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LABoral launches the call for the production of an educational tool within the framework of the programme Mecenazgo Expandido
Looking for a project that brings contemporary art practice closer to teachers and students as a resource for working the school curriculum
Acción Poética pays tribute at LABoral to the life and artistic career of Nel Amaro
Work and documentation on the prolific activity of the multi-faceted Asturian artist are to be seen at Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial de Gijón until November 15
LABoral will present its enterprises residency programme in a symposium on creative hubs at Brussels
The Managing Director of the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Lucía García, will explain the collaborative work carried out with artists, technologists, society and firms
The Japanese artist Yuri Suzuki presents at LABoral The sound of the waves, a sound installation for relaxation
The work will be on show at the LABoratorio de Sonido until June the 28th
LABoral hosts the kick-off work meeting of the European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation
The European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation (ENCAC) is a project of support, fostering, dissemination of visual arts, sound creation and digital culture
LABoral’s Design Market celebrates a new edition next weekend
The Art Center will host workshops for children on art and design and Sombras en alta fidelidad, a film and music session
'Nicht löschbares Feuer' and 'Gefängnisbilder' this Thursday at the retrospective cycle of Harun Farocki
The films included in the the cycle ‘Convertirse en imagen’, co-organized with the Goethe-Institut and the Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón, will be hold alternatively in Paraninfo de ...
(Ready) Media shows at LABoral works of Mexican artists which work with art and new media
The exhibition will be on show at the Centro de Arte y Creación industrial from April 15th
'Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges' starts tomorrow a retrospective of the German filmmaker Harun Farocki
The projections of the cycle ‘Convertirse en imagen’ are co-organized with the Goethe-Institut and the Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón
LABoral holds Open House Days on May 15, 16 and 17 to celebrate the International Day of Museums
There will be free guided tours, robotics and reading workshops and the premiere of ‘Mix-en-Scene’, by Amaranta Verlarde
200 metros, by Andy Gracie, wins the production residency Ciencias del Mar
The winning project of the grant Ciencias del Mar, called by LABoral and the Port Authority of Gijón, the work will create an immersive installation from data obtained in the area of the Aviles ...
Aprendiendo de las Cuencas receives the EU Prize for Cultural Heritage/ Europa Nostra Awards 2015
The research carried out by Nacho Ruiz Allen and Sara López Arraiza resulted in an exhibition co-produced by LABoral and SabadellHerrero and a publication about the research and the exhibition
LABoral will host the children design workshops Kids & Crafts during the springtime Design Market
Addressed to children between 4 and 10, they will take place in the Art Centre on May 9-10
Environment Dress, by María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde, wins the call Next Things 2015
The artists propose to create a smart dress that measures the aggressiveness of the environment to analyse how it affects the mood and behaviour of individuals
The notary public Montserrat Martínez, new President of Asociación de Amigos de LABoral
It is aimed at building a platform to support the Art Centre that works the a connection with the various sectors of the Asturian society
Menhir, by Coco Moya and Iván Cebrián, wins Premio LABjoven_Los Bragales
The project combines music, visual art and Arduino and it will be showcased at LABoral starting September 16
'As you see' and 'Videograms of a Revolution' close he cycle of Harun Farocki organized by LABoral
The films it is hold this Thursday, June 4, in the Auditorium of Ciudad de la Cultura and Tuesday 16, in Antiguo Instituto
LABoral offers new cycles of Robotic Camps this summer
Aimed at children audience aged from 7 to 14, they are held from June 30 to August 28 weekly
LABoral will host on Saturday 13 one of the three journeys of the Alternative music festival Vericuetos
Arkanine, Crayolaser, Ensemble improviso and Galgo participate in the session that will be held at the Centre for Art and Industrial Creation from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.
LABoral will organize with the Film Festival a complete retrospective of Jack Chambers
The screenings will take place on Tuesday, June 16, at the Centro de Cultura Antiguo Instituto
The European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation offerers five residencies
They will take place between January and April 2016 at LABoral, Avatar (Quebec, Canada), DISK Berlin (CTM Festival, Berlin), humainTROPhumain (Montpellier) and le lieu unique (Nantes)
Press kit Martín Freire. 'Behind the Scene'
Behind the Scene is an installation featuring fake advertising banners where homogenous lights show sentences and images made with corporeal letters, whose interpretation is affected by the ...
LABoral takes part on STARTS Symposium on Science, Technology and Art organized by the EU
The Managing Director of Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial will present also in Santander ENCAC as a case study of the programmes funded by the EU
Press kit Universo vídeo. El espacio de la ilusión
The exhibition explores how illusion and space relate when time becomes flexible and subjective
LABoral hosts Open Doors days from July 1 to September 6
Access to the Art Centre will be free-of-charge and visitors will have the chance to see the exhibitions and take place in the activities
Angélica Liddell presents at LABoral an installation that pays tribute to the poetry of Emily Dickinson
‘Emily’ is co-produced with La Bâtie-Festival in Geneva
Arsgames wins the call for the production of an educational tool
Sonido, espacio, inmersión e interacción explores the different levels of reality through the interaction of the students with the physical spaces, augmented reality and virtual worlds
LABoral hosts this Wednesday the premiere of Llar, a film by Elisa Cepedal and Ramón Lluis Bande
With free access, this event will be held in the Art Centre and will be attended by its two directors
Fifty designers will present their creations at LABoral’s Summer Design Market
There will be a sound action by the resident artists María Castellanos, Alberto Valverde, Coco Moya and Iván Cebrián; the presentation of ‘Algo fluorescente’ by Roc Jiménez de Cisneros, and ...
