12:00 m. - 12:30 p. m.
BOOK LAUNCH

La imagen ardiente: Monografy about the work of Clemencia Echeverri
Author: Sol Astrid Giraldo Escobar (Colombia)

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PUBLIC RELATIONS
Director: Pablo Helguera (Mexico)

2:00 p. m. - 3:30 p. m. 
AMPLIFICATION AND DISTORTION

This talk will discuss  The 2007 Exposition No. 1 by Guillermo Vargas “Habacuc” in a gallery in Managua, Nicaragua, which included a street dog strapped to a wall, supposedly to die of starvation. Sergio Villena documented the phenomenon caused by Habacuc’s work and will speak with the artist.

Guillermo Vargas “Habacuc” (Costa Rica)
Artist.
Sergio Villena Fiengo (Costa Rica)
Director of the Institute of Social Research at the University of Costa Rica.

3:45 p. m. - 5:15 p. m.
CONTROVERSY, CRITICISM AND SOCIAL NETWORKS

Art critics and editors will discuss the role of virtual media and examine how they define debates and artistic discourse.

Rosa Olivares (Spain)
Director and editor of the photography magazine Exit, Imagen & Cultura.
Hrag Vartanian (Canada)
Critic and Curator. Co-founder and Editorin-Chief of Hyperallergic.
Jaime Iregui (Colombia)
Moderator. Founder of Esfera Pública.

5:30 p. m. - 7:00 p. m.
RESPONSES AND CRITICAL REFLECTIONS

Based on the presentations and discussions, a group of artists, critics and curators respond and reflect on the different points of view of social networks and virtual publications that frame artistic discourse.

Irmgard Emmelhainz (Mexico)
Theorist, researcher, and author of The Tyranny of Common Sense: The Neoliberal Restructuring of Mexico.
Víctor Albarracín (Colombia)
Artist, curator and artistic director of Lugar a Dudas, an independent artistic space in Cali.
Gabriela Rangel (Venezuela)
Director of Visual Arts and Chief Curator for the Americas Society in New York.

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7:30 p. m. - 8:00 p. m.
OMA AWARD

Ceremony for the Oma al Arte Award.