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Spanish P2P WikiSprint/es

Wednesday 20 March at 16 h.

A WikiSprint is a collective content production event that takes place in a short period of time in a wiki type of platform. This "P2P WikiSprint" in Spanish aims to collectively document and map P2P (peer-to-peer) initiatives in Latin America and Spain.
Medialab-Prado offers its space to get together and work in this global mapping.

ARCO 2013 / Escucha Pública (Public Listening) #3. How can we portray a person with sound? with Nacho Arias
Radio Sures

Saturday 16 February at 7 pm

Radio Sures is an a la carte web radio for radio documentaries. With no extra photos or supporting videos or multimedia bonus features. We stand for telling stories exclusively with sound resources! We illustrate this aesthetic stance each month in a public gathering devoted to listening. We offer a selection of sound narrative documentaries, in Spanish and other languages, with translations planned. We listen in the half-light, seated or lying down, as if we were a cinema audience for a movie with no pictures. Orson Welles might have said it: “Radio is better than the movies because in radio, the screen’s bigger”.

In each session a guest joins us to share his or her point of view (and hearing) about the documentaries we have heard. Not sound or radio experts, our guests come from other fields of creative endeavours such as cinema, painting, photography, literature, theatre, and so on. Instead of an analysis, they share their sensations and impressions as auditors. Their contributions create bridges between sound and other artistic disciplines.

For the third session, our guest is photographer Nacho Arias.
We will reflect on “How to portray a person with sound”. We are not talking about ID photos but rather portraits taken from an auteur point of view. The person behind the camera or microphone leaves all pretensions of objectivity aside in order to transmit his or her own perception of the person portrayed. In this creative process, the person becomes a “character”.

Nacho Arias has a degree from the Fine Arts School at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has worked as a photographer for over 15 years. He has shown his work at museums, galleries and art centres including the Círculo de Bellas Artes, La Casa de América and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid. His work has also been selected at festivals such as PhotoSpain, Emergentes (Braga, Portugal), and the 2010 International Vienna Festival. At present he is working on several series that will be completed in 2013.

Sound-In: Meetings, presentations, workshops and concerts.
Anne-Françoise Raskin and Miguel Álvarez-Fernández

23 to 26 January from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Sound-In at Intermediae offers a series of complementary activities to the Estampa Multiple Art Fair (Feria de Arte Múltiple Estampa), held last October at Matadero Madrid. This series of lectures, roundtables, workshops and concerts shares the core them of the Sound-In section: promoting and disseminating sound art and experimental music.

This series of activities aims to form a framework for shared learning in which the artists, curators, producers, critics, etc. gathered for Sound-In can share their experiences with their experimental sound creation projects. In addition to sharing theoretical approaches through roundtables and presentations, Sound-In offers a practical dimension through a series of concerts and workshops open to everyone.

For further information regarding the workshops, please write to sound-in@estampa.org

 www.estampa.org

Activities:

Wednesday 23 January
10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Workshop: Sound art and Decolonial studios

Thursday 24 January
10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Workshop: Creating and editing graphic music: from the music score to the visual work.
5 to 6:30 p.m. Roundtable: The Sound-In project and the Estampa Multiple Art Fair.
7 to 8:30 p.m. Presentation of projects by artists in the Sound-In Programme for New Creators.
9 to 10 p.m. Concerts.

Friday 25 January
10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Workshop: Creating and reinventing sound instruments: object/sculpture/installation.
5 to 6:30 p.m. Roundtable: Producing sound art and experimental music.
7 to 8:30 p.m. Presentation of projects by artists in the Sound-In Programme for New Creators.
9 to 10 p.m. Concerts.

Saturday 26 January
5 to 6:30 p.m. Communication and dissemination of sound art and experimental music.
7 to 8:30 p.m. Presentation of projects by artists in the Sound-In Programme for New Creators.
9 to 10 p.m. Concerts.

Open Terrario / Streaming Scenarios: ON & ON Presentation of Season #2
PlayDramaturgia

Saturday 19 January at 7 p.m.

Three months have passed since the start of Streaming Scenarios, a process of exploring the possibilities for dialogue among live arts and real-time video broadcasts via the Internet. 
Something along those lines was said by Pablo Gisbert, one of our collaborators, when we sat down to reflect on it: “Our times require we take action. And since we are too cowardly to take up arms, we have to do our best in our field: the world of ideas. They need to be specified, filled with content, and shot.” That is what we are doing.  ON&ON serves to recharge and present the second phase of the project. More ideas, more action, more playwriting and hard punches… more Streaming Scenarios.

Open Mondo Píxel-Arsgames

Mondo Píxel. Thinking about pixelogy. Friday 21 December at 7 PM.



What do I know? What should I do? What can I expect? Although these are three essential questions for philosophy, it is also true that they're perfectly applicable to our everyday relationship with video games, which is deeply linked to these philosophical reflections, though it’s not immediately obvious. Even so, the potential of video games as a new prevailing means of expression remains to be exploited in the field of philosophy.

To explain some of the relationships between videogames and philosophy, we will have Álvaro Arbonés, author of the cultural criticism and philosophy blog titled The Sky Was Pink, and also one of the winners of the Ariel awards for Best Young Essay Bloggers. What I find out in video games? What should I do with them? What should I expect from the experience? These are three of the questions philosophy may answer with respect to videogames, three questions rooted in rich deep problems whose answers interest us all.

