Mobilni art laboratoriji / Mobile Art Lab

tags:

mobile/art/tech/fab-lab/brico-lab/modular/nomad/TAZ

During Slobodni festival (Free Festival) 5 (July 2011) we detected a local problem with artist working in new media art, transdisciplinary and/or in performance, multimedia, or with themes connected with social, group, collective, collaborative issues, even with anything slightly different than traditional/classic aesthetics. They all have complains about institutional structures that are slow to reply on issues of networking between artists, organizations and events. Also they are inadequate in recognizing needs of productions and presentation, especially in connection to technology and open source. There are no space for presentation, no adequate technological help, no infrastructure to host artist in residency programs, no art labs, etc. All this reflects to local art production and presentation, with much bigger consequences than just helping artist to solve their individual frustrations. In our view the biggest problem is seen in slow but constant disappearing from the map of culture and creativity completely, especially in contemporary world of information exchange and mobility, networking and EU collaborative cultural and artistic praxis.

PROPOSED SOLUTION

According to detected problems we offer an idea of mobile art laboratory that will give local artists a chance to work in high-tech environment, on location where a needs is recognized (events, festivals, partner organizations, at location where artist and activist can converge ideas for better actions, etc). Mobile Art Lab can offer artist, cultural agents and alike a space to share ideas, work on concepts, create tech. workshops, communicate, present concepts or art works, network with others. MAL can be art work in itself, but can also be a tool for artwork.

We know we are not the first to have this idea and we don't claim a patent on it. We are aware there is many projects in the world with similar intent. But, we are also aware that this makes us a node in world-large pool of people and organizations which detected a need for mobility, nomad philosophy, creativity on the move together with collaborative work where artist and experts unite in culture that respects free culture movement, freedom of expression and speech, need to address subjects of social change, equality and awareness trough and with new media and with Open source appropriate technology.

PROPOSED WORK MODULES TO MAKE MAL HAPPEN

Our idea is to work with local forces (artist, culture agents, architects, students, enthusiasts) to conceptualize mobile/art/tech/fablab/brico/modular/lab by detecting needs of g/local and cross-border programs using group genious, collaboration and bottom up methods. We are aware that a credit can be obtained by the bank that can fund ready project, but instead we choose a slower and porcess orientated solution. This way participants can take part, invennt, learn how to work with others, embed their ideas, love and charish what they do, put their concepts to critique by the others.

We propose presentations of similar projects that we call brothers and sisters. We will organize presentations of this projects at he beginning of EEII festival in October and group work with participants in conceptualizing MAL. We need to put all on paper, see how it works in theory, have a look at local needs, possible constructions, preparations, weather conditions, where it will stay, how far it will travel, what material can it be build on, etc. Basically lots of moderated talks and discussions that will bring us to the modular, recyclable, multi-purposed mobile art lab. MAL will be created until ACT-fest where it will host it's first artist work/s and KIBLIX festival during end of the 2011. MAL

PROPOSED TIME LINE

1. MAKING BLUE PRINT

during festival EEII (Experimental Electronics Interventions)

PLACE AND TIME

ACT, Ivana Novaka 38, Čakovec, Croatia. Place: stari hrast - http://osm.org/go/0Ivd6gcrm

07.10.2011. - 18.10.2011.

Proposed EEII schedule:

Friday - arrival and presentations of similar projects in the world
Saturday, Sunday - discussions and creation of groups
rest of the week work in groups
end of the week finalizing blueprints and finding best offers for realization
18th October - presentation of the blueprints

2. EXPERIMENTAL MAL EVENT

during ACTFEST

PLACE AND TIME

MAL container, situated at parking-lot of ACT, Ivana Novaka 38, Čakovec, Croatia. Place: stari hrast - http://osm.org/go/0Ivd6gcrm

01.11.2011. - 12.11.2011.

Proposed ACTfest schedule:

fom 8th interior design of MAL
Friday - self organized event inside and around MAL
Saturday - self organized event inside and around MAL

3. CREATING MAL FROM THE SCRATCH - EEII 2012

Building up MAL skeleton, roof and floor. Sides are open for future interventions. Interventions on the skeleton and on the roof/sides.

1. Research who can work on applications on the roof, sides, floor creating solar panels, tables, electricity, wireless conection and alike.

2. Open call for all who want to participate in building MAL up.

SCHEDULE:

Late May 2012

4. WORKSHOPS on MAL in MAL during Slobodni Festival6

July 2012

IDEA To work on MAL functionality, series of eco/tech workshops with a functional parts finished to install in MAL.

5. MAL RESIDENCY

Residency - 3 people, 1 week spending in MAL to work on pre-defined problem

6. MAL @ ACTFEST

Time: October 2012

Events in and around MAL.

VAŠE IDEJE: Što bi MAL trebao moći raditi? / YOUR IDEAS - what would MAL need to do

1. Biti pokretan i lako prilagodljiv - modularan / needs to be modular, easy to adjust

2. (opcija) sastavljen od komponenti koje se brzo sastavljaju / needs to be made from components for fast assemble

(http://www.hepcomotion.com/en/; http://www.lslc.cn)

3. Energetski neovisan - solarna, vjetar, ljudska snaga - pedaliranje / needs to be energy independant - solar, wind, human power

4. Open source IT infrastruktura - Wifi + mobilni net, reciklirane komponente / open IT infrastructure - WIFI + recycled components

5. Mobilnost - samostalni pogon/prikolica/kućica koja se moze postaviti na prikolicu sa kukom / mobility?? - self driven? on the trailer?

6. Pokretni zidovi kako bi se određene stranice mogle otvarati “prema van” - za glazbene nastupe, projekcije iz kućice prema van na zidove zgrada i sl. / side panels, walls that could be opened, sliding doors, etc.

7. unutarnji dizajn kako bi se omogućilo izlaganje novomedijske umjetnosti / inner design that would alow new media art exhibition

8. we have to look at what places MAL will go to - how to reach them, what is on-highway law for this structures

9. heating, cooling, water, toilet structure - what do we need?

10 what and how can each of us help in making?

11 Stranice se mogu dignuti i služe kao krov, a kad su zatvorene štite od provale?

12. razmišljati ekološki. Npr. recikliranji materijali (drvo koje se skupi po putu ložiti za grijanje) / ecological thinking utilized in project - recycled materials, heating on the scrape wood found during the travel…

13. Komunikacija in-out i obrnuto: periskop, svjetleća sirena na krovu, vanjski retro zvučnik, LCD display na vanjskoj plohi laba, više manjih displaya po sistemu sača (gurne se glava u gumenu rupu), satovi (NY, ČK, ….i ostali), vanjske utičnice, info pult sa WIFI-om na vanjskom zidu, kamere,..

14. “Nespecifična” unutarnja oprema: sobni bajk, elementi montirani na stop pomoću rastezljivih opruga,…..

Examples, brothers and sisters:

Fotografije i linkovi za projekte koji se bave mobilnim art laboratorijima, recikliranim materijalima za životne prostore i tehničkim potrebama ovakvih prostora