Visual Trust-ERC Project

Hello! We’re excited to share the poster for RGB. Cosmic Traces (Visual Trust Project, 2026), a research film directed by Alkım Erol and Roger Canals, with beautiful editing by Òscar Hidalgo.

This experimental film explores the lives and journeys of astronomical images, tracing how they are produced, transformed, and interpreted. The project emerges from long-term research conducted at the Observatori del Montsec and the Parc Astronòmic del Montsec.

✨ We’re excited to share the poster for “Pomurile Mortului / The Trees of the Dead” (Mihai Andrei Leaha & Roger Canals, 2026)!
🎬 Shot in Romania, the film explores life, death, and mourning through the eyes of elderly women, following Easter traditions, funerals, and the hauntingly beautiful “Trees of the Dead” ritual, offering trees and food to the departed.
Huge thanks to Andrei Crișan for his amazing work in filming and editing this moving story.

📢 Visual Literacy in Adolescents

We’re excited to share the results of a pioneering survey on visual literacy among 12–16-year-olds in Catalonia! Conducted with Fundación Photographic Social Visual and the Visual Trust project, the presentation of results featured PI Roger Canals Vilageliu and doctoral researcher Amanda Bernal

Insights from the survey inform recommendations for teachers, schools, and public policy to foster critical, engaged citizenship.

🎥 Watch the full results:

Educació visual i adolescència: presentació de resultats d'una investigació pionera a Catalunya En aquesta nova edició de l'exposició a Barcelona, presentem la nostra investigació sobre educació visual i adolescència a Catalunya.Com...

📢 Call for Papers | EASA Poznań 2026 Conference
Our doctoral researcher, Francisco D. Cuyás, is convenor of Panel P108: Gods in/of the Machine: Technologies of Metahuman Presence and Communication at the upcoming EASA 2026 Conference in Poznań.
The panel invites contributions exploring how contemporary technologies mediate, produce, and transform experiences of metahuman presence, communication, and belief across diverse cultural contexts.
We warmly encourage scholars working on related themes to submit their proposals and join the conversation.

P108: Gods in/of the Machine: Technologies of Metahuman Presence and Communication This panel examines how technologies AI, robots and digital media intersect with religion, acting as spiritual agents, mediating metahuman presence and

🌍✨ We are happy to share the release of our new video “Farewell, Gaia!”, which documents the powering down of the Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade of extraordinary data collection for the European Space Agency (ESA).
Camera and direction: Erol (Postdoctoral Researcher, Visual Trust ERC Project)
Editing: Òscar Hidalgo
Research coordination: Roger Canals Vilageliu
With special thanks to the Gaia Team, the Gaia Collaboration, our colleagues at ESA, and all participants at the Gaia Passivation Event at ESOC.

Gaia spacecraft passivation The European Space Agency (ESA) has powered down its Gaia spacecraft after more than a decade spent gathering data. Data that are now being used to unravel t...