• TOUCHING MONA LISA’S FACE (2017)

    MOTIVATION Every time I am in front of a portrait painting I feel this urge to touch it. I can’t help to imagine how, according to the techniques the artist used, the skin of that specific face would… Read More

  • INCUBATING DALÍ’S EGGS: A Visual Recognition Technology Project (2017)

    OVERVIEW: This summer (2017), I spent some days around the surroundings and environment where Salvador Dalí used to live. More precisely, I was staying in Aiguablava (Catalonia, Spain), one of my favourite spots in the world. I decided to do a… Read More

  • Embodipaint: an Artwork produced from 7 days of Heart Rate data (2017)

    ABSTRACT For 7 days, the researcher and artist Albert Barqué-Duran had his heart rate constantly monitored with Fitbit Charge HR wearable technology in order to produce an artwork inspired by his own heart beat raw data. These data were influenced by the social interactions with… Read More

  • My Artificial Muse

    The first Mural/Fresco Painting designed by an Artificial Neural Network was created, during a 3-day performance, at Sónar+D 2017 (14, 15 and 16 June) in Barcelona.  What is a Muse? Who can be a Muse? Where can we find… Read More

  • TV Show: The future of humanity (2017)

    Science is advancing at a dizzying pace, and many things will change in the coming years, also ourselves. With the outbreak of Artificial Intelligence, in 2050 the human species might have radically transformed. At ‘El dia de demà‘… Read More

  • Albert vs. The Machine (2016)

    Salvador Dalí Basket of Bread (1945) Oil on panel (13 cm × 17 cm) Dalí Theatre and Museum, Figueres (Spain) The definition and concept of creativity is volatile. And is much more capricious if we trespass human frontiers. During the last… Read More

  • A.I. THOUGHTS, TAKING POLAROIDS (2017)

    A.I. THOUGHTS, TAKING POLAROIDS (2017) is a project about the daily life struggles of a young researcher trying to design a moral robot. An experiment about the future of technology (Artificial Intelligence) using an old technique (Camera Instax 90… Read More

  • Solo Exhibition – Mollerussa Surrealista (2016)

    “Mollerussa Surrealista” was a scientific journey through art where the researcher and artist Albert Barqué-Duran considered what surrealism and the study of the brain have in common. The aim of the artwork exhibited was to propose a reinterpretation-actualisation of the surrealist… Read More

  • Updating the Surrealist Movement (2013-2016)

    What do Cognitive Science and Surrealism have in common? Surrealism was considered as pure psychic automatism, by which one proposes to express, either verbally, in writing, or by any other manner, the real functioning of thought. Dictation of thought in… Read More

  • Aeon Commissioned Artist (2017)

    Since 2012, Aeon has established itself as a unique digital magazine, publishing some of the most profound and provocative thinking on the web. Aeon ask the big questions and find the freshest, most original answers, provided by leading thinkers on science, philosophy,… Read More

  • Neurocapsules (2013-2015)

    Neurocapsules was considered the first project between art and science in one of the most read newspapers in Spain:  elPeriódico. Albert wrote a science column where he published series of articles about research on psychology, neuroscience and behavioural and cognitive sciences. All… Read More

  • PAINTING CONTEMPORAY MORALITY (2015)

    Albert’s talk Painting Contemporary Morality at TEDxYouth@Barcelona.   

Albert Barqué-Duran

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