Director: Karin Ohlenchläger and Luis Rico. The activity of medialabmadrid began with the celebration of the I International Festival of Art, Science and Technology, Cibervisión 02. The festival consisted of an exhibition - in which 17 international artists participated -, a meeting-workshop and a cycle of conferences, organized in collaboration with the Complutense University of Madrid, the Winter Cycle of […]
Date: February 27, March 4-8, March 11-15, 2002In the context of the I International Festival of Art, Science and Technology – Cibervisión 02, a cycle of 18 conferences was held in which prominent personalities from the world of science, art and thought. The cycle addressed the theme of […]
Address: Daniel García AndújarDate: March 11 to 15, 2002This workshop was designed to learn how to develop one's own technological infrastructure, such as building an Internet platform using open source free software programs and technologies, such as the Linux operating system. Groups of artists participated who have been developing, or helping […]
Address: Ricardo Iglesias Iglesias (Professor of Multimedia at IDEP, Barcelona) and Gerald Kogler (Programmer and collaborator of Futurelab, Ars Electrónica Center, Linz, Austria) Date: November 4 to 9, 2002 Celebrated within the framework of the Week of Science, the workshop was dedicated to the exploration and development of robotic technologies. Using the […]
Curated: Karin OhlenschlägerThe exhibition Hybrid spaces – virtual architectures presented some of the most innovative projects in virtual, immersive and interactive architecture, at a national and international level. The exhibition ranged from the presentation of visionary contemporary architectural projects to liquid architectures
For the first time in Madrid, a representative program of current Swiss electronic art of video, multimedia, virtual and interactive installations was presented, on the occasion of Switzerland's presence as a guest country at ARCO'03. The exhibition dealt with the concept of space in its geographical, architectural and media dimensions. The relationships and connections between physical and geographical space, […]
Panorama Digital 03 is the title of a program of electronic art exhibitions, which the Conde Duque Cultural Center organized in collaboration with two of the most prestigious festivals in Europe, Transmediale in Berlin and the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, to bring the general public closer the latest trends, works and authors related to […]
Curator: Luís Rico The installation, made up of four robots, allowed the medialabmadrid audience, as well as any user from their computer and through the Internet, to operate the robots in the exhibition remotely and in real time. In both cases the movement, direction, speed and operation of these artificial beings could be controlled. It centered like this […]
Address: Álvaro ReyDate: May 19 to 24, 2003This workshop was dedicated to exploring the possibilities of creating object interfaces through the recycling and transformation of traditional components, such as the keyboard or mouse, and their adaptation to everyday objects, providing them with the control functions of a computer. The basis of […]
Authors: Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss Through an innovative virtual system, it was possible to access the main works of Interface Design and Interactive Art developed in the last ten years at MARS (Media Arts and Research Studies), directed by Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss. This center, based in Bonn, is one of the medialabs dedicated […]
Within the VI framework of the international photography festival PHotoEspaña 03 under the heading “NosOtros: Identidad y alteridad” the exhibition Identidades Transitorias was held. Reisezimmer (Travel Room), by the artist Isabel María, Biometrics, by the young collective Transnational Temps and Preciso del Madrid collective Uru, explored in different ways the concept and transformation of identity in our current […]
Director: Daniel MiracleDate: September 10 to 16, 2003The workshop explored the wide world of communication, its challenges and challenges; recovering the dialogue beyond the show, in the context of an invitation to the public, artists and other groups to propose their own television. Thus constituting a new form of […]
Concept and direction: Karin Ohlenschläger Luis Rico. Curators: Sabine Himmelsbach, Iván de la Nuez, Karin Ohlenschläger, Luis Rico and Peter Weibel Co-production: medialabmadrid of the Conde Duque Cultural Center, ZKM Center for Art and Media of Karlsruhe, Germany and Palau de la Virreina of the Barcelona Institute of Culture. Curator: Iván de la Nuez, Karin Ohlenschläger, Luis […]
The banquet_metabolism and communication project included an exhibition, workshops, round tables and interventions in public spaces. He proposed a journey from biology to information sciences. He started from the transformation of matter and energy to explore the interactions between substances and ideas; the synergies between emotions and behaviors; and the correlations between […]
A very large satellite dish, one of the symbols of the current era of communication, was converted into a large solar kitchen that invited everyone who approached the exhibition to conversation and food.
Address: Daniel García Andújar / Technologies To The Peoplein collaboration with Aminux and MadridWirelessDate: October 15 to 24, 2003This workshop proposed discourses and tools that sought to extend the individual capacities of citizens towards greater participation in political, social and cultural life , through new technologies of […]
PANlingua was an action that invited us to reflect on bread as a carrier of messages, and language as an organ of taste and a system of communication between cultures.
