After many days of work, stress and fun, we seem to have managed to pull through 10 projects to showcase at O Espaço do Tempo! The exhibition opened yesterday, 12th July at Convento da Saudação and will remain in exhibit until the end of the month.
We also have a mini-site with bios of the authors and descriptions of the works, temporarily hosted here. Not only of the works present at the exhibition but also a few others developed during the residency that couldn’t be exhibited by one reason or another. Check them out!
Big thanks are in order to everyone at O Espaço do Tempo for the opportunity we had, and all the in loco support to our needs, you rock.
A Audiência Zero convida todos os interessados a submeterem propostas e/ou suguestões de actividades para o último trimestre do ano. Pretende-se, desta forma, alargar o leque de iniciativas desenvolvidas pela associação, integrar novas àreas e colaboradores, assim como aproximar o plano de actividades das necessidades sentidas pelo o público e pelos associados. O período de apresentação de propostas para os meses de Outubro, Novembro e Dezembro encontra-se aberto até dia 31 de Julho. Mais informação…
Na próxima quinta-feira, dia 15 de Julho, segunda edição da aula prática de electrónica, entre as 20h00 e as 24h00. Esta aula consiste numa introdução prática à electrónica através da apresentação e montagem em circuito dos principais componentes electrónicos. Informações e inscrição neste link.
2 days to go until the exhibit opening of the Audiencia Zero Labs residency at O Espaço Do Tempo!
A few folks seem to be missing in action. Mauricio is back with some news from Interactivos to lend us a hand on pending projects. Mónica and Pedro are still working on B-wind!. Margarida working on his robot Freddy. Victor Silva rehearsing his The Last Words of Dominico. Victor and Marco working on Discardable Beauty. Guilherme finishing his Róbotica Criativa works. And me finishing up Meta Gen Haiku. Catarina and Joel should also show up tomorow with their Micro Dérive.
Website with more info on the presented projects should go online soon. In the meantime if you should show up on Monday the 12th July in Montemor-O-Novo for the exhibit. We will have 7 projects installed under exhibition until the 31st July, and 2 liveacts presented on the exhibition day 12th July.
In the meantime we’ll leave you with some important t-shirt quote material we have recently acquired:
“48 horas são 6 dias de trabalho, em turnos de 8 horas”
“Eu só faço projection mapping quando estou bêbado”
“Não tens pincel para isso. Vai antes de rolo.”
“Queres falar ao telefone? Fala aí! *slap*”
LCD + AltLab + xDA
12 – 31 July 2010
Convento da Saudação | Montemor-o-Novo | Portugal
Exhibition: Monday to Friday – 6pm / 11pm | Saturday and Sunday – 4pm /11pm
Opening: 12th of July, 18h00
Artists : Catarina Mota | Filipe Cruz | Francesco Cerutti | Guilherme Martins | João Maia e Silva | Joël Belouet | Jorge Ribeiro | Pedro Ângelo | Margarida Faria | Maurício Martins | Mónica Mendes | Marco Moura | Mariana Ferreira | Mécia Sá | Ricardo Webbens | Sérgio Ferreira | Tiago Serra | Vitor Lago Silva | Victor Martins
This exhibition presents the results of a unique experiment. For 17 days, 30 members of the Audiencia Zero Labs from all over the country and also abroad lived and worked together on collective projects. New teams were formed, infinite ideas proposed, new tools and technologies experimented with, incredible adventures lived and new friends made. The projects at this exhibit are just the tip of the veil, the true impact of this experience is yet to come.
You thought we we’re dead. But the nerds in black were never gone.
AZ Residency at Espaço Tempo has resumed it’s course on the 14th July 2010, and we’ve been kicking it real with some hardcore project dev for a whole week now! Our main aim is to get all of these projects kicking and screaming on the 12th July for the big opening of the exhibition.
Catarina and Joel have spent their week fidling with some heavy duty MakerBot 3d printing trial and error. In between random python re-learning fast courses. They managed to pull out some awesome hacks, such as a makerbot microscope to observe bacteria and printing a nutella jesus on a toast.
