David Casacuberta

Spain (residence) °1967
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David Casacuberta is a philosophy of science professor in the Universidad Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain). He has a PhD in Philosophy and a master degree in "Cognitive sciences and Language". His current lines of research are:

i) artificial emotions, considering both its use in software applications -specially those media related, as well as theoretical research. 

ii) gustatory asesthetics, or how can we make sense of cooking and gastronomy from an aesthetical point of view

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Exposition: Art and Research Colliding (01/01/2014) by Mäki Teemu
David Casacuberta 26/05/2014 at 14:31

To understand human life, Dogen compared us to a fish living in the sea. If the fish leaves the sea it dies. The fish defines its environment by its needs and activity. The further it swims, the bigger its world becomes.
Artists swim freely in the sea of creations. We, philosophers never find our voice in that sea because we are too worried about establishing the limits, possibilities and capacities of that sea, so we never move in it.
However a fish can also be so worried about what’s beyond its surroundings that may never leave a particular spot of the sea.
Teemu Mäki has found a way to represent that tension, inviting artists -or maybe himself- to go beyond their usual practice and embrace artistic research but keeping the art format and expression.s

I found it difficult to swim in, as I need buoys for orientation in the forms of quotes and references. But I realize it is mostly a bad habit I’ve got for spending too much time in the academic world.

It’s good to dive in.