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Rosina Gómez-Baeza to present the Laboral project at Post-Flux 2009
Experts from around the world will meet this weekend in Brussels to analyse the situation of media art and current creative practices.
LABcyberspaces, first initiative launched by the Projects Office
10 out of the 133 entries received go on display at one of the opening shows at Laboral Centre for Art and Creative Industries
Exhibition Cyberspaces reflects on the virtual over and above the use of internet as a tool
A jury comprising Rosina Gómez-Baeza, Christiane Paul, Gerfried Stocker and Alex Adriaanssens selected 10 among the 133 entries submitted
Fundación LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries, approves the opening programme
Board of trustees approves admission fees (€5) and announcement for three new posts for the centre
Asturias engages with cutting-edge art
Rosina Gómez-Baeza directs this new space due to open on 30th march
LABshop, a design space selling limited editions
Limited editions, books, magazines and merchandising on sale at the LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries and its website
Average of one thousand visitors per day since opening
The Centre quickly earns a reputation as an interactive, participative space offering the public a chance to enjoy arts related to new technologies and industrial creativity.
Over 13.000 visitors since opening
Highest influx registered at weekend following the opening and Easter holidays
Works by masters of 20th century art on view at Feedback
On view at the Centre is a large mural work by Sol LeWitt, one of the maximum exponents of conceptual art who died last Sunday in New York. In Feedback, one of its opening exhibitions, LABoral Centre ...
LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries to begin performances this saturday
Seven Mile Boots, one of the pieces selected for LABcyberspaces, will be the first performance on show.
“Made in Asturias” video at LABoral shows the works in extensions-anchors
Visitors to the centre can see the interventions created by the seven artists in Extensions-Anchors scattered through the whole of Asturias in a video.
LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries summer programme
Summer programme
This friday, LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries closes three exhibitions
Friday 29th June is the last day to catch the exhibitions Feedback, LABcyberspaces and Extensions-Anchors Phase I LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries is closing three of the four ...
It´S Simply Beautiful, a reflection on the concept of beauty
Cajastur sponsors the exhibition opening on 27th July at the LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries
LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries opens its online shop
Limited editions, books, magazines and merchandising on sale at www.laboralcentrodearte.org
Notodo nominates It's Simply Beautiful and Gameworld for its 2008 awards
LABoral's exhibitions It's Simply Beautiful and Gameworld have been nominated for the 2008 NOTODO awards in the Best Exhibition category.
LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries. New web page.
A new structure and design which embraces the full spectrum of the objectives of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial was conceived to create an access and service oriented information ...
LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries. Dossier new web page.
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org
LABoral signs two agreements with Foundation CTIC and Alcoa to set Creatic in motion
Conceived as a creativity and technological research laboratory, Creatic will be based in the Art and Industrial Creation Centre of Gijón.
Situation Room, by asturian artist Pablo de Soto, in LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries
The project, to be exhibited starting on the 18th of January, was the winner of the LAByouth_Experiment prize, a competition organized by LABoral in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of the ...
Dot.Tape.Dot and Sinebag open laboral’s thursday night concert series tomorrow
During the course of the workshop, a puppet show and an orchestra will be made from discarded materials.
This weekend LABoral hosts two workshops: Carnaval and Viajando por el mundo
This weekend, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial offers two workshops – Carnaval and Viajando por el mundo (Traveling Around The World) – whose goal is to bring parents and children ...
Workshop at LABoral to be led by artist Rodrigo Derteano this weekend
Reprocesando el espacio (Recomputing Space) will demonstrate how sound maps are created.
LABoral hosts a new session of the youth workshop Viajando por el mundo this saturday
The workshop Viajando por el mundo continues this weekend at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. Intended for a young audience, participating children will be introduced to various nearby ...
A professional workshop on programming for artists begins at LABoral this monday
The workshop offers the artistic community a chance to learn how to work with free programming tools alongside nationally and internationally renowned experts. It is complimented by the LABabierto ...
