Digital Negatives: from Simple to Complex” by Christina Z. Anderson focuses on the essential role of the digital negative in achieving high-quality fine art prints, particularly in platinum-palladium printing. Anderson emphasizes that the difference between a good print and an exquisite one often depends on the proper creation of the digital negative, a stage that, while technically crucial, can be one of the most complex and least intuitive to learn. During the talk, she presents three progressive approaches: a simple “tweak method” based on minor image adjustments, a more advanced technique using Photoshop curves for precise tonal control, and finally the use of QuadToneRIP, a professional tool that allows highly accurate management of density and contrast. The lecture is based on a chapter from her upcoming book on platinum-palladium printing, conceived as a step-by-step manual of the development-out process.
16.00 - 17.00 Why You Shouldn’t Photograph a Total Solar Eclipse with Justin Quinnell
The conference Why You Shouldn’t Photograph a Total Solar Eclipse with Justin Quinnell is a one-hour session structured around visual materials and enriched with a practical demonstration of solar spot projection, adaptable to the context and audience as appropriate. The artist has extensive experience in public outreach on astronomical phenomena, with a particular focus on guided observations of both partial and total solar eclipses. This practice is further supported by his academic dissertation, The History and Influences of Astronomical Photography, which explores the historical development and key influences of astronomical photography.
17.30 - 19.30 Macro y Microfotografía del Mundo que no Vemos con Montse Bayes y Rubén Duro
La conferencia sobre macrofotografía y fotomicrografía utiliza imágenes y video para revelar detalles difíciles de percibir a simple vista, o completamente invisibles sin el uso de técnicas específicas. La propuesta se centra en la observación de microorganismos, seres vivos con los que convivimos y de los que a menudo no somos conscientes, a pesar de su presencia constante en el entorno que nos rodea. A través de estas técnicas visuales, la presentación explora cómo sus morfologías pueden expresar una dimensión artística, especialmente en relación con los contextos en los que se desarrollan. Al mismo tiempo, estas formas son capaces de generar múltiples interpretaciones, que cambian según la perspectiva del espectador. Se trata de un mundo sorprendente y fascinante que conecta arte, naturaleza y divulgación científica. La conferencia está a cargo de dos ponentes, Montse Bayés y Rubén Duro, quienes presentan sus respectivas especializaciones, macrofotografía y fotomicrografía, a través de una selección de imágenes y videos en una presentación compartida.
JUE. 23/07
University Day
Descubre la enseñanza de la fotografía alrededor del mundo a través de una serie de presentaciones de universidades, escuelas y programas educativos internacionales. Representantes de cada institución compartirán su enfoque pedagógico, presentarán sus programas, instalaciones y oportunidades formativas, y ofrecerán una mirada a sus comunidades creativas. Las sesiones también contarán con la participación de estudiantes seleccionados, que presentarán sus proyectos y procesos de trabajo, ofreciendo una perspectiva única sobre las prácticas fotográficas contemporáneas y el talento emergente. Una oportunidad para conocer diferentes caminos de formación, conectar con instituciones internacionales y encontrar inspiración en la próxima generación de fotógrafas y fotógrafos.
10.00 - 11.00
Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design de la Politécnico do Porto (Portugal)
UACM - Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México (Mexico)
11.00 - 12.00
University of the Arts London (United Kingdom)
Escuela de Diseño de la UTEM de Santiago de Chile (Chile)
12.30 - 13.30
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (Switzerland)
L’ENS Louis-Lumière (France)
15.00 - 16.00
Instituto Federal de Ceará (Brazil)
Academy of Fine Art and Design Bratislava (Slovakia)
16.00 - 17.00
Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Essen (Germany)
Prague School of Creative Communication (Czech Republic)
17.30 - 18.30
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain)
Cfp Bauer (Italy)
VIE. 24/07
10.00 - 12.00 Presentación de Exposiciones con Rocío Bueno, Yinna Higuera, Lluís Estopiñan, Laura Brinkmann, Maria Solaguren-Beascoa Negre, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ogarrio, Luis Macias, Kümei Kirschmann y Carlos del Rio
La conferencia de la exposición reúne a un grupo diverso de artistas presentes en la muestra, incluyendo a Rocío Bueno, Yinna Higuera, Lluís Estopiñan, Laura Brinkmann, Maria Solaguren-Beascoa Negre, Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ogarrio, Luis Macías, Kümei Kirschmann y Carlos del Río. Esta sesión ofrece la oportunidad de profundizar en las prácticas, metodologías y enfoques conceptuales de los artistas. A través de presentaciones individuales y un diálogo abierto, los participantes compartirán los procesos detrás de sus obras, reflexionando sobre la experimentación, la materialidad y el lenguaje en constante evolución de la fotografía contemporánea.
