DATE AND TIME

20th of july, 8h-13h | 15h-20h
21st of july, 8h-13h

ENROLLMENT

Those interested should send en email for the address contact@marginaliaproject.com until the 16th of july, with full name, short cv and contact information. Places are limited.

DESCRIPTION

The workshop will introduce the participant for the creation of mobile phone applications with the goal to promote a reflextion about the concepts of the art & technology field related to locative media. The tools that will be studied and developed are: GPS location, media insertion (videos, audio and animations) played in the phone through the GPS and the creation and editing of the content in the free software tools Gimp and Audacity. The project will be developed through the tool walkingtools created by Brett Stalbaum and Cicero Silva. Workshop activities will include walks around the campus and the city.

Duration: 15h

COORDINATORS

Cicero Silva is a resarcher and professor of media, art and digital communications and coordinator of Software Studies Group in Brazil. He is currently a fellow researcher at the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) of University of California in San Diego (UCSD). He has written the book The Explorers: Open Source and Free Software in Brazil (with Jane de Almeida, in press, MIT Press).

Brett Stalbaum is an artist, professor and coordinator of the interdisciplinary program in Computer and Arts in the University of California in San Diego (UCSD), and has developed countless projects in the field of locative media, mentioned in books such as New Media Art (Mark Tribe, Taschen), among others.

TARGET

interested in art and technology, mobility, cellphones, locative media, students of communication, arts, design, media, computers, electrical engineering, advertising, journalism, radio and television, among others.

PREREQUISITE

Basic computer operation knowledge (Windows), and softwares such as Word, Excel, Power Point and some imaging software, notions of some programming language (PHP) and markup languages, such as HTML, among others. There is no need for consistent knowlege or programming skills, but it is necessary that the participant has seen a computer code and understands how it works.

PARTICIPANT'S MATERIAL

Though it is not strictly necessary, it is desirable that the participant brings his own laptob, cellphone (preferrably with GPS), and lots of motivation to program his first mobile phone software.