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Saturday, September 22Natonal Hispanic Cultural Center8:00am – 5:00pmRegistrationNational Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC):Education Building Lobby8:45am – 9:00amISEA2012 Latin American Forum IntroductionNHCC: Ballroom, Education Building9:00am – 5:00pmLooped Screening: Low LivesNHCC: Classroom 123, Education BuildingThis looped program during the ISEA2012 Latin American Forumfeatures a selection of videos from the Low Lives networkedperformance series, curated by Jorge Rojas, Founding Directorof Low Lives. The program includes performance videos fromover 30 international artists as they were streamed live. Thethemes they address are widely varied, but they all exploreaspects of human and social makeup, and our relationship withtechnology. Artists include Annie Abrahams, Lukas Avendaño,Tzitzi Barrantes, Profesor Bazuco, Black & Jones, The EmergeCollective, Tutu-Marambá, Kristin Lucas, Marisol Salanova, RosaSanchez & Alain Baumann, Second Front, and Martin Zet amongothers. www.lowlives.netCurated by Jorge Rojas9:00am – 9:25amPaper: Research 360 Interaction and Virtual RealityEnvironment, Analysis of Interaction Models andFunctional Prototyping MethodologyNHCC: Classroom 122-124, Education BuildingThe research explores how the use of technology platformsenables the ownership and development of fields of interactionand interface design, the development of different virtualreality environments was planned, so it allowed a glimpse ofhow the analysis for formal and digital structure today is notonly happening by the ratio of feedback, but by the interface,gesture and control supported in virtual media spaces. Research360 poses the evolution into a new type of environments ofsynesthetic character. To examine these hypotheses in theresearch there were a series of prototypes that corroborate andrethink some of the ideas these parameters were developedunder functional prototyping methodology, which is describedbriefly at the end of the document.Presenter: Mario Valencia9:00am – 10:15amPanel: Mapping with Balloons and KitesNHCC: Classroom 125, Education BuildingRegarding the history of technology in Latin America oneremarkable fact is related to the first pioneers of balloons andlighter-than-air devices in Brazil, that is the inspiration for thispanel. Panelists include Bruno Vianna, Rodrigo Minelli, AndresBurbano and Danny Bazo. The moderator of this panel isLucas Bambozzi who is the head of Arte.Mov Festival in Brazil.Sponsored in part by Instituto Cervantes.Presenters: Lucas Bambozzi, Danny Bazo, Andrés Burbano, FelipeFonseca, Rodrigo Minelli & Bruno Vianna9:00am – 10:15amFeatured Panel: Brazilian Artists and CuratorsNHCC: Education Center Ballroom, Education BuildingThis talk features women artists and curatorsfrom Brazil. Giselle Beiguelman (PhD inHistory from the University of São Paulo) andcurator Priscila Arantes (Adjunct Directorof the Museum of Image and Sound in SãoPaulo), mediated by Simone Osthoff (AssociateProfessor of Critical Studies in the School of Visual Arts at thePennsylvania State University) speak on the international artscene, offering the public a chance to see dynamic dialoguesabout contemporary media art from first-hand experiences.9:00am –12:00pmWorkshop: Portables DevicesNHCC: Classroom 129, Education BuildingPortables is a curatorial project which arises as an emergencyto make visible the artistic practices that involve appropriation,reuse and development of tools and techniques emerged fromthe information technology and communication as well as togenerate collective experiences between artists, researchersand the community at large. People can then exchange opinionsto determine relationships and distinctions between devicesgenerated by this industry and currently developed by artistsand researchers. The workshop will include portable devicesand a curatorial presentation of an exhibition held at the NationalMuseum of Fine Arts in Chile and a cognitive mapping session.Presenter: Ignacio Nieto30