12.30 - 13.30 Memory Simulacra: Photography, 3D Scanning and the Construction of Space with Nic Ma
Memory Simulacra examines the intersection of memory, technology, and hyperreality in the digital era. Through the use of 3D scanning with an iPhone, it rethinks the way we capture and remember experiences in a world increasingly mediated by devices, unlike traditional photography, which is tied to time, framing, and a linear narrative. Through fragmented and abstracted simulations, the work reflects the emotional and discontinuous nature of memory, questioning how technology shapes reality, perception, and experience within a hyperreal landscape.
15.00 - 16.00 Residency of Experimentation EXP-IEFC with Célica Veliz, Estefanía Montenegro, Cara Coombe, Christopher Palm, Ryder Booth, John Steck Jr., Dietlinde DuPlessis, Maike Brautmeier y Ute Friederike Schernau
Residency of Experimentation EXP–IEFC is conceived as a collective exhibition that brings together the work and processes of Célica Veliz, Estefanía Montenegro, Cara Coombe, Christopher Palm, Ryder Booth, John Steck Jr., Dietlinde DuPlessis, Maike Brautmeier and Ute Friederike Schernau. During the residency, each participant leads a one-day theoretical–practical workshop, sharing an experimental technique within a horizontal and collaborative learning environment. The project prioritizes exchange, collective experimentation, and peer-to-peer knowledge transmission over individual production. Throughout the residency, different experimental techniques will be explored through a logic of coexistence, testing, and shared learning. The residency will conclude with a collective exhibition focused on making visible the research and learning processes activated during those days, rather than on presenting finished results, and it will be shown on the ground floor of the Institut d’Estudis Fotogràfics de Catalunya, within the framework of the Experimental Photo Festival in Barcelona.
16.00 - 17.00 Deprogramming the Black Box with Wendel Alves de Medeiros
The conference presents an artistic research project based on experimental and sustainable photographic practices, combining art, politics, and artivism. It uses sunlight and printing techniques on newspaper to reveal the faces of Brazilian political dissidents who disappeared during the military dictatorship (1964–1985), through urban art interventions using stencil masks.The author, Alves Brasil, is an artist and researcher at IFCE who explores alternative photographic processes such as cyanotype, anthotype, and analog film development. His work investigates the intersection between photography, drawing, and printmaking through the direct use of sunlight on photosensitive materials.
17.00 - 18.00 Sedimented Light. Using Hand-Made Pigments to Colour Photographic Negatives with Victoria Ahrens
Victoria Ahrens’ artistic practice is a form of photographic alchemy that transforms the image into a physical body where the very substance of the landscape inhabits the medium. By using pigments extracted directly from the earth such as minerals, crushed rocks, and industrial residues, the artist moves beyond simple representation, allowing raw matter to stain, oxidize, and physically transform negatives and prints. This methodology draws from the history of hand coloring but subverts its decorative origins, championing a deliberate slowness that resists digital speed and restores a tactile, labor intensive dimension to photography. Her work also carries a profound feminist resonance, reclaiming and honoring the domestic material knowledge and uncredited labor historically associated with women in pigment production. Ultimately, Victoria Ahrens closes the gap between surface and substance, creating a site of sedimentation where the physical memory of a place remains suspended in light and color.
18.00 - 19.00 A History of Misogyny, and the Ethics of Representation with Laia Abril
A History of Misogyny is an ongoing research-based project that traces the systems of control, violence, and invisibilization imposed on women throughout history. In this talk, Laia Abril reflects on her chapters On Abortion, On Rape, and On Mass Hysteria, examining the role of image-making about biopolitics and the ethics of representation.
SÁB. 25/07
10.00 - 11.00 Windows to the Real with Katia Motylova-Babinska, Tania Bakum, Marcus de Sieno and Elizabeth Pimentel
This group exhibition, curated by Arantxa Berganzo and Astrid Jacomme, brings together artists of diverse nationalities, including Tania Bakum, Katia Motylova-Babinska, Marcus De Sieno, and Eli Pimentel, in a project that explores the possibilities of experimental documentary photography. Through different visual languages and photographic processes, the works transcend the conventional codes of documentary, expanding the notion of the document toward more poetic and critical ways of observing the world. With images marked by conflict, memory, displacement, and resistance, from Ukraine to the US-Mexico border, the exhibition proposes new ways of witnessing contemporary experience—like an open window onto reality.
