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Ryoji Ikeda presents at LABoral a new site-specific version of his work 'datamatics' this Friday
‘data.tecture [5 SXGA+ version]’ is a project specifically adapted for the monumental character of the Projects’ Room at the Art Centre and can be visited until 21st January 2013
Press kit Dossier Ryoji Ikeda. 'datamaticcs. data.tecture [5 SXGA+ version]'
In this new large-scale audiovisual installation, Ryoji Ikeda presents a total immersive and sensory experience to the visitors.
LABoral links up with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop its Digital Fabrication Laboratory
El Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial is incorporated into the Worldwide Network of Fab Labs after signing an agreement with the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), promoter ...
(ende) opens the series of presentations held by LABoral to celebrate its fifth anniversary
The audiovisual series by Luis Argeo and Ramón Lluis Bande will be shown to the public at the Art Centre from Thursday 22nd March. ‘Visualizar el sonido’ [Visualising Sound], ‘el arte y sus ...
20 secondary school students from the Laboral University of Gijon will take part in the sound narrative creation workshop organised by the Centro de Arte
The workshop will be led by Helena Torres, author of the Serendipia project, and by Horacio González of Escoitar.org. from Monday 26th until Wednesday 28th
Press kit '(ende)'
A documentary series by Luis Argeo and Ramón Lluís Bande that will be shown until 24th April at LABoral
Visualising Sound opens a weekend of presentations and activities this Friday with which LABoral celebrates its fifth anniversary
A concert by .tape. + Fernando Gutiérrez and Kangding Ray will provide music for the exhibition opening from 9 pm onwards. The Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial will also show three other ...
Press kit Fifth Anniversary of LABoral and 'Visualizar el sonido'
Programme to conmemorate LABoral's Fifth Anniversary and 'Visualizar el sonido', exhibition that will be opened at the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial until 25th June
Live Performance by Kangding Ray and Fernando Gutiérrez + .tape. at LABoral
To mark the opening of the exhibition ‘Visualising Sound’, the French musician and artist will present ‘OR a/v live set’ and the Asturians ‘Rapsodia’ [Rhapsody] at the Centro de Arte y ...
LABoral provides free admission to the Centro de Arte for all Gijón residents holding the citizen card
The measure will be put into effect from this Wednesday 11th April. For other visitors, the entrance fee is two euros and Wednesday will be kept as a free day throughout the year as well as the ...
LABoral holds a new session of its Design Market this weekend with free access
The public will be able to take part in the offers by 41 Asturian designers and in visits to the exhibitions at the Centro de Arte on Saturday and Sunday from 12 noon to 10 pm
Jaime Izquierdo and Manuel Carrero will lead the ‘Art and Landscape’ series of debates organised by LABoral
The talks are opened with the presentation of the books ‘Asturias región agropolitana’ [Asturias, Agropolitan Region] and ‘La casa de mi padre’ [My Father’s House] by Jaime Izquierdo on ...
A hundred school children will celebrate World Book Day at LABoral this Monday
Book exchanges and workshops will be held for different groups
El Último Grito presents the Trastienda project by LABoral on new design alternatives at Motiva 2012
The coordinator of fabLAB Asturias, David Pello, will outline the main lines of work of the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial’s digital fabrication laboratory
The Jury for the Prince of Asturias Award for Arts will visit LABoral this Tuesday
LABoral opens 'Usos y formas', an exhibition investigating Asturian idiosyncracy, on Friday 11th
The show draws together photographic and video installations by Noé Baranda and Juan José Pulgar, produced during a research residency at the Muséu del Pueblu d’Asturies. “Usos y Formas” ...
Press kit 'Usos y formas'
The exhibition includes works of Noé Baranda and Juanjo Pulgar and will be on show until 27th August
'Códigos abiertos', a call from LABoral for research on how the Centre can meet the needs of artists and look for new ways of interacting with its audiences
the objective is to form a work group of around 12 people who open up a cross-disciplinary debate on new forms of presentation and artistic production. The first meeting will take place this Tuesday, ...
