Medialab Prado

Open Call for project proposals to be developed during a production workshop for the creation of video games related to public space and the city as an interface (July 1-7, 2013).

During seven days of intensive work, ideas will be tested and prototypes developed by working with partners and technical assistants.

Deadline: May 31, 2013.

The Metabody group whithin Common Body annouces Metabody phase 1 call for the selection of 5 projects where artists/technicians/scientists/theorists/activists are invited to participate in the start of the first phase of the 5 years project financed by the European Commission and coordinated by Reverso. (Metabody Proyect)

Deadline: June 10, 2013.

24.05.2013 17:00h - 20:00h
The Conference on Data Journalism and Open Data (May 24-26) begins with two workshops on software tools to work with data for informational purposes: SQL and Tableau Public.

The rest of the activities will take place simultaneously in Barcelona and Madrid during the first day and in Seville during the weekend.

This is the biggest data journalism encounter in our country so far. It is a mix between lectures, workshops, a barcamp about developed projects and a hackathon in three cities (Barcelona, Madrid and Sevilla) to begin new works with data.

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The Open Data Journalism Hackathon is a simultaneous competition that takes place in Barcelona, Madrid and Seville.

It is a space to create journalistic projects that use data and foster transparency and the role of the journalist as controller of public authorities. On Sunday at 4 pm developed projects will be publicly presented.

General session of the Commons Lab workgroups, where we will discuss the tension between the public-state and its relation with the commons. [Live Streaming]

Tides of all colors are on the street: green (education), white (health professionals), orange (social services). Responding to the current budget cuts and privatization policies, the public sector is mobilizing to save universal access to basic services for social life. This is a passionate defense that has gone beyond professionals to citizens, calling out to invert the tendency of an aversion of the public domain. Are these reactive or defensive fights? Could there be a tendency to reinvent the public domain within these struggles? If so, in what way? Does it have something to do with what we call the commons?

Call for the submission of theoretical works to be publicly presented within Metabody Conference Series 1: Multiplicities in Motion: Affects, Embodiment and the Reversal of Cybernethics. 3.000 Years of Posthuman History. Coordinated by Reverso (Metabody Proyect) and the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid.

Deadline: June 10, 2013.

27.04.2013 - 30.05.2013
Exhibition of the projects made during Interactivos?'13: Tools for a Read-Write World., collaboratively developed by 70 people from all over the world in this international two-weeks workshop.

These projects offer an innovative approach to editing, design and graphic expression using free software and open code tools.

The showcase features projects such as GRAPA (text remix and self-edition of works), El-Recetario.net (reuse of wastes to build furniture based on "recipes" collaboratively created by users), Colaboratorio de relatos (creating and remixing stories on free software) or the Free Expression Kit (portable device for self-expression in public spaces), and much more.