LABoral works in a network with national and international organisations with the aim of promoting the co-production and exchange of projects, and facilitating the accessibility and dissemination of art, science and technology.
ACCICA – Asociación Clúster de la Industria Creativa, Cultural y Audiovisual de Asturias, AC/E – Acción Cultural Española, Adaro Tecnología, Agencia de Energía de Gijón, Alcoa Inespal, ALSA Grupo, Altabox S.L., Areyhold S.L.U., Artificial Intelligence Center (AIC), Asociación La Bisogno, Asociación Patos Salvajes, Autoridad Portuaria de Gijón, Avatar, BAL Hotel Spa, Banco Sabadell Herrero, CA2M – Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, CAAM – Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Caja Rural de Asturias, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Centro de Investigación Artística Ladines, Centro Párraga, CIFP CISLAN – Centro Integrado de Formación Profesional para la Comunicación, Imagen y Sonido, ACB Collection, Los Bragales Collection, CometCon, Consejería de Presidencia y Participación Ciudadana, DATATROM, DKV Seguros, Instituto de Neurociencias del Principado de Asturias, El Comercio, E. M.A. – Empresa Municipal de Aguas de Gijón, EMULSA – Empresa Municipal de Servicios de Medio Ambiente Urbano de Gijon, ETOPIA, ESAD – Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático del Principado de Asturias, ESAPA – Escuela Superior de Arte del Principado de Asturias, Escuela de Turismo de Asturias, Escuela Politécnica de Ingeniería de Gijón, Escuela Internacional de Protocolo, ESDI – Escuela Superior de Diseño, Facultad de Bellas Artes de Salamanca, Facultad de Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad de Oviedo, Facultad de Ciencias de la Información de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the University of León, Faculty Padre Ossó, FEAPS-Federación de Asociación para la integración de discapacitados psíquicos del Principado de Asturias, Federación Aeronáutica del Principado de Asturias, FESOPRAS- Federación de Sordos del Principado de Asturias, FICX – Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón, Foro Cultural de Austria, Fundación ADSIS, Fundación Caja Rural de Asturias, Fundación CTIC, Fundación Banco Santander, Fundación EDP, Fundación La Caixa, Fundación Municipal de Cultura de Gijón, Fundación Onassis, Fundación Orange, Fundación Telefónica, FUO-Fundación Universidad de Oviedo, FZC Fundación Zaragoza Conocimiento, GECESA – Obra Social Caja Madrid, Gijón Impulsa, Goethe Institut, Gráficas Eujoa, Halcón Viajes, Hamaca, Hangar, Huber and Ana Animación, IAAC – Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, IES Nº 1 of Gijón, Incuna – Association of Industrial Archaeology, Ineuropa, Intermediae, Institut Français de Madrid y Bilbao, Jardín Botánico Atlántico de Asturias, Kuka Robotics, Liceus Servicios de Gestión y Comunicación S. L., Liceus Servicios de Gestión y Comunicación S. L., Lo Pati, Lyceé Leonardo Da Vinci, MARCO – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Matadero, Masymás, Medialab Prado, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte, Mondriaan Foundation, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, OCPEUE – Coordination Office for the Spanish Presidency of the EU, O’DAM ONGD, Onda Cero Gijón, Pronorte Sonido S.L., Purificación García, Red Door LAB, RTPA – Radiotelevisión del Principado de Asturias, Robotix, SEACEX, Sociedad Mixta de Turismo de Gijón, Sociedad Pública de Gestión y Promoción Turística y Cultural del Principado de Asturias, Tabakalera Donostia, Tanalot 98 S.L., TEA – Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Teatro Jovellanos de Gijón, Telefónica I+D, The Studio of Fernando Gutiérrez, Two Monkeys Producciones, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Universidad de Alcalá, Universidad de Burgos, Universidad de Oviedo, Universidad de Rennes, Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad de Sevilla, Universidad Europea de Madrid, UNED Asturias, UOC – Universidad Oberta de Catalunya, Vice-Rectorate for Students of the University of Oviedo, Vice-Rectorate for University Extension and International Projection of the University of Oviedo, Vice-Rectorate for European Convergence, Postgraduate Studies and University Degrees of the University of Oviedo, Vice-Rectorate for Innovation and Infrastructures of the University of Salamanca, Vice-Rectorate for Academic Organisation and New Degrees of the University of Oviedo, VIPASA – Viviendas del Principado de Asturias S. A., ZKM – ZENTRUM FÜR KUNST UND MEDIENTECHNOLOGIE.