Mónica Bello to be the Educational Programme director at LABoral
Her responsibilities will include production, managing residences, listening to local and international concerns and interests and the discernment of newly emerging artistic and technological ...
A recycling workshop to begin at LABoral as part of the LABenfamilia programme
During the course of the workshop, a puppet show and an orchestra will be made from discarded materials.
Dance in portuguese in LABoral’s youth workshop Viajando por el mundo
Marcia Das Merces Silva will be the professor for the session on Saturday, February 16.
PSJM Marx® project to convert LABoral's gallery Platform 1 into a boutique
The exhibitiion of Pablo San José and Cynthia Viera, coproduced by LABoral's Projects Office and the Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), will be inaugurated on March 29th.
Artist Pablo de Soto to show children how to play with a Control Room in LABoral
Three workshops dedicated to children and their families to be held at El Centro de Arte this weekend.
Rosina Gómez-Baeza to participate in the colloquium “Women Pioneers of Contemporary Art” this tuesday in Madrid
The debate is part of the “Ellas crean” (“Women create”) Cultural festival, organised in celebration of International Women’s day
The Mondriaan Foundation to sponsor an art work in Homo Ludens Ludens, the upcoming videogame exhibition at LABoral
The Dutch organisation is backing Himalaya’s head, an exhibit by artists Sarita Dev and Maurits Kelder, at Gijóns Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial.
Fat16 and Stephane Leonard in this thursday's LABconcierto at LABoral Centre for Art
The performance – part of LABoral’s monthly musical programme – is to be held in Gallery 2B at 8:00 PM.
New sessions of the Reciclaje and Viajando por el mundo workshops in LABoral Centre for Art
Both workshops have been organised in the training and educational areas of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial as part of a pedagogical programme that is specifically intended for young ...
A collaboration workshop for children and their families begins in LABoral this saturday
Activities will include singing songs, reading stories and listening to poetry. It will be held every Saturday and Sunday from March 8th until April 6th, from 11:30 AM until 1:30 PM.
Monday, March 10th, is the Project submission deadline for the Design Competition being held jointly by LABoral and ESAPA
The Prizewinning Project will be made in Asturias and sold in the LABshop.
PSJM launches the Marx® brand name in Gijón as a prelude to the inauguration of their new exhibition in LABoral
The exhibition, which will convert the Gallery Platform 1 of the Centro de Arte into a boutique, opens on March 28th.
“Chopping piano –in C-,” a work of sound art by the asturian collective Las Larvas, at LABoral starting march 28th
The event to be held on March 28th is the second event that LAB has organised in the Cubo de Sonido project and will take place at Gallery Platform 2.
LABoral issues an international call for applications to its curator and artist in residence programmes
Proposals may be submitted until March 30th. Selected candidates will carry out a two-month research and production project at the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in 2008.
LABoral to produce the work of asturian artist Román Torre for the Homo Ludens Ludens exhibition
Life Floor is an interactive installation based on the "game of life" and, with LABoral's support, will also be exhibited at the Media Art Forum for Youth (IMAFY) in Cairo.
“La Orquesta Imaginaria”, LABoral’s new workshop intended for children and their families
The activity is meant to be the perfect opportunity to become familiar with the musical instruments and customs of other continents. DATES: Saturday, April 5th, 2008 – Sunday, April 6th, 2008.
André Gingras (Korzo Productions) presents CYP17 next thursday at LABoral Centro de Arte
The event is part of the programme 'Solos para un espacio blanco' that began last March as a collaboration between LABoral and Laboral Escena.
Asturian artist Román Torre wins the Golden Feather award at the ‘International Media Art Forum for Youth’ in Cairo
His work Life Floor was produced by LABoral Centro de Arte and will be on exhibit at Homo Ludens Ludens which opens on April 18th.
