The emerging social roles morph from the virtual to the real world
Videogaming & mobiles as new identity generators
Handheld digital devices as reproducers of a self-made image and how it relates to ‘the other one’
Citilab Cornellá is offering you the chance to take part in "Mobile Cells", a debate looking into the new identities created and generated since videogames and handheld digital devices came on the scene. Calls, photos, text messages, avatars, social networks, downloadable videogames, webs visited via the mini-screen of a telephone… The mobile phone has not only turned into a unevictable squatter in our pocket, its popularity and growing presence in our lives bestow on it added value: It is the very reflection of ourselves, of our identity. Both the mobile and videogames play a key role in the creation of our digital self. A series of conferences and roundtables will comprise the meeting-point of various experts and creators from all around the world who will debate how and to what extent the presence of handheld digital devices bears an influence on the creation of our new digital identity. From May 22 to 23 the conference attendees will analyze cultural identities and how they came about since the dawning of the videogame era. Along with talks and debates open to both specialists and beginners, there will be a debate held looking at the identities of those in politics and global economics, psychological identities, cultural identities - on an individual level or on a social, local and global scale... how we see ourselves and how we see the “other one”, how the videogame has impacted on economic, cultural and contemporary artistic trends, and and how it became Culture itself.
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A commissariat project by: Alberto Tognazzi (Public Frame) and Flavio Escribano (Arsgames.net)
