To support “Cold Atlantic: Cultural War, Dissident Artistic Practices, Networks, and Contact Zones at the Time of the Iron Curtain,” co-organized by Museo Reina Sofia; Universidad de Barcelona; Saint Louis University, Madrid campus; Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; and the research project of the Universidad de Barcelona. The conference critically reconsiders artistic practices in the context of the Cold War and sheds light on dissident spaces of artistic and political activism.