EMERGENTES

EMERGENTES
10 projects by Latin American artists / Works in progress
Opening date: 16.11.07

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Los Prados, 121
33394 Gijón (Asturias) Spain
Tel: +34 985 185 577
info@laboralcentrodearte.org
Wednesday to Monday, 12 noon – 8 pm

www.laboralcentrodearte.org

CONCEPT : EMERGENTES explores cultural developments using science and technology with a view to creating a new kind of socio-cultural interaction. The works focus on the work-in-progress and research associated with scientific and technological issues with an impact on society. EMERGENTES endeavours to offer a new approach to Latin American media art through a wide range of critical perspectives, both established and incipient.

CURATOR: José-Carlos Mariátegui

PROJECT COORDINATOR: Victoria Messi

ARTISTS: Lucas Bambozzi (Brazil), Mariana Rondón (Venezuela), Rejane Cantoni & Daniela Kutschat / OP_ERA (Brazil), Rodrigo Derteano (Peru/Switzerland), Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico/Canada), José Carlos Martinat & Enrique Mayorga (Peru), Fernando David Orellana (El Salvador/USA), Santiago Ortiz / Bestiario (Colombia/Spain), Mariano Sardón (Argentina) and Mariela Yeregui (Argentina).

DATE: 16.11.2007 / 12.05.2008

EXHIBITION DESIGN: Fernando Muñoz y Sergio Sebastián arquitectos

A Coproduction by LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial and Fundación Telefónica

RELATED ACTIVITIES

Design of content and cultural extension: Victoria Messi

16.11.2007 – 5:30 to 6:30 pm
GUIDED VISIT OF EXHIBITION. José-Carlos Mariátegui, curator of exhibition, will explain the show’s concept and give a guided tour of the works on view.
Venue: Hall of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón
Free entrance (limited capacity)

CONFERENCES
Venue: Paraninfo of Universidad Laboral, Gijón
Free entrance (limited capacity)
17.11.2007
INTERACTIVE ENVIRONMENTS
Speaker: Daniela Kutschat
YOU CAME WITH THE BREEZE
Speaker: Mariana Rondón

WORKSHOPS
Venue: Laboratories of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón
Participants: max. 15 persons
Courtesy registration
Registration: labworkshops@laboralcentrodearte.org
17-18.11.2007
INTELLIGENT ENVIRONMENTS
Led by Rejane Cantoni
01-02.12.2007
BIO-COLLAGE CHILDREN’S WORKSHOP
Led by Santiago Ortiz and Belén Adamo
09-10.02.2008
RECOMPUTING SPACE
Led by Rodrigo Derteano

LABoral PROGRAMME

EXHIBITIONS

Gameworld Expansion Pack: PLAYWARE

CURATORIUM: Ars Electronica Linz & Museum of the Moving Image (New York)

WORKS AND ARTISTS
Multiplayer Installations: Bump; Freqtric Project; Iamascope; Jam-O-Drum CircleMaze; metaField Maze; Perfect Time; PingPongPlus; Reactable; Small Fish; Tug of War
Art Games: Armadillo Run; Electroplankton; flow; Golf?; Line Rider; LocoRoco; Mono; Neon; Ökami; Rez; Shift; Toribash; vib-ribbon

DATE: From 21.09.2007 / 21.03. 2008

WORKSHOPS

Streaming with free software
Concept: Hangar
Organised by: LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Dates: 3rd-7th December 2007
15 participants, age +18, selected by CV and cover letter
Fees apply
Registration: www.laboralcentrodearte.org

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial is a space for artistic exchange. It is set up with the purpose of establishing an effective alliance between art, design, culture, industry and economic progress and the goal of becoming a space for interaction and dialogue between art, new technologies and industrial creation. It throws a special spotlight on production, creation and research into art concepts still being defined