ABOUT MIDECIANT

What Is MIDECIANT?

The International Museum of Electrography – Center for Innovation in Art and New Technologies (MIDECIANT) in Cuenca is a hybrid of museum and innovation center. It’s located on the Cuenca campus of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), where it stores its entire collection of artistic work and carries out its research activity linked to the INDEVOL group. Originally in 1989, the objective of MIDECIANT was to increase an international collection of works made by artists who had used, for their creation, any type of machines and processes related to new reproduction and printing technologies (called electrography). Currently, it’s especially dedicated to the conservation and dissemination of its collection, which grows every day, as well as the digitization of works and editorial and scientific publication. Furthermore, to nourish his knowledge and collection he maintains contact with other entities, as well as with national and internacional artist’s projects.

At this time, the MIDECIANT is a space in which to investigate the rationale behind the artistic proposals in its collection, as well as the artistic practices linked to new technologies in general, in their transition from analogue art to digital art.

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History and Origins

«After a large archive, in the darkness of the university funds, only in the light of the most curious, interested, researchers or specialists, this is how the works belonging to the International Museum of Electrography-Center for Innovation in Art and New Technologies (MIDECIANT) of Cuenca have been maintained for a long time. Like small treasures, shining with their own light behind the doors of that archive, waiting to be recognized for the indisputable value they possess to understand the position that art finds today. It’s precisely now, at a time when the theories and methodologies in charge of studying artistic practices linked to new technologies, specifically (New) Media Art, focus, among other objectives, on carrying out Media Archeology to find and understand the true root of these artistic proposals, when the funds of this center created as a lab-museum begin to be illuminated from their base. » (José Ramón Alcalá and Beatriz Escribano)

→ If you want to know more about the history of MIDECIANT, click here to access the publication: International Museum of Electrography and Center for Innovation in Art and New Technologies of Cuenca by José Ramón Alcalá and Beatriz Escribano.

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Our Team

Ana Navarrete Tudela

Researcher, teacher and artist. Current director of the MIDECIANT of Cuenca. Professor of the Department of Art, Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca (UCLM). She is principal investigator of the I+D AEMA project and the INDEVOL group. She has held numerous national and international exhibitions. She has work in several collections and museums. She combines his artistic, teaching and research work, with the publication of books, articles... and the organization of cultural events.

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Montserrat de Pablo Moya

Full Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca of the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Member of the INDEVOL research group at UCLM. His artistic work has been exhibited in national and international individual and group exhibitions. He is currently carrying out his research project on the “camera obscura” at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin within the project The Long-term Evolution of Mechanical Knowledge.

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José Ramón Alcalá

Multimedia artist, curator and author. Head Professor of Art and New Media at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca of the University of Castilla-La Mancha. Co-director of the Ibero-American Observatory of Digital and Electronic Arts. Board Member of the Archive of Digital Arts of Austria. Creator and director of the International Museum of Electrography - Center for Innovation in Art and New Technologies (MIDECIANT) (1989 - 2018). Co-founder of the Spanish Media Art Archive (AEMA). Director of the international indexed magazine ASRI Arte y Sociedad (2018 - 2022). National Prize from Royal Chalcography (to MIDECIANT) "for the innovations contributed to graphic art" (1999). Among his most outstanding publications are: The Skin of the Image: Essays on Graphics in Digital Culture. (Valencia, 2011); Being Digital; Manual for converts to electronic culture (Santiago de Chile, 2011); Artists and Machines. Dialogues in the development of Digital Art (Valencia, 2022); The Happy Misfits; An autobiographical novel by Marcel Demeulenaere, a brillant Flemish inventor (Cuenca, 2023); Edith Weyde; How an inventor from the Rhineland changed the world. (Mülheim/Ruhr, 2018); How do you hang a Virtual painting? (Gijón, 2009); Monsters, ghosts and aliens. Poetics of representation in cybersociety (Madrid, 2004); or Ars & Machina. Artistic Electrography in the MIDE collection (Santander, 2004).

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María Soria Gómez

MIDECIANT Manager

 

María Bajo

JCCM predoctoral contract. Member of the INDEVOL group. Doctoral student in the EID Research Program in Humanities, Arts and Education at UCLM. Artist and researcher, part of the BajoRufián collective. Her practice focuses on thinking and experience around gender, sex and sexuality from a feminist and queer/cuir perspective, focusing her doctoral thesis on dissident masculinities. He has made numerous exhibitions, publications and national and international conferences on these issues.

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Henry Lamiña

Predoctoral contract for research staff in training within the framework of the Own Plan I+D+i, co-financed by the FSE+. Member of the INDEVOL group. Doctoral student in the EID Research Program in Humanities, Arts and Education at UCLM. Artist and researcher whose practice focuses on exploring our condition as bodies affected by continuous flows of images, information, data and electronic devices. He has a degree in Plastic Arts from the Central University of Ecuador (Quito, 2017), and has a Master's Degree in Research in Artistic and Visual Practices from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain, 2019). He has participated in festivals, exhibitions and artistic residencies in different cities, showing his projects in diverse spaces.

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Ricardo Cotanda

INDEVOL group researcher.

 

Isabel Perujo Álvarez

Collaboration scholarship holder and student of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Cuenca of the UCLM.

 

José Luis Cano Reverte

Collaboration scholarship holder and student of the Double Degree in Audiovisual Communication and Journalism at the Faculty of Cuenca of the UCLM.

 

Julia María Malsipica Mascaraque

Student at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca doing curricular internships at MIDECIANT.

 

Rutxi García Martín

MIDECIANT collaborator. Doctor Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education of Cuenca. Professor in the didactics area of plastic education and expert in art and video games.

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Rubén Serna

MIDECIANT collaborator. Teacher in the area of Plastic and Visual Education at UCLM. Artist and researcher. Doctor in Research in Humanities, Arts and Education with Cum Laude mention unanimously. Her interdisciplinary practice encompasses video art, textile art, installations, and fanzines. With a focus on feminist and queer practices focused on ruralities and dissident identities, the subject of her doctoral thesis on the memories, post-memories and imaginaries of rural women in the south of Ciudad Real. He has participated in national and international exhibitions, such as the MIDECIANT Mail Art Calls, the Coño! Alicante festival, CSW Kronika (Poland). Also selected for the IAR video art exhibitions in Naples. He collaborates with the INDEVOL group at UCLM, and has also given presentations at multiple national and international conferences.

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Marta Rufián

Collaborator of MIDECIANT and the INDEVOL group. Doctoral student in the EID Research Program in Humanities, Arts and Education at UCLM. Artist and researcher, part of the BajoRufián collective. Her practice focuses on thinking and experience around gender, sex and sexuality from a feminist and queer/cuir perspective, focusing her doctoral thesis on contrasexaffects. He has made numerous exhibitions, publications and national and international conferences on these issues.

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