Philosophy Bachelor (Madrid Autónoma University), Fine Arts PhD (Barcelona University). Cum Laude PhD., European Doctorate Accreditation: Robotics as Artistic Experimentation. A Historical Approach to the Evolution of Automaton Machines from the Perspective of the Aesthetics, Univ. Barcelona. 2011-2012 PhD Extraordinary Award

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After 20 years working in the Faculty of Fine Arts, of the University of Barcelona, he is currently professor at the Compluense University. Iglesias worked as webmaster and several individual projects for the MACBA Contemporary Art Museum Barcelona: Antagonisms, Remote Connection and On Translation: The Web (by the artist Muntadas).

He has been invited to give lectures on Net.Art, robotics, art and new technologies in different Universities and Research Centers as CEDIM-Education Design Center (Monterrey, Mexico), European University (CEES), Carlos III University, Alicante University, Barcelona University, Cuenca University, Salamanca University and Valencia University, among others.

Iglesias’ work focuses on three main concepts. The first one is communication, understood as a basic human activity through which individuals relate to one another and establish social relationships, and in relation to which it is necessary to consider again the dialogic notion as well as reconsider the role of the addressee. Communication is a process in which, quoting Kaplún (1998), “two or more human beings or communities exchange and share experiences, knowledge and feelings, even if this is done remotely and through artificial means.” And the second one is interaction, considering that the relationship between humans and machines, so far based on the usage, care and management of machines’ actions —that is to say, based on the mere handling of machines—, should develop in order to be based on a mutual and internal interaction. And control as a unifying concept of the behaviors of modern societies, where the use of automated systems in registration and information processes does not mean the absence of a subjective intent on the global system and, therefore, handling.

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