Performance in which the artists communicated a series of terrible chronicles, which could be those typical of a radio newscast, while they devoured food without stopping. A reflection was proposed about how we are used to swallowing the media while they regurgitate news to us.
Ramón Guardans and Antonio Ruiz de Elvira (CIMA)Date: October 16, 2003
Scientists for the Environment (CIMA) and Peter Fend / Ocean-Earth Date: October 17, 2003
Date: From October 22 to 24 Within the framework of banquet_metabolism and communication, a series of seminars took place around the analogy between social and communicative networks. Among these it is worth highlighting: Xavier Barandiarán and Miquel Vidal: Cooperation without command: open source and bacteria. Laura Baigorri, Ricardo Domínguez and Daniel García Andujar: Activism […]
Address: Santiago OrtizDate: January 26 to 31, 2004The theoretical and technical introduction to the experience of creating from digital simulation was proposed, and reflection, from a creative and production perspective, about the possibilities for art and science as a whole. This is how the simulation was presented, […]
This exhibition used the formal characteristics of an epic adventure video game to propose a critical reflection on the different patterns of thought and behavior that take place at the level of geopolitics and everyday life. The exhibition space was transformed into a virtual and interactive stage where the visitor became […]
Address: Mónica Solé and John HallDate: March 8 to 12, 2004Organized in collaboration with the General Foundation of the UCMThis bioinformatics seminar was aimed at the study of the function of microtubules in the neuronal activity of animals, and consequently in human thought. The seminar closed with […]
The meeting, held within the scope of the exhibition The Shape of Time reviewed above, aimed to expose and explore methods and concepts applicable to the manipulation of temporal signals. Detailed studies of financial and biogeophysical time series processed through an interactive installation that performed spectral analysis and projected the results onto […]
Kepa Landa (Director of the master's degree in Art and New Technologies at the European University of Madrid) Date: April 23, 2004
Address: Next Limit Date: April 28 to 29, 2004 The workshop was held as a theoretical and practical introduction to computer simulation with the Real Flow software, developed by the Madrid studio Next Limit. It is a 3D fluid simulation and solid dynamics software, applicable to both […]
19 guests spoke about complexity, code and language and spoke with the author of the project and with the audience from fields such as biology, music, geography, ecology, art history, representation systems and literature. In this context, a joint day with the teaching course also took place […]
Date: From May 5 to 14, 2004, 19 guests spoke about complexity, code and language and spoke with the author of the project and with the audience from fields such as biology, music, geography, ecology, art history, representation systems and literature. In this context it took place […]
Pedro Colón de Carvajal, Abelardo Gil Fournier, Mauro Gil Fournier and Miguel Jaenicke Date: May 13, 2004
Two of the most prominent video art artists on the Madrid scene exhibited a selection of their latest works: four video installations around the themes of friendship, work, politics, war and the media. It was about breaking the mechanisms of automatic understanding and suggesting the active thought of other images, […]
Director: Jaime del Val / Proyecto ReversoDate: From June 23 to July 6, 2004This 40-hour workshop addressed concepts, instruments and techniques related to interactive dance, electroacoustic music, real-time video and generative virtual architecture from a framework critical study of the relationships between body, art and […]
Oliver Ressler (Austria)Date: From September 30 to October 31, 2004Video installation with interviews with different theorists and activists who proposed alternative social and economic models to the current capitalist model. The proposals of this video installation debated the self-determination of society in "Inclusive Democracy", (TakisnFotopoulos); the values of the "Participatory Economy", (Michael Albert); the […]
Concept and direction: Karin Ohlenschläger Luis Rico Date: January 19 to 21, 2005 banquet_comunicación en evolution began with the international symposium of art, science, technology and society, ACTS_comunicación en evolution. For three days, artists, biologists, mathematicians, activists, neuroscientists, sociologists, linguists and other leading specialists proposed a journey from the biogeophysical bases of […]
Hybrid action that alternated performance, concert and conference, and was structured in different modules. During the presentation Antúnez wore his Dreskeleton, a body interface of an exoskeletal nature, with which he sampled his voice, activated and modulated sounds, and controlled the films that were projected on two screens.
