Media Labs

Chronology of Media Labs:

1971: Steina et Woody Vasulka montent The Kitchen Live Audience Test Laboratory New York.

1973 - 1979: Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville run their video facility Atelier Sonimage in Grenoble. Over six years, they make almost nineteen hours of material for television broadcast or cinema release.

1984: Electronic Cafe, part of the Olympic Arts Festival, Los Angeles.

1986: Laboratorio Ubiqua, the Technology and Informatics section of the 42nd Venice Biennale, hosts the Planetary Network project.

First action of the Ponton Medien Bus at Ars Electronica (Containercity).

1987: the International Radio Syndicate - 50 days 24h broadcasting from a mobile broadcasting station during the documenta 8, Kassel.

June-September 1997: Hybrid Workspace - Documenta X, Kassel
"The Hybrid Workspace itself was a flexible, multi-functional working environment, and most of the dozen or so workshops were great successes with many good results. Yet, how do you deal with a thousand or more Documenta visitors who come in every day and who want to see the art? In Kassel, it was very difficult even to begin to communicate to the audience what the workshops were about."

September 1997: openX - Ars Electronica, Linz.

15th Aug - 20th Sep 1998: Revolting Temporary Media Lab, Manchester (during ISEA98).

Oct 8-Nov 14 1999: Temp Media Lab, Kiasma, Helsinki.

Mai-July 2002: MAKROLAB mark IV is located for four months on the Atholl Estate in Perthshire, Scotland.

June 2005: Fada'íat, nomad media-lab taking place simultaneously at Tarifa (Spain) and Tangiers (Morocco). The highlight of the media-lab consisted in setting up a wi-fi link between Tarifa's castle and Tangiers' Marshan.

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