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 use,

• 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

This open call invites you to propose innovative ways of developing a project to be included in DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION NODES. There are two options for participating in SummerLAB:

• As coordinator of a development and production project
• As collaborator in one of the development and production nodes.