LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
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LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Art and Industrial Creation Centre) is an exhibition centre in Gijón
, Spain, for art
, science
, technology
and advanced visual industries. It is also a venue for artistic and technological production, research investigation and training; and for the dissemination of new forms of art and industrial creation.
The museum's programme of activities mirrors the changes society is undergoing and its immersion in contemporary visual culture.
Artists whose works have been exhibited at the center include: Aram Bartholl
, Aaron Koblin
, Ai Weiwei
, Martin Parr
, Roy Arden
, Yael Bartana
, Julian Opie
among others.
Gijón
Gijón , officially Gijón / Xixón, is a coastal industrial city and a municipality in the autonomous community of Asturias in Spain. Early mediaeval texts mention it as "Gigia". It was an important regional Roman city, although the area has been settled since earliest history...
, Spain, for art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
, science
Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
, technology
Technology
Technology is the making, usage, and knowledge of tools, machines, techniques, crafts, systems or methods of organization in order to solve a problem or perform a specific function. It can also refer to the collection of such tools, machinery, and procedures. The word technology comes ;...
and advanced visual industries. It is also a venue for artistic and technological production, research investigation and training; and for the dissemination of new forms of art and industrial creation.
The museum's programme of activities mirrors the changes society is undergoing and its immersion in contemporary visual culture.
Fields of activity
- Exhibition: The museums's exhibition programme aspires to become a local, national and international reference for investigation into innovative formats and languages.
- Education/Training: The museum hopes to make up for currently existing deficiencies in the use of new technological media in schools, universities and vocation training, stimulating the participation of the wider community and amateur enthusiasts.
- Research: The museum includes The CREATIC Laboratory, through scholarships for young researchers in the ICT field and making available advanced research infrastructure.
- Creation-production: The museum has a multimedia workshop that produces works of an artistic character and high quality productions in the field of visual industries.
- Public Programme/Mediation: The museum is dedicated to the cultural dissemination of new artistic practices and creative industries, produced principally with or by means of technological media.
Artists whose works have been exhibited at the center include: Aram Bartholl
Aram Bartholl
Aram Bartholl has been working in Berlin since 1995. He is known for his exploration of the relationship between the digital and physical world. In his play on video game adaptations he is connecting the virtual and real world in a new way...
, Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin
Aaron Koblin is an American digital media artist best known for his innovative uses of data visualization and crowdsourcing. He is currently Creative Director of the Data Arts Team at Google Creative Lab in San Francisco, California....
, Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist, active in sculpture, installation, architecture, curating, photography, film, and social, political and cultural criticism. Ai collaborated with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron as the artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the 2008...
, Martin Parr
Martin Parr
Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take a critical look at aspects of modern life, in particular provincial and suburban life in England...
, Roy Arden
Roy Arden
Roy Arden is a Vancouver artist.Arden has had solo exhibitions at the Ikon Gallery, Galerie Tanit and Vancouver Art Gallery. Other exhibitions at the Kunstmuseum Basel, and the Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp . His work is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art - was featured in...
, Yael Bartana
Yael Bartana
Yael Bartana is an Israeli video artist, who lives and works in Amsterdam and Tel Aviv.- Work :Yael Bartana has had several solo exhibitions at among others Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, PS1 in New York and Moderna Museet Malmö...
, Julian Opie
Julian Opie
Julian Opie is a visual artist, and one of the New British Sculpture movement.-Life and work:Julian Opie was raised in Oxford, England, where he attended the Dragon School and Magdalen College School. He attended Goldsmith's School of Art in London from 1979-82...
among others.
Publications
- Feedback, March 2007
- Gameworld, March 2007
- LAB_Ciberespacios, March 2007
- It's simply beautiful, July 2007
- Playware, September 2007
- Emergentes, November 2007
- banquete_nodos y redes, March 2008
- Homo Ludens Ludens, Abril 2008
- Nowhere/ Now/ Here, October 2008
- There Is No Road, March 2009
- Auto. Sueño y Materia, May 2009
- Mediateca Expandida. Arcadia, October 2009
- Feedforward. El Ángel de la Historia, October 2009
- Playlist. Mediateca Expandida, December 2009
- El proceso como paradigma, April 2010
- PASAJES. Viajes por el híper-espacio, October 2010