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Since its inception, MediaLab Madrid was conceived as a research and socio-cultural innovation process, exploring a trans-disciplinary, sustainable approach for knowledge generation and transfer. To do so, it fosters interaction and collaboration among artists, scientists, technologist and other knowledge producers. The aim is to generate an open, porous environment that fosters the emergence of collective creative processes, connecting people, projects, entities and institutions from a wide variety of fields.

Our aim is to experience new hybrid forms of knowledge production and transfer in networks, able to dynamize open innovation processes in the art-science-technology-society (ACTS) context. This contributes to achieving social recognition for science and technology as culture and for art, design and narrative as forms of knowledge.

Medialab Madrid has served several purposes since it was created: from participation in creation and conceptualization to production and other forms of collaboration and/or organization. Several of these projects are described below:





Vacuum Virtual Machine, 2008
Álvaro Castro - Software art installation
Collaborators: Ebiolab, Banquete, Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática-INB, MediaLab Madrid and Next Limits Technologies [ +info ]



Interactivos? 2006 is a project that arose from the 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 City Council, (Consejería de Educación de la Comunidad de Madrid), Fundación Arduino, Ladinamo and Radar
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Bioscope, 2007-08
Kònic thtr/Kòniclab
Rosa Sánchez and Alain Baumann in collaboration with Eugenio Tisselli, Luis Rico and Martí Sánchez Fibla Collaborators: Sony Computer Science Lab-París, CECN-centre des écritures contemporaines et numériques de Mons-Bélgica, Centro de Creación y Pensamiento Contemporáneo Can Xalant, Mataró (Catalunya), Departament de Cultura i Mitjans de Comunicació de la Generalitat de Catalunya and e-biolab/Asociación Cultural Banquete.
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Mangoro Dja, 2006
Raúl Díez Alaejos, Abelardo Gil-Fournier, Daniel Miracle, Luis Rico, Aminata Traoré and Joan Manuel Tresserras in collaboration with Ramata Arédraogo, Jordi Berenguer, Fatoumata Chabane, Alphonse Dara, Abdoulaye Dicko, Djelika Fofana, Seydou Kanté, Rogelio López-Cuenca, Fatoumata Traoré, Maridioukou Traeré, Moussa Traoré
Audiovisual creation and experimental television workshop Forum pour l’autre Mali, Neokinok.tv, Mamutserver .


Co-produced by: AECID-Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo, Banquete, Centro Amadou Hampate Bâ-Bamako, Centro Cultural Conde Duque and MediaLab Madrid. [ +info ]



Wikimapmadrid, 2006
Rafael Marchetti – Interactive urban map and workshop

Co-produced by: Ars Electronica Futurelab, MediaLabMadrid and Centro Cultural Conde Duque.
Collaborator: Banquete [ +info ]



Madrid Mousaic, 2005
Influenza - Interactive installation
Concept: Rafael Marchetti y Raquel Renno.
Artwork: Rafael Marchetti. Critical Theoretical Research Raquel Renno. Collaborators: Banquete and MediaLabMadrid [ +info ]



Bordergames, 2003-2005:
La fiambrera Obrera
Educational social action videogame

Collaborators: Banquete and MediaLabMadrid [ +info ]



From Microcosm to Gaia, 2005: a journey through time and scale
Ismail Alí, Lynn Margulis, Santiago Ortiz, Luis Rico and Mónica Solé.
Educational model with interactive digital tools [studies and prototypes]


Co-produced by:: Banquete, Observatorio Reserva de la Biosfera del Cabildo de Lanzarote, MediaLabMadrid and Sciencewriters. [ +info ]



GNOM, 2005
Santiago Ortiz in collaboration with Federico Morán, Luis Rico, Mónica Solé y Alfonso Valencia.
Trans-disciplinary research project on digital and physical interfaces for visualization, exploration and experimentation with genetic networks.
Co-produced by: Banquete, MediaLabMadrid and el Protein Design Group del Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CBN / CSIC). [ +info ]



Esfera de relaciones, 2004
Santiago Ortiz.
Dialogue spheres comprised of a network of semantic combinations.
Co-produced by Moebio and MediaLab Madrid.
Concept, interface design, programming and texts: Santiago Ortiz.
English translation: Julia Burns.
Portuguese translation: Hernani Días in collaboration with Pedro Soares
Special thanks to Mauricio Zárate Mauricio Zárate. [ +info ]



De parte de quien? Free Call – Call for free, 2003
Josep María Martín - Action and mixed media installation


Producido por: Banquete, Caravanas Moncayo S.A, MediaLabMadrid, Palau de la Virreina y Todo Fluye S.L.
Telecommunications supplier: Telefónica. With collaboration from: Agencia Carmen Balcells [ ver vídeo ]



Panlingua, 2003
Miralda/Food Culture Museum –Intervention and web application. Creative Development: Miralda / Ignasi Duarte. Project Director: Ignasi Duarte / FoodCultureMuseum.Barcelona. Executive Producers: Ana Roca and Todo Fluye S.L. Web Design and Graphic Applications: Numen. Internet Application: Marc Sallent and Numen. Oven Design and Construction: Hornos Tayso. PANlingua Production and Distribution: Pan Rústico. Oven Modelling: Ion Santibáñez. Baker: Juan Benito Sánchez. Sponsored by: Hornos Tayso and Pan Rústico.


Co-produced by: Banquete, Fundación Food Culture, MediaLabMadrid/Centro Cultural Conde Duque.
Collaborators: FoodCultureMuseum.Miami, Museo del Pan Gallego, Manuel Barro Parra y Lemon Grafic. [ + info ]



Ecolocación algorítmica, 2002/03
Ramón Guardans and Adolf Mathias in collaboration with Götz Dipper, Martin Schüttler, Mathias Gommel, Renata Sas –Visualization tool and interactive installation.


Produced by: Center for Art and Media, ZKM de Karlsruhe, MediaLab Madrid, Centro Cultural Conde Duque and Soundplots. In collaboration with: Banquete [ + info ]