11.00 - 12.00 Body, Dark Camera, Uterine Device: Female Experimentation in Brazil with Ana Angélica Costa
The conference reviews the theory of Photography, conceiving the Camera Obscura as a uterine device, opposed to the phallic metaphors used throughout the history of photography. The research is developed by two women artists that seeks to deepen the reflection about the experience with the Camera Obscura as a kind of ancestral origin of photography, taking it out of the patriarchal regime to place it in a horizontal, dialogical and corporal relationship to the image. The research focus on the art work of ten Brazilian women photographers to analyze how the Camera Obscura appears in their artistic process.
12.30 - 13.30 Round Table: Materiality, Process and Community with Lily Night, Francisco McFarlane and Diana Olifirova
This conference proposes a roundtable aimed at deconstructing contemporary photography, examining the shift from aesthetic realism to materiality in an era shaped by digital hyper-realism and the environmental crisis. Through dialogue between experts, it explores non-documentable spaces and the value of the unknown, to imagine new forms of coexistence and care for others. The photographic work is reinterpreted as a sculptural form, shifting attention beyond the frame and reflecting on its social and environmental implications. The event promotes a shared and conscious practice of image-making, transforming theoretical discussion into a collective experience with the audience.
15.00 - 16.00 Género y Ecología con Manuel Limay Incil y Yinna Higuera
La conferencia “Género y Ecología”, programada para el sábado, propone un espacio de diálogo centrado en las intersecciones entre las prácticas artísticas, las cuestiones de género y el pensamiento ecológico. El evento contará con la participación de Manuel Limay Incil, que intervendrá online con una presentación de su obra, y de Yinna Higuera, que asistirá de manera presencial y compartirá su práctica artística. A través de este formato híbrido, la sesión busca fomentar una reflexión crítica sobre las relaciones entre la creación contemporánea, la ecología y el género, abordando algunas de las cuestiones más urgentes dentro del campo de la fotografía y las prácticas experimentales.
16.00 - 17.00 Especulación en Procesos no Tradicionales para Desactivar la Imagen Latente con Diego Haristoy, Paulina Sadrak y Maria Solaguren-Beascoa
Este formato de conferencia se estructura en tres partes, proponiendo un espacio de reflexión especulativa en torno a los procesos fotoquímicos contemporáneos. La primera parte se centra en la especulación sobre el comportamiento del soporte o sustrato sensibilizado, abordando materiales como papel, tela, vidrio, piedra y biomateriales, y analizando cómo sus propiedades físicas y químicas influyen en la imagen final. La segunda parte explora la experimentación con técnicas de sensibilización, así como procesos de blanqueamiento, entintado, teñido y virado, poniendo el foco en las transformaciones cromáticas y conceptuales del material fotográfico. La tercera parte investiga las técnicas de aplicación del material sensible sobre el sustrato, atendiendo a las variables introducidas por el instrumental, así como a las posibles modificaciones de los componentes de sensibilización y sus efectos en el resultado visual. El conjunto propone una mirada abierta, experimental y procesual sobre la fotografía, entendida como un campo de investigación material en constante transformación.
17.30 - 18.30 Contemporary Feminist Photography with Women Alternative Photography Group and Feminist Photography Network
This conference brings together two international platforms dedicated to thinking, producing and promoting contemporary photography from feminist perspectives. Women Alternative Photography Group and Feminist Photography Network will share their experiences, methodologies and recent projects, addressing different forms of collaboration, visibility, publishing and collective creation within the current photographic field. Feminist Photography Network will present its work through its editorial projects and online residencies, which connect artists from different geographical contexts. The presentation will focus on how the network creates spaces for exchange, support and dissemination for women photographers and visual artists, bringing feminist practices, collaborative processes and new forms of international circulation into dialogue. Women Alternative Photography Group will approach feminist photography from the field of alternative and experimental processes, exploring how manual, analogue and expanded photographic techniques can become tools for research, expression and critical positioning. Their perspective will bring a focus on materiality, the body, experimentation and shared creation.
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