The lab's coordinators, Aline X, André Mintz and Pedro Veneroso are in Madrid for the event, with the support of the Interchange and Cultural Diffusion Program of the Ministry of Culture of Brazil. The activities will be published on the Lab's blog, mostly in Portuguese - but later translated to English.

More about the event on the website del Medialab-Prado

date and tim:
22nd of may, 16h 10 1h

place:
Cento e Quatro, Pça Rui Barbosa, 104 - Centro
Belo Horizonte/MG - Brazil

FREE ADMISSION

After its first year of activities, Marginalia+Lab holds on next saturday, the 22nd of may, the closing event of its first cycle of activities. On this date, artists that participated of the laboratory will present the results of their projects in an exhibition, seminar and performances. In the end of the evening, an electronic jam session with the djs Vnss, GutoLover and Retrigger and Gambionalia Orchestra will close the festivities.

The event will also launch the online magazine of the project, that will be online in bilingual edition with articles by invited critics and researchers, and the reports of the participant artists.

program:

With its continuity expected for this year, Marginalia+Lab will announce its activities in the next few months.

site:
Marginalia+Lab (Labmídia, 3º andar, Fafich/UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)

On December 12th, Marginalia+Lab promotes a meeting with Eduardo de Jesus, researcher and curator, professor of PUC-MG, for a talk about the projects being developed in the collaborative lab and related themes.

The meeting is open to the public, and there is no need to previously enroll. It will also be the last activity of Marginalia+Lab in the year of 2009.

Activities and the closing of the project planned for the first semester of 2010 will soon be published.

site:
Cento e Quatro - Praça Rui Barbosa, 104, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Marginalia+Lab promotes, on November 15th, meeting for the discussion and presentation of projects related to the intersection between art and technology. Proponents of the projects selected fo the collaborative lab and their teams will meet at 104, at Marginalia+Lab's exhibition at Vivo arte.mov, to talk about their works and experiments and to discuss themes related to their fields.

This month's guest is the artist, researcher and curator Marcus Bastos, from São Paulo, Brazil.

The meeting is open to the public, and there is no need to previously enroll.

place:
Cento e Quatro - Praça Rui Barbosa, 104, Belo Horizonte/MG - Brazil

projectis in exhibition:

• CZI: Corpo ZONA de Intervenção, by Cinthia Mendonça
• Deslocamentos, by Fernando Rabelo and Sérgio Mendes
• Espaço Processo, de Felipe Turcheti e Vicente Pessôa
• Furniture Processing, by Antônio Valladares, Luis Castilho and Marina Noronha
• Generator, by Júlia Valle and Luis Castilho

From the 12th to the 15th of november, Marginalia+Lab organizes and exhibition of five of the projects being developed in the lab at 104. The projects were selected in the category "Production Stimulus" and are being presented in their current developing phase. In the exhibition, prototypes, sketches, installations, technical projects and performances are being displayed, depicting the development process of the projects.

The event is part of the program of Vivo arte.mov, and is organized in a partnership between this event and Marginalia+Lab.

Also in the event, will be exhibited the results of the workshop coordinated by Bruno Vianna at Marginalia+Lab: "Invisibles: augmented reality for portable devices".

They are:

• Christiane Alves
• Emerson Nogueira
• Fernanda Duarte
• Fernanda Santos
• Fernando Senra
• Filipe Maia
• Hugo Baumecker
• Julião Villas
• Lucas Ferreira de Paula
• Natália Mizher
• Ricardo Cavaretti
• Roberto de Zordo
• Samir Araújo
• Vanessa Michelis
• Victor Dias
• Vinícius Araujo Horta Guimarães

date and time:
5th to 7th and 9th to 11th of november from 18 to 22h [on november 7th workshop will be from 14 to 18h]

place:
Marginalia+Lab - Labmídia - Electronic Media Laboratory / 3rd floor FAFICH / Federal University of Minas Gerais - Avenida Antônio Carlos, 6627 – Campus Pampulha - Belo Horizonte / MG - Brazil

From the 5th to the 11th of november, Marginalia+Lab organizes, in a partnership with Vivo arte.mov, the workshop "Invisibles: augmented reality for mobile devices", coordinated by Bruno Vianna

The workshop approaches technologies and applications of augmented reality, introducing the participantes to the development of mobile phone applications oriented for Mobile Python programming language. During the activity, a augmented reality environment will be developed, being exhibited after the workshop in 104, as part of Vivo arte.mov program.

