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<br> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><big><big><b>Open Up Workshop: Projects for the digital facade of Medialab-Prado</b></big><b><br> <br> </b></big></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>February </b><b>9 - 23, 2010<br> </b>Venue: </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Medialab-Prado</b> in Madrid (Spain)<br> <br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Open Up has just started! About 70 artists, designers, architects, programmers and many other interested people from all over the world are already working in this exciting workshop to create contents for the first digital facade for artistic purposes of Madrid, </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">a 150m2 and 27.000 LEDs (pixels) screen. <br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">In this event 7 projects selected through an international open call will be </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">collaboratively </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">developed within this next 2 weeks. <br> <br> The goal of this project production workshop is to explore the relationship with the urban space by opening production processes through different citizen participation strategies. Selected projects are being developed with the aid of tutors and technical assistants such as </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>Jordi Claramonte</b>, <b>Chandler McWilliams</b>, <b>Casey Reas, </b><b>Víctor Viña</b></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">,<b> Chris Sugrue </b>and <b>Massimo Avvisati</b>.<br> <br> The programme includes theoretical activities on <b>February </b><strong>9</strong><strong><span style="">, </span></strong><strong>10 and</strong><strong><span style=""></span></strong><strong> 16</strong>, with lectures by tutors and lecturers such as <b>Erkki Huhtamo</b> and <b>Jennifer Steimkamp</b>. You can follow all lectures and project presentations through <b>live streaming</b>. <br> <br> We have just created a new experience to document the process through a <b>blog</b> to spread the contents generated during the workshop, using social networks, video platforms, feeds, microblogging, etc. (<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.medianeralab.es/blog">http://www.medianeralab.es/blog</a>).<br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Directed by <b>Nerea Calvillo</b>.<b> </b></font> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> </font> <br> <font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br> <br> More information: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://medialab-prado.es/article/taller_open_up">http://medialab-prado.es/article/taller_open_up</a><br> <br> medianeralab (at) medialab-prado.es<br> <br> </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><br> <b><br> Venue:</b><br> Medialab-Prado<br> Plaza de las Letras<br> Calle Alameda, 15<br> 28014 Madrid (Spain)<br> <br> </font><br> <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Nerea García Garmendia
Comunicación / Press
Medialab-Prado
Área de Las Artes, Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Plaza de las Letras
Alameda, 15 28014 Madrid
Tfno. +34 914 202 754
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