GKA ARTS 2022 | FEBRUARY 17-18, 2022
3rd International Conference on Arts and Cultures in collaboration with IUT Dijon, the Université de Bourgogne, and research group CECILLE

Highlighted Theme
Cultural Recycling from the Arts: Hybridizations and Transculturality
Recycling is the process by which elements or parts of a certain product or work are used and that, although they fulfilled a certain purpose, continue to be used for later purposes. In culture, we also see this “art of recycling” when verbal, mental and visual images that exist in expressions, receptions and interpretations of the plastic arts and other manifestations associated with emerging technologies in the digital age facilitate the creation of a new work, resulting in that, on many occasions, the intentionality of the original director is translated in favor of what the “new performer” wants to tell or relate.
In this way, with the main theme Cultural Recycling from the Arts: Hybridizations and Transculturality, the III International Conference of Arts and Cultures seeks academic exchange between specialized university research centers interested in the study of cultural recycling, with special interest in hybridizations and transculturality. National borders and disciplinary dialogues have become more permeable, due to phenomena such as the increase in migratory movements, the movement of more people throughout the world and, in the last three decades, the development of new communication technologies, such as the Internet and virtual social networks. For this reason, the Conference is a forum to study the adaptation and rearrangements of the cultural products of the various cultural identities of the globalized world to these transformations.
Topics of this edition
- inter and transdisciplinary dialogues between the different manifestations of the arts, to generate hybridized productions.
- the nation in transnational visual discourse.
- the relationship between image and power from a transnational perspective.
- the appearance of new community discourses and hybridizations.
- visual representation through migratory and tourist experiences.
- the circulation of the arts through new emerging technologies.
- the construction of transnational imaginaries.
- the effects of the internet, the digital and the post-digital in cinema, current photography, and other audiovisual productions.
- migratory shocks, violence, marginalization, and adaptation to new habitats.
Other conference topics
Scientific Coordination
The Dijon-Auxerre University Institute of Technology (IUT), a center attached to the University of Burgundy, was founded in 1968. It currently has more than 40 professional training courses spread over 10 study departments. In total, 2,500 students are currently taking their training at the IUT in Dijon-Auxerre, of which 550 are on work-study (dual training). The training is delivered on 6 campuses: Dijon, Auxerre, Mâcon, Tournus, Sens and Nevers. Scientific research is also a fundamental part of the activity of the institution, in fact, at the IUT there are 70 professor-researchers assigned to some fifteen laboratories. Every year, around 100 students complete an internship or semester abroad at one of the 80 partner universities.
The University of Burgundy (uB) is a French university located in Dijon (Burgundy) and founded in 1722. The university offers a wide range of training in all disciplines: law, economics, management, literature, languages, medicine, pharmacy, science human, exact and experimental sciences and at all levels (Degree, Master, Doctorate). Scientific research is the DNA of the University of Burgundy: it houses more than 1,500 professor-researchers distributed in 30 research units. The University of Burgundy also dedicates almost a third of its budget to research. The uB welcomes some 30,000 students every year as well as 2,000 employees or job seekers in the framework of continuous training. Owner of a vineyard and an experimentation center, she offers complete courses in Vine Sciences and Enology, taught at the Jules-Guyot Institute. Since June 2019, the establishment, together with 6 other universities, has been a member of the FORTHEM European alliance.
Research Group CECILLE
CECILLE is a research group (Center d’Études en Civilizations Langues et Lettres Étrangères) belonging to the University of Lille in France. One of the foundations of the CECILLE research group lies in its transdisciplinarity. A good example of this is its cross-cutting axes characterized by specific methodologies: literature, civilization, history of ideas, genre(s), and translation/translation studies; and its five geographical areas, which complement and enrich each other thanks to the flexibility of its collaborators (punctual and frequent), whether these are local (in relation to other research groups); national (since many of the axes are related with Groups of Scientific Interest such as the Institute of the Americas, the Gender Institute and the Institute “Religions – Practices, texts, powers”, or international, in which case cooperation and contact networks are favored by the domain of multiple foreign languages, another of the features that federate and energize the research group.
Scientific Directors