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LABoral is part of several European and international consortiums and platforms.
EUROPEAN DIGITAL DEAL, 2023 – 2025
European Digital Deal (EUDigitalDeal) explores how the accelerating processes of digital transformation and the rise of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain and algorithmic processing directly affect European democratic values and the integrity of our democratic systems. A network of European and global partners consisting of cultural sector actors, artists, creatives, researchers, scientific institutions and public sector representatives come together to explore how artistic perspectives can act as catalysts for sustainable human-centred innovation. EUDigitalDeal calls for the deployment of technologies that preserve individual and social human rights, take into account long-term environmental implications and focus on the needs of the people who use them. The project focuses on critical challenges such as the need to address disinformation in algorithm-driven media, the urgency to create digital public spaces that protect the fundamental rights of European citizens and the demand for significantly increased investment in digital literacy. It calls for the involvement of civil society, artists and cultural institutions in technological innovation and an action plan for technological development that respects gender equality, privacy and promotes diversity. The 13 partners address these issues head-on through a programme focused on innovation, education and mentoring driven by more than 200 artists: 12 pilot artistic projects will lead to new forms of innovation; 41 capacity building programmes and training materials will support artists, educators and the young generation of change agents in their learning; 24 EUDigitalDeal Days, Festivals and Exhibitions will open the doors to shared understanding and public discourse. And the EUDigitalDeal roadmap will manifest its human-centred path to digital transformation in the interactive, web-based Digital Futures Action Plan.
Network partners: Ars Electronica, Linz (Austria); The Center for the Promotion of Science (CPN), Beograd, Serbia; The Culture Yard, Elsinore, Denmark; Gluon, Brussels; Teatro Circo de Braga, Portugal; iMAL, Brussels; Kersnikova, Ljubljana, Slovenia; LABoral Centro de Arte, Gijon (Spain), Onassis Culture, Greece; Progressione, Budapest, Hungary; Sineglossa, Italy; Waag, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Zaragoza City of Knowledge Foundation (FZC)/Etopia, Zaragoza, Spain.
STUDIOTOPIA 2, 2023 – 2026
Studiotopia 2 is a programme for established and emerging artists, scientists and young people to position themselves together in sustainable development. It is about cultural and innovative institutions promoting artists who want to be nurtured by researchers in the field of sciences and humanities, and want to be informed about the latest developments in research and contribute to serious global discourses. Based on the first edition of the European cooperation project Studiotopia: Arts Meets Science in the Anthropocene, the methodology evolves around cross-fertilisation. Studiotopia 2 builds on the first results generated by the original Studiotopia project, supported by Creative Europe between 2019 and mid-2022. The project has been instrumental in supporting a series of residencies between artists and scientists that are shown in several exhibitions. The current proposal at the conceptual and contextual level opens up the Symbiocene, which becomes the new perspective from which to formulate the challenges that scientists and artists will face together.The Symbiocene, understood as an attempt at mutual benefit between different entities, is the ideal context for developing interdisciplinary thought processes, at the same time, in the reconsideration of natural/artificial differences, including technology in the human/natural/artificial world. relationship. A new way of thinking about the nature of technology is not only possible, but also necessary. In the field of the symbiotic method, it seems preferable to think of artificial intelligence as a natural intelligence, in another world an intelligence that, like the “natural” one, needs to fix itself, needs to learn and somehow figure out what is useful and what is not, what is ethical and what is not, and so on. This perspective on artificial intelligence could be an important catalyst for innovation: it is a revolutionary guideline to follow also for art, science and institutions.
