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In the 1980s, Joi Ito traded in library tables at the University of Chicago for turntables at Chicago’s Smart Bar. But his attempt to evade academia wouldn’t stick. The two-time college dropout became director of the MIT Media Lab in 2011, making the 50-year-old an academic administrator at one of the most renowned universities in the world. Before that, he was an entrepreneur who started a number of his own companies and invested in the likes of Flickr, Twitter and Kickstarter. A proud supporter of “responsible disobedience” — the lab is awarding its first $250,000 Disobedience Award this July — Ito is in Chicago Wednesday as a Chicago Ideas speaker. He will appear with IDEO Chicago Executive Portfolio Director Neil Stevenson at an event to discuss Chicago’s role in “embracing culture, art and experimentation.” Blue Sky talked to Ito — whose interdisciplinary media lab focuses on the creative use of digital technology, sciences, arts and design — about the disobedience mindset....
https://www.media.mit.edu/disobedience
Founded in 2009 and generously supported by the College of Media, Communication and Information as well as the Department of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the motto of the Media Archaeology Lab (MAL) is that “the past must be lived so that the present can be seen.” Nearly all digital media labs are conceived of as a place for experimental research using the most up-to-date, cutting-edge tools available. By contrast, the MAL – which very well might be the largest of its kind in the world – is a place for cross-disciplinary experimental research and teaching using still functioning media from the past. The MAL is propelled equally by the need to both preserve and maintain access to historically important media of all kinds – from magic lanterns, projectors, typewriters to personal computers from the 1970s through the 1990s – as well as early works of digital literature/art which were created on the hardware/software housed in the lab. Just in terms of our collection of digital devices, we currently have 35 portables/laptops, 73 desktop computers, 22 handheld devices, 8 other computing devices, and 10 game consoles.
Depuis les années 80, l’activité humaine poursuit sa métamorphose « digital » passant d’îlots automatisés à une numérisation globale de la société, toujours plus hybridée à notre travail, notre créativité et notre intimité. LES ARTS CODÉS est un lieu de recherche, de création et de production partagé par plusieurs partenaires qui investissent la conjugaison des savoir-faire traditionnels et de la programmation, vers un possible entre artisanat et micro-industrie numériques. Notre collaboration est riche à la fois d’exigences nouvelles par rapport au travail mais aussi d’expériences concrètes qui permettent de toucher du doigt des façons originales de produire, d’innover, de collaborer, de concevoir...
Proposé et coordonné par Thierry Fournier (artiste, curateur et chercheur), avec J. Emil Sennewald (critique, journaliste et enseignant-chercheur), le groupe de recherche Displays vise à interroger et expérimenter les formes de l’exposition dans un contexte post-numérique, qui se caractérise par une présence permanente du numérique et du réseau dans l’ensemble de la culture et des pratiques. Cette évolution a d’ores et déjà transformé les œuvres, les modes de collaboration, les pratiques curatoriales, la critique et la médiation, le public et son regard. Elle implique aussi une prise en compte de la matérialité du numérique et de ses processus, après une période historique marquée par une idéologie de la dématérialisation. Une porosité s’instaure également entre les pratiques, comme par exemple celles des artistes, des commissaires et du public dans le cas de la curation – pratique de réinterprétation et d’échange attestant du statut conversationnel des médias... The research group Displays – created and coordinated by Thierry Fournier (artist, curator and researcher) with J. Emil Sennewald (critic, journalist, lecturer and researcher) – aims to question and experiment with the exhibition forms in a post-digital context, that is pervaded by the presence of digital technology and the Internet throughout both culture and practices. This evolution has already transformed artworks, collaboration modes, curatorial practices, art criticism, art education and outreach, audiences, and how they look at art. It also entails an acknowledgment of digital materiality and of its processes, after a historical period marked by an ideology of dematerialization. Furthermore, a certain porosity has set in between practices – for example, between those of artists, curators and audiences, in the case of curation – a practice that involves reinterpretation and exchanges, which attests to the conversational status of media...