A live programme concludes the TV-LAB_Adsis project in which 15 inmates from the Villabona Prison participated
The group, calling itself Los Kince, has produced an extensive catalogue of audiovisual content accessible on the website http://tvlab.experimentaltv.org/?cat=99
LABoral will show the winning projects of the artistic intervention competition 'Otoño de reciclaje' in mid-July
The proposal call by EMULSA aims for the production of works in Gijón’s public areas which are made from recycled materials
ecoLAB presents its Sustainability Project for Patio Sur at the Centro de Arte this Saturday
A new session of the ‘Art and Landscape’ series of debates takes place with the participation of Manuel Carrero de Roa, starting at 5 pm
LABoral will celebrate Museum Day this Friday 18th May with uninterrupted opening hours from 10 am to 2 in the early morning
Workshops, guided visits and DIY Videoclip Night are some of the activities organised for this Open Doors Day, which will continue on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th
LABoral announces a remixes competition as part of the 'Art and its Sound' programme
The Centre provides the participants with recordings made by the participant artists in the project
Generadores de sombras, the winner Project of the LABjoven Award, will be on show from 1st of Juin
The work will be shown at the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial until September 17th
Press Kit Cristina Busto 'Generadores de sombras'
The work will be on shown at LABoral until September 17th
Four sound approaches trace an X-ray of LABoral as a result of Art and its Sound project
This mapping of the Centro de Arte has been created by Óscar de Ávila, Rafael Martínez del Pozo, Ramón Prada, Las CasiCasiotone and Mind Revolution
Press kit Summer at LABoral
The Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial would like to thank its audiences for their support over the last five years and as a token of gratitude opens its doors
LABoral will show 'eCLIPSe', a music video retrospective, from 3 July
The exhibition traces a historical path through the most important moments in and is sponsored by Fundación Telefónica
LABoral receive the Best Non-profit Marketing Initiative Award for its Fifth Anniversary communication campaign
The prize-giving ceremony takes place at the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, as part of the IX National Marketing Meeting, organised by the Club de Marketing de Asturias [Asturias ...
70 children participate in the kid’s summer camp at LABoral with the theme Let’s make a music video
Until 27 July the participants will make a video clip with the help of the curator of the eCLIPSe exhibition which is on show at the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
LABoral holds a street art workshop given by the Chilean graffiti artist “mono” González
The artist will prepare the mural which will be painted at the Semana Negra location
The Asturian chef Pedro Martino opens LABgastronomía this Friday
The performance by the restaurateur takes place at 7.30 pm at plat0 at the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, with entrance free of charge
The North American artist and researcher Christopher Salter presents 'n-Polytope: Behaviors in Light and Sound after Iannis Xenakis' at LABoral
This large-scale immersive installation is shown for the first time in Spain after being produced by LABoral.
Chris Salter presents this Friday 'n-polytope', a large-installation of light and sound produced by LABoral
The work recreates Xenakis’ radical architectural environments
Press kit Chris Salter. n-Polytope
'n-Polytope. Behaviours in Light and Sound after Iannis Xenakis' is a spectacular light and sound environment combining cutting edge lighting, lasers, sound, sensing and artificial intelligence ...
LABoral shows the projects selected in the ‘Otoño del reciclaje’ Call for Artists from June 26
The proposals can be seen at the Centro de Arte until 17 September and will be exhibited afterwards at various public locations around the centre of Gijón
The showing of a video made by children closes the Urban Summer Camp “We Play, We Create”
More than 70 children have participated in the activities and worked together on the production of a music video with the help of the eCLIPSe exhibition curator, Carlos Navarro
Regional Minister for Education and Culture, Ana González, new President of the Fundación La Laboral Board of Patrons
Also appointed to the Centre’s governing body are the Deputy Regional Minister of Culture, Alejandro Calvo, the Director General of Cultural Heritage, Adolfo Rodríguez Asensio, representing the ...