Rosina Gómez-Baeza to participate in a debate on the Art Market in the Principality of Asturias
Organised by Tribuna Ciudadana and the Club de Prensa Asturiana, the debate is entitled “The Art Market in Asturias: a reflection” and will be held at the Club, calle Calvo Sotelo 7, Oviedo, at ...
Three day open house at LABoral Centro de Arte in celebration of its first anniversary
The public will be able to visit LAB's exhibitions free of charge on the 18th, 19th and 20th of April.
Austrian artist Gordan Savicic will give his urban performance this wednesday in Gijón City Centre
Constraint City / The Pain of Everyday Life is one of the works of art that will be shown at the Homo Ludens Ludens exhibition opening this Friday at LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial.
The Homo Ludens Ludens international symposium begins at LABoral Centro de Arte this saturday
Organised by LABoral Centro de Arte in collaboration with the Planetary Collegium. 24 international experts will analyse the role of play in contemporary society.
LABoral and the University of Oviedo sign a collaboration agreement for the promotion of art and industrial creation
Both institutions have joined forces to bring about a dynamic environment in which creators, researchers, educators and critics can work together in connection with a large audience.
LABoral’s two new workshops introduce children to new technologies in english and to music in video games
The activities are part of the LABniños programme and will begin this Saturday.
LABoral to begin its workshop 'Rutas fotográficas' intended for children and their families
'El juego de mirar' starts tomorrow and will take participants down different routes through areas of interest in Gijón so that they can graphically document the landscape.
Erich Berger, chief curator of LABoral Centro de Arte, to participate in Loop, the video art festival
He will moderate a round table discussion on "The Limits of Video Art" this May 8th.
LABoral Centro de Arte to host some of the performances for the L.E.V. Festival‘S second edition
The centre's Labcafé will be the stage for the performances scheduled for this Saturday.
The latest session of 'Solos para un espacio blanco' to feature the work of Apostolia Papadamaki / Quasi Stellar tomorrow at LABoral
A Greek dancer will give the performance at seven in the evening in the Gallery Platform 2 of the art centre. Vistitors may enter free of charge.
LABoral and the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Egypt establish an artist exchange programme
Asturian artist Pablo de Soto will take up residency in Cairo, while Egyptian Shady El Noshokaty will reside in Gijón’s art centre.
Emergentes to bring renown to LABoral Centro de Arte in four countries of Latin America
The exhibition was open in LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial until May 12th and will travel to Buenos Aires, Lima, Mexico and Chile.
LABoral explores the interactions of art – science – technology – society in Spain’s digital culture with its 'banquete_nodos y redes' exhibition
The exhibition, with Karen Ohlenschläger as curator, includes a diverse programme of complementary activities.
83 applications for the position of artist in residence and 32 for that of curator at LABoral Centro de Arte
The selected artist and curator will each carry out a research and production project at the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial during two months of this year. The decision will be announced by ...
“Diálogos” begins tomorrow at LABoral, coinciding with the inauguration of “banquete_nodos y redes”
The exhibition, with Karin Ohlenschläger as curator, will open this Friday with a diverse programme of complementary activities.
Presentation and inauguration of “banquete_nodos y redes” at LABoral Centro de Arte
The Vice President of the Fundación La Laboral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Jorge Fernández León, and the Director of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Rosina Gómez-Baeza, ...
The ministry of culture joins the board of patrons of the Fundación la LABoral, Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Nicanor Fernández, representing the Fundación HC, appointed second vice-president.
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial presents its summer programme ---- Press conference
Tomorrow morning, June 25th, the Director of LABoral, Rosina Gómez-Baeza, will hold a press conference in order to present the art centre’s summer programme and give a preview of the activities ...
Presentation and inauguration of TACs at lABoral Centro de Arte ---- Press conference
omorrow, Friday, June 27th, the Director of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Rosina Gómez-Baeza, will formally present the exhibition TACs Experimentación con imagen biomédica ...
Montreal Mutado, by Francisco López, the latest edition of LABoral’s ‘Cubo de Sonido’ programme
The sound installation will be on exhibit at the Gallery Platform 2 from June 27th to September 29th.