PARTNERS: MEET DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SRL IMPRESA SOCIALE, Italy; PALAIS DES BEAUX ARTS, Belgium; GLUON, Belgium; ARS ELECTRONICA, Austria; LABORAL CENTRO DE ARTE, Spain; ASSOCIACION HEXAGONE ARTS ET SCIENCES, France; CENTRUM SZTUKI WSPOLCZESNEJ LAZNIA, Poland; ASOCIATIA CENTRUL CULTURAL CLUJEAN, Romania; ZAVOD ZA KULTURO, Slovenia; Digital Hub Development Agency, Dublin; CYENS CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE, Cyprus; UNIVERSITE GRENOBLE ALPES, France; COMMISSARIAT A L ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES, France; DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY, Dublin; STICHTING VU, The Netherlands; ARIONA HELLAS, Greece; IZOLYATSIA INTERNATIONAL BENEFICIAL FOUNDATION. Ukraine.
European Media Art Platform. EMAP, 2022-2025
LABoral is a member of the EMAP Network (European Media Art Platform), a project that offers the EMARE (European Media Artist in Residency Exchange) residency programme.
EMAP/EMARE is part of the European programme Creative Europe Platforms, which aims to boost the cultural and creative sectors, supporting artists, cultural and audiovisual professionals and organisations, performing arts, fine arts, publishing, fine arts publishing, fine arts, publishing, film, television, music, interdisciplinary arts, literature, heritage and the video game industry. The project has been developed in annual cycles, the first of which runs from December 2017 to September 2018 and September 2018 and receives a total of €432,000 in EU funding for the development of the extensive residency programme. In 2018, in view of the good results, the second cycle was awarded, which runs until 2019, and the third cycle, from 2019 to 2020. The third cycle runs from 2019 to 2020. The fourth cycle is currently under development. The fourth cycle is currently in development. underway and the already consolidated platform has the ambition to expand with the support of the large network of associated partners. support of the large network of associated partners at its disposal at the moment.
EMAP is aimed at European artists working with new technologies and the programme aims to foster collaboration between artists and collaboration between artists and institutions using new media.
The Platform is made up of 15 European cultural institutions: Antre Peaux, Bourges, (France); Ars Electronica Center, Linz (Austria); FACT, Liverpool (UK); gnration, Braga (Portugal); iMAL Brussels (Belgium); IMPAKT, Utrecht (Belgium) Kersnikova Institute (Kapelica Gallery), Ljubljana, Slovenia; KONTEJNER, Zagreb, Croatia; LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón (Spain); M-Cult, Helsinki, Finland; NeMe Arts Center, Limassol, Limassol, Cyprus; M-Cult, Helsinki, Finland; Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece; RIXC, Riga, Latvia; Werkleitz Centre for Media Art, Halle, Germany; WRO Center for Media Art Foundation, Wroclaw, Poland.
NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS
The New European Bauhaus is a creative and interdisciplinary initiative of the European Commission that opens a meeting space to design future ways of living. The proposal brings the Green Pact to the places where we live and calls for a collective effort to imagine and build a sustainable, inclusive and beautiful future for all.
The New European Bauhaus is articulated around several thematic axes: reconnecting with nature, reclaiming a sense of belonging, prioritising the places and people that need it most, encouraging long-term thinking, life-cycle thinking and integration into the industrial ecosystem.
During the first months of this proposal, more than 300 organisations from all over Europe have joined in. They have taken part in meetings and activities to gather contributions to improve the daily lives of European citizens. In this second phase, the aim will be to give meaning to everything collected and start translating it into local policies and actions.
Previous European projects:
European Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence. AILAB, 2018 – 2021
The ARTificial European Art and Intelligence Lab is a continuation of the European Digital Art and Science Network, a large-scale transnational cooperation project also co-funded by the Creative Europe programme. The ARTificial European Art and Intelligence Lab takes up the confluence between art and science and addresses the visions, expectations and fears we associate with artificial intelligence by offering international artists working in the field of artificial intelligence the opportunity to obtain a residency at a partner scientific institution and at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The European Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence (AILAB) further explores the visions, expectations and fears associated with the conception of the artificial intelligence of the future through an extensive programme of activities in the form of exhibitions, laboratories, workshops, conferences, lectures, talks, performances, concerts, tutorials and workshops. AILAB is a project that promotes interdisciplinary work, transnational mobility and intercultural exchange.