María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde will present their research on smart clothes
“Sun protection in open source” is an action to visualise the UV radiation by means of a smart hat and smart glasses
Awarded the five production residencies launched by the European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation
Ganzfeld (US), Evelina Domnitch y Dmitry Gelfand con Paul Prudence (BY, RU, UK), Alan Warburton (GB), Myriam Bleau (CA), Tokuyama Tomonaga and Wladimir Schall (JP, FR) will develop their projects at ...
Julia Drouhin will “cook” chocolate discs during her residency at LABoral to pay tribute to Edison’s phonograph
The French artist living in Tasmania will carry out a performance at the electronic music picnic that will take place on August 14 in the recreational area El Pinar del Monte Deva
Angélica Liddell presents at LABoral an installation that pays tribute to the poetry of Emily Dickinson
'Emily’ is co-produced with La Bâtie-Festival in Geneva. The piece will be shown in the Sound LAB of the Art Centre until September 27
LABoral, Fundación Municipal de Cultura and FICX open the film series El sí de cada no
The programme, designed by Márgenes, is frameworked in the FICXLAB section and addresses the change in structures, narratives and ways of doing in recent Spanish film making
An art, sicence and technology weekend with the opening of 'Materia prima' and 'winterLAB'
Activities included in the European Network of Digital Art and Science
LABoral invites applications for the post of Director of Activities at the Centre for Art and Creative Industries
The centre is looking for a candidate with experience in the art and creative industries sector and extensive knowledge of the surrounding region
The artistic collective made up by Esther Mañas and Arash Moori wins the fourth grant DKV Seguros-Álvarez Margaride
The work will be carried out during a production residency at LABoral and will be exhibited starting June 17 at the Art Centre
LABoral calls the 8th Premio LABjoven_Los Bragales
This call is addressed to Asturian artists to carry out an artistic project specifically designed for LABoral
‘Materia prima’ session on the film maker and disseminator Guillermo Zuñiga
The session, entitled ‘Contar la ciencia’ (Telling science) will reflect upon scientific dissemination focusing on the role of artists and citizens
LABoral hosts a new edition of LABshop primavera
This event will take place on March 19 and 20 and will gather a number of creators, designers and independent editor presenting their creations based on the Hand made with love philosophy
Telefónica I+D and LABoral organise NEXT THINGS 2016 –VISIBLE, The Fifth Global Challenge on Art and Technology
‘Next Things 2016 - Visible’ is presented as the fifth Global Challenge on Art and Technology and is aimed at boosting the potential brought about by the artists' creativity and vision on ...
LABoral organises the pitch-cycle concert for three performers, bicycles and things, played with bicycle parts
This peculiar concert is organised jointly with the citizen movement “30 days on bicycle” and will be performed by Laboral's resident artists Pedro Menchaca, Aníbal Menchaca and Diego López. ...
LABoral selects Gijon's duet Maresia for a 6-month art residency
The jury chose it among seven candidate projects, because they follow the research lines of the Centre and the experiment with sounds in the urban and rural areas of Gijón
Materia Prima organises two round tables and two workshops on astronomy, art and science
A round table on the study of the universe joined by the Southern European Observator (ESO) from Chile, Omega Astronomic society and the Faculty of Physics of the University of Oviedo
LABoral and the Port of Gijon call the Second Grant Ciencias del Mar
This is a production residency for a project by Asturian artists related with the ocean that makes a creative use of technology
New Transferencias meeting with researcher Leticia González
This is the fifth open meeting of the project ‘Transferencias Las artes, las ciencias y las nuevas formas de lo local’ that will critically analyse in an open dialogue three key concepts: The ...
The ENCAC network calls six new artistic residencies, two of them at LABoral
This year LABoral leads the European Network of Contemporary Audiovisual Creation (ENCAC), all whose members are meeting in Belgrade this days. Lucía García, Managing Director of LABoral, has ...
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial collaborates with Amdas Lafonte in a project of art for social improvement
Amdas Lafonte is an Asturian collective made up by 260 disabled women. The project Rosas y espinas, funded by Obra Social “La Caixa”, is aimed at making the collective visible and transforming ...
LABoral Centro de Arte organises a series of French cinema on education
LABoral organises for the first time this activity that includes screenings of documentary films – ‘La Cour de Babel’, ‘Ce gamin, là’; and ‘Le tombeau d'Alexandre’- that will be ...
