Alicia Arias-Camisón Coello
- Česká sekce INSEA
- Jun 25
- 3 min read
6.2 Hybrid Bodies and Collective Creation from Self-printing: A Visual Arts Based Research (Paper)

Alicia Arias-Camisón Coello – Universidad de Almería | Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, Spain
Maite Segués Merino – University of Granada, Spain
Abstract:
This project explores the use of self-printing as a way of collective creation, which explores the intersection between the physical and the digital. Through deconstruction as an artistic practice, we relocate the physicality of the human body to the digital space, where it is subjected to distortions and deformations, and then printed, generating a new configuration of its appearance and questioning the boundary between the technological and the human, and between the individual and the collective.
The creation of experimental products – such as the zine – emerges as a space of agency where the material and the symbolic entangle to generate new meanings. The material “speaks” or gives expression to itself in the continuous process of transformation. The material itself invites folding, tearing, and engaging in a visual proxemics, producing an intimate, reflective and participatory interaction that challenges the current hypermediated models.
Furthermore, the body image, when subjected to digital manipulations and reprinted, leaves its organic nature to become a hybrid assemblage of physical and digital elements. From a posthumanist perspective, the human body is understood as being in constant mutation and interdependence with the technologies that surround it, and that through collective practice coexist and co-produce, generating a complex network of new interactions through a dynamic and new materiality. The project moves between disciplines such as visual art and cultural studies and establishes intermediality from the physical to the multimedia.
6.30 Performative Creation and Multimedia in the Classroom: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Migration in the Local Educational Context (Paper)
Alicia Arias-Camisón Coello – Universidad de Almería / Universidad Internacional de la Rioja, Spain
Carmen Sanchez-Duque – Universidad Finis Terrae, Santiago, Chile – virtual
Ángela Barrera-García – Department of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression Didactics, University of Granada, Spain
Abstract:
Migration is a global phenomenon that significantly impacts educational systems. In Spain, migrant students often face considerable challenges – including linguistic, cultural, and adaptive barriers – that can lead to stress, anxiety, and social isolation, ultimately affecting their academic performance and emotional well-being.
This study was conducted at an educational institution in Granada, involving a class of 4th-year Compulsory Secondary Education students, the majority of whom were foreign-born. Using an arts-based educational research approach, the project fostered horizontal collaboration between teacher-researchers and students. The methodology combined performative practices with live video projection and the creation of soundscapes to engage students in co-constructing knowledge and expression.
The primary aim was to rethink and reconstruct collective visual narratives surrounding the experiences of migrant students within educational communities. The interdisciplinary nature of the project is reflected in its live audiovisual and sonic environments, as well as in the performative interventions – all conceived and realized by the students at every stage of the process.
The project culminated in a series of collective artistic creations that critically engaged with the social realities of the school environment. The findings demonstrate that the integration of theatrical techniques with multimedia resources enhanced students’ creativity, as well as their digital, social, and emotional skills. Ultimately, the study highlights how interdisciplinary, intermodal artistic practices serve as effective platforms for fostering intercultural dialogue and offering new perspectives on the lived experiences of migrant students.
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