[PD-announce] Interactíves? - call for proposals

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

Call for proposals

Project development and production advanced workshop

Deadline 31 March (soon!)

Workshops April 18th-30th.

http://www.medialabmadrid.org/medialab/medialab.php?l=0&a=a&i=472

The purpose of the call is a selection of a maximum of 10 projects of  
digital and sound art, critical design, educational applications,  
etc. for their collaborative production in an advanced workshop from  
the 18th to the 30th of April 2006. Directed by: David Cuartielles,  
Zachary Lieberman, Casey Reas, and Hans-Christoph Steiner.

The medialabmadrid programme of the Conde Duque Cultural Centre  
issues a call for projects to be produced within the Interactives?  
event during the months of April and May 2006. Interactives? proposes  
a transformation of the exhibition venue into a space for production,  
meeting, and debate.

The workshop focuses on hacking - hacking via open hardware, open  
software
and programming - in order to create new forms and modes of  
expression. The programme invites a distinguished group of developers  
to work side by side with participants on advanced projects.  What  
ties this invited group together are their involvements in open  
(hardware / software) projects which facilitate the creative process  
and their commitment to education and the advancement of work in the  
field. At the centre of this endeavour is an investigation of the  
meaning of interactivity, on a conceptual, technological, and social  
level.

Interactives? Objectives

- To deepen the use of electronic and programming tools for artists  
and designers.
- To promote the collaborative production of digital and sound art,  
critical design, educational applications, etc., which use  
interactive technologies and are inscribed within the philosophy of  
open hardware and free software.
- To create local synergies among different agents for long-term  
projects.

Other Objectives:

- To dynamise the exhibition venue as a space for production, debate  
and communication.
- To explore the confluence between artistic, educational and  
technological  practice.
- To demystify the technological through its direct use and  
understanding.
- To spread knowledge through the use of open and free tools.
- To turn the exhibition venue into a meeting place for different  
institutions, collectives and individuals (universities, wireless  
communities, social and art  collectives etc.).
- To critically review the production forms of cultural  
administration and to propose a productive re-distribution of resources.

   
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Jr.