{"id":1319,"date":"2026-04-29T16:34:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=1319"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T16:36:54","slug":"catalogos-especulativos","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/complexhibit.eu\/en\/actividades-publicaciones\/catalogos-especulativos\/","title":{"rendered":"Speculative catalogues. Curatorship, design and experimentation as a cultural ecosystem."},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-m152wg98-bbe92eea382b43a3207ccce01254647a\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-m152wg98-bbe92eea382b43a3207ccce01254647a{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-m152wg98-bbe92eea382b43a3207ccce01254647a hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_heading  avia-builder-el-first'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mok9vu68-e275c6990408a42c86178fa9d5bfb7ec\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-mok9vu68-e275c6990408a42c86178fa9d5bfb7ec{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-mok9vu68-e275c6990408a42c86178fa9d5bfb7ec .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-mok9vu68-e275c6990408a42c86178fa9d5bfb7ec .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-mok9vu68-e275c6990408a42c86178fa9d5bfb7ec av-special-heading-h2 blockquote modern-quote modern-centered  avia-builder-el-1  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr'><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Speculative Catalogues: Curatorship, design and experimentation as a cultural ecosystem<\/h2><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-1itv1g-48f93e721bd57ed0c2683f126e2ae35b\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-1itv1g-48f93e721bd57ed0c2683f126e2ae35b{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-1itv1g-48f93e721bd57ed0c2683f126e2ae35b hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_one_full'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-35el8-b7ee46949f65d28e052754818f985361 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr  first flex_column_div'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mok9r1qr-4adf5f466cd53b28f39728b2bcd783e9'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>Seminar<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Academic coordination:<\/strong> Ra\u00fal Mart\u00edn Canales (UMA), \u00c1ngel Lumbreras Fern\u00e1ndez (UMA)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Organised by:<\/strong> Telef\u00f3nica-UMA Chair in collaboration with the Vice-rectorate for Culture, in the framework of the Complexhibit project.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dates:<\/strong> 4 May 2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location:<\/strong> The Cultural Container<\/p>\n<p><strong>Timetable:<\/strong> 10:00-13:30.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Registration:<\/strong> Free<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-75ffk7-d2e646a015e02b141639d0ac2ad9ab36\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-75ffk7-d2e646a015e02b141639d0ac2ad9ab36{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-75ffk7-d2e646a015e02b141639d0ac2ad9ab36 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-5ssqvb-58d01a7d52cd019412634a928a94bef3 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr  first flex_column_div'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mok9s28l-1b4b0eafe0c667ea6f7400943ac01604'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>Description<\/h2>\n<div data-renderer=\"lm\">\n<p class=\"my-2 &#091;&amp;+p&#093;:mt-4 &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:inline-block &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:pb-2\"><strong>What is an art catalogue today?<\/strong> A mere documentary record, an institutional formality, one more node in the hyper-complex ecosystem of the exhibition... or a work with its own entity capable of devouring the exhibition that originated it and of projecting itself, emancipated, into the latent spaces of contemporary culture?<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 &#091;&amp;+p&#093;:mt-4 &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:inline-block &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:pb-2\">This seminar proposes to think of the exhibition catalogue not as an isolated object, but as a <strong>semantic and semantised artefact<\/strong> that actively participates in the network of interactions - between institutions, curatorship, artistic creation, graphic design and audiences - that configures the exhibition field as a complex cultural system. Through a choral round table, we will bring together the agents involved in its life cycle, to unravel how these devices are produced, circulated and re-signified in the current web of cultural practices.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"ejes-de-la-conversacin\" class=\"font-editorial font-bold mb-2 mt-4 &#091;.has-inline-images_&amp;&#093;:clear-end text-lg first:mt-0 md:text-lg &#091;hr+&amp;&#093;:mt-4\">Axes of the conversation<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"marker:text-quiet list-disc pl-8\">\n<li class=\"py-0 my-0 prose-p:pt-0 prose-p:mb-2 prose-p:my-0 &#091;&amp;&gt;p&#093;:pt-0 &#091;&amp;&gt;p&#093;:mb-2 &#091;&amp;&gt;p&#093;:my-0\">\n<p class=\"my-2 &#091;&amp;+p&#093;:mt-4 &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:inline-block &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:pb-2\"><strong>Conceptualisation and negotiation spaces<\/strong>The catalogue as a place where curatorial discourses, institutional narratives and editorial decisions converge, generating that shared \u00abcultural state\u00bb described by the sociology of cultural fields.