The organizers of Marginalia+Lab announce its open call for projects for its collaborative lab for creation and experimentation. Operating from september through december of 2009, Marginalia+Lab's laboratory will offer technical and technological support to the artists and financial support to cover expenses with their projects.

Proposals may use a diversity of technologies and lines of work, such as physical computing, locative media and computer vision to produce works and creative tools for installations, games, musical and audiovisual performances, performing arts, urban interventions and bricolage practices. The laboratory will incentivate the pursuit of homemade, lowcost, free or opensource solutions and will offer, in a partnership with Labmídia - Electronic Media Laboratory of the Social Communication Department of UFMG, a common space for the development of the works.

Prospective participants should apply by email until the 5th of september, attending for the orientations and conditions of the call. Projects in different development stages will be accepted, and proposals may be presented by individuals or groups of artists.

On the 9th of september, at Lagear - Graphic Laboratory for Architectonic Experimentaion, of the School of Architecture of UFMG, a project incubator will be hel, with the participation of the proponents, for the discussion and presentations of the proposals. After this date, the projects will go through a selection process, with the final announcement on the 11th of september.

throughout the operating period of the lab, it will promote meetings for the discussion of projects and for the sharing of processes, issiues and impasses faced bye the teams, in a methodology of constant collaboration among proponents, collaborators and pubic. Occasionally, artists and researchers will be invited to comment the projects and to discuss - in person or through online chat - the crossings between technology and aesthetical experimentation and methodologies for collaborative creation.

In the laboratories page, a wiki platform will serve as a space of constant documentation of the achieved works, offering both a constant record of the creation process and a repository of the knowledge produced, throughout the months. As extension of the collaborative methodology, all the content of the platform will be made available in a Creative Commons license, allowing the free access to the public and contributing for the creation of other works that come to use the same techniques and processes.