Este sábado 12 de Junio participamos en el evento Innosfera, una iniciativa de la UOC cuyo objetivo es reunir a profesionales que desde diferentes ámbitos trabajan en el campo de la innovación para proporcionar un espacio de debate y compartir de esta manera conocimiento y experiencias. El tema de la mesa redonda fue “Aprender en un mundo en cambio”.

Last Friday (May 28), we were amongst five Spanish entrepreuneurs invited to a roundtable with the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic, Energy and Businses Affairs, Mr. Jose W. Fernandez hosted by the American Embassy in Madrid. This event took place in the contex of the Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship of the U.S. government.

During this meeting each guest presented their company and shred their experience of entrepreneurship in Spain. This gave rise to a very interesting discussion including issues such as the management of intellectual property in Spain, accessibility to US-based funding bodies and investors and the Spanish labour market. The outcome of this discussion was the creation of a communication channel between Spanish entrepreneurs and the US through the American Embassy in Madrid.

Yesterday (17.12.2009), the Education Minister, Mr Angel Gabilondo, and the Scretary of State, Ms Eva Almunia, presented Cosmolema at the Ministry’s headquarters. Cosmolema is a new application developed by Bestiario and it makes part of a new set of tools with which Escuela 2.0 is being equipped. In Ms Almunia’s words, “Cosmolema is the Ministery’s Chrismas gift to the pulpits”. This event was attended by Juan Aguado public school’s (Torre de Esteban Hambran, Toledo) pupils as well as the school’s head teacher and director, Ms Eva Garrido.

In its first version, Cosmolema, a complete lexicon of the Castilian language (730.000 words and over 10.000.000 interrelation) was used and the focus is on alphabetic relations of words. Alphabetic relations are those which arise by word transformation: addition, subtraction and change on the way letters are ordered in word. For instance, the words paro (a first person conjugation of the verb to stop) and ropa (clothes) are related because they are made out of the same letters ordered in a different way (this is known as an anagram).

Cosmolema has two main environments: exploration and games. The application allows navigating the Castilian language through these relations, thus promoting the discovery of its combinatory and generative richness. This allows the user to experience the tension and forces that give rise and transform our language, as well as giving him access to a huge vocabulary source.

Last sunday (13.12.09) I gave a talk about interaction and complexity in the Arts Santa Mònica in Barcelona. In this 2.5 hours talk I also presented the project Canvi i Temps as an integrated content, since it is a project about complexity in sciences.

In the talk I presented a lot of examples, from math, physics, biology, ecology, social sciences and arts fields that explores some or many of the main concepts of complexity, such as:

emergence
cellular automata
orbit
dynamic system
fix point
attractor
fractals
chaos theory
strange attractor
genetic algorithm
free scale network

I promised to the audience I will publish a list of links to some of the resources I presented, and more and less in the same order. Among them: interesting topics, free software to download, interactive applications, videos, articles, etc…

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The look and say Conway´s numbers
Cellular automata
life game: definition, online app, a lot of cellular automata, and a simple one.

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Cantor set, created from the I-CHING transformations.
Some images
Xaos for Mandelbrot Set navigation

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Logistic map
Dynamic system

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Mitozoos
Other bugs, and birds
Karl Sims evolved virtual creatures

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Scale-free networks
Gnom

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Visualcomplexity
reMap
Map of complex sciences
RNA triplets
The I-Ching and RNA triplets

We are based in Spain, Portugal and Argentina and a few times per year we meet to work face to face. This week we were all together in Barcelona plannig 2010 strategie: the Bestiario’s framework revolution!

Next sunday in Arts Santa Mónica (Barcelona, december 13, 18:00h) Santiago Ortiz from Bestiario, presents the project Canvi i Temps and give a talk about complexity and interaction. You a very welcome!

El jueves 19 de noviembre presentaremos nuestros proyectos en la EOI de Madrid. El evento, “Visualizar la información en la era de la complejidad” que se desarrolla en colaboración con MediaLab Prado contará con la participación de José luis de Vicente, Ben Cerveny,
Aaron Koblin y Manuel Lima.

Este miércoles 18 de noviembre los invitamos a la presentación que haremos de nuestro trabajo en FICOD09, evento de referencia en España en el tema de contenidos digitales. Estaremos en el Taller 5 de 18:45 – 19:45.

Visualizar has just begun! For the following 15 days we’ll be at MediaLab Prado, Madrid, working with the nine selected teams, who did this morning their first public presentation of their projects. There’s great expectation and very interesting proposals on the theme: Public Data Data in Public.

We recomend the program for this afternoon and tomorrow, for those who are in Madrid. Live streaming of the event is available here

Jueves 12 de noviembre
17:00h – 18:00h: Conferencia Eva Moraga Ciudadanos con conocimiento, ciudadanos en movimiento. Acceso, reutilización y visualización de la información pública: herramientas estratégicas para la participación informada.
18:00h – 19:00h: Conferencia de José Manuel Alonso (W3C/CTIC – eGovernment Lead ):Towards a Linked Government Data Cloud (Hacia una Nube de Datos Públicos Enlazados)
19:00h – 19:30h: Descanso
19:30h – 20:30h: Conferencia de Liz Turner (Open Knowledge Foundation): Visualization for the Masses: Making public data more accessible (Visualización para las masas: hacia una mayor accesibilidad a los datos públicos)

Viernes 13 de noviembre
10:00h – 10:30h: Comunicación de Alfonso de la Fuente Ruiz: Recorrido horizontal por el “estado del arte” de la visualización digital
10:30h – 11:00h: Comunicación de Xavier Belanche Alonso: data404: producir, liberar, remezclar y representar la información pública
11:00h – 11:30h: Comunicación de Javier Candeira: Evidence-based policies on copyright and public data: hypotesis, data, norm and law (Políticas basadas en la evidencia sobre el copyright y los datos públicos: hipótesis, datos, normas y leyes)
11:30 – 12:00 h: Descanso
12:00h – 12:30h: Comunicación de Paolo Battino Viterbo and Valentina Barsotti: Closing the circle (Cerrando el círculo)
12:30h – 13:00h: Comunicación de Jan-Christoph Zoels: Imagining behavioral change Smart meters and data visualizations of energy consumption (Imaginando un cambio de comportamiento, contadores inteligentes y visualizaciónes de consumo de energía)

17:00h – 18:00h: Conferencia de Kerry Mitchell (Sunlight Foundation): Transparencia, compromiso cívico y visualización de datos
18:00h – 19:00h: Presentación de Aaron Koblin: Data Visualization and Art (Visualización de datos y arte)
19:00h – 19:30h: Descanso
19:30h – 20:30h: Presentación de Ben Cerveny (Stamen) El Medio es la Metrópolis