Jaume Nualart i Vilaplana

Researcher (08/2008-11/2009)

Research projects at the institute

Curriculum Vitae

born in Vic (Catalonia, 1968).

1989-95 Master of Sciences, Physics-Chemistry. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (U.A.B.)

1994 Scientific journalism seminar (100 h). Facultat de Periodisme Universitat
Autònoma de Barcelona (U.A.B.)

comes from the technical part of social movements in Barcelona (bcn.indymedia.org), Co-founder of riereta.net hackers laboratory (2001)

1999-2004 teacher in Catalan public high schools, in Barcelona, teaching chemistry, physics and introducing collaborative knowledge tools

independent researcher and free software developer in some European projects and residence programs related to public data & data visualization tools

visualization system developer at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute since August 08

Projects

  • 2008 Expert in the validation of Social and economic impact in social computing (SC) study. Institute for Prospective TechnologicalStudies (IPTS), European Comission. Sevilla. Spain. February 2008
  • 2008/2007 One Laptop per Child Austria - OLPC.at
  • 2008/2007 Regular Video streams from Wien (Labfactory.at). Started the project thescreen.tv, as a collaboratove channel using the free project giss.tv
  • 2007 Social Cartography and Social Centers (workshop + lecture Facoltà di Design e Arti, Università IUAV di Venezia. April 2007
  • 2007 Artist/developer in residence in LABfactory. Vienna. Feb-Apr
  • 2007 FSWC 2007. Lecture and round table «Free software creative and social software». February 7th. Badajoz. Spain
  • 2007 Technical support for the projects: ImoveToIstanbul.net and the Second Live music Festival MoebiusSurfing.net
  • 2007 Pressviz, visualization prototypes for OntoGen analysis. Institute Josef Stefan, Knowledge Technologies dept. Ljubljana. Slovenia. January 2007
  • 2006-7 Visualization systems developer for the Common Memory project: free software developer. February 2006 to February 2007
  • 2005 Globaltelesat S.L.: technical staff and coordinator of Technology for the People project. April to November. Angola
  • 2004 Fadaiat Project  - 1st edition - Tànger(Morocco) - Tarifa (Spain)
    • First civil wireless link Africa-Europe (technical & logistics coordinator)
    • Audio/video streaming from ENSA University(Morocco) (speaker man & technical setup)
  • 2003-04 LA MULTITUD CONECTADAWorkshop. Universidad Internacional de Andalucía  - UNIA (Huelva). Spain. Technical team and satellite connection
  • 2002 Started the Global Internet Streaming System (GISS) project. Started radio channel and free culture community r23
  • 2001 Started the hack-lab riereta.net in Barcelona old town
  • 2000 Started Indymedia Barcelona

Literature and edition

  • 2004-05 Edition and selection of articles for the DASH project (EU project).
  • 1998 Translations Spanish to Catalan for the Department of History. Universitat
    d’Alacant (UA).
  • 1997 Editor of Vilaweb Alacant, most read news portal in Catalan.
  • 1997 A novel published: “12:00am” Editorial ADE, València, 1997. Author of half a dozen of texts/plays performed mainly in Alacant city with some town hall awards. Sporadic Direction and Stagecraft with local groups.
list-of-things as a kind of portfolio at http://wiki.nualart.com