From the 20th to the 21st of july, Marginalia+Lab hosted the artists and researchers Cícero Silva [from São Paulo] and Brett Stalbaum [USA], who coordinated the first activity of the project, the workshop: "Making digital art with mobile phones - project WalkingTools". The activity was held in a laobratory of the Department of Social Communication of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, with the support of Labmídia, Electronic Media Laboratory of the institution, and of the Winter Festival of the University, which brought the artists to Minas Gerais for a workshop in Diamantina.

Throughout two days, the artists presented their project, named WalkingTools, and taught the participants how to use the software they developed to create applications using location aware resources of the phones [GPS] in the indexing of image and sound files. In walks around the campus, participants could get to know the functioning of the locative technologies available and also develop and test their own applications - some of them conceived as sketches of bigger projects.

First activity of Marginalia+Lab, this was also the first workshop coordinated by Cícero and Brett covering the project they have been developing, just a few days after the first version of the software with user friendly interface, the application HiperGps. It was a great oportunity to test the system, in which emerged not only new demands but also new collaborators for the project, that is developed in a free and open initiative, shared by a community of developers.

Further information about the coordinators and the workshop may be found at the page of the activity by clicking here.