LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial presents Cristian Bettini a.k.a. P.ankh

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial presents Cristian Bettini a.k.a. P.ankh

LABoral Art and Industrial Creation Centre

September 21, 2009

Cristian Bettini a.k.a. P.ankh: DONKIJOTE.ORG
Once upon this time there was a clever donkey with its digital armour and its errant knights…
24.09.2009 – 11.01.2010

CURATORS: Roberta Bosco and Stefano Caldana
VENUE: Platform 1 of LABoral and various locations throughout Asturias and http://www.donkijote.org
PRODUCED BY: LABoral’s Projects Office

Donkijote.org, the winning entry of the open competition Digital_LAB 2009, is an analogue/digital project that will gather data using altogether innovative techniques during four journeys taken by the artist Cristian Bettini a.k.a. P.ankh and the donkey Minuto through different areas of Asturias.The donkey will operate as a living interface equipped with digital hardware such as a GPS, a mobile Internet connection, a computer, a camera and a video camera with which it will create a memory of Asturias, producing and collecting information, re-mapping the territory and geo-categorising knowledge. The rules of the journey are determined by the natural rhythm of the donkey’s pace, giving everything that enters into our perception a measure of human attention.

The people that cross their paths, as well as Internet users, will participate in the project by providing advice and suggestions, contributing to the evolution of the project and the enrichment of the audiovisual and anthropological patrimony of Asturias.

The travellers will return to LABoral after each journey where they will carry out activities using the material they have collected. In this way, the exhibition, located in the gallery Platform 1 of LABoral, will evolve and grow throughout the length of the journey and the advancement of its digital representation, connecting virtuality to reality in an indissoluble way.

http:// laboralcentrodearte.org
http://donkijote.org

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial is a space for artistic exchange. It is set up with the purpose of establishing an effective alliance between art, design, culture, industry and economic progress and the goal of becoming a space for interaction and dialogue between art, new technologies and industrial creation. It throws a special spotlight on production, creation and research into art concepts still being defined.

LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial
Los Prados, 121
33394 Gijón (Asturias) Spain
Tel: +34 985 185 577
Fax: +34 985 337 355
info [​at​] laboralcentrodearte.org
http://www.laboralcentrodearte.org

Opening Hours: Wednesday to Monday, 12 noon – 8 pm

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