OPEN TERRARIO/ ConectaLab2

ConectaLab2 and Internet of Things. Wednesday 19 December starting at 5 PM.

Work day at the Terrario with the following: Internet of Things, aLabs, IoT Madrid and Manuel Portela, organizer of CityCamp Buenos Aires, who will share his experience as an attendee at SmarCity Expo Barcelona.

Using pieces of open source hardware and software, and a spirit of creativity and innovation, ConectaLab was born, a pop-up co-working space held monthly with a technological base open to technologists and people who conceptualize or are curious, whose main activity is collectively and responsibly generating utility. A space to work, learn and share.


OPEN TERRARIO/ Streaming Scenarios
PlayDramaturgia

Théa: contemplation. Wednesday 12 December as of 4 PM.

Theory and theatre share the same Greek root: Théa: contemplation.

Theory was born as a contemplation practice and theatre as a place for it: it is not by chance that before they were buildings, the first Greek theatres were overlooks, always facing monumental landscapes.
In the 20th century, going back to its origins, this contemplative attitude was recovered for the stage: the viewers’ attentive gaze became an essential active element in forming discourses. Wasn't Gertrude Stein’s idea really quite ancient, something the stage arts had lost? Doesn’t Pieza Paisaje, the source of so many renewing aesthetics, show originality possible only in resonance with the origin?

THÉA: A THEORETICAL FESTIVAL aims to highlight this contemplative theoretical attitude in a sort of thought marathon structured in brief micro-presentations that are always oriented in some way to the vast landscape of the stage.

In this first showing, framed within Streaming Stages, we will focus our discourse on problems in using streaming in relation to stage arts.

OPEN TERRARIO/ In Medi Terraneum 2012. Simultaneous Video Art International Festival:
Argentina, Spain, Greece, Italy and Uruguay
In Medi Terraneum
29, 30 November and 1 December 2012 at 7 p.m.

In Medi Terraneum- Simultaneous Video Art International Festival, held for two years in Argentina, Uruguay, Italy and Greece, is opening its call for projects in Spain for the first time and will present at Intermediae the videos chosen from the five countries.
Including errors as part of the creative process and creation based on collective intelligences are the two main themes at the core of this third edition, which culminates in a day of urban video-activism, the presentation of its venue in the Cloud, and the creation of a hybrid work via live streaming at all the venues, coinciding with the closing of the festival.

Thursday 29 November at 7 p.m. Presentation of the finalists’ works and start of the exhibition, which will last three days. Presentation of the “Venue in the Cloud”.

Friday 30 November at 7 p.m. Day of urban video-activism

Saturday 1 December at 7 p.m. VJ and DJ session with the creation of a hybrid work in live streaming with all the venues.

Participating countries: Argentina, Uruguay, Spain, Italy and Greece
Organized by: Intermediae Matadero Madrid (Spain), Instituto Cervantes de Palermo (Italy) and Instituto Italiano de Cultura de Córdoba (Argentina).

OPEN TERRARIO/ Streaming Scenarios
PlayDramaturgia

Mateo Morral (an extraordinary crime) Saturday 24 November 5 p.m.

“Mateo Morral   (an extraordinary crime)” reconstructs the route taken by two people whose paths crossed one morning in May in 1906: Mateo Morral, 25 years old, a librarian, born in Sabadell and a convinced Anarchist; and Alfonso XIII, 20 years old, on the day of his wedding to Queen Victoria Eugenia. Mateo was waiting, on a balcony on Calle Mayor, for the royal party to go by. He threw a flower bouquet at them with a bomb hidden in it but a trolley wire knocked it to the side and it fell by the people on the street. Over 30 were killed, 100 wounded. Mateo ran away. Two days later, he was near Torrejón de Ardoz, by the banks of the Henares River. A guard named Fructuoso Vega recognized him. Mateo shot him and killed himself.

The route taken by the two performers will be broadcast as the follow in the steps of Mateo Morral, Alfonso XIII and Fructuoso Vega, as they tell us what happened. María Folguera will follow the steps of Mateo Morral, and David Priego those of Alfonso XIII. After crossing paths at the site of the terrorist attack, we will re-establish the connection at the bank of the Henares River, with María once again in the role of Mateo Morral, and David as Fructuoso Vega. The viewer can choose, at any time, which broadcast to follow. 

OPEN MONDO PIXEL ARSGAMES
Mondo Píxel

The Evolution of Perfection. Friday 2 November at 7 p.m.

Every so often products appear that improve what had seemed unbeatable. Two examples prove it: the Halo videogames series, in essence a constantly evolving epigenesis of the beautiful mechanical and graphic features already present in the first chapter of the saga, and Mondo Píxel, a reference for the press in the videogames sector whose successive mutations have made an unstoppable news diamond shine that started out as a blog. At the next Open Mondo Píxel meeting we will offer the amazing maturing rejuvenation of both: thanks to the expert work of the x6tence team, we will offer an absolute premiere of the evolved combat of the upcoming Halo 4, and among the competitions, prizes and contests generated from the Haloverse we will present to the world the revolution following perfection: Mondo Píxel Ultimate.