Random project quotes include:
“if you believe, it will work”
“how big should we make jesus?”
“there is a bug in your LED”
“we have scientifically proven that yoghurt is not printable”
“only two jesus toasts and already out of nutella”
“what kind of jesus do you want?”
“there is a guy coming by on monday to get a jesus on a toast”
Meanwhile Francesco and Mariana been hard at work on their ant tracking project. Marco drawing some more Suicide Girls for his secret projection art installation project. Ricardo working on his thesis. Pedro and Mónica working some more on the RTiVISS (Real-Time Video Interactive Systems for Sustainability) project. Vitor upgrading his version of Attic Tesla / Last Words of Domenico performance. Margarida working on her arduino based reactive robot.
Myself and Tiago arrived yesterday night and been hard at work in our own projects aswell. Me preparing a release version of Gen Haiku, helping out with the webdev side of things on the iCookie fast-hack project and conjuring some evil plans for world domination preparing a liveact for the opening day of the exhibition. And Tiago working on his bus GPS tracking system app.
People are closing themselves inside glass aquariums. Web based social networks expose every single moment of our day-life routine as if we were living inside a glass house. Bloop is a commentary on this very unique moment of social networks incrustation, exploring the idea of “enfo” – redundant and useless information within the web. Two fishes inside a tank tend to communicate when close to each other. This moment triggers a random and unintelligible message that is sent to the emitter twitter’s account.
The bumblefish effect is a metaphor of a metaphor. It recalls the theory of the butterfly effect, which regards that small differences in the initial condition of a dynamical system may produce large variations in the long term behavior of the system. Thus, the simple flapping of a butterfly wings might eventually provoke a tornado in the extreme opposite of the earth.
A small bumblebee fish, causes a tea table to tremble with different degrees of intensity in relation with the fish distance to the ground of the aquarium. Small movements are thus transformed into a big mass of energy, simulating a small earthquake effect in another environment, the tea table. This object lives from the tension relation between the strength and noise effects provoked by the delicate and harmonious movements of the fish and from the expectation that a china piece might fall, leading the spectator to wait.
Já estão abertas as inscrições para as aulas práticas do LCD para os próximos meses de Junho e Julho de 2010. Para além de novas edições das aulas práticas de Introdução à Electrónica no dia 15 de Julho e da aula de Impressão 3D no dia 22 de Julho, vamos ter uma já no próximo dia 9 de Junho uma aula prática de Fotografia de Documentação, essencial para a divulgação de projectos:
E no dia 26 de Junho vamos ter a aula prática de Oficina, onde os participantes irão aprender a usar os meios da oficina do LCD para a montagem de uma instalação:
A mostra de projectos do LCD ocorreu no passado dia 15 de Maio e permitiu mostrar ao público em geral alguns dos projectos realizados no âmbito do laboratório durante esta edição de 2009/2010. Fica o vídeo para recordar alguns momentos:
Um grande agradecimento a todos os membros do laboratório que mostraram o seu trabalho e a todos aqueles que nos visitaram.
As aulas práticas do LCD são uma forma dos membros do laboratório poderem partilhar com a comunidade o conhecimento que vão adquirindo durante o desenvolvimento dos seus projectos.
Estas aulas consistem em sessões de trabalho orientadas com entre duas a quatro horas em que os participantes se envolvem na execução de mini projectos que lhes permitem adquirir e partilhar conhecimentos teóricos e práticos de uma forma informal.
Estas actividades arrancam já no próximo dia 27 de Maio com uma introdução à electrónica através da montagem de circuitos simples:
Para se inscreverem nesta aula basta darem um salto à página do CCT.
Na semana seguinte, no dia 3 de Junho, teremos uma aula prática de introdução à impressão 3D com a Makerbot CNC:
Para terem uma ideia das possibilidades desta ferramenta podem ler a reportagem sobre o workshop de impressão 3D que a Audiência Zero realizou em Lisboa durante o ano passado.
Podem-se inscrever nesta actividade na página do CCT.
