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LABworkshops: Second Life & Chiptunes
Call for participation
17. - 21.07.2007:
ENTERING THE TERRITORIES OF SECOND LIFE
Second Life (SL) is an online virtual world currently inhabited by over six
million "residents". The workshop hosted in Laboral explores SL as a platform
for art expression, activism and critique. It will be led by a machinima
professional, two media artists and a programmer who work on SL on a practical
and theoretical level using it as an ideal platform to share ideas and to
perform. Participants will learn through collaborative work how to make
machinimas, how to write basic scripts and how to use SL as a platform for
social action and artistic expression.
Workshop led by: RICARD GRAS (ESP) is an artist, producer and director of
machinima Europe Board. He explores new creative uses for technologies and
relationships between art and the media. In 2003, he founded LA-INTERACTIVA,
one of the companies that are officially in charge of the development of SL.
KRISTIAN LUKIC (SERBIA) is a writer, artist and a cultural and game researcher.
He is a program manager in New Media Center - kuda.org and the founder of
Eastwood - Real Time Strategy Group and also of Napon - Institute for flexible
culture and technologies. ILIAS MARMARAS (GR) is a new media artist and a
leading member of the international group Personal Cinema. He has been working
in gaming environments and game art since 1999. YANNIS SCOULIDAS (GR) is a
technical director, administrator and programmer of Personal Cinema and
specialist in software and hardware.
Deadline Extension: 8 July 2007 Registration: www.laboralcentrodearte.org
Registration fee: 50 € Working language: English/ Spanish
26. - 27.07.2007: CHIPTUNES - 8BIt MUSIC
8bit sound and music is a distinctive feature of early videogames, and has
become a seminal contemporary music style utilized by artists and DJs in
engaging live audiovisual performances and remixes. This workshop will bring
together creators from US and Spain who will work with young people to create
music using Gameboys. The workshop will close with an evening of Chiptunes
performances with sounds by the artists, the workshop participants and visuals
by media artists Entter.
Workshop led by: HAEYOUNG KIM (BUBBLYFISH) (KO) is a sound artist and composer
who explores the textures of sounds and their cultural representation. Her work
has been presented in art venues, clubs and new media festivals around the
world. CHRIS BURKE (GLOMAG) (USA) has been making 8bit music since 2001. He
has performed in many countries and his music has played in films, on
television and on the Internet. The machinima series "This Spartan Life",
features his music as well as other 8bit artists and is featured in Gameworld.
RABATO(ESP) composes music with the famous software Littlesounddj created by
Johan Kotlinski for a Nintendo Gameboy consoles. He is the co-founder of
microBCN and has participated in festivals and concerts in various cities.
YES, ROBOT (ESP) mix Gameboy sounds with other instruments like synthesizes,
samples and toys modified by themselves. They are founding members of the 8bit
collective microBCN. ENTTER(ESP) is formed by Raúl Berrueco and Raquel Meyers.
Entter was formed to create a collective space for the expression of the common
restlessness felt by many creative people in the interactive media art field.
Their fields of research include AVperformance, installations, non-linear
narrative, videogames, interfaces, experimental music, VJing and net.art.
Deadline: 16 July 2007 Registration: www.laboralcentrodearte.org Registration
fee: 25 € Working language: English and Spanish
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Concept of workshops: Daphne Dragona, independent new media arts curator,
Athens Carl Goodman, Deputy Director and Director of Digital Media,Museum of
the Moving Image, New York
Organised by:
LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries Director: Rosina Gómez - Baeza
Universidad Laboral s/n, 33394 Gijón, Asturias - Spain T. +34 985 185 577 F.
+34 985 337 355 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.laboralcentrodearte.org
Activities will take place at the workshop premises of the LABoral Centre for
Art and Creative Industries
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