Inscriptions should be made until wednesday, 4th of november, through the email lab@marginaliaproject.com, including full name, short cv, motivation letter and contact information.

For further information, click here.]]> Tue, 01 Nov 2009 00:30:00 -0300 oct 20 workshop http://www.marginaliaproject.com/lab/en/news/021 Marginalia+Lab announces the list of selected participants for the workshop: "Arduino: interfaces for the interaction with images and sounds".

They are:

• André Veloso Junqueira
• Anielle Freitas
• Antônio Valladares
• Bruno Assis
• Cinthia Mendonça
• Cláudio Fernando Pinto
• Daniel Mariz
• Daniel Reis Ribeiro
• Gabriela Rabelo Andrade
• Guilherme Bahia
• Guilherme Vasconcelos
• Hugo Corgosinho
• Isabela Lages
• Koji Pereira
• Leo Moraes
• Luis Castilho
• Marcos Paulo Machado
• Mateus Stralen
• Sérgio Mendes
• Vanessa Michelis
• Victor Dias

place:
LABMÍDIA - Electronic Media Laboratory / 3rd floor, FAFICH - Federal University of Minas Gerais - Campus Pampulha - Belo Horizonte/MG, Brazil

guests:
Cláudio Santos and José Cabral

On the 17th of october, Marginalia+Lab organizes its second meeting for discussion and presentation of art and technology projects. The teams of the projects selected for the collaborative laboratory and their guests will meet at LABMÍDIA - Electronic Media Laboratory, FAFICH, UFMG - to talk about their works and experiments and to discuss themes related to their research fields.

This month, the meeting has the participation of guests Cláudio Santos - artist - and José Cabral Filho - researcher.

The activity is open for public participation with no need for previous enrollment.]]> Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:30:00 -0300 oct 13 workshop http://www.marginaliaproject.com/lab/en/news/019 inscrições:
13th to 19th of october

date and time:
21st to 23rd and 26th to 28th of october from 19 to 22h

place
LAGEAR - Graphic Laboratory for Architectonic Experimentaion / Architecture School of UFMG - Rua Paraíba, 697 - Centro - Belo Horizonte/MG - Brazil

Marginalia+Lab organizes, from the 21st to the 28th of october the workshop "Arduino: interfaces for the interaction with images and sounds", coordinated by Fernando Rabelo, artist recently awarded with the 8th Sérgio Motta Art and Technology Award, given by Sérgio Motta Institute.

The workshop is an introduction to the use of the open hardwareArduino and is aimed at enthusiasts of electronics, art and DIY interested in designing interactive spaces that use different sensors to react with images and sounds. Complementary, will be presented the software Isadora and the concept of modular programming.

Enrollment period goes until monday, 19th of october, and should be made through the email lab@marginaliaproject.com, including full name, short cv, motivation letter and contact information.

For further information click here.]]> Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:30:00 -0300 sept 30 laboratory http://www.marginaliaproject.com/lab/en/news/018 Marginalia+Lab calls upon people interested in participating in the development of the 10 proposals selected for its collaborative laboratory. Participation is free in one or more of the developing projects.

Prospective collaborators should email lab@marginaliaproject.com with a brief cv and the names of the projects whose teams they would like to compose. Enrollment can be made in any moment of the laboratory's operation period, which goes through the end of december of 2009.

Selected projects' description can be found at the laboratory's page, clicking here.

In the category "Production Stimulus", five projects in advanced development phase were selected, and they should get to the final work or its prototype by the end of the lab's operation. In the category "Research and Experimentation Stimulus", five other projects were selected, in a less advanced stage, which will continue their experiments as a way to mature their proposals, technically and conceptually.

Compose the "Production Stimulus" category:

• CZI: Corpo ZONA de Intervenção, de Cínthia Mendonça
• Generator, de Luís Castilho
• Furniture Processing, de Antônio Valladares
• Espaço Processo, de Vicente Pessôa
• Deslocamentos, de Fernando Rabelo

Compose the "Research and Experimentaion Stimulus" category:

• Telas Livres, de Hugo Corgosinho
• Detector de Poluição Sonora, de Vanessa Michelis
• Poesia Congelada, de Koji Pereira
• Desenhos, derivas, de Angélica Beatriz
• MartialEX, de Fabiano Fonseca

Since the 23rd of september, Marginalia+Lab is carrying out the workshop "Introduction to Gambiologic Studies I", with Gambiologia project, formed by Fred Paulino and Lucas Mafra. In the first day, the coordinatores presented their works and the aesthetic proposals of Gambiologia, also with the participation of the artist Paulo Henrique "Ganso" Pessoa, founder of Gambiologia.