Rafael Cabrera Collazo, Ph.D. – Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
Rafael L. Cabrera Collazo has a PhD in History from the University of Puerto Rico. He serves as Associate Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs at the Inter-American University of Puerto Rico and holds the rank of Professor of History in this same institution. He has been a visiting professor at universities in Cuba, Mexico, Italy, Portugal, Spain and Colombia, where he has given seminars on semiotics and visual culture – these being his areas of expertise and research. He currently participates in several academic research networks related to studies into representations of mass media. He is a member of scientific editorial committees at universities in Spain, Colombia, Argentina and the Dominican Republic. These integrate national and international professional associations of historians and scholars of social sciences and visual culture – one being the Puerto Rican Association of Historians (of which he was a founding partner and President between 2001 and 2004) and the other, the International Society of Visual Culture, based in Madrid (where he is currently the Scientific Director on its executive committee). He has written one book himself, entitled The drawings of progress: the caricature of Filardi and the criticism of Munocist developmentalism, 1950-1960, and has co-authored three others. He has collaborated with others published in specialised journals and articles in arbitrated books in Mexico and Spain concerning the cultural history of cinema, and the sociability and manipulation of mass media.

Jordi Macarro Fernández, Ph.D. – CECILLE research group of the University of Lille (France)
Jordi Macarro Fernández is a Doctor in History and Cinema (Cum Laude international mention) from the University of Granada. His teaching and research career was recognized with the Extraordinary Doctorate Award in the Arts and Humanities Area, awarded in 2016. He is associated with several international research groups, such as the Center d’Études en Civilizations, Langues et Lettres Étrangères (University of Lille, France), the Interuniversity Center for Hispanic Cultural Studies (Universities of Düsseldorf and Wuppertal, Germany), the Center InterLangues – TIL: Texte, Image, Langue (University of Burgundy-Franche-County) and is a collaborator of the groups ArtKiné (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) and HUM1026 Image and Memory (University of Cádiz). The federative axis of his research is the recovery of historical memory through the audiovisual image, concretized through three sub-axes: geopolitics, the city and the representation of urban space; audiovisual translation: sociolinguistic conflicts and infidelities; cultural industries in India and Latin America.
He is currently developing his post-doctoral research project on trans-Pacific exchanges and cultural influences between the Indian and Latin American film industries in collaboration with the Wuppertal and Inter-American Universities of Puerto Rico. With the latter, he co-directs the project Cultural recycling: hybridizations, transculturalities and glocalization, in which this Arts and Cultures congress is registered. Since 2012 he has been the director of the International Film Conference, a biannual event held at different French universities, and since 2018 he is responsible for the Université Populaire section of the Ojoloco Festival of Iberian and Ibero-American cinema of Grenoble. His teaching work in cinema, history, art, language and culture has been carried out in different French universities: Lille, Paris-Sud, Burgundy, Montpellier 3, Paris-Est-Créteil, Évry-Val-d’Éssonne. He has also been visiting professor at the universities of Cádiz and Córdoba (Spain), at the School of Art, Design and Communication of ESPOL (Ecuador), and the Film School of the University of the Arts in Guayaquil (Ecuador).
Scientific Committee

Michelle Guillemont-Estela, Université de Lille (France)

Véronique Hébrard-Santi, Université de Lille (France)

Nataly Botero, IUT of Dijon (France)

Matei Chihaia, University of Wuppertal (Germany)

Javier Ares Yebra, Universidad de Granada (Spain)
Keynote Speakers

Jairo Antonio Pérez – Universidad UNIMINUTO (Colombia)
AlucinArte: Arte como expresión política de los jóvenes en el contexto de las marchas en Colombia
My passion since I was a child for the stories told in film, television and photography, led me to study Social Communication at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Colombia), and then Film and Television Direction at the Southern Illinois University (USA). I was linked to the television medium for more than 20 years. I have postgraduate studies in University Teaching and Edumatics, and a Doctorate in Educational Philosophy from the National Pedagogical University (Colombia), where I worked on the subject of social networks, transmedia and education. Until the end of 2013 I was director of Labcom (Laboratory for research and experimentation in digital culture) of the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies – Pensar – Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, and then I served as Dean of the Faculty of Education of the Fundación Universitaria Unipanamericana-Compensar . For several years I was a media and ICT pedagogical consultant at the Telecommunications Research Center – CINTEL in projects for the Ministry of Education (MEN) and the Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies (MINTIC). Currently I am a Professor-Researcher on the subject of Transmedia narratives at the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University – UNIMINUTO (Bogotá-Colombia). where I lead a 5-year longitudinal research project with 6 national and two international universities called “Polyphonies: Young people’s political thought through transmedia narratives.” I am also a professor in the Doctoral Programs in Education and the Knowledge Society of the La Salle University (Colombia) and of the Doctoral program of the National Pedagogical University (Colombia) I have written several articles on the subject of education and tics, cyberculture, Transmedia communication and social networks.