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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
