3rd INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
on Media Art and Culture

Art, Technology, Cultural Heritage

Rieti, Italy, July 11-25 2011

Number of participants is limited

MERGING TECHNOLOGY WITH HISTORY AND CULTURE

Come to study and work in the castle of Contigliano, a perfect place to merge history and future.

The workshop provides conceptual background and technical skills to develop interactive installations for arts, museums, facade projections and cultural exhibits.

THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP

It is a 2-week full-time course on visual arts, media theory and technology in their relation to the place. The workshop is designed for students, scholars and artists from architecture, design, media arts and science and technical fields. The motto is ‘work in a multidisciplinary environment’.

Classes are in English with a high quality tutoring, students and team at the end of the training will produce an interactive multimedia art work that will be exhibited in the medieval town. Moreover, this experience abroad has already established an ongoing and growing dialogue between international artists.

This workshop is organized by the non-profit association MEDIARS (Centro Sperimentale di Media Interattivi per l’Arte e lo Spettacolo www.mediars.eu ) in collaboration with the local municipality and University of Sabina. Over the years MEDIARS invited lecturers from  the University of Southern California, University of Florence, University of California Los Angeles, University of Berlin, University of Sabine (Rieti) and University of Rome.
Our partners:

LA Freewaves
HERITY International
Inglobe Technologies
Student SUMMIT International
Abroad101
Municipality of Contigliano
Universita’ La Sapienza
Sabina Universitas
Rieti Sotterranea (Rieti Underground)

Click here to read the complete list of our supporters.

The full program offers tours, accommodation, meals and transportation. Full program

Read what past participants said about our program here

Do you want to give a look at photos and video clips from last editions or at the exhibit?

Inglobe Technologies supports MEDIARS and the International Workshop with the donation of the Augmented Reality plug-in for Google SketchUp ($100 license value) to each participant.