Research

• Development of the strategic lines of research at TAI School of the Arts, as well as the rest of the companies of the ARTS Group.
• Development and follow-up of own research plans (annual or multi-annual) including information related to their financing.
• Management of programs related to research such as: research grants, training of researchers, stays, etc.
• Management of resources and increase of the research potential of TAI, as well as the rest of the companies of the ARTS Group.
• Reception and dissemination of information related to research.
• Give visibility to the research and cultural work carried out.
• Development and monitoring of research projects
• Contracts and research agreements with other universities and centers.
• Management and coordination of research activities and calls.
• Monitoring and support of the activities carried out by the research group.
• Follow-up and support of the research carried out by students (Undergraduate Thesis Project, Master's Dissertation).
• Management and monitoring of the request for certificates by the Ethics Committee of the URJC.
• Coordination and management of the digital library of the Arts Group (ProQuest).
• Management and monitoring of applications for patents, trademarks and registrations.

Lines:

• Analysis of the interdisciplinary convergence between artistic practices and teachings.
• University innovation for new forms of artistic teaching (analysis, implementation, new techniques, new technologies, evaluation).
• Artistic and educational practices that promote inclusion and social transformation.

1. CIAAV (Criticism and Ideology in Audiovisual Artificial Intelligence)

The "CIAV" project analyzes the use of artificial intelligence in educational audiovisual creation, seeking to evaluate its impact on student creativity and autonomy, as well as identify possible biases. A short film is planned to be created exclusively using AI tools in all stages of production, with the purpose of highlighting any ideological bias present in these tools. The ultimate goal is for students to acquire critical thinking by knowing and using these technologies.

2. GAMI (Inclusion and accessibility at the Gregorio Prieto Museum)

Gregorio Prieto's work is intrinsically based on the concept of inclusion and diversity. This is why this project seeks to take this objective one step further and work on the inclusion of viewers with functional diversity in the work itself through accessibility and design. Starting from the principles of universal design, the project seeks to delve into the artist's work in order to develop strategies, actions and tools that allow the museum to be a space that welcomes all audiences.

3. FIGHT

PUGNA is a project that aims to explore the uncertain border between human gesture and the generation of computational forms. The question addressed by the research is how physical gestures can be developed in a digital environment, where algorithms reorient the material meaning of the body. The spirit of the proposal is to delve into the relationship between the stage performer and the generative computational technology that tracks and shapes the meaning of their gesture. In short, the vision behind the project is that the most remote aspects of acting creation are also performing arts that are governed by the same immediate and vivid forms of live performance. From the musician to the creator of digital visuals, all come together in the playing field traditionally reserved for the theatrical recreation of the actor.

4. Contemporary Imagination (Crisis, Limits and Possibilities for Artistic Research and Teaching Innovation)

Given the feeling that we have been witnessing for years a growing crisis of imagination – whether due to a lack or an excess of it –, this project raises the need to take up again the imaginary question as a current object of study, which should be analyzed in a rigorous and dialectical way, as a faculty and a form of knowledge that is not exclusive to artistic practice, nor reducible to human entities or to the purely mental. In this sense, the objective is to ask how imagination extends, more and more, to the sphere of machines, material culture and non-human organisms, in order to update its meaning, understand its limits and transfer its possibilities to artistic research and university teaching.

5. TRANSMIGRATORS

This project seeks to analyse the arts as tools for inclusion and social change. Specifically, it studies the issue of migration, so relevant in the 21st century. TransmigrArts is a European project of which TAI It is an active participant along with 13 other institutions from 4 different countries.