Opportunity: Call for Projects

Medialab Prado is having a call for projects to be developed at an intensive workshop in Madrid, Spain. I was at their last workshop and it was pretty amazing with various groups working on interesting interactive works. I highly encourage everyone to apply. The deadline for submission is June 10 and the workshop will take place July 16-30. More details below: Interactivos?’09 Arteleku: Mixed episodes in Hybrid Bases The art center Arteleku (San Sebastian) with the collaboration of Medialab-Prado issues a call for projects. Selected projects will be collaboratevelly developed during the production workshop INTERACTIVOS?’09 ARTELEKU: Mixed episodes in Hybrid Bases. Deadline: June 10th The workshop will take place from 16th through 30th July 2009. It will be directed by David Cuartielles and Moises Manas, and will include the participation of Paul Sermon, David Sjunnesson, Jussi Angesleva (ARTCOM) and Emanuel Mazza. This is an intensive workshop oriented towards conceptualization and practical development of interactive projects in hybrid spaces, considering hybrid spaces those which integrate digital systems of detection and information integrated in physical spaces. The projects will have to have a relationship with architectural spaces or interdisciplinary temporal experiences. This workshop is focused on the creation of interactive spaces by means of physical interfaces or sensors, proposing architectural space as a sensible, reactive, “intelligent” space. It will be possible to develop projects such as interactive installations that reflect on the confluence between flows of information and physical spaces, scenographies that allow dancers to conduct music or images, or architectural spaces that are reactive to its inhabitants, all of which have a common axis on which a hybridising between physical and virtual space takes place. During the development of the workshop, different models and forms of re-appropriation of formats and contents, spaces and processes will be debated. Proposal transformation and hybridising techniques will also be studied. Finally we shall review the possibilities of spatial organisation on the presented proposals -NUMBER OF PROJECTS TO BE CHOOSEN: 8 Exhibit of Results After the workshop has ended, the projects developed will remain on public exhibit on the premises of Arteleku from the 30th of July to the 7th of August