[Reader-list] Call for Projects: INTERACTIVOS?'08 MEXICO: TECHNOLOGIES OF LAUGHTER

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CALL FOR PROJECTS
 
INTERACTIVOS? MEXICO'08: TECHNOLOGIES OF LAUGHTER
International Project Development Workshop


 >From August 1 through 16, 2008
Submissions Deadline: June 8

Led by: Zachary Lieberman (USA), Leslie García (Mexico) & Alejandro 
Tamayo (Colombia)

A maximum of 10 projects will be carried out in a workshop held at the 
Centro Multimedia (National Arts Centre) in Mexico DF from 1 to 16 
August 2008. At the end of the workshop, the projects will be exhibited 
at the Cultural Centre of Spain in Mexico from 16 August to 14 September 
2008.

The workshop aims to use open hardware and software tools to create 
prototypes that explore the relations between machines and 
humor/laughter. The workshop aims to explore questions such as:
What mechanisms lead to laughter? And what about its social and 
political implications? What happens if we understand laughter as a 
possible form of communication between humans and machines? Can machines 
have a sense of humor or make us laugh? What kind of narratives/machines 
can be built to provoke various feelings related to laughter?

Medialab-Prado will cover lodging at a youth hostel and flight expenses 
for the authors of the selected projects and papers (one person per 
project/paper).

More information:

http://medialab-prado.es/article/interactivos_mexico08_tecnologias_de_la_risa
interactivos08 at mediala-prado.es

With the collaboration of Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional 
para el Desarrollo (AECI)C

-- 
Nerea García Garmendia
Medialab Prado
Área de Las Artes, Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Plaza de las Letras
Alameda, 15 28014 Madrid
Tfno. +34 914 202 754 
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