LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial

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43°31′30″N 5°36′45″W / 43.52500°N 5.61250°W / 43.52500; -5.61250

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial

Established	2007^[1]
Location	Los Prados, 121, Gijón, Spain (Universidad Laboral de Gijón)
Director	Rosina Gómez-Baeza
Website	www.laboralcentrodearte.org

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial (Art and Industrial Creation Centre) is an exhibition centre in Gijón, Spain, for art, science, technology and advanced visual industries. It is also a venue for artistic and technological production, research investigation and training; and for the dissemination of new forms of art and industrial creation.^[2]

The museum's programme of activities mirrors the changes society is undergoing and its immersion in contemporary visual culture.

Fields of activity

Exhibition: The museums's exhibition programme aspires to become a local, national and international reference for investigation into innovative formats and languages.
Education/Training: The museum hopes to make up for currently existing deficiencies in the use of new technological media in schools, universities and vocation training, stimulating the participation of the wider community and amateur enthusiasts.
Research: The museum includes The CREATIC Laboratory, through scholarships for young researchers in the ICT field and making available advanced research infrastructure.
Creation-production: The museum has a multimedia workshop that produces works of an artistic character and high quality productions in the field of visual industries.
Public Programme/Mediation: The museum is dedicated to the cultural dissemination of new artistic practices and creative industries, produced principally with or by means of technological media.

Artists whose works have been exhibited at the center include: Aram Bartholl, Aaron Koblin, Ai Weiwei, Martin Parr, Roy Arden, Yael Bartana, Julian Opie among others.

Publications

Feedback, March 2007
Gameworld, March 2007
LAB_Ciberespacios, March 2007
It's simply beautiful, July 2007
Playware, September 2007
Emergentes, November 2007
banquete_nodos y redes, March 2008
Homo Ludens Ludens, April 2008
Nowhere/ Now/ Here, October 2008
There Is No Road, March 2009
Auto. Sueño y Materia, May 2009
Mediateca Expandida. Arcadia, October 2009
Feedforward. El Ángel de la Historia, October 2009
Playlist. Mediateca Expandida, December 2009
El proceso como paradigma, April 2010
PASAJES. Viajes por el híper-espacio, October 2010

References

^ PAULA ACHIAGA (2007-03-29). "Laboral. Entre el arte y la industria". el cultural.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2011-07-12.
^ PAULA ACHIAGA (29 March 2007). "Laboral. Entre el arte y la industria" (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 July 2011.