Medialab-Prado


Medialab-Prado is a program of the Department of Arts of the City Council of Madrid, aimed at the production, research, and dissemination of digital culture and of the area where art, science, technology, and society intersect. Many workshops for the production of projects, conferences, seminars, encounters, project exhibition, concerts, presentations, etc. take place in its versatile space. All activities are free and open to the general public. Our primary objective is to create a structure where both research and production are processes permeable to user participation.

To that end, Medialab-Prado offers:

* A permanent information, reception, and meeting space attended by cultural mediators.

* Open calls for the presentation of proposals and participation in the collaborative development of projects.

We have several on-going programmes, which are as follows:

* Interactivos?: creative uses of electronics and programming

* Inclusiva.net: research and reflections on the network culture

* Visualizar: data visualization tools and strategies

* Laboratorio del Procomún: trans-disciplinary discussion on the Commons

* AVLAB: audio-visual and sound creation

Most activities are registered in video and can after be seen and downloaded in http://medialab-prado.es


Interactivos?’12 Ljubljana. Obsolete Technologies of the Future

Ljudmila, Digital Medialab of Ljubjliana, in collaboration with SGMK of Zurich and Medialab-Prado are seeking for proposals for an upcoming workshops in collaborative prototyping which will be hold in Ljubljana (September 5 - 15, 2012) with the participation of advisors, technical assistants.

Extended deadline: June 20, 2012

Call for Collaborators: starting July 2, 2012
Project development (workshop): September 5- 15, 2012

Suggested areas of focus include:

  •     Projects that suggest different usages of existing urban technological infrastructures
  •     Rethinking outdated technologies and recycling the computer and IT wasteland.
  •     Projects which allow people to interact with technology to provoke new ways of perceiving the surrounding, the self, the visual, the material, and stimulate aesthetic experience.
  •     Particular attention will be paid to projects which promote open source communities, collaborative work and collective modes of behavior.
  •     Playing with data - submissions for works, which connect data forms and physically embody data streams, bridging ‘on’ and ‘off’ line worlds.
  •     Products and services that provide sustainable solutions for our needs, including the use of open data, data mash ups and remixes.

We are seeking proposals for:

  •     Installations (interactive, responsive, generative)
  •     Performances (participatory, gesticular, dance)
  •     Visualisations (moving images, generative, projections, holograms)
  •     Free Software (FLOSS) / Open Hardware / Open Design / Services / Start-ups / Apps / Devices

The open call is aimed at designers, artists, engineers, coders, sociologists, architects, city planners, teachers, programmers, psychologists, journalists, environmentalists... or to any other person interested in the theme of the workshop.

Complete information and guidelines:
http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos12_ljubljana_future_obsolete_technologies

 

Advisors: Luka Frelih, Ida Hirsenfelder, Chris Sugrue and Yago Torroja.

Activity within the framework of Studiolab European project:
http://www.studiolabproject.eu/

http://medialab-prado.es

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