It has been months of team work, of documentation, of creating a script, of drawing it, of learning together. ALIA, The conscience in vinyls is the CCCB program that poses a series of challenges to investigate the functioning of the brain and understand what human consciousness is.
The means to carry it out, in this case, has been the creation of a collective comic.
Students from six Catalan high schools, IE El Martinet, Ca n’Oriac, Els Aimerigues, Institut 9, Institut Torrent dels Bruixes and St Peter’s School, guided by their teachers, created the script that Joso would later draw.
To do so, they made use of several aids, including the materials guide designed by Joso alumnus José Valenzuela, engineer and doctor in Humanities.
In order to understand the language, format and narrative of a comic, they attended the workshops of Arkaitz González, former student of Art Grafic and Animation for Acting 2D and 3D and now also professor of comics at Joso.
It was the turn of the students of the last year of the professional course of Art Grafic at Joso.
They were divided into groups and, coordinated by Santi Casas, they assigned the stories written by the young students and began to draw.
Sketches, designs, storyboards, ink, pages and more color pages that have concluded in an impressive work.
On June 15, we could see the spectacular result in the presentation of this publication at the CCCB, led by Oriol Malet and Ignacio Morgado.
Teenagers and cartoonists met and commented, already with the comic in their hands, all the months of excellent work.
The ALIA project is the CCCB’s program for young people that links scientific research and dissemination with artistic and literary creation in collaboration with Escola Joso, the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Center for Brain and Cognition.
