[aha] Call for projects> Interactivos? Lima'08: Magic and Technology

[Difusion Medialab-Prado]

Open call for projects. Deadline: August 31, 2008

INTERACTIVOS? LIMA'08: MAGIC AND TECHNOLOGY

International Project Development Workshop
October 10 through 24, 2008
At the Cultural Center of Spain in Lima (Peru)

Organized by Medialab-Prado (The Arts Area - Town Hall of Madrid) and 
the Cultural Center of Spain in Lima (Spanish Agency for International 
Development Cooperation - AECID)

Call for the submission of projects to be developed as part of the 
Interactivos? Lima'08: Magic and Technology workshop, led by Julian 
Oliver (New Zealand/Spain), Clara Boj (Spain), Diego Díaz (Spain) and 
Kiko Mayorga (Peru). At the end of the workshop, projects will be 
exhibited at the Cultural Center from October 24 through November 6, 2008.

The call is aimed at artists, magicians, engineers, musicians, 
programmers, designers, architects, hackers, psychologists, or any other 
person interested in presenting a project on this topic.

Goals: to propose strategies of magic and illusion, in order to harness 
some of the old and new technological resources to collectively build 
software pieces and interactive installations which can propose a 
rethinking of the usual scenario in magic tricks; to broaden the topic 
through the exploration of the meanings of the magic concept within the 
local context of Peru; to propose magic and illusion as an approach for 
experiments on perception and attention, behaviour and social 
relationships; and to propose a critical viewpoint on the seduction of 
technology and its application on the spectacle as a tool of persuasion 
and control.

The proposals will be carried out in multidisciplinary work groups 
comprised by the author(s) and interested collaborators, with conceptual 
and technical advice from the teaching staff.

Open call for collaborators: September 15, 2008.

For information, complete call guidelines and submissions:
interactivoslima at ccelima.org
interactivos08 at medialab-prado.es
http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos_lima08_magia_y_tecnologia
http://www.ccelima.org/

-- 
Nerea García Garmendia
Medialab Prado
Área de Las Artes, Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Plaza de las Letras
Alameda, 15 28014 Madrid
Tfno. +34 914 202 754 
difusion at medialab-prado.es
www.medialab-prado.es