Our interests are diverse, and we do not agree on everything. Some of our research includes privacy, surveillance, code, art, social hacking, race, capitalism, anonymity, the infrastructures of the 21st century and useful skills in tangible situations. Members of Deep Lab are engaged in ongoing critical assessments of contemporary digital culture, and work together to exploit the potential for creative inquiry lying dormant in the deep web. Our research is conducted independently as well as collaboratively. The process is manifested by our network and both seperate and shared knowledge/expertise between members. Some of our work is secret, anonymous and private. Other inquiries are public; released as lecture series, publications, contemporary art, public programming and/or performances...
Le lab d'Eastern Bloc est un espace pour la recherche et la production de l’art résidant à l’intersection de la technologie et de la science. Le lab est une plateforme pour l’expérimentation, l’éducation et la pensée critique en ce qui concerne les pratiques hybrides, interactives, mises en réseau et menées par un processus. Au travers d'un discours mené par les artistes, le lab fournit un espace inclusif pour l’exploration de la culture numérique contemporaine en ce qui a trait aux préoccupations sociétales. Le lab d’Eastern Bloc est conçu principalement, mais pas exclusivement, pour les artistes émergents locaux et internationaux. Notre but est de permettre l’évolution d’un espace de création d’art numérique à travers la déconstruction du langage numérique et la compréhension des systèmes et mécanismes fondamentaux de l’électronique. Le lab d'Eastern Bloc est membre du réseau canadien LabàLab.
Deux ans après la création de l'Institut Culturel, Google va aujourd'hui encore plus loin en ouvrant un espace physique de 340 m2 au sein du Googleplex parisien : Le Lab de l'Institut Culturel. Une équipe dédiée y travaille afin de faire de la technologie une ressource essentielle à la culture. Les missions du Lab de l'Institut Culturel - Favoriser les échanges : le Lab est un lieu de partage avec la communauté culturelle afin d’étudier l'usage des nouvelles technologies et de détecter les tendances de demain. Des ateliers technologiques, des séminaires et des artistes en résidence permettront de faire de ce lieu un véritable hub où experts culturels et ingénieurs pourront partager leurs idées, mettre en oeuvre des projets d'innovation et travailler sur de nouveaux prototypes.
- Encourager la recherche et le développement : Le Lab a pour vocation d'encourager la recherche et le développement au service de la culture. C’est un nouvel outil au service du projet de l’Institut : donner accès aux richesses culturelles au plus grand nombre, en nouant des partenariats dans le monde entier. C'est un incubateur d’idées et une invitation aux musées, archives, communautés créatives, startups culturelles, professionnels de l’éducation, experts et artistes à nous rejoindre pour imaginer quelles solutions nous pouvons élaborer ensemble.
*Le Lab de l'Institut Culturel n’est ni un musée, ni une galerie. C’est un espace de travail et d’échanges. Il ne sera pas ouvert au public en dehors d’événements ponctuels.
Through media and virtual promote knowledge sharing multi directionally. We encourage multidisciplinary creation, technological appropriation, collaborative work, freedom of knowledge, and the formation of critical thinking, in order to contribute to the effective transformation of social, political and economic relations and of our community.
We sat down with MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte and current director Joi Ito to talk about some of the lab's biggest contributions.
For the last 30 years, the MIT Lab has been a breeding ground for technological progress that’s pushed the world into the future. Touchscreens, e-Ink, GPS, wearables—all of these technologies got their start at the Cambridge, Mass., lab, which is known for its cross-disciplinary approach to research. We sat down with Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte and current director Joi Ito to talk about some of the lab’s biggest contributions from the last three decades...
Labàlab est un événement périodique organisé par le Conseil québécois des arts médiatiques (CQAM) qui vise à favoriser l'échange d'idées et la mise en commun de ressources entre les organisations en arts numériques au Québec. Labàlab s'adresse aux centres d'artistes, aux laboratoires médiatiques, aux centres de recherche et création, aux artistes et aux entreprises offrant des services dans le domaines de la technologies pour les arts et le spectacle.
