3. • Audience festival Film, television & new media
more than 60.000 visitors 34 satellite festivals, more than 500 mediaproductions
• Projects all through the year, national and international
Cinekid AppLab, Filmgame, CinekidClub, national and international events and collaborations
4. • Professionals Seminars, Conference, Co-Production Markets, Screeningclub
& network meetings900+ media professionals, 200+ international guests from more than 33 landen, 24 international festivals, 22
international broadcasters
5. To promote the quality of image culture for children and
stimulate active and creative participation
* Open & engaged * From user to produser * Media literacy & media resistance
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7. How does it work, the MediaLab?
• Over 50 games, installations, workshops
• Research & development
• Commissioned & curated works
• From digital to physical
• Young talents & diverse audiences
• Cinekid Lions
• Conference and masterclasses
101. MediaLab 2015
The Technological Imaginary: Imagine
1. dissatisfactions with social reality and desires for a better society are projected
onto technologies as capable of delivering a potential realm of completeness
102. MediaLab 2015
The Technological Imaginary: Imagine
1. dissatisfactions with social reality and desires for a better society are projected
onto technologies as capable of delivering a potential realm of completeness
2. in Lacan’s psychoanalytic body of thought, the French adjective
imaginaire became a noun, ‘the imaginary’, alongside the ‘real’ and
the ‘symbolic’. Here, imaginaire refers images of an ‘other’ – another self,
another race, gender or significant other person, another state of being
3. In the more poetic mental faculty or activity of fantasizing, in which we
focus on the power of imagination, enabled by the technological
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105. The Technological Imaginary: Imagine
MediaLab 2015
Alice in Plato’s Cave and researching the edges of imagination:
Changing perspectives & tumbling down the rabbit hole to
distinguish the virtual from the real.
106. Alice in Plato’s Cave and researching the
edges of imagination: Changing
perspectives & tumbling down the rabbit
hole to distinguish the virtual from the
real.
114. The Technological Imaginary:
Tumbling down perspectives, what is truth, what is real, what is meaning?
...and how did technology get us here... or get us out?
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