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<H2><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color=#000000>CALL FOR PROJECTS</FONT></H2>
<H2><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color=#000000>INTERACTIVOS? México'08: Technologies of Laughter<BR></FONT></H2><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color=#000000><B>From August </B><B>1 through 16, 2008<BR>Submissions Deadline: June 8<BR></B></FONT>
<P><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color=#000000>Led by: Zachary Lieberman (USA), Leslie García (Mexico) & Alejandro Tamayo (Colombia)<BR></FONT></P><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color=#000000>A maximum of 10 projects will be carried out in a workshop held at the Centro Multimedia (National Arts Centre) in <B>Mexico DF</B> from <B>1 to 16 August 2008</B>. At the end of the workshop, the projects will be exhibited at the Cultural Centre of Spain in Mexico from 16 August to 14 September 2008.<BR><BR><B>The workshop aims to use open hardware and software tools to create prototypes that explore the relations between machines and humor/laughter. </B>The workshop aims to explore questions such as: <BR>What mechanisms lead to laughter? And what about its social and political implications? What happens if we understand laughter as a possible form of communication between humans and machines? Can machines have a sense of humor or make
us laugh? What kind of narratives/machines can be built to provoke various feelings related to laughter?<BR></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color=#000000><BR></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color=#000000><B>Medialab-Prado will cover lodging at a youth hostel and flight expenses for the authors of the selected projects and papers </B>(one person per project/paper)<B>.</B><BR></FONT><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" color=#000000><BR></FONT><FONT color=#000000><SMALL><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><BIG><B>More information:<BR><BR></B><B><A href="http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos_mexico08_tecnologias_de_la_risa" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT color=#003399>http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos_mexico08_tecnologias_de_la_risa</FONT></A></B></BIG></FONT></SMALL><FONT face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><BR><B><A class=moz-txt-link-abbreviated
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Nerea García Garmendia
Medialab Prado
Área de Las Artes, Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Plaza de las Letras
Alameda, 15 28014 Madrid
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