LABoral holds another edition of its design market with a new format resembling an open-air festival
The event takes place in the outdoor surroundings of the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in the evening on Friday 27th and throughout the days of Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th July
7,665 people visited LABoral over the weekend and took part in its design market/festival
The Centro de Arte recorded an increase in visitors of 78.39% in the month of July, coinciding with Open Doors on the occasion of its fifth anniversary
Press kit 'Otoño del reciclaje'
The projects will be carried out in various spots of Gijon in Autumn
Action, Object and Audience focus 'Presencia activa', exhibition which opens October 5 at LABoral
Coproduced by LABoral and MARCO-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, the show includes works by 12 international artists
LABoral joins an experimental programme in school dropout prevention by the Regional Ministry of Education
Aimed at students in the 1st and 2nd year of secondary education, the programme includes courses on digital fabrication, audiovisuals and an introduction to creative programming which will be held at ...
LABoral continues its Open Door days until September 10
On this day the installation ‘n-Polytope’ by Chris Salter is closed and on 17 September, ‘datamatics. data.tecture [5 SXGA+ version]’ by Japanese Ryoji Ikeda draws to a close
LABoral and the artist Thom Kubli launch a competition to beat the world record of the longest guitar solo ever played
Action, object and public are the main focus of ‘Presencia activa’ [Active Presence], the exhibition opening at LABoral on 5 October of which this proposal is a part
LABoral offers workshops focused on experimental television and digital design and fabrication in its educational area for the academic year 2012-2012
Attendance is free upon registration
Presencia activa [Active Presence] opens LABoral’s autumn exhibition programme on Friday 5 October
Feather Tales II, Códigos abiertos, ecoLAB and the presentation of the Mapocci prototype are other proposals that the Centro will present until the end of the year
Two days of on going performances activated by the artists and the audience will open 'Presencia activa'
With Maja Bajević, John Bock, Thom Kubli Mads Lynnerup, Alastair MacLennan, Sergio Prego, Gema Ramos, La Ribot, Carlos Rodríguez-Méndez, Nerea Santisteban Lorences and SUE-C+AGF
LABoral and the artist Mads Lynnerup invite the public to free gym classes at the Centro de Arte
‘Plastic Gymnastic’ is one of the 12 works in the ‘Presencia activa’ and provides an opportunity for the public to ‘get in shape’ with the help of instructors from the Metropolitan Club
Press kit 'Active Presence'
The exhibition includes works by 12 international artists that show the different possible relationships between performance and installation art
German Thom Kubli sets the solo guitar world record at more than 17 hours
The artist invites Asturians to beat the mark which is open to anyone wishing to participate
LABoral will host a Gamelab Academy conference which focuses on the secrets of creating video games
Five renowned experts will explain some of the secrets in design, marketing, music, development and video game business
Paulina Wallenberg-Olsson will activate ‘Writing Copora’, the installation by Gary Hill, on Saturday
The performance is part of ‘Presencia activa’ [Active Presence], an exhibition which analyses the role of the artist and the viewer
LABoral opens Feather Tales II, an installation by Ricardo O’Nascimento and Ebru Kurbak, on Thursday 25
The work has been produced by the Centro de Arte following the residency of the artists selected in the call ‘Projects Office’ call
The Instituto Asturiano de la Juventud and LABoral open a new edition of the LABjoven_Experimenta award
Aimed at Asturian artists under the age of 35, it comes with a prize of 10,250 euros for the production of a project conceived specifically for the Centro de Arte
Press kit Feather Tales II
'Feather Tales II' is an installation by Ricardo O'Nascimento and Ebru Kurbak that will be on show at LAboral until the 4 February 2013
Press kit 'Códigos Abiertos'
Open Codes is a work group carrying out research into new ways of producing, sharing and spreading culture at a time when its value is questioned.
