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Multidisciplinary theatre director, born in Italy and established in Barcelona since 1990. She is the Director of Conservas, a cultural foundation. She has worked in renowned physical and performance theatre groups all over Europe. Her multidisciplinary creations are currently touring festivals around Europe. Since 2000, she has directed the scenic and visual arts festival IN MOTION which takes place at the CCCB during the Grec festival. She is an outstanding activist in European social movements in the area of free circulation of knowledge, the right to housing and the use of public areas. She is also involved in several artistic and activist platforms.
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Are citizens detrimental to the diffusion of culture?
More than at any other moment in history, the digital age allows everybody to access the free circulation of knowledge and multiplies opportunities for learning and creativity for the benefit of all humanity. Times have changed - all citizens have to be able to benefit from all the advantages offered by the Network of Networks through the horizontal exchange of information and culture. We have to adapt our means of cultural production to this new form of democracy, and not the other way around. We don't live in isolation, we live in a network. We are constantly communicating; from the moment we're born and are socialized we continuously absorb knowledge by imitating and sampling. There is no other way to do it. Knowledge comes about through imitation. That's how our cultural imagination is formed. Any kind of cultural creativity or new knowledge is based on this received tradition, which means, that no new creation is completely original or even possible without the existence of this collective heritage. In the digital, communication age, ?digital? is our shared memories and the networks that connect them. ?Digital? material is what the contemporary memory is made from. This technological transformation is often compared to the invention of the printing press, which revolutionized the diffusion of culture through its capacity to produce copies in a way that was much faster than ever before, and more faithful to the original than the most highly-valued copyist of the time. This is the period of highest levels of production and consumption of culture in history. Does this mean I, as a user, am being detrimental to the diffusion of culture? Text net-published and edited in 2008: http://exgae.net/la-avaricia http://exgae.net/exgae-multiply-and-share-forth/7-solutionsfacts-plus-one
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