Medialab Prado

About HelloWorld!

A work group based around Medialab Prado and other creation spaces in Spain. For several months, it has been working on the dissemination and creation of dramatic arts and new technologies, focusing on the development of open, collaborative production workshops. We offer proposals related to this new approach to theatre, specifically contemporary performance art, movement and visual arts, and the Web.

In addition, we work on the production and distribution of proposals developed under the auspices of the Platform, through various working networks in Spain or the ones that HelloWorld! is generating of its own. They can be seen, among other places, in the city of Madrid.

 

Programme:

· Adaptable Projections, Guillermo Casado (Madrid)*

· Science Fiction (Scientific Electronic Fiction Songs), Cristina Blanco (Madrid)

· Doing Things with People, Roger Bernat (Barcelona)

 

Adaptable Projections*

by Guillermo Casado

Proyecciones Adaptables (Adaptable Projections) develops a system that enables the generation of projections onto objects and surfaces such that the objects change texture depending on their position and orientation. Visitors/actors can interact with the objects by simply moving them so that their appearance is modified. It is similar to augmented reality but the result is projected onto a changing surface.

A simple model would be a painting or a window (a rectangular panel) that can spin freely, which visitors can tip, thus reactivating the subject of the painting (the screening), which will adapt to the new creative situation.

 

 

Guillermo Casado. Physicist, engineer and photographer. He specializes in interactive systems and new media. Since 2006 he has participated in various digital creation projects and interactive installations, in the field of theatre as well as commercial projects, with the aim of bringing new technologies to society in a way that is creative.

* Project selected at the HelloWorld! workshop

Science Fiction (Scientific Electronic Fiction Songs)

by Cristina Blanco

Ciencia-ficción (Science Fiction) is an approach to science, research from a very unscientific mind. 
It is an investigation of the macrocosm and the microcosm, creating different realities for the same space by focusing on what is smallest and largest in it, via video and on stage. I wonder about and ask the eternal questions: Who are we? Where are we going? What is the universe? Is it infinite? Where is it?
And then there’s music. Is a musical about elementary particles and scientific theories about the history of the universe science fiction? What about a light opera about atoms? Same question.
On 27 February 2010, there will be a talk about science and especially about fiction. And for now it is also here: www.tea-tron.com/cristinablanco

 

 

Cristina Blanco. After graduating from RESAD in 2002 with a diploma in Gestural Theatre (Teatro Gestual), she has worked as an actress in several theatre companies. She is interested in dance and has given some workshops, starred in several short films, and sings in several bands. In 2004, she created her first solo: cUADRADO_fLECHA_pERSONA qUE cORRE (winner of the Jardin d’Europe de Impulstanz award in 2008). She toured with that piece until this year.  

In 2006, she created: caixa preta_caja negra in collaboration with Brazilian choreographer Claudia Müller as part of the project titled encontros Imediatos 2006 in Alkantara and Panorama in Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, exploring the difficulties of regular collaborations.

2008 saw the birth of Neverstarting Story, about contamination and appropriation of others’ ideas, a role exchange between director and performer, and how to collaborate non-democratically. In October 2009, she premiered The Croquis Reloaded in Madrid.

Doing Things with People

de Roger Bernat

I don’t do things with technology; I do them with people. Instead of using collective creation practices, I approach my work from a visual arts perspective, given that I do things with the audience. I manipulate it to give it a shape and the show consists of that process.

There are no actors in my performances. The audience is captivated by a device –the show- that makes them the stars of the play. Various mechanisms stemming from popular technologies (from Silent Disco radio frequencies to video surveillance circuits) serve to make the audience aware of itself as a group and the inherent complexity of what it means to say “us”.  

40 minutes is not much time but I will try to present the 10 concepts arising from my most recent works as well as showing samples from the last 3 shows. I will do one creation practice session with attendees.

Roger Bernat is one of today’s major creators. His pieces, his political position on the organization of production processes, and his interdisciplinary proposals place him outside conventional circles. His career began at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona, where he graduated with an Extraordinary Award as a Director and Playwright in 1996 (Premio Extraordinario 1996 en Dirección y Dramaturgia). From 1997-2001 he formed and headed General Elèctrica with Tomàs Aragay, a Theatre and Dance Creation Centre in which the majority of Catalunya’s current artists and performers participated.

He wrote and has directed plays including the following: 10.000 Kg (Special Critics’ Award 1996/97--Premio Especial de la Crítica 96/97); Confort Domèstic (Critics’ Award for Dramatic Texts 1997/98-- Premio de la Crítica al Texto Dramático 97/98), Àlbum, Trilogia 70, the six part series Bona Gent, LALALALALA, Amnèsia de Fuga, Tot és perfecte, and Das Paradies Experiment. He also created the following videos and installations: Polar, La Tribu (3 patriotic songs), Vero and El que sap tothom i ningú no gosa dir.

He is currently on tour with Dominio Público (the best show in the world, with over one hundred actors). The show has already been to Barcelona, Lleida, Murcia, Madrid, Berlin, Zagreb and Brussels.