MetaReciclagem is an open network formed by people located in different parts of Brazil and abroad. Its members develop decentralized projects and actions that seek the appropriation of technology and media production by using a participatory methodology that promotes education, social engagement and innovation. They managed to start up more than a dozen of autonomous low-tech laboratories and many other independent projects sponsored by the... Read more

Felipe Fonseca is co-founder of MetaReciclagem, researcher and coordinator of projects related to collective production, independent media, open software and critical appropriation of technology. Felipe Fonseca has been one of the coordinators of the Digital Culture project, and responsible for developing the online interfaces to over 600 media centers that have been implemented by the Brazil's Ministry of Culture. Read more

Platoniq is an international non-profit organization made up of cultural producers and software developers based in Barcelona since 2001, pioner in the production and distribution of copyleft culture. Since 2001, they carry out activities and projects where the social uses of ICTs and networking are applied to enhance communication, self-training and citizens organisation. Their work generates innovative software applications and methodologies, in addition to an extensive free-licensed audiovisual archive on the Internet. This collective has been associated to the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona since 2003. During the last years, their project Burn Station (2004) has been awarded by the Transitio Festival (Mexico DF) and by the Transmediale Digital Culture Festival (Berlin). It has also won a mention of honour in the UNESCO Digital Arts Awards. Among their projects, we can also find the Bank of Common Knowledge (2006), a knowledge exchange platform; the public streaming server, OpenServer; the organisation of temporary media labs, Media Space Invadres (2003-2004); and the creation of the first copyleft license within the Spanish legal framework, Unconditional Air (2004), which was applied to the contents of the exhibition with the same name produced by Platoniq at the Shedhalle Art Center of Zurich. Platoniq has been a pioner in the design of... Read more