Albert Barqué-Duran

Extremely grateful and honoured to receive yesterday the @runwayapp 'Grand Prize in New Media' in NY. Thanks to my Team, everyone supporting me all these years, and to all those working at the margins of art, science and technology. Thanks a lot @c_valenzuelab and all your team.

This July 26, altogether with these amazing humans, we've prepared a very special evening at @GrayAreaorg in San Francisco (USA). @memoakten + @KatieHofstadter + @entangledothers (@soficrespo91 + @feileacan_net) + @kcimc + @esenktutuncu + info: grayarea.org/event/albert-d…

ANNOUNCING: Albert.DATA Entangled Others Esen K. Tütüncü Kyle McDonald Katie Hofstadter & Memo Akten What happens when AI begins to feel less like a tool and more like an adaptive, expressive, and sometimes unsettling system? On July 26, this pioneering group of artists, researchers, and creative technologists come together for an evening of talks, installation, and live performance exploring AI, embodied perception, ecological imagination, and more-than-human systems. Esen K. Tütüncü (@esenktutuncu) presents “Interfaces That Feel Back: Designing Adaptive, Expressive and Co-Creative Systems,” a talk exploring adaptive interfaces, neuroscience, immersive environments, and co-creative systems. Kyle McDonald’s (@kcimc) “Blind Self-Portrait” installation and talk “How Do We Turn It Off?” move through recent projects with voyagers, whales, robots, surveillance systems, athletes, and anomalous materials to ask how artists can work at the edge of what is technically possible and socially acceptable. Entangled Others (@entangledothers) present “self-contained” & “(di)atomic garden”, tracing how genetics, mutation, DNA encoding, radioactivity, and oceanic contamination can become conceptual and material frameworks for image-making and real-time performative systems. Memo Akten (@memoakten) and Katie Hofstadter (@KatieHofstadter) will present a new project following “Superradiance”, continuing their collaborative research into the entanglements of technology, embodiment, consciousness, culture, AI, data systems, and ecological experience. The evening culminates with 'SYNAPTICON,' a live performance by Albert.DATA (@Albert_DATA) translating brain activity into language and immersive audiovisual expression through a closed-loop AI system. _ Grab your tickets now at grayarea.org/event/albert-d… 🌀 📅 Sunday, July 26 ⏰ 6-8 PM 📍Gray Area / Grand Theater

We are very excited to announce that SYNAPTICON will be closing one of the main stages at @siggraph in Los Angeles this July 23rd.

Thank you everyone who joined to experience SYNAPTICON at @nu_fes_tokyo x @SonarFestival in @montakanawa. Looking forward to coming back to Tokyo!

🏆 Albert Barqué-Duran (@Albert_DATA), researcher at La Salle-URL, wins the @runwayml Grand Prize – New Media at #AIFestival2026. The award recognizes #SYNAPTICON, a project combining AI, neurotechnology, art and science More info: link.salleurl.edu/5it

Once again, very grateful and honoured for celebrating today our @runwayapp 'Grand Prize in New Media' at The Eli and Edyth Broad Stage in Los Angeles. Thanks a lot to my Team, and everyone supporting me all these years.

SYNAPTICON Tour: 🟥 11/06/26 - @runwayml AIF - New York (USA) 🟦 18/06/26 - @runwayml AIF - Los Angeles (USA) 🟩 28/06/26 - @nu_fes_tokyo - Tokyo (Japan) 🟨 23/07/26 - @siggraph - Los Angeles (USA) ⬛️ Special Event TBA

Yesterday, we hosted our 4th Annual AI Festival at Lincoln Center in NYC, our biggest and most ambitious festival yet. A sold out audience had the opportunity to hear Ron Howard discuss the role of technology in filmmaking before watching the 10 finalist films. The films were just extraordinary. This year’s selections raised the bar yet again. A demonstration of what’s possible when powerful new tools are placed in the hands of great artists. Thank you to our partners: Lionsgate, Tribeca Festival, The Gotham, Monks, Adobe, Roku, and NVIDIA. And congratulations to all of the creative minds who shared their work with us. The future of media, entertainment and art is being written right now.

Excited to bring SYNAPTICON to @nu_fes_tokyo in Tokyo (JP). SYNAPTICONを東京で開催できることを嬉しく思います。 28/06/2026 - Takanawa Gateway City

It was a huge honour to receive yesterday in @museoreinasofia the historical @ElOjoCriticoRNE award from @rtve. Being the 1st awardee in the new category on “Digital Innovation in Culture" is also a great responsibility. Thanks to my Team & everyone supporting me all these years!

🏆 @Albert_DATA recibe el Premio ‘El Ojo Crítico’ 2025 de innovación digital en el ámbito cultural de @rne. El jurado reconoce Synapticon, un proyecto pionero que fusiona arte, ciencia y tecnología para explorar nuevas formas de creación digital. ✨👏 🔗 link.salleurl.edu/5go

We will support the strongest candidate with their application for the Google PhD Fellowships Program 2026. ⚫️Program Info: research.google/programs-and-e… ⚫️Personal Website: albert-data.com

If you are eligible, extra motivated, and excited to help build safe, meaningful and inspiring futures together, please send an expression of interest (EOI) with your initial research ideas (500 words) and your CV to albert.barque@salle.url.edu by 15 April.

Are you looking to pursue a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction? We are seeking outstanding candidates with projects on Post-AGI Creativity and Ethics in Human-AI Interactions, to join my group at the IASlab (Interactive Arts & Science Lab), @LaSalleBCN (Universitat Ramon Llull).

Apply now to the "AI Hacklab" at our IASlab (Interactive Arts & Science Lab) in @LaSalleBCN and Sónar+D! An initiative powered by S+T+ARTS @europe_creative. Apply here: sonar.es/en/news/open-c…

Grateful for the invitation to be part of the @IASEAIorg at @UNESCO in Paris this week. More convinced than ever that the collective and unprecedented effort needs to be antidisciplinary. Art + Science + Tech for pre and post-AGI safe trajectories. Lots of work to do.

I'll be at the @IASEAIorg conference at @UNESCO in Paris in a couple of weeks. Excited to discuss Creativity and Ethics in Human-AI/AGI/ASI interactions? Get in touch! Presenting: "TriEthix: a Triadic Benchmark for Ethical Alignment in Foundation Models" albert-data.com/pages/triethix

Publishing a constitution is huge. Thanks for putting the normative spec in the open! Next question is: how do we test whether models actually instantiate it? That’s why I developed 'TriEthix': Virtue vs Deontology vs Consequentialism + MoralStability 🟠albert-data.com/pages/triethix

Thanks everyone who came to our presentation of SYNAPTICON at NeurIPS last week. It was exciting, intense, and worrisome to discuss the future of creativity and ethics in Human-AI/AGI/ASI interactions. ⚫Web: albert-data.com/pages/synaptic… ⚫PsyArXiv Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…