Forbes magazine includes LABoral and “Homo Ludens Ludens” amongst the eight “must-see travel spots” for lovers of videogames
LABoral is the only European art centre included in the selection made by the north-American publication.
LABoral to participate in the Fiesta de las Asociaciones with a programme of debates, meetings, workshops and concerts
The Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial will have its own exhibition space on the esplanade of the Poniente beach in Gijón so that participating youth can become familiar with the art centre’s ...
LABoral to exhibit objects of industrial craftsmanship resulting from the Disart project of the Fundación Prodintec
Seven artisanal companies from Asturias, in collaboration with designers from the Universidade da Coruña and within the Disart project of the Fundación Prodintec, have created more than one-hundred ...
LABacción brings a festival of performances and electronic music to Gijón City Centre
The activities organised by LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial are part of the Arte en la Calle [Art in the Street] programme of Gijón City Hall and will gather together more than a dozen ...
460,046 people have participated in the activities organised by LABoral Centro de Arte since its inauguration 16 months ago
The exhibitions held in LABoral have been visited by 78,711 people.
The egyptian artist Shady El Noshokaty to present the works of art he has completed during his residency in LABoral tomorrow in the cineLAB
VENUE: CineLAB, within the Centro de Arte. DAY: Thursday, August 14th TIME: 5:00 PM
LABacción returns to the streets of Gijón during the Begoña holiday weekend
For the second consecutive weekend, the festival of performances and electronic music concerts takes to the urban stages set up by the Gijón CIty Hall.
LABACCIÓN ENDS GIVING PROMINENCE TO ASTURIANS
The festival of performances and electronic music concerts reaches its conclusion with a spectacular finale starring important Asturian artists.
LABoral and the collective “Respeto Total” officially announce the 'One Second Video Festival Reloaded: workshop version'
The festival of one-second-long videos, to be held as part of the Encuentros de Cabueñes, will accept applications for participation starting today.
LABoral joins the “Encuentros de Cabueñes” and organises a programme of workshops and round table discussions on “Contemporary discourses on art” and a video nanofestival
The latest edition of this traditional gethering of youth will be held from the 22nd to the 26th of September.
The Scientific Commission will contribute to the definition of LABoral’s priorities over the next three years
In its first organisational session, this advisory body will analyse the Art Centre’s conceptual axes and programming direction, which are soon to be considered for approval by the Foundation’s ...
Performances by Bacanal Intruder and Kenneth Cosimo at the LABconcierto to be held tommorrow
Both performances are free of charge and will be held at eight in the evening.
The Scientific Commission praises LABoral’s activity programme and encourages its directorate to continue working towards the international consolidation of the project
Its members refer to LABoral as a “centre of reference in art, technology and industry” and believe that it should preserve its strong ties with the local public.
Scottish videoartists Alexander and Susan Maris film their piece in “Los Picos de Europa” for “There is no Road”
LABoral will inaugurate this exhibition on December 12th, in which the work of twelve international artists who work with the moving image will be shown.
Rosina Gómez-Baeza brings LABoral’s project to the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo
The Director of LABoral participated in the seminar “Conserving and collecting new media. Contemporary art museums and their extensión across the web,” where she gave a conference on “Art and ...
It_Boy and Nikka open a new series of LABconciertos in the Centro de Arte
Entrance to the performances is free of charge and will begin at eight in the evening in LABoral Centro de Arte one Thursday evening of every month.
The inauguration of “Ghosts in the Machine” to be held this thursday, a new exhibition organised by LABoral’s projects office
The exhibition is a site-specific installation by Einstein’ s Brain Project, a group of Canadian artists and scientists researching Electronic Voice Phenomena.
The director of LABoral to participate in the selection of art works for the Share Prize Festival in Turin
The Share Festival will be held from the 25th to the 29th of March, 2009, in the afforementioned Italian city.
