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Technarte 2010 photos on Flickr now available

Technarte 2010 photoset on Flickr is now available. Don´t miss Jürgen Scheible´s painting the Arriaga Theater in Bilbao with his mobile phone. You can see more pictures that we mobblogged live here. Enjoy and see you at Technarte 2011 on May 19th and 20th next year. The picture on this post was taken by Jürgen Scheible.

Thank you all for your participation!

Technarte has finished its 5th edition and the organization is very pleased with the result. We did see fantastic presentations and would like to thank the speakers for their effort. We are happy as well with the interaction of the attendees, we noticed a higher level of participation of the audience this year.

Over a hundred people have visited the Euskalduna Palace of Bilbao (Spain), to attend the 4 live installations, Bilbao Interaktive presentations and roundtable dedicated to the Design of Interactive Installations in Public Spaces and the 14 presentations of the Technarte Programme.

The prize of the Best Speaker Award was for Jürgen Scheible. The painting of the Arriaga Theater he conducted on Thursday night was a big success. You can check more pictures blogged from the event, though we will soon be publishing a link in this blog to see higher resolution photos.

We are already planning new and exciting contents for Technarte 2011 that will be held on the 19th and 20th of May. Please check this site for the latest info about the opening of Call for Papers, upcoming new programme contents, etc. You can also follow us on Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter.

Innovalia Association, organiser of Technarte, wants to thank all the speakers for their valuable contribution, and as well the attendees, sponsors and exhibitors for their participation. We hope see you again on May 19-20 2011 at the 6th edition of Technarte.

Guide to live interactive installations at Technarte

This is a brief summary of all the interactive installations that will be showed live at Technarte´s conference hall. If you have any doubt please ask for more info at Technarte organization booth. Enjoy!

Alesandro Scali - ¿Is this an artwork that you can’t see a real artwork?

Come into the nanoart world with the help of a microscope.

Tim Devine - "Two computers at Leisure Playing Chess in a Park "

Come to enjoy this chess game between two computers at leisure in a park. Try to interrupt them and you’ll be surprised!

Joe Hocking - "Occupation Forces: Augmented Reality in Action"

With the help of your iPhone, look for the Augmented Reality codes at the Hall of the Palacio Euskalduna. Each of the codes will show you one of the Occupation Forces that have invaded Technarte. There are four different ones; find them!

Martha Gabriel - "Senstive Rose - Mobile Tagging and Mixed Realities"

At the A3.1 Room of the Palacio Euskalduna, you will see projected a compass rose, that changes his appearance depending of the frame of mind of the attendees. Read with your mobile phone the QR codes of the Room A3.1 and answer the question, and you will see how your response modifies the compass rose.

If you need to install a QR reader or an augmented reality codes reader in your phone and you don’t know how, come to the organisation booth, we will be happy to help you. Otherwise you can download the reader from here.

On April 15th at 7:30pm Jürgen Scheible will create a live demo of his Mobispray project over the Arriaga Theater in Bilbao. Mobispray is an artistic tool that with the help of a mobile phone, a computer and a projector, can paint buildings. This is a live activity opened to the general public. Everyone is invited. Check here for more info and event details.

Technarte staff picks of Bilbao

For those of you attending to Technarte as a speaker or an attendee, we would like to show you some interesting things to do before or after the international conference. For those of you who have not yet decided to come to Technarte, we hope this guide will help you make up your mind and join us! This is our best picks of Bilbao! Enjoy!

The Guggenheim Museum is always a good choice, especially now that you can admire Anish Kapoor’s exhibition. If you enjoy Photography, we suggest that you visit Bilbao’s Fine Arts Museum, where you will find a great retrospective on Alberto Schömmer’s work. Alberto Schömmer is a very famous contemporary Spanish photographer and artist.

Eating out is always a pleasure in the Basque region. Go for a walk through El Casco Viejo, the old town of Bilbao, and taste the famous pintxos, a type of snacks, typically offered in bars.

Another suggestion to experience the city, its buildings and citizens from a different perspective, is to take a tour on Bilbao’s tramway or to go through the “Fosteritos”, the entrances to Bilbao’s subway designed by Norman Foster, and visit one of its clean and streamlined subway stations.

The artist’s role in Transhumanism by Chris Robinson

Chris Robinson is an Art lecturer at the Nano-technology Center at the University of South Carolina, in U.S.A. His presentation at Technarte will take place on the 16^th of April and it will analyse in-depth the role of the artists when exploring unidentified aspects of the technology through the artistic expression.

The artists´work often allows the finding of new and unexpected meanings that force us to reflect on the potential threats and bring about new points of view.

With the advent of the technological innovations, what started as a technology used for prosthesis, organ substitutions, biological improvements and robotic services, is now raising new dilemmas. The development goes so quickly that, as Bill Joys wrote on an article published on Wired on the year 2000, we could reach the point, when the machines of the near future “won’t need us”.

Chris Robinson will also talk about the double facets of the new artist and the artist/scientist, and the considerations in relation to our increasing dependency on science and technology.