Interactivos?aims to transform exhibit space into a place for sharing experiences, acquiring knowledge and discussing ideas. Through exhibits, workshops and presentations, the public can approach new forms of production and the use of electronics and programming for creative and educational purposes.

New communication technologies promise users greater participation and interactivity. However, this supposed interactivity is often limited to simply choosing from several closed options. The development of new information and communication technologies has brought with it new forms of production, organization and knowledge distribution. Open hardware and free software offer users the chance to be producers as well, through collective creation. It is here that the word interactivity takes on its broadest meaning. Beyond the mere choice of one of only a few pre-established options, collective projects with open source hardware and software enable learning and teaching how technology works and above all they allow everyone to be a producer. In this way, it is possible to question the notion of technology as closed and only understandable to a select few.

Interactivos? is a hybrid. It’s a workshop, a seminar and an exhibit. Through the collaborative development of 10 projects of digital art, sound art, critical design and educational applications, our aim is to transform the exhibit space into a place for production, debate and communication, open to the public.

Interactivos?is one of the advanced results of the collaborative dynamics generated and developed by MediaLab Madrid and Banquete, since their inception in 2002. It has aimed to explore and recombine trans-disciplinary, non-linear formats and models for knowledge generation and transfer, based on open innovation processes.

From a systemic perspective, Interactivos? can be considered a property emerging from a complex process of cultural symbiosis that has evolved in MediaLab Madrid, based on the interaction and shared experiences of its components/participants. In addition to specific formal results, as a whole it has enabled the structuring of a community of shared interests that works from the bottom up.

Interactivos? received an Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2010.

Initial design and programme for Interactivos?
April and May 2006:

Interactivos? is a project arising from ongoing collaboration among David Cuartielles, Zachary Lieberman and Hans Christoph Steiner, the team at MediaLab Madrid / Centro Cultural Conde Duque and Banquete. Other collaborators in its development are the Education Department of the Madrid Regional Government (Consejería de Educación de la Comunidad de Madrid), Ladinamo and Radar
Workshops

18 - 30 April
Advanced workshop for project development in digital art, sound art, critical design and educational applications that use interactive technologies and subscribe to the open hardware and free software philosophy. Led by David Cuartielles, Zachary Lieberman and Hans Christoph Steiner.

April: final presentation of projects.
Selected projects and application to participate

5 and 6 May from 6 – 8 p.m.
Processing Seminar by Casey Reas.
Free admission.

8 - 20 May.
Workshop with teachers and students from the Secondary Education Technology Area to experience and test the possibilities offered by the Arduino open hardware card at this educational stage. Led by David Cuartielles (Arduino developer) and Juan Carlos Alonso (high school technology teacher). With the collaboration of the Education Department of the Madrid Regional Government (Consejería de Educación de la Comunidad de Madrid).

Exhibit
29 April - 21 May 2006
Exhibit of projects carried out in the workshop with David Cuartielles, Zachary Lieberman and Hans Cristoph Steiner. 

Meetings

22 April
Open Debate.
:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. and 5 - 8:30 p.m.
is meeting explores questioning and reformulating the idea of “interactivity” in conceptual, technological, biological and social terms. Participants include artists, theoreticians, and cultural activists. Participants include Carlos Briones, Javier Candeira, Jordi Claramonte, Javier de la Cueva, David Cuartiell

27 April from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m.
line creation and meeting places. Institutions, groups and individuals, as part of the course organized by Jesús Carrillo and Jesusa Vega: The Politics of Art: New Production Models in the Knowledge Society.

4 May at 7 p.m.
vide Grassi DemoKino - Ágora virtual de biopolítica (Virtual bio-politics agora).
An anti-spectacular interactive film, where your vote determines how it turns out!
oduced by Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, 2004/06
www.aksioma.org/demokino

External activities

21 April at 9 p.m.
¿Interactivos? at Dorkbot (Ladinamo, C/Mira el Sol, 2)
nther Geiger, Hans-Christoph Steiner and neokinok.tv
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotmadrid/

22 April at 10 p.m.
Concert at Radar
David Cuartielles, Gunther Geiger, Daniel Gonzalez, Jaime Munárriz and Enrique Tomás.
/ Amaniel, 22)

29 April from 9:30 p.m.
on Party – concert at Ladinamo (C/Mira el Sol, 2)
awn (Concert by Zachary Lieberman) + Copyleft music sessions.