Jazz & Mapping

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Musicians and tech specialists from UTEC will make a Jazz & Mapping interactive
intervention in Mercedes
.

Featuring a visual projection related to live music on several
buildings, done in real-time with contributions from the audience. You can be part of
this experience on Friday, February 24, 8 p.m., at block 20 of the city of Mercedes. This
is an interactive intervention by the Technology University (UTEC) connecting the
work of the Digital Transformation Center and the Degree in Jazz and Creative Music.
Formally, it will be a jazz & mapping event.

Mapping is an audiovisual technique that uses buildings as giant projection screens.
When done correctly, the final result is a huge dynamic projection that upscales
conventional video projections. UTEC organizes this event to offer the community an
innovative experience through which people will be able to witness the combination of
jazz music and a high-impact, disruptive technology. It’s the first public intervention of
interactive art by the University that aims to show the fusion between music and
mapping

The experience is organized by the Culture departments of the Soriano and Rio Negro
municipalities, jointly with UTEC’s Southwest Regional Technical Institute, which has
facilities in those two departments, and UTEC’s Digital Transformation Center.
 

“We started to think about this idea in mid-2022. Our plan at the Digital Transformation
Center was to create projects that were able to identify how the use of technologies
impacts the different doctrines of humanity. Along the way, we found out that the
Degree in Jazz and Creative Music (offered in Mercedes) was developing a research
line related to jazz and audiovisual media. We saw that our goals were aligned, so we
started planning it together,” explained Juan Marrero, head of UTEC’s Digital
Transformation Center.

Federico Lazzarini, coordinator of the Degree in Jazz and Creative Music, added: “For
us it’s the first experience of audiovisual performance and collective work with the
Digital Transformation Center. Within the degree we are developing this line of musical
production with looping. We record the loops live (live looping) and we try to combine
acoustic and electronic instruments”.

UTEC and Digital Transformation.

The University was born in the digital era and, since 2014, it offers courses that were
born under a model of hybrid or semi-remote education by using technology in class.
UTEC is now experiencing a deeper digital transformation process targeting a cultural,
organizational and operational change. The Digital Transformation Center, created in
2021 with the aim of developing and optimizing this transformation in the university
processes to improve efficiency, is in charge of this initiative.

One of the main purposes of the Center is the development of Digital Humanities, and
this is the point of connection with the jazz & mapping event carried out by UTEC in
Mercedes. The University is approaching a vibrant field of study that analyzes the
impact caused by the integration of digital technologies to methodologies and
techniques used by human disciplines to create knowledge, research, generate value and
socialize. Conducting applied research projects in this field will help develop resources
and knowledge for the creation of instruments that allow digital technologies to promote
democracy and inclusion. To this end, UTEC has created the Digital Humanities Labs, a
space where academics, social organizations, government authorities and the private
sector meet to develop applied research projects related to digital humanities. 

The jazz & mapping activity will be the first experience of interactive art in Mercedes
hosted by this laboratory jointly with UTEC’s Degree in Music. Interactive art employs
electronic and/or digital technologies to establish connections between art and audience,
allowing the latter to participate in different stages of the process
.