PlayLab: Laboratory of Experimentation with Video Games :: January 21-24 + February 4-7, 2010 :: Medialab-Prado, Plaza de las Letras, Calle Alameda, 15, 28014 Madrid :: Call for Collaborators for Selected Projects — Deadline for Registrations: January 20, 2010.

Collaborators can join any of the developing teams that will carry out the selected proposals, depending on their particular interests and skills, thus contributing with their knowledge and skills and at the same time learning from the other group members and from the leading tutors: Mar Canet, Antonin Fourneau, and Abelardo Gil-Fournier. Directed by Flavio Escribano.

What is PlayLab? PlayLab aims to explore the context of games and video games as a space for creativity, experimentation, learning and reflection. Selected projects aim to experiment with tangible interfaces, real objects as elements of a virtual game, board games with augmented reality, interactive sound spaces, viral games, etc.

The workshop includes lectures by Mar Canet: “The video game is a laboratory” (January 21 at 7:30pm) and Abelardo Gil-Fournier: “Events. The game condition on the news” (February 4 at 7:30pm).

In collaboration with Arsgames. With the support of PlayStation®