LABoral and Gijón International Film Festival launch a call for the new edition of filMO
Participants can shoot their films from 16th to 24th of this month as part of the film festival activities and shall publish them on the Vimeo channel
Press kit Mapocci
Mapocci, an interactive toy designed to promote emotional education in children, designed by multimedia artists Laura Malinverni and Lilia Villafuerte, is the winning project of Next Things 2012
'n-Polytope', by Chris Salter, work produced by LABoral, awarded at VIDA 14
The North American artist developed his piece during an artist production residency last summer at the Centro de Arte
ecoLAB is holding a new public gathering with electronic workshops and guided visits
The activity is open to the public who will be able to see “El enjambre”, an exhibition on the working and documentation processes of this project by LABoral
LABoral holds a new edition of its Design Market on Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 December
Access to the Centro de Arte will be free of charge over the weekend
LABoral organises an introductory workshop on robotics for children aged 10 to 14 years old
It will take place from 2nd to 4th January at the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón
David Martínez Suárez wins the sixth edition of the LABjoven Award with his project 'Inercia'
Jointly organised by LABoral and the Asturian Youth Institut, it is aimed at helping young Asturian creators with the realisation of experimental artistic projects
Preview of the LABoral Programme for 2013
The Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón) will strengthen research and the production of work through artist residencies and work groups. The resulting projects will be shown in exhibitions ...
The Board of Trustees of the Fundación La Laboral has approved the Action Plan for 2013
Banco Sabadell Foundation and DKV commit to LABoral with their support of the programme at the Centro de Arte
LABoral is holding an improvisation session with sound, movement, words and sketches led by Rabos de Lagartijas
¡IMPROperio! takes place from 6 to 8 pm as part of the Códigos abiertos [Open Codes] project and is open to the public
LABoral will be present at Mercaplana with an animation film cycle
The Centro de Arte offers sessions every day from 6 pm with free entry for visitors to the hall
LABoral organises an introduction course to design which will take place over four weekends
The designer Marco Recuero will teach this introduction workshop
LABoral offers two new robotics workshops aimed at children aged from 10 to 14 years ol
Lasting 12 hours, they will take place on alternate Sundays in February and March
DKV Seguros and LABoral open a call for proposals for a production grant to complete an artistic project which will be exhibited at the Centro de Arte in June
The grant is targeted at artists who are Spanish or resident in Spain, born in 1971 or after
LABoral will host a PhotoBook Club session on 31 January
Organised by cultural association GRITO, it involves discussions on photography books and their authors
Telefónica I+D y LABoral organize their second call for an artistic residence to develop a project that links art and new technologies
Next Things 2013 - Next Space is envisaged as the Second Art and Technology Global Challenge and is aimed at the production of a project with reference to the public space and its appropriation, ...
The Metropolitan Club and LABoral celebrate the Carnival at the installation Plastic Gymnastic by artist Mads Lynnerup
On Saturday 9 February “global training” will be held for members of Metropolitan Sport Club & Spa and any of the public wishing to participate at the Centro de Arte
LABoral launches an application for mobiles and tablets which allows users to virtually visit its exhibitions
Presented as an expanded brochure, the tool has been jointly developed with the Asturian company Llume, Estudios y Proyectos Culturales, with funding from the Ministry of Education and Culture
The EU supports LABoral and finances a project which includes two exhibitions, a production artist residency and a seminar
Beyond the Exhibition: New Interfaces for Contemporary Art in Europe] is coproduced by the Centro de Arte (Gijón), Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains (France) and Contemporary Art ...
Beyond the Exhibition Press kit
Elastic Reality and Universo vídeo_Experimental Practices, opened at LABoral on March 15 as part of the Project Beyond the Exhibition: New Interfaces for Contemporary Art in Europe, produced by The ...
