Disonancias

S3Lab

S3Lab (Laboratory for Smartness, Semantics and Security) is a laboratory specialising in the application of artificial intelligence techniques to the modelling of problems in which it is necessary to tackle concepts of complexity and certainty.

There have been essentially two fields of application until now:

- Information Security (Cryptanalysis, Detection of Network Intrusion, Mobile Phone Servers and Terminals, Detection of Bank Fraud, Risk Analysis, User and Application Behaviour Analysis, Analysis and Detection of Viral Software, etc.)

- Optimisation of Productive Processes (Process Modelling, Sensitivity Analysis, Prediction, Simulation, etc)
Team involved in DISONANCIAS
The team to be involved in DISONANCIAS will comprise two computer engineers with a research profile.

Bilbao (Bizkaia).

Derivart

Derivart was founded in Barcelona in 2004 in the aim of exploring the connection between art, technology and finance. It currently comprises a visual artist, video game computer engineer and finance sociologist.

Daniel Beunza is a sociologist and professor of management at Columbia Business School (New York). He has contributed to the sociology of financial markets with a field study of a Wall Street investment Bank and his article “Tools of the Trade: the Socio-Technology of Arbitrage in a Wall Street Trading Room” won the Outstanding Paper Award from the Communications and Information Technology Division of the American Sociological Association. His artistic installation "Listening to the Spreadplot" was displayed in the exhibition Making Things Public, organised by the ZKM centre in Karlsruhe, Germany.

Jesús Rodríguez, visual artist and performer, organiser of the Festival of Fine Arts 2004, promoter of experimental art with mass consumer materials (competitions of BIC ballpoint pen sculptures), has been president of the Barcelona Art Students Exchange (BASE) and co-founder of Culture Workers, a platform for collective interventions in the culture sector. He currently organises workshops in Cosmocaixa.

Mar Canet is a video game computer engineer and designer. After two years on a teaching and research grant at the Escuela Superior de Diseño (ESDI), he continued his studies in England in the field of video game design at the University of Central Lancashire. He is currently the artist-in-residence at Hangar. His fields of interest include the interactive visualisation of large volumes of information and video games. Highlights of his work include NodeMail.org, an artistic project based on software for the visualisation of networks for the sending of mass e-mails.