CALL
FOR COLLABORATORS
VISUALIZAR'09: PUBLIC DATA, DATA IN PUBLIC
International Project Development
Workshop and International Seminar
November
12 to 27, 2009 at Medialab-Prado (Madrid, Spain)
Deadline for registrations:
November 11, 2009
http://medialab-prado.es/visualizar
This
new
edition will focus on the implications of using data structure
visualization to aid in public processes of decision-making. The goal is to offer new ways to
make public data available to everyone, in formats that make it
possible to reuse them
and foster citizen innovation processes. Topics such as water wasting,
patent registrations, Internet piracy, H1N1evolution or the use of
social networks in politics will be addressed.
Collaborators
can join any of the developing teams that will carry out
the selected proposals, depending on their particular interests and
skills, thus contributing with their knowledge and skills and at the
same time learning from the other group members and from the leading
tutors: Ben Cerveny (Stamen), Aaron Koblin, and Manuel Lima, with the
support of Bestiario collective.
Collaborators' profile: The call is
aimed at artists, engineers, programmers, software
developers, designers, film & video
makers, architects, hackers, psychologists, sociologists, journalists,
ecologists, physicists, chemists, biologists or any other person
interested in participating in the development of selected proposals.
Medialab-Prado
will cover for the stay of a limited number of participants.
No
entry fees.
Event
directed
by José Luis de Vicente.
More information and online
submission form:
http://medialab-prado.es/article/visualizar09_call_for_collaborators
visualizar (at) medialab-prado.es
Venue: Medialab-Prado
Plaza de las Letras
Alameda, 15 28014 Madrid (Spain)
T. +34 914 202 754
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Nerea García Garmendia
Comunicación / Press
Medialab-Prado
Área de Las Artes, Ayuntamiento de Madrid
Plaza de las Letras
Alameda, 15 28014 Madrid
Tfno. +34 914 202 754
difusion@medialab-prado.es
www.medialab-prado.es