Free entry until all seats are filled. Spanish with simultaneous interpretation

Hacking the pitfalls of fiction. Fiction offers us solace, laughter and company. But it is often, too, a code written from a place of power. Yet we can disturb this code, explore its vulnerabilities and turn them into our own strengths. We can scale the rocky heights of madness and make fiction a share place where we do not surrender, but reconfigure and move forward.

Belén Gopegui (Madrid, 1963) is a novelist whose works include The scale of maps (City Lights Publishers), La conquista del aire , El Padre de Blancanieves , Deseo de ser punk and El comité de la noche , and four children’s book including El balonazo and El amigo que surgió de un viejo ordenador . She also wrote the essay A Gunshot in the Middle of a Concert: On the Political in the Novel (La Jolla, CA: Department of Literature) and has published an edited collection of essays and articles in Rompiendo algo (UDP). Having studied philosophy with Juan Blanco, and graduated with a law degree, she also studied the commons at the Escuela Popular de Prosperidad. Belén is a member of the Asalto collective, of Fundación Robo and she writes for the independent media publications Rebelion.org and Diagonal.

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What is an Audiovisual Source Code?

Our memories are fragments of a living archive. We are constantly producing and reinterpreting images. In fact, we are constituted by them. We feel the need to explain ourselves through audiovisual means.

The source code is a combination of lines of text that allow a computer to execute a program. Sharing source codes is the basis of free software. In this sense, the Audiovisual Source Code lies somewhere between the audiovisual conference talk and a film screening with commentary. It is neither a screening nor a conference, but a hybrid format: a game. It is a theatrical format in which the invited speaker delves into his or her audiovisual references to trace out an audiovisual taxonomy around a theme or research project. The Audiovisual Source Code mixes personal, biographical experience with the interpretation of audiovisual fragments in its search for a sort of common imaginary.