grid_lab: collaborative media and art journalism (Nerja and Malaga, Spain) Zapping Dance September 14, 2011 Prepared by: Marlon Barrios Solano Prepared for: Alexei Issacovitch
Goals and Objectives grid_lab Open Studio/Installation/Workshop The grid_lab is an open studio/workshop/installation conceived specially to transform a festival hub, gallery space or the theater lobby in an interactive lab for experiments on the use of Web 2.0 technology such as: social networking, post-pc technologies (IPads 2 and I Phones 4), video podcasting, locative media and live video broadcasting for art experiencing, on-line content production and distribution. The grid_lab creates a flexible connected space, adaptable for the needs of festival venues, facilitating direct participation of members of the local community as content producers. It facilitates the interaction with the global artistic and media community. It makes the production and distribution of art news and media a participatory/ collaborative exchange between the festival, the artists and the community. It creates an open forum for local and global interaction. Special video conferences and remote dialogues with international guests are scheduled. Screenings of selected high quality content relevant to the event may also be organized as part of the grid_lab activities.
Detailed Description: The grid_lab expands the potential of internet presence and memory bringing and sharing the most up to date technology advanced know-how in tandem with technological platforms for interaction and collaboration. It is conceived as an intervention of the festival or event site creating a "spectacle of information and knowledge" and its production with a collaborative approach. It becomes a communication hub deploying: B/Vlogging and micro-blogging and data mashups Video excerpts of performances and activities. LIVE broadcasts from venues and mobile stations. Dance Film and documentaries from dance-tech.tv based on the nature of the event in
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partnership with Cinedans (The Netherlands) TalkShow with live broadcast with guests from the event LIVE conversation with remote guests LIVE conections with another relevant events Locative/performative actions with QRcodes. Public Lecture on social media and arts. It deploys three interrelated modes: grid_lab Open Studio The lab is an open and mobile space with visible computers, monitors and computational portable devices. LCD screens fills the back wall of a space created with tables placed on an L shape layout. The grid_lab takes advantage of the highly engaged dance-tech.net on-line community and its production, distribution and transmission platforms: dance-tech.net, dance-techTV (productions and live streaming) and dance-tech.net interviews. Special arrangements can be done to broadcast relevant festival activities: lectures, performances, panel discussions and after performances sessions. Special activities and emphasis are designed in collaboration with the PR/marketing department and programming partner or hosting venue and are contingent to the technology available. All dance-tech.net platforms provide players and channels may be embedded in the hosting venue website site or blogs. The hosting venue might also open an account on dance-tech.net During hours of more visitors, the space will be in installation mode. The audience can watch the media produced during the lab. The media produced is processed in real time and projected in available screens creating a compelling visual performance/environment (see The Installation mode) grid_lab Workshop It is a workshop on social media, networked communication and collaborative creativity that takes place in the grid_lab space. The participants are introduced to the new internet, web 2.0 video production tools and use them to collaborate in the generation and distribution of information and news during the festival or event.They use the grid_lab setting as a space for experimentation on participatory journalism and new social media platforms. We discuss how technology creates new options of experience and interact interaction with art, culture, economics, knowledge production, geography and the aesthetics aspects of communication. The participants experiment with creative ways of using the technologies and their embedded in a cultural environment. They become participants media production team of event.
grid_lab Installation All video screens play the material produced by the participants as video loops, data mash-ups and video
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live streams. Images from interviews, performances are processed in real-time creating an semi-abstracted video environment mixing the media produced during the festival. The installation mode active pre/post performance.
Oriented to: Arts, journalism, new media student and professionals. Art management specialists. Filmmakers and journalists. Arts marketing, PR and audience development specialist.