Date: From January 23 to February 20, 2005 Curated: Karin Ohlenschläger and Luis Rico This second edition of the banquete_ project, conceived as a dialogue between art, science, technology and society, proposed a critical and open look at the models and processes that govern the evolution of communication in terms of code, language, […]
Date: February 5 to 27, 2005 Curator: Príamo Lozada The exhibition was presented in a new space located in the south patio of the Conde Duque Cultural Center in Madrid, conceived as a laboratory for experimentation and production that reflects the interesting artistic panorama of the country Aztec. The artists, who mostly presented […]
Intervention workshop in physical and digital public spaceDirector: Clara Boj and Diego DíazDate: February 15 to 18, 2005This workshop offered a theoretical and practical introduction to the creation of a hybrid space where the visualization of invisible data helps us build a collective experience. One of its objectives […]
This series of presentations and debates was inaugurated at the beginning of April 2005. The MLM Thursday meetings are conceived as a participatory space, open to debate, reflection and the presentation of works, projects, authors and groups related to culture. digital and with the new transdisciplinary dynamics that relate art, […]
Polytechnic University of ValenciaMªJosé Martínez, Francisco Sanmartín AND Maribel DomènechDate: April 21, 2005A journey through the 15 years of this space for meeting, studying and researching aesthetic and expressive principles linked to the image-light.
Bartolo Luque Date: May 5, 2005 Bartolo Luque (Doctor in physical sciences, professor of mathematics at the Higher School of Aeronautical Engineers of the Polytechnic University of Madrid). A journey through research and the search for life on Mars, and by cinematographic and literary fictions based on the red planet.
Rosa Sánchez and Alain BaumannDate: May 12, 2005Presentation of projects by this pioneer collective of interactive art in Spain. In his works, visual arts, architecture, dance, computing and performance merge.
Date: May 19, 2005Inquiry about the development of interactive applications for education. The production of content, modules, teaching units, educational aids and supports on the Internet was discussed, the creation of which requires combining diverse knowledge. Conferences and round table with Santiago Ortiz (artist and mathematician, medialabmadrid), Pepón Negre (ICT Projects for […]
La Fiambrera ObreraDate: May 26, 2005Can a video game become a tool for social integration? Artists, educators, programmers and designers presented the current development of Bordergames, carried out in open source and framed in the Madrid neighborhood of Lavapiés. Bordergames faces the multiple problems in which adolescents find themselves immersed […]
Date: June 2, 2005Dorkbot is a monthly meeting of artists, engineers and citizens in general interested in electronic DIY. The dorkbot network works as a non-commercial franchise: the first was born in New York in 2000, and since then this event has spread to other cities and […]
Director: Zachary Lieberman Date: June 20 to 23, 2005 The workshop offered different approaches to digital animation techniques that use processing, and explored how these techniques can be integrated into interactive and audiovisual systems to create playful and intuitive forms of expression, under the key how to make things move from […]
Zachary LiebermanDate: June 23, 2005The projects of this artist, engineer and pedagogue revolve around movement and gesture, interactive image creation and sound synthesis. He will present several works, made together with Golan Levin, that explore the visual treatment of voice in real time: RE:MARK /Hidden Worlds (2002), Messa di Voce […]
Address: Jaime Del Val – Reverso Institute Date: July 11 to 16, 2005 As a continuation of the workshop held in 2004, this workshop proposed a review of the paradigms of critical analysis of power and its technological and corporal articulation. It was conceived as a critical space for the generation of practices and processes, of languages […]
Date: July 14, 2005Berta Sureda (Director of the Autonomous Entity for Cultural Diffusion of the Generalitat of Catalonia and commissioner for the creation of the ICAC -Institute of Artistic Creation and Contemporary Thought) Berta Sureda spoke about the process of transformation of cultural policies, and reflected on artistic practices and […]
Santiago Ortiz, Ramon Guardans, La Fiambrera ObreraQ + G (Quiasma + GNOM), Algorithmic Echolocation, Bordergames Date: September 1 to 6, 2005 Presentation of the research works developed by medialabmadrid and which were taken to the Ars Electronica international festival in Switzerland as well as well as the presentations that were also presented at the festival. The three proposals presented […]
A project by Santiago Ortiz in collaboration with Federico Morán, Luis Rico, Mónica Solé and Alfonso Valencia. Production: medialabmadrid and Protein Design Group of the National Center for Biotechnology (CBN / CSIC) of the Autonomous University of Madrid, in collaboration with the Institute for Nanoscale Science & Technology of the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The […]
Address: David CuartiellesDate: October 5 to 9, 2005The workshop consisted of a practical introduction to the use of Arduino, in connection with programs such as PureData, Processing, Flash, Director or Java applications. Arduino is an open hardware system for artists and designers that simplifies the use of microprocessors to create interactive installations […]
Manuel De La Herrán (REDcientifica)Date: October 6, 2005Presentation of the book Sensitive Arena, edited by REDcientifica: a story with touches of humor through topics such as artificial intelligence, robotics, genetics, linguistics, quantum physics , evolution and complexity.