AILAB is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, from the perspective of 13 major cultural operators, such as Ars Electronica (Austria), Centro de Promoción de la Ciencia (Serbia), Fundación Etopia-Zaragoza Ciudad del Saber (Spain), LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Spain), Kersnikova Institute/Kapelica Gallery (Slovenia), Science Gallery Dublin (Ireland), Onassis Cultural Center (Greece), The Culture Yard (Denmark), GLUON (Belgium), Hexagone Scène Nationale Arts Sciences (France), SOU Festival (Georgia), le lieu unique (France), Waag (The Netherlands).
European Media Art Platform EMAP, 2018-2021
LABoral is part of the EMAP Network (European Media Art Platform), a Europe-wide project that offers the EMARE (European Media Artist in Residency Exchange) residency programme. EMAP/EMARE is part of the European programme Creative Europe Platforms, aimed at boosting the cultural and creative sectors, providing support to artists, professionals and cultural and audiovisual organisations, performing arts, fine arts, publishing, cinema, television, music, interdisciplinary arts, literature, heritage and the video industry. It also supports the literature, heritage and video game industry. The project has been developed in annual cycles, the first one from December 2017 to September 2018 and receiving a total of 432,000 euros of EU funds for the development of the extensive residency programme. In 2018, in view of the good results, the second cycle was awarded and will run until 2019 and the third cycle will run from 2019 to 2020. The fourth cycle is currently under development and the already consolidated platform has ambitions to expand with the support of the large network of associated partners it currently has. https://emare.eu/partners EMAP is aimed at European artists working with new technologies and the programme aims to foster collaboration between artists and institutions using new media.
The platform consists of 11 European cultural institutions. -Ars Electronics Centre, Linz, Austria -Magos Bandits, Bourges, France -Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool, UK -IMPAKT, Utrecht, France -IMPAKT, Utrecht, The Netherlands -Kontejner, Zagreb, Croatia -LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece -RIXC, Riga, Latvia -WRO Center for Media Art Foundation, Wroclaw, Poland -Werkleitz Center for Media Art, Halle (Saale), Germany (project coordinator).
Studiotopia. Art Meets Science in the Anthropocene, 2019 – 2022
STUDIOTOPIA. Art Meets Science is a large-scale transnational cooperation project, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. It is a creative and speculative journey aimed at sustainable development through the connections between art and science. Studiotopia offers residency programmes for artists interested in working with scientists and vice versa. In addition, Studiotopia promotes the active participation of the public in the creative process through the creation of pop-up laboratories. In this sense, LABoral Centro de Arte proposes the creation of three cycles of five pop-up laboratories aimed at secondary schools in the Principality of Asturias. So far, two laboratories have been developed within the programme framework of Art, neuroscience and artificial intelligence: Predictive selfie with data, devised by Clara Boj, Diego Díaz (artists) and Beatriz Remeseiro (scientist at the University of Oviedo, Artificial Intelligence Centre); and Neuroconexiones, devised by the artist Daniel Canogar and the Instituto de Neurociencia INEUROPA of the University of Oviedo. In addition to the installation of the work Pasaje Sináptico by the artist Daniel Canogar in the context of the exhibition Cuando las mariposas del alma, baten sus alas (When the butterflies of the soul flap their wings). https://studiotopia.eu
STUDIOTOPIA is an initiative of eight European cultural institutions: Palais des Beaux-Arts (BOZAR) and GLUON in Brussels (coordinator), Ars Electronica in Linz, Cluj Cultural Centre in Cluj, Laznia Contemporary Art Centre in Gdansk, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial in Gijón.