Three works by asturian artists produced by LABoral to be exhibitied in Austria
Calos Coronas will bring It’s Simply Beautiful Nowhere to OK Zentrum (Linz) and Íñigo Bilbao and Román Torre will exhibit TACs and Life Floor in the new Ars Electronica museum, respectively.
The director of LABoral to present the LABoral’s contribuition to Creative Cities in Sitges
She will deliver a paper today on "Art and Public Space: Between the Ephemeral and the Permanent" at the conference organised by the Kreanta Foundation.
LABoral opens 'there is no Road (the road is made by walking)' on december the 12th'
An exhibition of artists' journeys to mountains, off-road places and other remote destinations.
A meeting on ”Art and Disability” to be held on wednesday, december 3rd, to celebrate the international day of persons with disabilities
LABoral Centro de Arte will also organise the workshop Animo, intended for people with special needs, from the 9th to the 12th of December.
Gijón’s first Encuentros de Música Contemporánea come to a close this weekend
Round table discussions, conferences, concerts and a youth workshop comprise the programme of activities to take place from the 5th to the 7th of December.
Eighty people with special needs to participate in the Animo workshop to be held at LABoral until this friday
The activity is supported by the Royal Board on Disability and the Asturian Agency for Disability.
This week LABoral offers “LABshop’s December Market” featuring items by asturian designers
It will take place in the Centro de Arte from Thursday, December 18th, until Saturday, December 20th. Ten percent of the proceeds will go to amnesty international.
Eight asturian artists to participate in the exhibition “El pasado en el presente y lo propio en lo ajeno” organised by LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
The exhibition will be open starting April 3rd, 2009, until June 29th.
The asturian artist Fernando Gutiérrez to open LABoral’s 2009 exhibition calendar
His project 'Crisálidas' was the winner of the LABJoven_Experimenta Award, intended for young creators in the Principality of Asturias. The exhibition will open this upcoming January 30th in the ...
The director of LABoral to participate in the intrernational congress “Lugares de Cultura” to be held in Santiago
This Thursday, Rosina Gómez-Baeza will present the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial as a model example of new infrastructures in the service of culture.
The inauguraration of Crisálidas by Fernando Gutiérrez, the project bestowed with the second edition of the LABjoven_Experimenta prize, to take place at LABoral this friday
Abel Hernández (El Hijo) will provide the inauguration with musical ambience with a concert, free of charge, that will begin at 8:30 PM.
LABoral to host a programming workshop for artists next week
From Monday, February 2nd, to Friday, February 6th, participants will be introduced to the use of the tool openFrameworks.
LABoral to provide assitance for artistic production to asturian artists
In total, 20,500 Euros are to be made available. Proposals requesting assistance must be submitted before March 26th.
Paloma Calle to perform “100 cosas que hacer hoy mejor que ver esta pieza” tomorrow at LABoral
The performance, free of charge, will begin at four thirty in the afternoon in the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial. The public will be able to freely move about during the performance.
ZKM to open “banquete_nodos y redes”, an exhibition produced by LABoral, on the 14th of march
The inclusion of this important exhibition space in the show´s itinerary is a sign of recognition supporting the activity of the Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón.
LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial announces the post of chief curator
Candidates must have three years of experience in the domain of the visual arts, technology, science and industrial creation, a university degree and mastery of both Spanish and English. Submission ...
40 professors to participate in a contemporary art seminar organised by LABoral starting wednesday
María Ptqk, Pablo de Soto and Juan Freire are the keynote speakers at this event intended for professional educators.
Call for proposals by LABoral for the production of an art work to be exhibited in its Gallery Platform 1
DIGITAL_LAB will be awarded with a prize of 20,000 Euros for the production of an art work that must have both installation and virtual characteristics.
LABoral to host tomorrow the 'Live cinema' workshop intended for artists interested in live audiovisual performance
The workshop will be directed by the visual artist Mia Makela (Solu), who will perform in a new LABConcierto together with Miguel Marin (Arbol) this Friday.
