This April we have a host of activities around art, nature, innovation and technology.
On the weekend of 15 April, art and technology gatherings were held at MolinoLab, in which young people from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid put their knowledge into practice in a rural hackathon.
We organised various workshops on reading plants’ biometric data, on managing and processing those data, and on sonifying them. The knowledge acquired was put into practice during the collaborative prototyping workshop, in which, through different dynamics and exercises, they designed, implemented and installed a work connecting art, nature and technology. This work will remain on permanent display at MolinoLab.
Around 20 students from different years and degree programmes, accompanied by their lecturer Alfredo Miralles, took part in this event. Fernando Fernández @b1tdreamer and Joaquín Díaz Sotavento facilitated the workshops and mentored the proper development of the work.
“During April we are focusing on art and technology at MolinoLab as a space for artistic and cultural experimentation in a rural setting. For three years we have been working to turn this former livestock estate into a centre for art, agroecology and culture. The old water mill has already been converted into a Museum of Traditional Agriculture by Valeriano Sánchez Torres, and it can also be visited during this month,” says Fernando, a member of MolinoLab. “This space for art and technology is an open space, and more and more neighbours, both from Sancti-Spíritus and from the villages in the area, are coming to meet us,” Fernando concludes.
A summary of the days in the university newspaper.
