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Call for projects on digital facades:</small><br>
Open Up</b></big><b><br>
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Deadline: </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>December
10, 2009 </b><b><br>
</b>Dates of the workshop: <b>February 9 through 23, 2010<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Worskhop tutors: <b>Jordi
Claramonte, Chandler McWilliams, Casey Reas,</b> and <b>Víctor Viña</b>.
Directed and coordinated by <b>Nerea Calvillo</b>.<b> </b><b><br>
</b>Venue: <b>Medialab-Prado</b> in Madrid (Spain).<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Open Up is a workshop for
the development of projects for the digital façade in Medialab-Prado's
building. This call is addressed to the presentation of proposals to be
collaboratively developed during the workshop-seminar taking place in
Madrid from February 9 through 23, 2010.<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">The goal is to explore the
relation between the urban screen and public space, to experiment with
the screen’s communicative, narrative and visual capacities and to
investigate its potential to offer new forms of participation such as
receiving and participating in the different phases of content
production. Selected projects will be developed under the supervision
of teachers, technical assistants and an extensive group of
collaborators.<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Projects presented in this
call will have to explore aspects such as: </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">development of strategies for
public participation, </font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">activation
of urban space through the screen, foster</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> public visibility of agents that
normally have none, visualization of </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">public collectives; interaction
with</font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> portable devices,
etc.<br>
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">All those interested in
collaborating in one of the selected projects can sign in from <b>J</b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>anuary 5 through February 8,
2010</b></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">.</font><br>
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Check the call guidelines</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"> and s</font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">ubmit your project before </font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><b>December 10, 2009</b></font><font
face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">.<b> </b>No entry fees.<b><br>
</b></font><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><a
href="http://medialab-prado.es/article/open_up">http://medialab-prado.es/article/open_up</a><br>
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More information and call guidelines:<br>
medianeralab (at) medialab-prado.es<br>
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Venue:</b><br>
Medialab-Prado<br>
Plaza de las Letras<br>
Calle Alameda, 15<br>
28014 Madrid (Spain)<br>
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Nerea García Garmendia
Comunicación / Press
Medialab-Prado
Área de Las Artes, Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Plaza de las Letras
Alameda, 15 28014 Madrid
Tfno. +34 914 202 754
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"Antes de imprimir este documento asegúrate de que es realmente necesario. ¡Gracias por tu colaboración!"
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