Hangar is a centre for artistic production and research founded by the Catalan Association of Visual Artists (AAVC) in 1997. It supports designers and artists and offers services meeting the production needs of the art world. The centre is based in a restored industrial building in Barcelona's Poblenou neighbourhood. The 1800 m2-space has a capacity for fifteen individual workshops, a medialab, two sets, an equipment hire service, technicians and production advice.

Hangar also organises a programme of workshops for training artists, an international exchange programme and provides production grants. The space is funded mainly by the Generalitat (the Catalan Autonomous Regional Government) and Barcelona City Council. It is managed by the AAVC Foundation. Its philosophy, which focuses on production and is based on management by an artists' association, makes Hangar a unique space in Barcelona, and indeed in Europe.

www.hangar.org

The Istituto Europeo Di Design in Barcelona works in the field of training and research within the disciplines of design, fashion, visual arts and communication. The school belongs to an international network with branches in Milan, Rome, Turin, Venice, Madrid, Barcelona and São Paulo, which promotes educational and practical initiatives related to business, through the culture of the project. The school, the most international branch of the IED Group, has students in more than 80 countries and offers a wide range of three-year courses at university level, advanced training and summer courses. 

www.ied.edu
www.iedbarcelona.es

The works presented here have been created by students of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra of Barcelona during the present course 2008-2009, in the “Master of Digital Arts” (MAD), the “Master in Cognitive Systems and Interactive Media” (CSIM) as well as in the “Interactive Systems Workshop I” course. At the confluence of art, science, technology and communication, the Masters and Postgraduate Courses of the Institut Universitari de l’Audiovisual – UPF, offer several studies with a solid training that combine practical, theoretical and professional aspects, for those willing to deepen in the research and the creative practices of the new audiovisual interactive media.

“Interactive Systems Workshop I” is, on its side, an undergraduate course of the Studies of Computer Science program at UPF’s Polytechnic School, in which students build up creative and research projects based on interactive tables and tangible interfaces, using ReacTIVision, a technology originally developed at UPF for the Reactable project. The interactive tables have been provided by Reactable Systems (www.reactable.com), the recent Spin-Off company of the Pompeu Fabra University, founded by the creators of the Reactable born with the purpose of developing intuitive interactive products focused on the promotion of creativity and the mediation of culture.

http://iua.upf.edu

Medialab-Prado is a public centre for the production, research and dissemination of digital culture and the area where art, science, technology and society converge. Among the programme's projects is Interactivos?, a production and research platform based around the creative and educational applications of technology. It focuses on collective creation using open hardware and open software tools.

Since it began in 2006, there have been seven production workshops in its Madrid headquarters and in other cities in the world (Mexico City, New York and Lima). These events combine a workshop with a theory seminar and an exhibition of the results, thus bringing together the processes of research, production, learning and dissemination. Projects are selected by an international call for applications and undertaken on a collaborative basis in interdisciplinary working groups.

The projects produced at Interactivos?'09: Garage Science (28.01.09-22.03.09) are a reflection on the public's ability to access and develop valuable scientific-technical knowledge and to experiment with hardware, software and raw material using accessible low cost materials. This workshop was advised by Critical Art Ensemble and Julian Bleecker.

http://medialab-prado.es
http://medialab-prado.es/article/taller-seminario_interactivos09_ciencia_de_garaje

Niu is an art space located in Barcelona's Poblenou neighbourhood. It produces, exhibits and disseminates contemporary audiovisual art, multimedia design, digital art and independent electronic music. The focus for study, creation and exhibition is the “audio and visual” culture arising from the emergence of digital technology in the world of art, design and communication.

www.niubcn.com

Niu works in the following areas:

Exhibition space
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www.niubcn.com/activitats.htm
www.niubcn.com/workshops.htm
A multi-purpose hall for staging exhibitions, musical and audiovisual activities and workshops.

Services for artists
High quality low cost services in areas including work spaces, web hosting, domain name registration, high quality printing services, an accounting advice, a press office...

Artists agency
www.niubcn.com/agencia.htm
Niu provides artistic advice and management services for businesses, institutions and festivals.

Training
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Training workshops for students and professionals based around various aspects of contemporary visual, musical and graphic art are regularly organised.

Online radio
www.niubcn.com/piu/index.htm
Piu is Niu's Internet radio station, broadcasting high quality electronic music 24 hours a day.

The Telenoika Cultural Association has been promoting, supporting and participating in the electronic arts scene for almost ten years. The group includes VJs, musicians, programmers, artivists, video artists and cultural activists with a shared social commitment. This variety means that Telenoika can be present in contexts as varied as theatre, electronic music, film, teaching, and everything related to new technologies and the languages of artistic expression.

Telenoika was established as a platform for the organisation of the Videa festival held in Barcelona between 2000 and 2002. Its work currently involves supporting the artistic scene with grants for creation and research, training workshops, exhibitions of projects, video installations in public spaces, jams and audiovisual live performances and collaborations with institutions and groups within the social and creative movements.

www.telenoika.net