Karlos Gil wins the DKV Seguros-Álvarez Margaride award with his project "The Moon Museum"
The work will be produced in Plataforma 0, LABoral’s Production Centre, and will be on exhibit from 22nd June at the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial de Gijón
LABoral joins the artist residency worldwide network Summer Sessions
Together with Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón) opens a call for a residency by a young Spanish artist or resident in Spain
LABoral has become the first cultural institution in Spain with its own channel on iTunes U
The Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón provides users with multimedia content to access all of its activities from anywhere in the world
LABoral opens two exhibitions on Friday as part of the project Beyond the Exhibition: New Interfaces for Contemporary Art in Europe
This interdisciplinary project includes Elastic Reality and ‘Universo vídeo_Experimental Practices], the residency by artist Maya Da-Rin and a seminar which takes place in July
Universo vídeo_filMO, an approach on the moving image
Under the heading filMO, a selection of films premiered at LABoral’s pocket-sized film festival will be on show at LABoral until 10 March
LABoral holds open door days over Easter with audiovisual culture workshops for children and free guided visits
At Easter, LABoral will hold four Open Door days from Thursday 28 March until Sunday 31 March, with free admission to the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón and guided visits
LABoral launches a quality seal for its Design Market
The next edition of this traditional event takes place on 13 and 14 April with free admission to the Centro de Arte
Interactive Systems for an Intelligent City is the theme that links the presentations in the technologicial breakfast
It will take place next Friday and the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón will present the research on drones by fabLAB Asturias
LABoral holds a new edition of its design market this weekend and launches a design seal
Admission to the Centro de Arte will be free on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14
Flone, a flying phone, is the winning project of the call Next Things 2013
Lot Amorós, Cristina Navarro and Alexandre Oliver aim to make air space use accessible to citizens by providing them with the capacity to take photos or recordings with a smartphone
Fasenuova begins an artist residency at LABoral to develop its project Laboratorio sonoro y escénico
The group will prepare its next show at the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón and will have regular rehearsals open to the public with free access
LABoral launches a bloggers blog to give a new vision of its activity
Laura Cano, José Luis Calderón, Nuria García, Semíramis González, Montaña Hurtado, Marta Lorenzo, Román Torre and Naiara Valdano are taking part in this project which is hosted on the ...
LABoral presents fabLAB Asturias at Motiva 2013 this Wednesday 24 April
As part of the Jornadas de Diseño de Asturias [Asturian Design Conferences] a workshop has been programmed at the Centro de Arte to introduce the participants to the use of digital fabrication tools
L.E.V. 2013 takes the pulse of the state of audiovisual creation
On Friday 3 and Saturday 4 May LABoral Centro de Arte, different spaces at the City of Culture and the Atlantic Botanical Gardens will host concerts and workshops
Learning from Las Cuencas, an exhibition which aims to offer a new vision on the Asturian mining valleys
Coproduced by LABoral and the SabadellHerrero bank, it will be shown from 27 September at the Centro de Arte in Gijón and in the Exhibition Hall of SabadellHerrero in Oviedo
LABoral holds the closing concerts of Gijón Sound Festival, which will be accompanied by talks and debates on the music industry
Twenty artists will accompany Jorge Ilegal to trace a path through the music scene from the 90s to today
Open Door Days on 18 and 19 May to celebrate International Museum Day
Free guided visits and workshops for young children are part of the free activities offered by the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón for this coming weekend
A live television programme broadcast on streaming will bring an end to the activities in the programme for school dropout prevention
During the course students from 12 secondary education centres took part in this initiative of the Ministry of Education and attended activities and seminars on digital fabrication, audiovisuals and ...
LABoral organises D Day for 3D Printing on 6 June and invites the public to capture their own designs at fabLAB Asturias
From 10 am until 7.30 pm anyone can print objects in three dimensions after registering at fablab@laboralcentrodearte.org
Universo vídeo_ Experimental Practices II. Cartographies to anticipate a movement
This new selection of films from the Le Fresnoy, the second after An Image of the World in Motion, holdings draws a map of the various ways of addressing landscape. The exhibition will be opened at ...
LABoral and El Comercio launch a call for proposals to develop four artistic projects
The call is aimed at creators who are part of the art centre’s Asturian Artists’ Archive and seeks the production of four works specifically conceived for the newspaper’s first page
Press Kit The Moon Museum. Karlos Gil
The Moon Museum, by Karlos Gil, is the winning project of the DKV Seguros-Álvarez Margaride Production Grant. It'll be on show at LABoral until September, 22