SINTE emerges as a space for reflection and dialogue around contemporary digital creation, its challenges, and opportunities. On November 20 and 21, the first edition of this international forum on art and digital culture will bring some of today’s most recognized voices in this field to Santiago de Compostela.

Artists, studios, cultural management specialists, and representatives from some of the most dynamic and innovative exhibition spaces will share their vision at the Gaiás about the present and future of art and creative industries in a context where technological transformations exert unprecedented pressure on the cultural field, the consensuses of recent decades seem exhausted, and a new digitized art emerges—along with new knowledge and questions.

At a time when spaces are definitively hybrid, where instant distribution and algorithms compete for our attention, and where technology and audiences shape the work itself, SINTE seeks answers: what is culture when everything changes?

Prominent Voices in Digital Creation

The forum begins with a plenary lecture by Bani Brusadin, programming curator at Medialab Matadero, one of Spain’s most dynamic and innovative cultural spaces in contemporary creation.

The Italian studio fuse, an essential figure in the international digital art scene today, will headline another plenary session, sharing with the audience the creative process behind one of their most emblematic works: Onírica. It is an audiovisual piece that explores the dimension of dreams through algorithms capable of translating the night visions of nearly 30,000 people into images, delving into the expressive use of generative models, artificial intelligence, and algorithms.

SINTE will also provide a space to experience contemporary artistic proposals of international relevance firsthand. On one hand, there will be a dual performance by Japanese choreographer and dancer Hiroaki Umeda, one of the leading figures of the country’s avant-garde scene. On the other hand, Materia, one of the live visual shows by Breton artist Maotik, will be presented in Galicia for the first time. The piece fuses art and science, with generative images and sound design synchronized and manipulated live, evoking the transitions from one state of matter to another.

The program is completed with four roundtables featuring prominent figures from the artistic and creative sectors, as well as from business, cultural management, and curatorial fields.

Art, Creation, and New Technologies. New Audiences, Algorithms, and a Space Without Territory

What is culture when everything changes?

SINTE emerges as a space for reflection and dialogue around contemporary digital creation, its challenges, and opportunities. On November 20 and 21, the first edition of this international forum on art and digital culture will bring some of today’s most recognized voices in this field to Santiago de Compostela.

Artists, studios, cultural management specialists, and representatives from some of the most dynamic and innovative exhibition spaces will share their vision at the Gaiás about the present and future of art and creative industries in a context where technological transformations exert unprecedented pressure on the cultural field, the consensuses of recent decades seem exhausted, and a new digitized art emerges—along with new knowledge and questions.

At a time when spaces are definitively hybrid, where instant distribution and algorithms compete for our attention, and where technology and audiences shape the work itself, SINTE seeks answers: what is culture when everything changes?

Prominent Voices in Digital Creation

The forum begins with a plenary lecture by Bani Brusadin, programming curator at Medialab Matadero, one of Spain’s most dynamic and innovative cultural spaces in contemporary creation.

The Italian studio fuse, an essential figure in the international digital art scene today, will headline another plenary session, sharing with the audience the creative process behind one of their most emblematic works: Onírica. It is an audiovisual piece that explores the dimension of dreams through algorithms capable of translating the night visions of nearly 30,000 people into images, delving into the expressive use of generative models, artificial intelligence, and algorithms.

SINTE will also provide a space to experience contemporary artistic proposals of international relevance firsthand. On one hand, there will be a dual performance by Japanese choreographer and dancer Hiroaki Umeda, one of the leading figures of the country’s avant-garde scene. On the other hand, Materia, one of the live visual shows by Breton artist Maotik, will be presented in Galicia for the first time. The piece fuses art and science, with generative images and sound design synchronized and manipulated live, evoking the transitions from one state of matter to another.

The program is completed with four roundtables featuring prominent figures from the artistic and creative sectors, as well as from business, cultural management, and curatorial fields.