grid_lab and embedded_vlogger were conceived and developed by marlon barrios solano with the support of: Gilles Jobin Company, Geneva Switzerland EXTRA Festival, Bonlieu Scène nationale , Annecy, France TEC ART ECO, Milan, Italy
embedded_vlogger and grid_lab are trademarks of dance- tech interactive llc New York, USA
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Other grid_labs The grid_lab and embedded_vlogger has been deployed in the following events: Extra 09, 10 and 11 Festival Annecy, France Performance Studies International, Utrecht, The Netherlands. TEC ART ECO 10/11, Como (Italy) and Lugano (Switzerland) Motion Bank Workshop, Forsythe Company, 2011, Frankfurt, Germany Panorama de Danca in 2009 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back, April 2011, Zagreb, Croatia Palucca Schulle (Summer Program 2010) , Dresden Germany MOV_S Madrid 10, Spain EMPAC, Troy, NY, 2010 Bearnstow, Maine, USA Grec/La Caldera 2010, Barcelona, Spain Earthdance, Mass, USA. Picnic, 09, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. CYNETART 09, 10 Dresden, Germany European Tele Plateaus 09-10 (Spain, Germany and Czech Republic) Amber 10 Festival, Istanbul, Turkey CIAO/UMYS 10, Warsaw, Poland Balkan Dance Platform 09, Novi Sad, Serbia PostME_New ID 08, Dresden Germany grid_lab was conceived and developed by marlon barrios solano with the support of: Gilles Jobin Company, Geneva Switzerland EXTRA Festival, Bonlieu Scène nationale , Annecy, France TEC ART ECO, Milan, Italy grid_lab are trademarks of dance- tech interactive llc New York, USA
Provided Technology: grid_lab provides: Ipads 2 and necessary apps 2 FlipCams
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Wireless keyboards 1 Macbook pro headphones HDMI cables DV Camera for broadcast WiFi airport extreme
The venue must provide: LCD SCREENS or projectors (surface for projection) Wireless Internet connection of industrial strength ( more than 10 G of speed). We can also work with mobile technology and local sim-cards or alternative strategies for upload and display. Recruitment strategy of participants Support to contact the artists involved Access to shows and rehearsals for all the participants (ID as grod_lab participants) Work tables, chairs and open space Lockable cabinet or room for equipment Technical support
About schedules Workshop times: 5 Instructional sessions are of 2 hours a day from 11am to 1 pm
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Lab times: from 2 to 6pm Shooting performances, interviews and spacial activities This makes 5 days of commitment by the participants. Total facilitations hours: 30 The grid_lab can formally start one day before the festival to allow planning of activities, etc. Marlon Barrios Solano will be present one two days before the festival starts . Dates for engagement: from October 23th to the 30th 2011
IMPORTANT NOTES ABOUT PUBLISHED MATERIALS @ grid_lab: Participants create their own accounts in twitter, fracebook and dance-tech.net and YouTube in order to experiment with social media from microvlogging to video vlogging. All the content is aggregated with a tag or hashtag that represents the event: nerjadanza11, gvasessions2011, amber10 There is an emphasis on video reportage and video podcasts that are published in all the dance-tech.net channels: http://www.dance-tech.net/video, ;http://dance-tech.tv/, http://www.youtube.com/user/dancetechtv All the content created during the events are released with a Creative Commons License:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).
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Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. The event producers are responsible to inform and obtain signed released agreements form the artists or featured content. dance-tech.net will collaborate with information and clarification. The work is presented as a collaboration with the event that will augment the internet presence of the artist and the event. All raw material and final content produced by the project is shared with the venues and the artists under the same conditions. About videos material from dance and art works: Ideally, dance-tech.net team must have access to rehearsals and performances are allowed to take video images with the consent of the artists. Artists may prefer to give relevant video material as video inserts for interviews. These material is given to dance-tech.net under the same conditions and license. No more than 3 minutes from performances are used.
Fee Summary grid_lab project FEE*
$2,000.00
This fee includes: workshop facilitation and installation. Equipment and software as mentioned before. *Negotiable
Project Total
$2,000.00
Transportation, room and board The venues commits to cover all expenses in: Transportation from central europe city the city venue (No budget airlines) Transportation from hotel to venue. Meals or per diem based on local standards (Europe) Hotel: must have FREE WiFi or strong internet connection.
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The above pricing is effective through October 15th. One half of total project fee is due upon arrival to venue city with remainder due upon project completion. The venue will report on advances and reimbursements made to Marlon Barrios Solano. Content of this proposal may be used for contract and invoicing.
Next Steps To proceed with this project, Zapping Dance is required take the following steps: 1. Accept the proposal as is or discuss desired changes. Please note that changes to the scope of the project can be made at any time, but additional charges may apply. 2. Finalize and sign contract. 3. Submit initial payment of 50% of total project fee. Once these steps have been completed we will begin the project with a kick off meeting to introduce relevant personnel and begin preliminary project activities.
Bank Information: Make payment via deposit or wired transfer to: Dance-tech Interactive LLC Swift Code: CHASUS33 ABA/Routing# 021000021 Account Number: 812017853 JPMorgan Chase Bank, NY, NY 253 Broadway New York, NY 10007-2347 (212) 349-0990
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