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"py-0 my-0 prose-p:pt-0 prose-p:mb-2 prose-p:my-0 &#091;&amp;&gt;p&#093;:pt-0 &#091;&amp;&gt;p&#093;:mb-2 &#091;&amp;&gt;p&#093;:my-0\">\n<p class=\"my-2 &#091;&amp;+p&#093;:mt-4 &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:inline-block &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:pb-2\"><strong>Production, materiality and sustainability<\/strong>The materiality of publishing, workflows, the ecological footprint and the challenges of an institutional framework in tension between print and digital.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"py-0 my-0 prose-p:pt-0 prose-p:mb-2 prose-p:my-0 &#091;&amp;&gt;p&#093;:pt-0 &#091;&amp;&gt;p&#093;:mb-2 &#091;&amp;&gt;p&#093;:my-0\">\n<p class=\"my-2 &#091;&amp;+p&#093;:mt-4 &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:inline-block &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:pb-2\"><strong>Legacy and emancipation<\/strong>The survival of the catalogue in the face of the free PDF, its circulation as open and linked data (LOD) and its consecration as an object of independent collecting, beyond the exhibition that originated it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"py-0 my-0 prose-p:pt-0 prose-p:mb-2 prose-p:my-0 &#091;&amp;&gt;p&#093;:pt-0 &#091;&amp;&gt;p&#093;:mb-2 &#091;&amp;&gt;p&#093;:my-0\">\n<p class=\"my-2 &#091;&amp;+p&#093;:mt-4 &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:inline-block &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:pb-2\"><strong>Catalogue as a node in a knowledge network<\/strong>understood as a primary source for the automated extraction of metadata, linguistic corpora and knowledge graphs.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 id=\"caso-de-estudio-catalogar-los-futuros\" class=\"font-editorial font-bold mb-2 mt-4 &#091;.has-inline-images_&amp;&#093;:clear-end text-lg first:mt-0 md:text-lg &#091;hr+&amp;&#093;:mt-4\">Case study: cataloguing futures<\/h2>\n<p class=\"my-2 &#091;&amp;+p&#093;:mt-4 &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:inline-block &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:pb-2\">The seminar will culminate with the official presentation of the exhibition catalogue. <strong><em>From them (humans) to us (AIs)<\/em><\/strong>, a speculative project situated on the border between traditional cataloguing, literary creation and the projection of futures. The publication invites us to rethink what it means to catalogue when the agents of enunciation are no longer only human, but also artificial intelligences that inhabit latent spaces - those emerging semantic territories where generative models compress, relate and reorganise visual and textual knowledge - displacing the boundaries of the author, the work and the document.<\/p>\n<p class=\"my-2 &#091;&amp;+p&#093;:mt-4 &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:inline-block &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:pb-2\">At a time when AI is transforming the way in which we produce, describe and preserve exhibition heritage, this meeting proposes to think of the catalogue as a <strong>living ecosystem<\/strong>A network of actants, discourses, data and materialities whose emancipation heralds new formats, new editorial ontologies and a new role for design in the age of artificial intelligences.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"bg-quiet h-px border-0\" \/>\n<p class=\"my-2 &#091;&amp;+p&#093;:mt-4 &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:inline-block &#091;&amp;_strong:has(+br)&#093;:pb-2\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4oojws-7f1734f8205c497c3010a3ecd457451a\">\n#top .hr.av-4oojws-7f1734f8205c497c3010a3ecd457451a{\nmargin-top:30px;\nmargin-bottom:30px;\n}\n.hr.av-4oojws-7f1734f8205c497c3010a3ecd457451a .hr-inner{\nwidth:50px;\nborder-color:#dddddd;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-4oojws-7f1734f8205c497c3010a3ecd457451a hr-custom  avia-builder-el-8  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full  hr-center hr-icon-no'><span class='hr-inner inner-border-av-border-thin'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-3xe9h3-60a0f33e576fa066dae9ce8db258b5fe av_one_full  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr  first flex_column_div'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mok9svoy-225918a3deef474ff687cb53f4004074'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>Interveners<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Salvador Haro Gonz\u00e1lez (Professor of Fine Arts, UMA)<\/li>\n<li>Modesta di Paola (Lecturer in History of Art. UMA)<\/li>\n<li>Carlos Ferrer Barrera (Head of Cultural Programming, Municipal Museums Agency)<\/li>\n<li>Marc Montijano Ca\u00f1ellas (Professor of Art History, UCO)<\/li>\n<li>Roberto Espartero and Juan Mart\u00edn (Tiquismiquis Club)<\/li>\n<li>Agust\u00edn Linares Pedrero (Professor of Fine Arts, UMA)<\/li>\n<li>David Ruiz Torres (Lecturer in History of Art, UMA)<\/li>\n<li>Giz\u00e9h Rangel de L\u00e1zaro (Ram\u00f3n y Cajal Researcher, UMA)<\/li>\n<li>Ra\u00fal Mart\u00edn Canales (Art History student (UMA), Coordinator of museographic and audiovisual projects, Telef\u00f3nica-UMA Chair).<\/li>\n<li>\u00c1ngel Lumbreras Fern\u00e1ndez (Pre-doctoral Researcher FPI, UMA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-4m6j64-26113cb63d4318467ecb99ab2ee66da0\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-4m6j64-26113cb63d4318467ecb99ab2ee66da0{\nheight:50px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-4m6j64-26113cb63d4318467ecb99ab2ee66da0 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_full'><span class='hr-inner'><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div  class='flex_column av-1znrdz-1884af1d651a7eeb786486ec386fd17a av_one_full  avia-builder-el-12  el_after_av_hr  avia-builder-el-last  first flex_column_div'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mok9tqju-da98303a61a75f0e105687db6c4daa7c'   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2>Programme<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>10:00-10:15. 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