In the other days, workshop participants split up in groups for the development of different DIY noisy devices, such as an eight channel mixer, the Atari Punk Console and many other circuit bent sound toys. For the last day of the workshop, a gambiological jam session will be organized, using the devices developed.

Integrants of the Azucrina collective participated of te workshop and will take the activity even further, organizing another musical performance named Gambionalia Orchestra. The performance will be at Interferencia - minicircuit Azucrinoise, by the 2nd of october, 19h30. Further information at the collective's blog.

date and time:
23rd to 25th and 28th to 30th of september, 19 to 22h

place:
Labmídia - Electronic Media Laboratory - Fafich
UFMG - Campus Pampulha - Belo Horizonte/MG - Brazil

The enrollment period for the workshop "Introduction to Gambiologic Studies I", with Gambiologia project, formed by Fred Paulino and Lucas Mafra, were extended until the 22nd of september. Prospective participantes should enroll through the email lab@marginaliaproject.com, including full name, brief cv, motivation letter and contact information. Selected participantes will be announced by the 23rd of september, in the morning.

Further information clickinghere

date and time:
23rd to 25th and 28th to 30th of september, 19 to 22h

place:
Labmídia - Electronic Media Lab - Fafich
UFMG - Campus Pampulha - Belo Horizonte/MG - Brazil

Marginalia+Lab organizes, from the 23rd and 30rd of september the workshop "Introduction to Gambiologic Studies I, coordinated by Gambiologia Project [Fred Paulino and Lucas Mafra].

Gambiologia is a construction of electronic devices with an antropofagic accent. Reusing devices, it brings a new meaning to the technological context by assuming a posture of creatively recontextualizing materials usually understood as jetsam. The elaboration of artifacts in an improvised way portrays the spontaneity of the everyday of big cities and proposes a reflection about the perishability, deterioration and reinvention of technology.

The workshop proposes and introduction to gambiologic theory through the construction of low-tech music instruments. Reusing equipments, toys and different sound emitters, the workshop will approach different themes, like high and low level electronics, circuit bending, improvised industrial design and tecno-canibalism.

Enrollment period goes until saturday, 19th of september, and should be made through the email lab@marginaliaproject.com, including full name, short cv, motivation letter and contact information.

For further information click here.]]> Tue, 15 Sept 2009 12:00:00 -0300 sept 11 meeting http://www.marginaliaproject.com/lab/en/news/013

Held the last wednesday, 9th of september, the projects incubator promoted the meeting of projects enrolled at the art and technology collaborative lab of Marginalia+Lab, for the presentation and discussion of projects, which cover many areas of the creative experimentation of technological resources. The meeting was attended by more than 20 participants, including proponents and members of their developing teams. In the meeting, 14 projects were presented, from teh 21 enrolled, all of them exploring expressive possibilities of digital resources, programming and electronics in the creation of installations, performances, urban interventions, furniture design, fashion, among others.

The meeting was held at Lagear - Graphic Laboratory for Architectonic Experimentation, of the School of Architecture of UFMG. José Cabral Filho, the laboratories coordinator, was present at the meeting and participated of the talk with proponents, enriching the debate of the proposed ideas. Rodrigo Minelli also joined the debate, he is professor of the Social Communication Department and coordinator of Labmídia - Electronic Media Laboratory, which will host the project development activities of Marginalia+Lab. Rodrigo also coordinates Arte.Mov - International Mobile Media Art Festival, co-organizer of Marginalia+Lab, that, this year, reaches its 4th edition and holds an open call for its Locative Media Award.

Due to the great number of presented proposals and aiming to cover, in available resource distribution, common interest fields of the projects, the announcement of the selected proposals was postponed to next wednesday, 16th of september.

Further information about the meeting and presented projects can be found in the activity's page, by clicking here.]]> Fri, 11 Sept 2009 12:00:00 -0300 sept 8 laboratory http://www.marginaliaproject.com/lab/en/news/012 This afternoon, the call for art and technology projects for Marginalia+Lab's collaborative creation and experimentaion lab was closed. The call received applications of many different media, which aim at creating installations, websites, performances, dance shows, musical instruments, fashion design, furniture, among others, with the creative and experimental use of technological resources, incorporating them to the aesthetics of the work.