Mia MakelaDate: October 13, 2005From her experience, Mia Makela offered a deep analysis of the new expressive possibilities for audiovisual creation in real time.
Raquel Rennó and Rafael Marchetti (Influenza) Date: October 20, 2005 Presentation of projects by this net.art collective, winner of the prog:me Festival award (Rio de Janeiro, 2005). His most recent works investigate residual communication in urban space.
Pau Alsina (professor of Humanities and Philology at the UOC) Date: November 3, 2005 Pau Alsina (professor of Humanities and Philology at the Open University of Catalonia) Presentation of a research project that studies the development of local dynamics in global spaces through the fusion of physical spaces with virtual spaces, […]
Director: Tania RuizDate: November 7 to 11, 2005The theoretical content of this course proposed an approach to the question of the representation of time and space in the field of the moving image, through a series of examples from cinema , video and plastic and electronic arts. The […]
Direction: Tania Raquejo (Faculty of Fine Arts, UCM) and Bartolomé Luque (Higher School of Aeronautical Engineers, UPM)Date: From November 14, 2005 to June 21, 2006Course taught in collaboration with the Complutense University and the Polytechnic University of Madrid. During this course a transdisciplinary seminar experiment was carried out. Some of […]
Intermediate and interactive installation Date: January 27 to April 2, 2006 Curator: Fernando Illana This exhibition / intervention addressed the paradoxical relationships between identity, personality and appearance, and in which interactivity and public participation played an essential role. In the installation Persona, Concha Jerez and José Iges confronted the notion of […]
9 installations by Canadian artists Date: January 27 to April 2, 2006 Curated by Nina Czegledy and Louise ProvencherResonances. Electromagnetic Bodies brought to Madrid a varied exhibition of Canadian contemporary art where the nature of material forces, invisible but real, and the impact of these vibratory energies on the human body was explored […]
Co-production: Futurelab (Ars Electronica Center) and MediaLabMadrid (Conde Duque Cultural Center) Austria at ARCO'06 Date: February 8 to April 2, 2006 Curators: Manuela Pfaffenberger and Gerfried Stocker (ArsElectronica, Linz) and Karin Ohlenschläger and Luís Rico ( MediaLabMadrid)One of the four exhibitions that made up the Digital Culture environment in 2006. This great exhibition raised a […]
Production: Neue Galerie de Graz (Austria).Austria en Arco'06Date: From February 8 to April 2, 2006Curators: Elisabeth Fiedler and Christa SteinleScientific advisor: Peter WeibelAnother of the great exhibitions that were held within the framework of Digital Culture, Condition Postmedia brought to Madrid a selection of works by almost 40 artists from the country invited to […]
New forms of citizen intervention and participation.Director: Raquel Renno and Rafael MarchetiDates: February 27 to March 3, 2006Organized by Laboratorio Urbano and medialabmadrid, this workshop continued the introductory seminar to Wikimap_Madrid held previously. After the generation of an initial version of WikiMap_Madrid, this workshop addressed ways to work collectively on […]
Date: March 29 to 31, 2006Lavapiés Wireless, SinAntenatv, Mangoro Dja, Troll Party and Krystian Woznicki
Advanced project development and production workshop Led by: David Cuartielles, Zachary Lieberman, Casey Reas and Hans-Christoph Steiner. Date: April 18 to 30, 2006 Advanced workshop for the collaborative development of digital art, sound art, critical design and educational applications. The main purpose of the workshop was to question and reformulate the idea of "interactivity" […]
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Memory [P]resentTribute to Pedro Garhel Date: April 20 and 21, 2006 Exhibition of photos, videos and audio of Pedro Garhel (1952-2005), pioneer artist of multimedia, virtual and performance art in Spain. In his work as co-founder and director of Espacio [P], one of the first multipurpose spaces self-managed by visual artists […]
Address: Casey ReasDate: May 5 and 6, 2006Seminar given by Casey Reas on Processing, an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animations and interactions. This language is used by students, artists, designers, architects, researchers and hobbyists to learn, prototype and produce. Processing is used to teach the […]
Advanced project development and production workshop Led by: David Cuartielles, Zachary Lieberman, Casey Reas and Hans-Christoph Steiner. Date: April 18 to 30, 2006 Advanced workshop for the collaborative development of digital art, sound art, critical design projects and educational applications. The main purpose of the workshop was to question and reformulate the idea of […]
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