LABoral Centro de Arte celebrates the International Museum Day
The programme of activities will include the audiovisual show 'Everything is dirty', free guided tours, an Open House day at FABlab and the planting of 20 native oak trees
The duet from Mieres Fasenuova presents the video clip for their song Siempre, siempre, created by the Asturian visual artist Cristina Busto
This amazing video clip was created during Fasenuova's residency at LABoral and has been made by the Artist from Avilés Cristina Busto for the song "Siempre, Siempre", one of the most outstanding ...
LABoral Centro de Arte organises robotics summer camps and a workshop to build table games using 3D printing for children
Robotix Educación and LABoral continue their children robotics programme with the third edition of the summer camps. Moreover, the school of digital fabrication Los Hacedores will offer a workshop ...
LABoral takes part in the international digital art Festival ELEKTRA
Lucía García, executive director, has been invited to the Festival to present LABoral and the ENCAC project (European Network of Contemporary Audiovisual Creation).
Over 2000 students and teachers take part in LABoral's AuLAB programme
TVLAB, an experimental TV lab, started out in 2009 and three years later it was integrated into the educational project AuLAB, bringing new lines of work and educational. Since then, over 11.290 ...
LABoral Centro de Arte presents a research on educational tools based on aumented and virtual reality
The project ‘Sonido, espacio, inmersión e interacción’ has been developed by the collective Arsgames –in residency at LABoral in 2015- and has been funded by Grupo de Mecenazgo Expandido. The ...
Opening of the exhibition ‘Panacoustic Vortex’, by Esther Mañas and Arash Moori
This show is the winner project of the Fourth Production Grant DKV Seguros – Álvarez Margaride, called jointly by this insurance company and LABoral Centro de Arte
Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, short-listed for the international awards of the Network for Innovation in Culture (NICE)
The centre has presented the educational programme auLAB, developed by LABoral in partnership with the Directorate General of Vocational Education, School Curriculum and Educational Innovation of the ...
Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial organises Open House days during summer
In order to bring the activity of the centre closer to the city, citizens and tourists, LABoral will organise Open House days from next Friday, July 1 to September 15, offering free access to the ...
LABoral Centro de Arte and the Port of Gijon award the second Grant Ciencias del Mar to the Asturian designers Javier de la Cruz and Pelayo Bernardo
This designers have presented a project to design a water drone. Its innovative nature and potential for scientific and artistic use convinced the jury
Live music and a meeting of Asturian instagramers in LABshop's new edition
This event will take place at LABoral Centro de Arte on July 30-31 and will gather a large group of creators, designers and independent publishers that will show their creations
LABoral Centro de Arte gets its third European project: The education grant Erasmus+
The Art Centre will work, with four European partners, in a project of digital innovation in schools that will involve Asturian students and teachers
LABoral awards 7th Premio LABjoven_Los Bragales to the Asturian artist Fran Meana
His project ‘Arqueologías del futuro’ explores the work of the Asturian architectJoaquín Vaquero Palacios – author of the power stations of Salime, Selviella and Proaza- and analyses the ...
Opening of the exhibition ‘Archaeologies of the Future ’, by Fran Meana
Archaeologies of the Future is the winning project of the Premio LABjoven_Los Bragales, called jointly by la Colección Los Bragales, owned by the Cantabrian entrepreneur Jaime Sordo, and LABoral ...
The network ENCAC, lead by LABoral Centro de Arte with LEV Festival as strategic partner awards six new international artistic residencies
The jury has received 186 applications from 34 countries. Two of these residencies will take place at LABoral: Adam Basanta and Gil Delindro, with a project on the production of new sounds exploring ...
The Principality brings to LABoral Centro de Arte and Sala Borrón the work of young artists from Madrid
This double exhibition in Oviedo and Gijon is part of the exchange programme between Asturias and Madrid for supporting and fostering emerging art initiatives
The Taiwanese Chi Po Hao captures and transforms the lights and sounds of the streets of Gijon
The project ‘Lightscape’ –that will be showcased until December 11- explores the relationship between the light and sound elements existing in several routes through the cities of Gijon, Taipei ...
Press kit 'winterLAB'
Meeting on community, round tables and the critical use of technology
LABoral Centro de Arte and Amdas La Fonte present ‘Rosas y Espinas’, an artistic and social project on the life experience of women with disability
Amdas La Fonte is an Asturian collective made up by 260 women with some sort of disability. ‘Rosas y Espinas’ is aimed at making this group of population visible using the potential of art and ...
The monsters of the machine, in a new edition of LABshop
LABshop returns to LABoral Centro de Arte on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 of December with over 50 Asturian entrepreneurs and the live performance of Fasenuova and the illustrators Thanya Castrillón ...
Stefan Laxness investigates communal forests in the north of Spain and their potential for eco-sustainable transformation
Stefan Laxness, currently a resident artist at LABoral Centro de Arte, is developing a project called "Learning from the commons: A keystone towards a rewilded future
