14 Jun 2012

Call for Projects - Interactivos?'12 Ljubljana. Obsolete Technologies of the Future

Ljudmila, Digital Medialab of Ljubjliana, in collaboration with SGMK of Zurich and Medialab-Prado are seeking for proposals for an upcoming workshops in collaborative prototyping which will be hold in Ljubljana in space of Ljudmila Media Lab with the participation of advisors and technical assistants.

Ljubljana's edition of the workshop will be dedicated to explorations of Obsolete Technologies of the Future, collaborative prototyping vol. 1, rethinking the qualities of outdated technology and making way for a long-term, sustainable usage of technology in our environment in the decades to come.

Suggested areas of focus include:

* Projects that suggest different usages of existing urban technological infrastructures
* Rethinking outdated technologies and recycling the computer and IT wasteland.
* Projects which allow people to interact with technology to provoke new ways of perceiving the surrounding, the self, the visual, the material, and stimulate aesthetic experience.
* Particular attention will be paid to projects which promote open source communities, collaborative work and collective modes of behavior.
* Playing with data - submissions for works, which connect data forms and physically embody data streams, bridging 'on' and 'off' line worlds.
* Products and services that provide sustainable solutions for our needs, including the use of open data, data mash ups and remixes.


We are seeking proposals for:

* Installations (interactive, responsive, generative)
* Performances (participatory, gesticular, dance)
* Visualisations (moving images, generative, projections, holograms)
* Free Software (FLOSS) / Open Hardware / Open Design / Services / Start-ups / Apps / Devices


The open call is aimed at designers, artists, engineers, coders, sociologists, architects, city planners, teachers, programmers, psychologists, journalists, environmentalists... or to any other person interested in the theme of the workshop.

Complete information and guidelines:
medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos12_ljubljana_future_obsolete_technologies

Advisors: Luka Frelih (director of Ljudmila, artist, programmer), Ida Hiršenfelder (art critic, art consultant), Chris Sugrue (artist, programmer) and Yago Torroja (hardware, electronics)


This workshop is part of Studiolab, a 3-year Europe-wide initiative that merges the artist's studio with the research lab. Funded by the EC Seventh Framework Programme in 2011, Studiolab is a European network that provides a platform for creative projects that bridge divides between science, art and design.

www.studiolabproject.eu/