LabàLab est un réseau qui permet de regrouper les laboratoires médiatiques québécois qu’ils soient issus du milieu artistique, communautaire ou académique. LabàLab organise régulièrement des activités et anime une plateforme web qui visent à favoriser l'échange d'idées et la mise en commun de ressources. LabàLab est une communauté de pratique qui se veut collaborative et ouverte et appelle à la contribution de tout artiste, bidouilleur, technologue, hacker, chercheur, activiste, et travailleur culturel.
Rencontres et discussions, autour des pratiques activistes et artistiques issues de l'open source et du open hardware, et autour des modèles d'organisation, d'échange et d'apprentissage qui leur sont directement associés. Avec Owen Kelly, Brendan Howell, Maite Carajaville, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Susanne Palzer et le Collectif Dardex.
Le département Communication / Hypermédia défend l’Image. L’Image avec un grand « I » au sens d’informations visuelles. Dans une société dite de l’image, ce département s’affirme en ce début du XXIème siècle au cœur de l’Europe et du Monde, au cœur des questions de ses contemporains sur la création et diffusionde données informationnelles liées aux médias numériques.
A la frontière étendue et poreuse entre le quotidien, l’entreprise, l’art et les médias, la communication n’est pas ici considérée comme un système ou un modèle mais comme une invention permanente, à expérimenter dans sa dimension critique, esthétique et professionnelle. . Associé à ce département, G-SICA, groupe interlaboratoire sur l’Image, la Communication et les Arts numériques (Université de Savoie), composé de chercheurs et d’artistes, développe une recherche volontairement interdisciplinaire. Des travaux, engagés autant sur les territoires de l’anthropologie visuelle que la communication, la sociologie des usages, les scénarios interactifs, le motion design, l’art vidéo, la réalité augmentée, les dispositifs immersifs, les installations interactives (alternate reality games), les serious game ou le documentaire, les arts numériques… interrogent la place du corps. Comment celui-ci fait signe et inversement pourquoi le signe – associé à ce dernier – devient un langage du corps ? Plusieurs nouveaux projets sont actuellement en cours de réalisation…
The Alternate Anatomies Lab is an interdisciplinary lab that interrogates the aesthetics, the ethics and the engineering of prosthetics, robotics and virtual systems. Its interest encompasses the post-modern condition, post-humanism, identity, embodiment and the evoking of agency in machine systems. Thus it creatively incorporates biomechanics and biomimicry in exploring aliveness with robots. AAL aims to generate concepts of the future that can be contested, critically examined and possibly appropriated.
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Le Collectif est un réseau d’acteurs culturels qui œuvre pour le rapprochement entre les structures. Aussi, pensons nous toutes nos interventions en terme de mutualisation. Nous sommes un lieu ressource structurant pour le département et les institutions, un lieu également de questionnement pour les acteurs culturels tout en étant force de propositions dans le débat culturel et la mise en œuvre d’actions complexes. L’association regroupe : - des équipements culturels (médiathèques, cinémas…)
- des équipements d’enseignement artistique
- des structures sociales (Culture du cœur…)
- des structures en lien avec les publics
- des centres de recherche (universités, grandes écoles, laboratoires…)
Le pôle Art & Science du Collectif pour la Culture en Essonne se donne pour mission de constituer : - un pôle ressource qui vient en support de « La Science de l’Art » en permettant aux artistes et aux scientifiques convaincus de l’intérêt de croiser leurs réflexions, de se rencontrer plus facilement et d’élaborer un projet commun.
- un pôle fédérateur qui œuvre, en concertation avec les principaux acteurs du département essonnien, d’île de France et des grandes régions, à la mutualisation des savoirs et des pratiques des champs artistiques et scientifiques sur l’ensemble du territoire.
- un pôle transdisciplinaire à vocation plus large de veille (nationale, européenne et internationale) sur l’évolution de l’axe Art, Science et Société, dans le but d’éviter la défragmentation des savoirs et des connaissances et d’aller vers des systèmes éducatifs et de recherche privilégiant l’échange et la transdisciplinarité expérimentale.
