Feedback focuses on art responsive to instructions, input, and creates one possible narrative of the history of new media art. Gameworld refers to the designed world within a video game. Extensions Anchor is an open coordinated network of exhibitions and interventions conceived to connect Laboral with its surrounding environs.
Feedback / Gameworld / Extensions
LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries is specifically focused on the
production and exhibition of art, science, technology and creative industries. This
interdisciplinary space pays special attention to workshops for vocational and
professional training, and to research into the intersection between creativity and
new technologies.
FEEDBACK
Curators: Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York; Jemima Rellie, Director of Digital Programmes, Tate Modern, London
Curatorial Advisor: Charlie Gere, Research Professor in New Media, University of
Lancaster
Focuses on art responsive to instructions, input, or its environment and creates one
possible narrative of the history of ‘new media art’. Featuring historical and
current art works that are all based on technology and systems of response, the
exhibition traces the history of contemporary artistic practice involving digital
technologies.
GAMEWORLD
Curator: Carl Goodman, Deputy Director, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria (New York)
Gameworld refers to the designed world within a video game; the emerging artistic,
industrial and academic ecology surrounding video games; and the extent to which
lived experience is being coloured by video games, their forms of representation and
their techniques of machine-mediated interaction.
LABcyberspaces
Following an open invitation to artists all over the world to present works with a
major component of digital creation and net art. The 10 selected works will be put
on show as a snapshot or overview of artistic creation associated with technology
and cyberspace as new challenges and new frontiers.
Jury: Alex Adriaansens, Director, V2 and DEAF, Rotterdam; Rosina Gomez-Baeza,
Director of laboral Centre for Art and Creative Industries (Asturias);
Christiane Paul, Curator of New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York; Gerfried Stocker, Art Director, Ars Electronica, Linz
Development of presentation: Manuela Pfaffenberger
Exhibition Design: Quero-Kawamura-Ganjavian
EXTENSIONS-ANCHORS
Curator: Francisco Crabiffosse, independent curator, Oviedo
Artists: Pablo Armesto, Paco Cao, Maite Centol, , Soledad Cordoba, Carlos
Coronas, Juan Fernandez, Dionisio Gonzalez, Adolfo Manzano, Juan Carlos Martínez, Natalia Pastor, Fernando Redruello, Avelino Sala, Cuco Suarez and Aurora Suarez.
This project is an open coordinated network of exhibitions and/or interventions
conceived to connect the new Centre for Art and Creative Industries with its
surrounding environs and artists, with a goal of recovering the tradition of
dialogue between arts and industry. The project will feature work by young artists
or those particularly engaged with non-commercial and minority idioms, with a total
of fourteen exhibitions or interventions in two phases.
Contemporary digital art and experimental music show, a first in Asturias, with the
participation of precursors of electronic music and up and coming names.
Opening Programme, 30th March through 1st April
Laboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial
La Universidad Laboral s/n - Gijon