Reading program: Art en pantalla II

• Days: March 20, April 10, May 29 and June 12
• Time: 7:00 p.m.
• Place: Auditori
• Free activity with prior registration

Digital environment presents us new ways of relating to art content and historiography. Our way of seeing and approaching works of art and museums has changed, as has access to information with a click or a scroll, through the flat world of the screens of our devices. Art en pantalla II (Art on Screen II) is the second part of a public program to promote reading and dissemination of the History of Art from multiple perspectives, which addresses how art is disseminated on social networks and other digital platforms. This cycle, in its second edition, will feature the presence of Arte compacto, Miguel Ángel Hernández, Mayte Gómez Molina and Lorena Pérez-Jácome.

The profiles of each of the invited people are diverse and they understand the dissemination of art, from the academic world, museums, journalism or literature. They will recommend significant books that have helped them understand certain aspects related to art historiography, they will tell us about their latest publications, and they will talk to us about how digital platforms have helped them to relate in other ways with new audiences.

PROGRAM

• Thursday 20 March
  Cómo hacer que la historia del arte importe hoy: de la Capilla Sixtina a RuPaul
  Arte compacto (Bernado Pajares & Juanra Sanz)
• Thursday 10 April
  Habitar la imagen: afectos, memorias, ficciones
  Miguel Ángel Hernández
• Thursday 29 May
  Pantalla, espejo y ventana: Internet como una historia del arte sin historiador
  Mayte Gómez Molina
• Thursday 12 June
  The Art of Dialogue: Collecting, Sharing, Teaching
  Lorena Pérez-Jácome

Bernardo Pajares (Arte compacto) is an English philologist, with a master’s degree in Radio from the Complutense University of Madrid and is dedicated to communication. He is part of the social media team at the Museo del Prado, where he is in charge of creating videos for Instagram and TikTok. He wrote and directed the podcast of the series Patria for HBO and has collaborated on different programs on Radio Nacional de España and other media.

Juanra Sanz (Arte compacto) is an art historian and holds a master’s degree in museums and cultural heritage from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 2012 he joined the temporary exhibition service at the Prado Museum. A few years later, while coordinating the installation of the exhibition “Ribera. Maestro deldibujo”, he met Bernardo Pajares. He is currently part of the general coordination of the museum’s conservation.

Miguel Ángel Hernández is a writer and professor of Art History at the University of Murcia. Among his essays on art and visual culture, the following stand out: I am in the image: affective essays and critical fictions (2024), The shadow of the real (2021), Art out of time: history, obsolescence, migratory aesthetics (2020), The gift of the siesta (2020) or Materializing the past (2012). He is also the author of four novels published by Anagrama: Escape attempt (2013), The instant of danger (2015), The pain of others (2018) and Anoxia (2023).

Mayte Gómez Molina is a writer, researcher and new media artist who uses the digital as a way of expanding writing. Although she uses the literary to create “book” objects in the traditional sense, she also explores the possibilities of the act of reading and writing through 3D and virtual reality. Her book Los Trabajos sin Hércules won the Miguel Hernández National Prize for Young Poetry in 2023. She is a professor at the Basel Academy of Art and Design (FHNW).

Lorena Pérez-Jácome Friscione studied Communication and obtained a master’s degree in Literature in Mexico City. She worked for 15 years in television, as a reporter and presenter on TV Azteca Mexico, Telemundo in the United States and Fox Latin America. She won the National Prize for Children’s and Young Adult Stories (Mexico, 2017) with Marisol. In 2003, together with her husband Javier Lumbreras, she created Collegium, a center for the creation, production and research of contemporary art (Arévalo, Ávila). She runs the podcast Arte en diálogo, where she interviews prominent figures in contemporary art, a project promoted by Arteinformado.