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grid_lab: collaborative media and art journalism (Nerja and

Malaga, Spain)

Zapping Dance

September 14, 2011 Prepared by: Marlon Barrios Solano

Prepared for: Alexei Issacovitch

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Goals and Objectives

grid_lab

Open Studio/Installation/Workshop

The grid_lab is an open studio/workshop/installation conceived specially to transform a festival hub,

gallery space or the theater lobby in an interactive lab for experiments on the use of Web 2.0 technology

such as: social networking, post-pc technologies (IPads 2 and I Phones 4), video podcasting, locative media

and live video broadcasting for art experiencing, on-line content production and distribution.

The grid_lab creates a flexible connected space, adaptable for the needs of festival venues, facilitating direct

participation of members of the local community as content producers. It facilitates the interaction with the

global artistic and media community. It makes the production and distribution of art news and media a

participatory/ collaborative exchange between the festival, the artists and the community. It creates an

open forum for local and global interaction.

Special video conferences and remote dialogues with international guests are scheduled. Screenings of

selected high quality content relevant to the event may also be organized as part of the grid_lab activities.

DetailedDescription:

The grid_lab

expands the

potential of

internet

presence and

memory

bringing and

sharing the

most up to date

technology

advanced

know-how in tandem with technological platforms for interaction and collaboration.

It is conceived as an intervention of the festival or event site creating a "spectacle of information and

knowledge" and its production with a collaborative approach.

It becomes a communication hub deploying:

B/Vlogging and micro-blogging and data mashups

Video excerpts of performances and activities.

LIVE broadcasts from venues and mobile stations.

Dance Film and documentaries from dance-tech.tv based on the nature of the event in

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partnership with Cinedans (The Netherlands)

TalkShow with live broadcast with guests from the event

LIVE conversation with remote guests

LIVE conections with another relevant events

Locative/performative actions with QRcodes.

Public Lecture on social media and arts.

It deploys three interrelated modes:

grid_labOpen Studio

The lab is an open and mobile space with visible computers, monitors and computational portable devices.

LCD screens fills the back wall of a space created with tables placed on an L shape layout.

The grid_lab takes advantage of the highly engaged dance-tech.net on-line community and its production,

distribution and transmission platforms: dance-tech.net, dance-techTV (productions and live streaming)

and dance-tech.net interviews. Special arrangements can be done to broadcast relevant festival activities:

lectures, performances, panel discussions and after performances sessions. Special activities and emphasis

are designed in collaboration with the PR/marketing department and programming partner or hosting

venue and are contingent to the technology available.

All dance-tech.net platforms provide players and channels may be embedded in the hosting venue website

site or blogs. The hosting venue might also open an account on dance-tech.net

During hours of more visitors, the space will be in installation mode. The audience can watch the media

produced during the lab. The media produced is processed in real time and projected in available screens

creating a compelling visual performance/environment (see The Installation mode)

grid_labWorkshop

It is a workshop on social media, networked communication and collaborative creativity that takes place in

the grid_lab space.

The participants are introduced to the new internet, web 2.0 video production tools and use them to

collaborate in the generation and distribution of information and news during the festival or event.They use

the grid_lab setting as a space for experimentation on participatory journalism and new social media

platforms. We discuss how technology creates new options of experience and interact interaction with art,

culture, economics, knowledge production, geography and the aesthetics aspects of communication.

The participants experiment with creative ways of using the technologies and their embedded in a cultural

environment. They become participants media production team of event.

grid_labInstallation

All video screens play the material produced by the participants as video loops, data mash-ups and video

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live streams. Images from interviews, performances are processed in real-time creating an semi-abstracted

video environment mixing the media produced during the festival. The installation mode active pre/post

performance.

Oriented to:

Arts, journalism, new media student and professionals.Art management specialists.Filmmakers and journalists.Arts marketing, PR and audience development specialist.

grid_lab and embedded_vlogger were conceived and developed by marlon barrios solano with the support

of:

Gilles Jobin Company, Geneva Switzerland

EXTRA Festival, Bonlieu Scène nationale , Annecy, France

TEC ART ECO, Milan, Italy

embedded_vlogger and grid_lab are trademarks

of dance- tech interactive llc

New York, USA

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Other grid_labs

The grid_lab and embedded_vlogger has been deployed in the following events:

Extra 09, 10 and 11 Festival Annecy, France

Performance Studies International, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

TEC ART ECO 10/11, Como (Italy) and Lugano (Switzerland)

Motion Bank Workshop, Forsythe Company, 2011, Frankfurt, Germany

Panorama de Danca in 2009 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Algorithmic Reflections of Choreography: From Choreography to Software and Back, April 2011,

Zagreb, Croatia

Palucca Schulle (Summer Program 2010) , Dresden Germany

MOV_S Madrid 10, Spain

EMPAC, Troy, NY, 2010

Bearnstow, Maine, USA

Grec/La Caldera 2010, Barcelona, Spain

Earthdance, Mass, USA.

