Open Up - Developed Projects
Information about projects developed during Open Up workshop (February 9 - 23, 2010), dedicated to the creation of seven projects for the digital facade of Medialab-Prado. Tutors of the workshop: Jordi Claramonte, Chandler McWilliams, Casey Reas and Víctor Viña. Technical Assistants: Massimo Avvisati and Chris Sugrue. Directed by Nerea Calvillo.
> BLOG of the workshop. All the documentation about the work process through social networks, video platforms, microblogging...
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Un barrio Feliz (A Happy Neighbourhood)
by David Rodriguez and Un barrio feliz Collective. Collaborators: Txomin Calvo, Natalia Carbo, Jordi Claramonte, Azahara Fernández, Elisa Fuensalida, Iria Gámez, Cristina Haro, Cristina Hernant, Montfragüe F. Lavandera, Esther del Pino, Jota Pe Porras y Mircia Pérez.
Madrid's City Council is installing 48 surveillance cameras in the neighbourhood of Lavapiés. At the same time, in a nearby square, a big urban LED screen has been installed. Unbarriofeliz.net is an insurgent group formed by neighbours that have put together both city initiatives and observe the results. Ladies and Gentlemen: Here are Lavapiés’ surveillance cameras in full colour display!
Lummo Blocks
by Carles Gutierrez, Javier Lloret, Mar Canet, and Jordi Puig. Collaborators: Fabiana de Barros, Nacho Cossío, Sebastian Hundermark, Nenad Katic, Montfagüe F. Lavandera, Abraham Manzanares, Óscar Mora, Max Neupert, Francesco Ozzola y Nina Valkanova.
Lummo Blocks is a version of the “Tetris” videogame designed to connect the people in the Plaza de las Letras. Players have to work together in order to shape the pieces with their bodies and situate them in the correct place.
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Cuentos que nunca Cuentan: ZeroEstigma (Tales that Never Tell: ZeroStigma)
by Toxic Lesbian. Collaborators: Raül Leiva, Cinthia Mendonça, Paolo Portaluri, and Dagan Wald.
Referring to mental health diversity is considered taboo by society. This fact ensues prejudices that assail people’s dignity and support the belief in hiding a shameful reality.
The testimonies of people with diagnosed mental health problems, families, therapists and activists will generate a critical focus on the subject of mental health. Tales that Never Tell: ZeroStigma is a proposal by the activist and artist collective Toxic Lesbian based on the perspective of gender and sexual orientation.
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http://www.ideash.org/cuentosquenuncacuentan/
Mimodek
by Marie Polakova. Collaborators: Steven Pickles (Pix), Lali Barriere, Jonathan Cremieux, Maja Kalogera, Abinadi Meza, Liisa Tervinen, and Bruno Vianna.
Mimodek is a system that is alive and interactively evolves and changes depending on elements such as the movements of people and animals or temperature change in the square. Though based on the principles of nature, the system “grows” from the urban tissue reflecting its own environment.
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http://marura.wordpress.com/installations/mimodek-2/
Stand By
by Alfredo Calosci. Collaborators: Mustafa Bagdatli, Beatriz Burgueño, Ramyah Gowrishankar, Giuseppe Guariniello, Oswaldo Peña, Mladen Pesic, Diego Rioja, and Maja Spasova.
Stand By is a digital garden evolving slowly like plant growth which reflects the contributions of the people that have taken care of it. Through interactive devices, users are able to water the plants and make flowers blossom.
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Local Feed
by Domenico Di Siena. Collaborators: Sara Alvarellos, Clara de Andrés, Ángela Bolea, Angiola Bonanni, Massimiliano Casu, Francesco Cingolani, Álvaro Ferrer, Paco González, Beatriz Gómez, Conso González, Anníbal Hernández, María Mancisidor, Noel Manzano, Nuno R. Relvão, Rolando Rodríguez, Francesca Romana, Alfonso Sánchez, Rebeca Tristán, and Reinaldo Villar.
Local Feed allows the visualization of information that is daily created on the Internet by neighbours through http://plazaletras.es/ in the Media facade. This brings information that is usually accessible through private means to a physical public space.
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http://plazaletras.es/
Color Occurence
by Ann Oren and Zevan Roser. Collaborators: Sebastian Pfaller, Tamara Acosta, and Massimo Avvisatti.
An emergent text work linking color as it is interpreted in spoken language with Twitter. The user choses a color from a color palette, links it to his or her name and defines it in a phrase. The application shows randomly colors a phrases registered by users and searches in Twitter all different entries containing that color. Pick a color and take part in the project at http://coloroccurrence.wordpress.com/
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