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| − | Medialabmx | + | Medialabmx is a Mexican research center dedicated to developing creative and educational projects involving experimentation and use of technology and open source software. It’s also a platform where specialists from different disciplines can meet and conduct individual and collaborative cultural and social projects. |
| − | + | In order to advise and support projects working to empower their communities through media and technology, the Lab was consolidated as a civil association in 2013. Medialabmx has created a program involving educational workshops, meetings and consulting sessions on topics such as sound experiments, arduino, and process programming for artists. The Lab also offers educational workshops externally for other audiences elsewhere in Mexico City and the rest of Mexico. Medialabmx members offer free consulting sessions for nonprofit projects involving art and technology. The Lab has collaborated with other art and technology projects, such as: Esteban Azuela’s Bailame!, Gilberto Esparza’s Parásitos Urbanos, Ariel Guzik’s Cordiox, and Pía Vasquez’s Territorio Exquisito. | |
| − | + | Medialabmx also conducts projects internally, such as: Leonardo Aranda’s Microutopías, which approaches the internet as a social space that hosts collective utopias resulting from people’s ideas, desires and expectations expressed across virtual spaces; Colmena; Cosechando Frutas Para Robots; Relatos Numéricos, and Cartografía Urbana. | |
== <small>'''Links'''</small> == | == <small>'''Links'''</small> == | ||
Revision as of 01:25, 3 June 2017
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El Medialabmx es una asociación civil, fundada en enero del 2013, que tiene como objetivo impulsar la investigación, el desarrollo, y la apropiación de nuevas tecnologías multimedia, orientadas hacia su uso con fines creativos, en proyectos de impacto social y cultural. Actualmente, el Medialabmx forma parte del Registro Nacional de Instituciones y Empresas Científicas y Tecnológicas del CONACYT. Este espacio busca instaurar un lugar de convergencia que fortalezca una comunidad interesada en la apropiación de la tecnología desde distintos campos del conocimiento. El grupo del Medialabmx está formado por un conjunto interdisciplinario que proveniente del arte, el diseño, la filosofía y la ingeniería.
Con el objetivo de cumplir su misión, el Medialabmx realiza las siguientes actividades:
- Investigación - Apoyo a proyectos de arte y tecnología - Impartición de talleres - Residencias - Asesorías gratuitas - Charlas y conferencias
(http://medialabmx.org/informacion/)
Description
Medialabmx is a Mexican research center dedicated to developing creative and educational projects involving experimentation and use of technology and open source software. It’s also a platform where specialists from different disciplines can meet and conduct individual and collaborative cultural and social projects.
In order to advise and support projects working to empower their communities through media and technology, the Lab was consolidated as a civil association in 2013. Medialabmx has created a program involving educational workshops, meetings and consulting sessions on topics such as sound experiments, arduino, and process programming for artists. The Lab also offers educational workshops externally for other audiences elsewhere in Mexico City and the rest of Mexico. Medialabmx members offer free consulting sessions for nonprofit projects involving art and technology. The Lab has collaborated with other art and technology projects, such as: Esteban Azuela’s Bailame!, Gilberto Esparza’s Parásitos Urbanos, Ariel Guzik’s Cordiox, and Pía Vasquez’s Territorio Exquisito.
Medialabmx also conducts projects internally, such as: Leonardo Aranda’s Microutopías, which approaches the internet as a social space that hosts collective utopias resulting from people’s ideas, desires and expectations expressed across virtual spaces; Colmena; Cosechando Frutas Para Robots; Relatos Numéricos, and Cartografía Urbana.
Links
Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://medialabmx.org/
