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Thanks to the high-speed academic networks, the festival of amplified literature reaches Contemporary Art Museum  of Chile with of Henry Jenkins and Alessandro Baricco. The program of activities contemplated by this event will be broadcast live via videoconference and high definition through REUNA platform, on Saturday March 26 as part of the sixth annual International Festival of Literature Kosmopolis, K11.

Kosmopolis: International Festival of Literature is a biennial literary encounter that began in 2002, driven by the Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) and held at the Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona. During the three days of its development the activity offers a rich setting for exploring new topics, genres and formats that reflect the innovative spirit of the festival through their main hubs: the spoken word, the printed word and the electronic word.

The activities will begin on Thursday, March 24 and conclude on Saturday 26 with the full day which includes a series of lectures broadcast by the creative and collaborative joint between the Latin American-Europe Anilla Cultural network (driven last year by the CCCB), the Museum of Antioquia in Medellin, the Cultural Center of Sao Paulo, Cultural Center of Córdoba Spain and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) from Chile.

On Saturday March 26, the Conference Room of the MAC will be the scenery for the convergence of the three activities of the day. At 14:30 hours, the conference will be broadcast the Conference “The transmedia imagination” of Henry Jenkins, professor of literature and director of Comparative Media Studies at the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences of the Technological Institute of Massachusetts (MIT). The, at 15:30, Homer, Flaubert, Steve Jobs, with writer Alessandro Baricco, author of Silk (1996), City (1999) and Emmaus (2009), among other literary works.

By late afternoon, from 18:30 to 19:30, Gonzalo slammer Escarpment, from the CCCB, the musician Amerillo, from the Antioquia Museum with the support of the Colombian network, RENATA, sound artist César Alarcón and videographers, Laura Colombo, from the Cultural Center of Córdoba, Spain, together with visual artist and poet Ricardo Vega Camilo Brodsky from the MAC, will perform a co-creative work that will combine audio and visual interactions in real time and polyphonic reading of the hundred best twits submitted to the competition. The day will conclude with the announcement of the winner.

To know more about the event, visit: http://www.cccb.org/kosmopolis/es/
http://www.mac.uchile.cl/