Picnic, 09, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

CYNETART 09, 10 Dresden, Germany

European Tele Plateaus 09-10 (Spain, Germany and Czech Republic)

Amber 10 Festival, Istanbul, Turkey

CIAO/UMYS 10, Warsaw, Poland

Balkan Dance Platform 09, Novi Sad, Serbia

PostME_New ID 08, Dresden Germany

grid_lab was conceived and developed by marlon barrios solano with the support of:

Gilles Jobin Company, Geneva Switzerland

EXTRA Festival, Bonlieu Scène nationale , Annecy, France

TEC ART ECO, Milan, Italy

grid_lab are trademarks

of dance- tech interactive llc

New York, USA

Provided Technology:

grid_lab provides:

Ipads 2 and necessary apps

2 FlipCams

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Wireless keyboards

1 Macbook pro

headphones

HDMI cables

DV Camera for broadcast

WiFi airport extreme

The venue must provide:

LCD SCREENS or projectors (surface for projection)

Wireless Internet connection of industrial strength ( more than 10 G of speed). Wecan also work with mobile technology and local sim-cards or alternative strategies forupload and display.Recruitment strategy of participants

Support to contact the artists involved

Access to shows and rehearsals for all the participants (ID as grod_lab participants)

Work tables, chairs and open space

Lockable cabinet or room for equipment

Technical support

About schedules

Workshop times:

5 Instructional sessions are of 2 hours a day from 11am to 1 pm

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Lab times: from 2 to 6pm

Shooting performances, interviews and spacial activities

This makes 5 days of commitment by the participants.

Total facilitations hours: 30

The grid_lab can formally start one day before the festival to allow planning of activities, etc.

Marlon Barrios Solano will be present one two days before the festival starts .

Dates for engagement:

from October 23th to the 30th 2011

IMPORTANT NOTES ABOUT PUBLISHEDMATERIALS @ grid_lab:

Participants create their own accounts in twitter, fracebook and dance-tech.net and YouTube

in order to experiment with social media from microvlogging to video vlogging. All the

content is aggregated with a tag or hashtag that represents the event: nerjadanza11,

gvasessions2011, amber10

There is an emphasis on video reportage and video podcasts that are published in all the

dance-tech.net channels: http://www.dance-tech.net/video, ;http://dance-tech.tv/,

http://www.youtube.com/user/dancetechtv

All the content created during the events are released with a Creative Commons

License:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Attribution — You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor

(but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work).

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Noncommercial — You may not use this work for commercial purposes.

No Derivative Works — You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.

The event producers are responsible to inform and obtain signed released agreements form

the artists or featured content. dance-tech.net will collaborate with information and

clarification. The work is presented as a collaboration with the event that will augment the

internet presence of the artist and the event.

All raw material and final content produced by the project is shared with the venues and the

artists under the same conditions.

About videos material from dance and art works:

Ideally, dance-tech.net team must have access to rehearsals and performances are allowed to

take video images with the consent of the artists. Artists may prefer to give relevant video

material as video inserts for interviews. These material is given to dance-tech.net under the

same conditions and license. No more than 3 minutes from performances are used.

Fee Summary

grid_lab project FEE*

This fee includes:

workshop facilitation and installation.

Equipment and software as mentioned before.

*Negotiable

$2,000.00

Project Total $2,000.00

Transportation, room and board

The venues commits to cover all expenses in:

Transportation from central europe city the city venue (No budget airlines)

Transportation from hotel to venue.

Meals or per diem based on local standards (Europe)

Hotel: must have FREE WiFi or strong internet connection.

Fee Schedule

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The above pricing is effective through October 15th.

One half of total project fee is due upon arrival to venue city with remainder due upon project

completion.

The venue will report on advances and reimbursements made to Marlon Barrios Solano.

Content of this proposal may be used for contract and invoicing.

Next Steps

To proceed with this project, Zapping Dance is required take the following steps:

Accept the proposal as is or discuss desired changes. Please note that changes to the scope of the

project can be made at any time, but additional charges may apply.

Finalize and sign contract.

Submit initial payment of 50% of total project fee.

Once these steps have been completed we will begin the project with a kick off meeting to introduce

relevant personnel and begin preliminary project activities.

Bank Information:

Make payment via deposit or wired transfer to:

Dance-tech Interactive LLC

Swift Code: CHASUS33

ABA/Routing# 021000021

Account Number: 812017853

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NY, NY

253 Broadway

New York, NY 10007-2347

(212) 349-0990

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