Au delá de l’exposition: nouvelles interfaces pour l’art contemporaine, 2013-2014
The project “Beyond the exhibition: new interfaces for contemporary art in Europe” aims to experiment with new modes of artistic support and new interfaces of relationship with the public in order to take into account the most innovative forms of contemporary art in Europe.
The project brings together three European partners of international stature in the field of visual arts: Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains (Tourcoing, France), Laboral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Gijón, Spain) and the CAC – Centre d’art contemporáneo de Vilnius (Vilnius, Lithuania).
European Digital Art and Science Network. EDASN, 2015-2017
The European Digital Art and Science Network is a project co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and aims to promote the joint work of artists and scientists. It is one of the continent’s most important efforts to seek interdisciplinarity between the most advanced science and the creative avant-garde of digital art, to create a European circuit capable of promoting and exhibiting works and projects in this field, and to reach new audiences for these creative practices.
This initiative involves ESO and CERN, as scientific institutions, and eight European cultural institutions, including, in addition to LABoral and Ars Electronica Linz, the Centre for the Promotion of Science, Serbia; DIG Gallery, Slovakia; Science Gallery, Ireland; Fundación Zaragoza Ciudad del Conocimiento, Spain; Zavod k6&4, Slovenia; and GV Art, United Kingdom.
EUROPEAN NETWORK FOR CONTEMPORARY AUDIOVISUAL CREATION. ENCAC, 2015-2019
The European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation (ENCAC) is a small-scale transnational cooperation project for the support, dissemination and interaction between citizens, artists and researchers interested in the visual arts, sound and audiovisual creation and digital culture.
Led by LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Spain), with the collaboration of L.E.V. Festival (Laboratorio de Electrónica Visual) as a strategic partner, ENCAC is funded by the Creative Europe programme, and integrated by five European cultural institutions or platforms Ars electronica (Austria), Disk (Germany), Resonate (Serbia), Le lieu Unique (France). ) and hTh-CDN (France) and four other non-European collaborating partners, which are also part of the Network: Avatar (Canada), ELEKTRA (Canada), Mutek (Mexico) and Mapping Festival (Switzerland).
FABLAB SCHOOLS EU, 2016-2018
In the project FABLAB SCHOOLS EU: Towards Digital Smart, Entrepreneurial and Innovative Pupils, four EU member countries join forces to develop common methodological principles to support digital fabrication in education across Europe, starting with primary and secondary schools. The project is co-funded by the Erasmus+ – Strategic Partnerships in Education programme and has a duration of two years (01/11/2016 – 31/10/2018).
Partners: VK (Denmark) as coordinator of the inter-municipal initiative “Fablab@SchoolDK”. – Centre for Advanced Visualisation and Interaction (CAVI) of Aarhus University (Denmark). – Verenigung Ons Middelbaar Onderwijs. Organisation consisting of several schools. The local project partner is the school “Theresia Lyceum”. – CSC (Italy) – LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Spain).
Vertigo STARTS (Science, Technology and the Arts) Residencies, 2017-2020
The European Commission’s S+T+ARTS==STARTS programme through the VERTIGO Project fosters innovation in Europe by bringing Science, Technology and Art closer together through, among others, the funding of the annual STARTS prize (https://starts -prize.aec.at/en/) and the promotion of STARTS residencies, in which artists are invited to technological institutions (www.starts.eu).
LABoral is part of the artistic network of the European programme VERTIGO STARTS. This residency programme organises collaborations between artists and research and development (R&D) projects in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). STARTS promotes the arts as a catalyst for the efficient conversion of knowledge generated by scientific and technological research into products, services and processes. VERTIGO is funded by the European initiative STARTS H2020, Innovation at the nexus of Science, Technology and the Arts. The call is open to artists who wish to collaborate with an ICT R&D project team to develop a new approach to their innovation challenges, in particular by producing an original artwork based on their technology.
VERTIGO STARTS funded projects: NEXT THINGS, NEXT STARTS exhibition Production and exhibition of the work El sentido de las plantas by María Castellanos and Alberto Valverde.