Le groupe ICA—ACROE, ACROE pour Association pour la Création et la Recherche sur les Outils d’Expression et ICA pour Ingénierie de la Création Artistique, couvrent un même projet global de recherche, de développement et de pédagogie en informatique musicale, image animée et synthèse. L'ACROE a été crée en 1976 par Claude Cadoz, Annie Luciani et Jean-Loup Florens à l'Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble INP) avec le soutien du Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. Le laboratoire ICA en tant qu’unité de recherche de Grenoble INP a été créé en 1999. Les travaux scientifiques, technologiques et artistiques du groupe s’attachent à une problématique générale introduite dès sa création, se révélant aujourd’hui de pleine actualité : l’ingénierie pour la création artistique dans les arts instrumentaux du temps, arts recourant à des objets matériels produisant des effets sensoriels via l'interaction avec l’être humain...
Media labs are liminal but increasingly powerful spaces in many contemporary settings. They appear in universities and colleges, wedged uneasily between traditional departments and faculties. They’re also in basements, warehouses, strip malls and squats. They are stable to varying degrees; many have long-term addresses and an itinerant roster of occupants. Some pop up in one location for a few days, then relocate to another. Sometimes they’re even in mobile trucks in the streets, bringing tools and expertise to children in schools and the general public. As clusters of tools and talent streamlined to produce economic value, labs sometime align with the most ruthless of venture capitalists; in other cases, they are free and open for all to use, disdainful of all commercial motivations. Despite their sudden visibility due to the burgeoning of the digital humanities, media labs have a surprisingly long history. As part of the historical avant-gardes, media arts labs were the sites where the new materials and aesthetics of technical modernity were developed. They often share a common ideology, tied not just to the neoliberal drive to privatize, innovate and disrupt, but to long-standing modernist ideas about creative destruction, quantification and the value of scientificité...
A hybrid platform combining an active studio space and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Discoveries are shared within a programme of events exploring connections through exhibition, public and educational programmes. Studio MADE founded by Angela Davies and Mark Eaglen is positioned on the 1st Floor Carriageworks, Denbigh and is open by appointment outside of programme events...
(Art)ScienceBLR is a public laboratory at the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology for artists and designers to engage with scientific practices. Residencies, exhibitions, workshops, talks... We look at the artistic, social and political implications of technologies from computing to biotechnologies. Our work exists at the intersection of art-science and pedagogy, creating spaces of dialogue and interaction between artists, designers and scientists. Since our inception in 2009 we have focused on using DIY techniques to build low-cost laboratory equipment, so as to offer more accessible forms of engagement with the life-sciences. We also run a community electronics and BioLab which encourages students and the community to make/hack and prototype.
The Polytechnic Museum in Moscow and Ars Electronica Linz invite visitors to partake of a stimulating encounter with important issues having to do with our planet. Visitors become researchers in EARTH LAB, a fascinating mix of exhibits, participative infographics and a discursive ancillary program. The artworks are designed to stimulate creative processes and encourage people to look at the Earth from a very different perspective for a change. But the site of this rethinking process isn’t a museum or some other established institution; it’s the basement of the mothballed Red October chocolate factory in the heart of Moscow.
Hangar’s mission is to support the visual artists and creators during the different phases of their art production processes as well as to contribute to the best development of their projects. For doing so, Hangar facilitates them equipments, facilities, production assistance and a suitable context for experimentation and free knowledge transfer. The centre offers an array of services, residencies and a framework that allows for the research and development of art productions in their entirety, or partially. Hangar follows up on the results by including the projects in various networks and platforms, or by detecting possibilities for their incorporation within other fields. Hangar’s headquarters are in a building -loaned by the Barcelona City Council- that is located in the Can Ricart complex, an industrial environment within the Poblenou neighbourhood in Barcelona. ... Hangar has a LABS
Last fall Joi Ito, the director of the MIT Media Lab, stood onstage during the Lab’s 30th anniversary celebration and made a declaration. “Connecting science and design is the future of the Media Lab,” he told audience members, many of whom are experienced in both disciplines. The subtext of Ito’s statement was that the world is quickly changing. Science, design, art, and engineering, long considered their own areas of focus, are no longer domains to be explored in isolation, but together, in the hopes of expediting progress and discovery. ...
