A workshop for the collaborative creation and production of an interactive installation, intended to create a symbiotic connection between the Madrid community and the Máquina Orgánica exhibition at Teatros del Canal.
Teatros del Canal, together with the Máquina Orgánica exhibition, invited students and people interested in the arts, humanities, sciences and technology to take part in a workshop for the joint creation and production of an interactive installation. The aim was to establish a symbiotic relationship between the community of Madrid and the exhibition at Teatros del Canal.
The workshop included the collective making of an interactive installation, TechAlelopatía: Rito sonoro.
It began with a process of conceptualisation and training focused on the visualisation and sonification of data from plants.
During the first three sessions, participants worked on the conceptualisation and training needed to produce the installation. The two final sessions were devoted to carrying out and assembling the interactive work.
Those selected had the opportunity to collaborate in an environment of creative experimentation, exploring the interaction between technology and nature. The themes addressed included ecology, biotechnology, symbiosis, evolution, and the interrelationship between the technological and the natural.
The mediation team was made up of artists, technologists and cultural managers: Joaku De Sotavento, Alfredo Miralles, Fabiola Simonetti and Fernando Fernández.
The workshop was developed in two phases: three days of training and conceptualisation (Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), in which a shared theoretical and technical language was built, followed by two days of intensive production in which the interactive installation was made, later forming part of the Máquina Orgánica exhibition in the framework of the Canal Connect 2023 festival.
The training sessions focused on the following: data visualisation through the interaction of OSC with Resolume Arena (Fabiola Simonetti), data sonification with TouchDesigner, Ableton Live and Biodata Sonification (Fernando Fernández), and the architecture of interactivity (Joaku De Sotavento).
The workshop ran from 15 to 19 March, and the installation created during the workshop was shown as part of the Máquina Orgánica exhibition within the Canal Connect 2023 festival.
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