Tomorrow, 9th of september, a project incubator will be held, with the participation of the proponents for the presentation and discussion of their projects. The meeting starts at 19h and will be hosted by Lagear - Graphic Laboratory for Architectonic Experimentaion of the School of Architecture of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, by Paraíba street with Gonçalves Dias street, in Savassi, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Selected projects will be announce by the 11th of september, they will get Marginalia+Lab's support for their achievement, and, soon, informations about them will be available at Marginalia+Lab's website, along with the call for collaborators interested in joining the projects' developing team

new deadline: 12h of the 8th of september
project incubator: 9th of september

Click here to download the lab's rules [in Portuguese].

Marginalia+Lab announces the extened deadline for its call for art and technology projects to be developed in its collaborative laboratory. The new deadline expirates by 12h of the 8th of september. Selected projects will get technical and technological support for their achievement, a financial support, and will integrate a collaborative space for experimentation, along other participants and collaborators.

inscrições: 25/08 - 05/09
project incubator: 9th of september

Click here to download the laboratories rules [in Portuguese].

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.

Even so, it wasn't possible, unfortunately, to include all, and the selection sought the organization of a diverse group, composed by professionals and students of different areas.

The selected are:

• Allan Rafael Dias Marques
• Angélica Beatriz
• Anielle Kelly Vilela Freitas
• Artur de Léos
• Davi Mota
• Débora Pessali
• Eduardo Loureiro
• Felipe Abranches
• Felipe Raphael Lopes Ivanicska
• Gabriela Rabelo
• Henrique Marques
• Janaína Patrocínio
• Júlia Valle
• Julius
• Lucas Araújo Sander Silva
• Luciana Rothberg
• Marcelo Bicalho
• Marcelo XY
• Mariana Discacciati
• Mariano Santoro Gomes
• Marina Noronha
• Natália Freitas de Oliveira
• Nélio Costa
• Rodrigo Pazzini
• Vicente Pessôa

The selected participants will be announced at the project's website today, 21st of august, around noon, with simultaneous email notification of the enrolled. The workshop will be held from the 25th through the 29th of august at Grafo - Graphic Arts Laboratory of the School of Fine Arts of UFMG.

The workshop is aimed at those interested in the audiovisual, graphic and interactive possibilities of digital media with little or no programming experience, and will cover the basic notions in software development applied to the free developing environment Processing. Classes will be coordinated by the integrants of Marginalia Project, which has been developing a series of visual and interactive arts pieces with the use of this platform and derived projects.

Those interest should apply by emailing their name, phone, brief cv and motivation letter for the address lab@marginaliaproject.com until the 20th of august. Those that own a laptop computer (Mac, Linux or Windows) that they will use at the activity, plese inform so that the available computers can be better distributed.

Places are limited and selected participants will be notified by email on the 21st of august. The workshop will be held at night in the weekdays and in the morning of saturday. Further information can be found in the section 'workshops' of the website or by clicking here.

We apologize for some sections are still unavailable. The website is a platform in constant building and rebuilding, fed by the own pace of the activities. And since we are still in the beginning, there is a lot of things yet to happen.

One can already find, nevertheless, informations about the first activity of the project, the workshop "Making digital art with mobile phones: WalkingTools project", coordinated by Cícero Silva and Brett Stalbaum, achieved in the context of Marginalia+Lab at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humane Sciences of the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Come back and signup for the project's rss to be updated with our news.]]> Mon, 27 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0300 jul 22 workshop http://www.marginaliaproject.com/lab/en/news/005 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.

Twenty participants should attend, covering different backgrounds, such as art, graphic design, web design, communication, computing and architecture.]]> Wed, 20 Jul 2009 08:00:00 -0300 jul 17 workshop http://www.marginaliaproject.com/lab/en/news/003 Announced below is the list of participants selected for the workshop "Making digital art with mobile phones: WalkingTools Project".

• Adriana Neto Silva
• André Veloso Junqueira
• Bruno Morais de Assis
• Carols Falci
• Cassiano Rabelo
• Débora Pessali
• Eduardo Batista Oliveira Santos
• Erick Ricco
• Felipe Ivanicska
• Felipe Sartoreto
• Fred Paulino
• Giselle Galvão
• Gustavo Jardim
• Leonardo Freitas
• Lucas Santos Junqueira
• Nélio Costa
• Rafael Gil Santos
• Sérgio Mendes
• Tatu Guerra
• Victor Santos

Places are limited. We ask the interested public to email name, phone and brief cv for the address contact@marginaliaproject.com until the 16 of july, thursday. Further information can be found at the page of the activity, by clicking here.