SPEKTRUM is a space of convergence for cultural communities and transdisciplinary groups emerging and operating in and off Berlin. The project aims to bring confrontation, open knowledge and a platforms for idealisation, realisation and presentation of technology-based artworks, science-focused events and futuristic utopias based on the principle “do-it-together-with-others”. Above all, we are an open space promoting participatory processes to co-define and co-design a social and physical playground for curiosity and critical understanding.
The venue is part of a monumental architecture in the heart of Kreuzberg/Neukölln realised by Franz Hoffmann and Bruno Taut, one of the main expressionist architects of the modernist period. The inner space is characterised by a multi-layered approach to heights, with an unusual 5 meter high ceiling for the event room and other sections organised as split-levels. These architectural qualities tell us a story of planes and volumes, offering guests a surprising walk around with secret spots to discover.
RIXC is the center for new media culture and artist collective, that initiates projects in intersection of art, science and emerging technologies. RIXC's activities include: production of artworks and innovative art, science and technology projects, organising of Art+Communication festival, exhibitions, publishing of Acoustic Space journal series. RIXC uses events and publications to introduce novelty themes, most recent – renewable energy (2009), techno-ecologies (2011), art of resilience (2012), and fields – contextual seedbeds for social changes (2014). In 2014 RIXC launched first activities for upcoming Riga Innovation Lab – for art and science research and public education projects. RIXC also is a key founder of Liepaja University's Art Research Lab & New Media Art education program. RIXC has extensive experience in network building locally and internationally, and currently is developing Renewable Network – for Baltic-Nordic and Europan cooperation. History RIXC was established on May 2000 on the basis of E-LAB (Centre for electronic arts and media, since 1996). The basic activity of RIXC is to initiate the most novel and current topics in digital art by performing innovative experimental projects in art, science and technology in Latvia and internationally. RIXC fosters cultural exchange as well as promotes new forms of cultural and artistic expression. RIXC approaches new media not only as a new field of artistic and cultural practice, but also as an infrastructure to support other forms of art and culture. Since 2013 RIXC office is located in Spikeri creative quarter for culture and creative industries. RIXC office is the place where RIXC production team works managing projects and administrating RIXC activities.
i/o/lab is an artist-run organization that started in 2001 and since 2005 has been located at Tou Scene. i/o/lab Centre for Future Art is an active advocate for the arts and new technologies in the region. i/o/lab delivers professional artistic projects that have strengthened the center's institutional status, both nationally and internationally. The organization is affiliated with the national network - Production Network for Electronic Arts (PNEK) and has gradually built up a large international network within the field.
The activity of i/o/lab is divided into two parts: In the public space conveys i/o/lab art that touches new technology and science to the wider public in the region with art projects in the form of exhibitions produced as Article Biennale and Public Art Screens.
i/o/lab works with professional artistic research and development with a focus on art, new technologies and science and contributes as a resource through presentations, activities and as a partner in the field, both nationally and internationally. i/o/lab also contributes as a partner to regional institutions and businesses.
i/o/lab's expertise extends from production to dissemination and knowledge of art in new technology and science. The dimensions of i/o/lab is to provide innovative and artistic projects through creating meeting places between art and research to multiple audiences in the community.
i/o/lab's projects are partly based on the dissemination of art in public spaces.
Kònic thtr is a Barcelona based artistic platform focusing on contemporary creation at the border between art and new technologies. Its main center of activity is the application of interactive technology to artistic projects.
Kònic thtr is internationally reknowned for the use and incorporation of interactive technology in creative projects. Their work have been shown in Spain, Europe, America, Asia and Africa.
Through the research processes undertaken by Kònic Thtr since the begining of the 1990’s, the company has developed a unique and personal language in this field of contemporary creation.
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