Medialab Prado

Live coding, Live performance, Live cinema, live Art, LIVE a life!

June 5 / 11 am to 2 pm and 4 pm to 7 pm

LaptopsRus is a network initiative organized and conceptualised by Maite Cajaraville (Madrid) & Shu Lea Cheang (Paris). LaptopsRus manages this AVLAB workshop/meeting on June 5 at Medialab-Prado on coding and tools AV live performance, focused on investigating applied hardware and software for realizing collaborative, experimental, orchestrated , programmed or  improvisational live performance. [live streaming from 11 am to 2 pm]

Evening session: 4 pm - 7 pm 

Other sessiones:
· Performance Matadero (June 4 & 5) [+info]
· Conference Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (June 4 & 6)  [+info]

In this meeting, we aim to put into practice the concepts we have been using the last few months at the Laboratorio del Procomún Estético (Aesthetic Commons Laboratory).  In other words, repertoires, placements and landscape will come into play, specifically in three areas: architecture, Parkour and dance, which differ materially, physically and in terms of mobility and yet, are spatially interrelated. 

We will also explore in depth the significance of audiovisual media in the process of instituting those repertoires and in building a commons. In Parkour, for example, the way video and various body movements are interwoven is a fundamental factor in instituting a still incipient repertoire that is growing fast, thanks to its distribution on the Web, which provides the structure of a community that has expanded to cities all over the world. [live streaming]

Led by: Research Group: Aesthetics and Politics in the Commons. Coordinator: Jordi Claramonte

In Aumented Stage III we explore stage devices to act, play, dance or juggle. We will show tools that improve the formal and expressive possibilities of actors (Demodrama-faces by Enrique Esteban García, Patricia Esteban García, and Ismael García Abad), systems to reconstruct images of our memory using movement (Game in Dance, by Jorge Cano), and a sequencer activated by juggling balls that allows us to try an unlimited number of orbital patterns (Colors by Daniel Sánchez). [live streaming]

Multidisciplinary meeting within the framework of Helloworld! Stage Creation and New Technologies, where three stage creators will dismantle the limits of the theater physical space: Guillermo Casado and his Proyecciones adaptables, an opensource software that allows us to interact with a virtual stage, build it and shape it during the performance. Cristina Blanco, Madrilian performer, walks on the line of space and science with Ciencia-Ficción, ready to even make atoms dance. Or the work of the playwriter Roger Bernat (Hacer cosas con personas) where borders of the theatical system disappear, turning the audience into the main character of the show. [live streaming]

Session presented by David Rodríguez, coordinator of Helloworld! Platform.

All music is based on a certain order, as pure randomness and basic spontaneity do not exist. All music is based on mathematics, hence the title of this sort of "old style" AVLAB Meeting, with the participation of Olaya Hernando, Roberto Catalá, and Oscar Martín. Directed and presented by José Manuel Costa. [live streaming]

Presentation of RedPanal, a website for collaborative music born in Argentina. It is a social and communal web that works as an innovative tool for music production and promotion, allowing users to freely share original materials.

In this event a collaboration between El Cosmonauta collaborative movie and RedPanal will be presented. The goal is to propose the creation of a soundtrack or sound environments inspired by the script.

Organizer: Embassy of Argentina in Spain 

>>Follow the live streaming here

Multidisciplinary meeting coinciding with the workshop HelloWorld! Contemporary stage creation and new technologies, held by David Rodríguez.

Buscando aberraciones, Sonoescénica and Versión_Beta are three examples of the possibilities that come up when introducing a broader research that includes new means of expression such as light, sound and electronics.

Medialab-Prado presents the project Waves to Waves to Waves by Chris Sugrue and Damian Stewart during the celebration of La Noche en Blanco 2009.

In this work, the digital translation of detected waves is connected to an imaginary realm where electromagnetic fields are a perceptible phenomena that create a visible and audible impact.

Este nuevo Encuentro AVLAB se celebra en el marco del Primer Encuentro Literario Internacional del Barrio de las Letras organizado por la Fundación Temas de Arte, y cuenta con la participación de Martín Bakero (cambio de programa), Eugenio Tisselli y Gerard Altaió. Organiza este encuentro: Gonzalo Escarpa