[spectre] call - LabCyberspace Projects

[Vicente Matallana]

Laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre OPEN INTERNATIONAL 
INVITATION - EXHIBITION OF LABCYBERSPACES PROJECTS - CyBERSPACe as 
universal meeting place



3000 euro per chosen project

Laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre, a new creative space 
located in Gijón, Principality of Asturias, Spain, is making an open 
invitation for projects for its upcoming LABCYBERSPACES exhibition, 
part of its inaugural programme.



The goal of the invitation is to foster an open reflection on the 
connections between art, technology and industry, and to then 
materialise this reflection in the LABCYBERSPACES exhibition 
scheduled for spring 2007. The selection will feature 10 projects 
effectively addressing the technological nature of the artwork in its 
most open conception, with a special focus on all those engaging in 
the notion of CYBERSPACE as a universal meeting point.



Given that the goal is to encourage a common and open reflection, we 
have chosen the format of an open invitation to guarantee the widest 
possible participation. The LABCYBERSPACES exhibition aims to be a 
meeting point for the community.



All entries submitted by an artist or group, significantly involving 
technology and the use of Internet will be accepted for 
consideration. A total of 3000 euro will be paid as fees and 
exhibition rights for each of ten the projects eventually chosen.


The inscription form will be available as from 1st December 2006 at 
the following website:

<http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/convocatorias/lab_cyberspaces>http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org/convocatorias/lab_cyberspaces



For any additional information or queries on LABCYBERSPACES, contact: 
lab_cyberspaces at laboralcentrodearte.org


ABOUT Laboral, Art and Industrial Creation Centre
Laboral, Art and Industrial Creation Centre, is a newly created art 
centre located in Gijon, in the Principality of Asturias, Spain. The 
centre will undertake, from an ongoing rigorous focus, the tasks of 
production, research and dissemination of stable projects developed 
around the many meeting points existing between creation, science and 
technology, and which are the groundbase of the work and reflection 
of a large number of artist, theorists and researchers. Asturias' 
industrial tradition, taken together with the innovative creativity 
developed here, have turned this Spanish region into a particularly 
appropriate place for a centre dealing with the above-mentioned 
goals. The very name of the centre reflects the explicit 
determination to fulfil that goal through a direct connection of the 
most innovative aspects of industry with, normally distant and 
removed, locations of art creation.



This determination is at the origin of the project for the 
rehabilitation of 13,500 square metres of the former Universidad 
Laboral of Gijon, an initiative set in motion by the Government of 
the Principality of Asturias and that is scheduled to be completed at 
the end of 2006. The investment will provide the Laboral, Art and 
Industrial Creation Centre with the perfect space to implement the 
tasks of production, dissemination, training and professional 
encounters at the intersection of art and technology.





Projects Office


With this open invitation Laboral Art and Industrial Creation Centre 
kick starts its Projects Office. This office will be making regular 
open invitations for specific projects, while remaining permanently 
receptive to all kinds of proposals which will be evaluated for 
possible production at the centre. The mission of the Projects Office 
is to foster and support art production engaged with new technologies.