SummerLAB 2010 Open Call

SummerLAB 2010 Open Call

"New Narratives of Mobility"
A workshop meeting focused on mobile devices, experimental TV and the production of new narratives.

From the 22nd to the 31st of July 2010 at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial

For the third year running, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial is organising SummerLAB, an annual event conceived to bring digital creators together with the purpose of developing collaborative projects. The new introduction this year is the focus on research and development of productions revolving around a specific topic. On this occasion, SummerLAB will be looking at mobility, mobile technologies, experimentation with new data transmission technologies and, finally, how new narratives are traced through these processes.

SummerLAB 2010 explores new forms and models of collaboration between professional digital creators interested in collective and collaborative development and production. During the ten days of this production workshop, artists and creators are invited to develop eight proposals that examine the structures for constructing new narratives. This call makes a special appeal for projects involving mobile phone and similar technologies, projects which offer resources for the community of creators, which contribute ground-breaking solutions in terms of creation and technology, and which have social applications committed with the environment.

The projects may revolve around three broad areas of interest:
- Mobility technologies and locative media to develop mobile devices with new applications or uses
- Non-conventional transmission media, with particular emphasis on projects proposing the use of analogical or digital media suggesting experimental forms of TV, radio and others
- New Narratives, meaning experimentation with action and collaborative participation through which the abovementioned technologies can be explored by means of specific actions.

As a showcase for SummerLAB, New Narratives will move to the Mediateca_Expandida at the end of the year. This space will contain all the projects generated during SummerLAB 2010, as a new line of research included in Mediateca_Expandida, a model which combines a 3D documentation space, exhibitions and a prototyping space. Mediateca_Expandida opened its doors in Autumn 2009 to showcase cultural projects within a more dynamic environment than conventional exhibitions, somewhere between documentary, demonstrations and the exhibition per se. The New Narratives project will be presented at Mediateca Expandida in Autumn -Winter 2010.

PARTICIPATION
- register as coordinator of a development and production project
- register as collaborator in one of the development and production nodes

To register, you can fill in the PARTICIPATION FORM specifying your proposal.For more information, you can contact the SummerLAB coordination team at summerlab@laboracentrodarte.org

SummerLAB is one of the actions that integrate the multiannual project LABmóvil, a project funded by the Plan Avanza within the frame of Strategic Action of Telecommunications and Company of the Information inside the National Plan of Scientific Investigation, Development and Technological Innovation 2008-2011 of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade. The main objective of this project is to contribute and stimulate the generation of digital innovative contents in order to stimulate the participation of all the citizen in the information techonologies and to promote the creation of spaces for the innovation and the development of sustainable alternatives that help to change current productive models, with the intensive utilization of the new mobile technologies, as well as the constitution of networks of diffusion of knowledge.

LABoral + plan avanza

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Los Prados 121
33394 Gijón (Asturias) - Spain
T. +34 985 185 577
F. +34 985 337 355
info@laboralcentrodearte.org
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/

Posted by Anna Fox on June 10^th 2010