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Confluences: Image and Reality

NOVEMBER 4 / 12:30 p.m.

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In Burning the Image ( 2012), Didi-Huberman recalls the close relationship between image and imagination, highlighting the constructive nature of images. Not only those related to art, but also to science and other areas of life. Even though we realize that they are a construction, sometimes close to pure fiction, we still need them to guide us in the world.

Through her works, which blur the line between reality and fiction, photographer Cristina de Middel has also highlighted the need to reflect on them. To accomplish this task, she creates visual narratives based on unfinished historical events that she constructs with great imagination. Her photographs question not only the documentary nature of photographs, but also reality itself and contemporary credulity in the face of images.

Following in this vein, the seminar Confluences: Image and Reality aims to provoke reflection on what images are, how they are generated, and how we interact with them through fiction, science, and our everyday environment. To this end, it brings together professors Marta Frago, professor of Screenwriting, Mikel Ariz, expert in bioimage creation and analysis, and Juan Luís Roquette, expert in creative processes.

Marta Frago

She is a professor of Screenwriting Fundamentals and Film Adaptations in the Department of Culture and Audiovisual Communication at the University of Navarra. She has published numerous articles on literature and cinema and film adaptations of real events and people's lives.

She is the author of the book Leer, dialogar, escribir cine. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala y la adaptación cinematográfica ( Eunsa, 2007) and has edited Personaje, acción e identidad en cine y literatura ( Ediciones Internacionales Universitarias, 2006).

Juan Roquette

(Cádiz, 1977) is an architect from the University of Navarra (Arq'2002), where he also obtained his PhD in architecture (PhD Arq'2010) with a thesis entitled "The architecture of Julio Cano Lasso," for which he received a national award from the Royal Academy of Doctors of Spain (RADE, 2011).

He has worked for more than twenty years in collaboration with various architectural firms on collective housing projects, notably with Alonso Hernández as Project Manager for the UN headquarters in Latin America (Panama), the Industrial Management College (King Faisal P&M University, Saudi Arabia), and the redevelopment of Vía Argentina (Panama).

He has taught Creativity and Industrial Aesthetics (Tecnun-UNAV School of Engineering); Architectural Projects (School of Architecture, Santa María La Antigua University, Panama), Geometry and Graphic Expression (School of Architecture, University of Navarra), where he currently collaborates with the Master's Degree in Architectural Theory and Design and teaches classes in Geometry Laboratory, Scenography, and Form and Image for the Design and Architecture degrees. The topics that focus his interest are modern form, its conception, and representation.

Mikel Ariz

Graduated with a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Public University of Navarra (UPNA) in 2008, and a Master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Melbourne (Australia) in 2010, thanks to one of the 20 Navarra Scholarships 2009 provided for in the Navarra International Plan (PIN) 2008-2011 for postgraduate studies at centers of excellence abroad.

He obtained his PhD in 2016 with a thesis carried out at the UPNA in the field of digital image processing and artificial vision, during which he undertook a research stay at Imperial College London.

Since January 2015, he has been Senior Research Technician at the CIMA Imaging Platform. His research focuses on the development of algorithms for the analysis and quantification of biomedical images, mainly in relation to cancer research. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Physiology and the School of Engineering (TECNUN) at the University of Navarra, where he teaches courses related to digital image analysis in biomedicine.