Technarte 2010 photoset on Flickr is now available. Don´t miss Jürgen Scheible´s painting the Arriaga Theater in Bilbao with his mobile phone. You can see more pictures that we mobblogged live here. Enjoy and see you at Technarte 2011 on May 19th and 20th next year. The picture on this post was taken by Jürgen Scheible.

Technarte has finished its 5th edition and the organization is very pleased with the result. We did see fantastic presentations and would like to thank the speakers for their effort. We are happy as well with the interaction of the attendees, we noticed a higher level of participation of the audience this year.

Over a hundred people have visited the Euskalduna Palace of Bilbao (Spain), to attend the 4 live installations, Bilbao Interaktive presentations and roundtable dedicated to the Design of Interactive Installations in Public Spaces and the 14 presentations of the Technarte Programme.

The prize of the Best Speaker Award was for Jürgen Scheible. The painting of the Arriaga Theater he conducted on Thursday night was a big success. You can check more pictures blogged from the event, though we will soon be publishing a link in this blog to see higher resolution photos.

We are already planning new and exciting contents for Technarte 2011 that will be held on the 19th and 20th of May. Please check this site for the latest info about the opening of Call for Papers, upcoming new programme contents, etc. You can also follow us on Linkedin, Facebook and Twitter.

Innovalia Association, organiser of Technarte, wants to thank all the speakers for their valuable contribution, and as well the attendees, sponsors and exhibitors for their participation. We hope see you again on May 19-20 2011 at the 6th edition of Technarte.

This is a brief summary of all the interactive installations that will be showed live at Technarte´s conference hall. If you have any doubt please ask for more info at Technarte organization booth. Enjoy!

Alesandro Scali - ¿Is this an artwork that you can’t see a real artwork?

Come into the nanoart world with the help of a microscope.

Tim Devine - “Two computers at Leisure Playing Chess in a Park ”

Come to enjoy this chess game between two computers at leisure in a park. Try to interrupt them and you’ll be surprised!

Joe Hocking - “Occupation Forces: Augmented Reality in Action”

With the help of your iPhone, look for the Augmented Reality codes at the Hall of the Palacio Euskalduna. Each of the codes will show you one of the Occupation Forces that have invaded Technarte. There are four different ones; find them!

Martha Gabriel - “Senstive Rose - Mobile Tagging and Mixed Realities”

At the A3.1 Room of the Palacio Euskalduna, you will see projected a compass rose, that changes his appearance depending of the frame of mind of the attendees. Read with your mobile phone the QR codes of the Room A3.1 and answer the question, and you will see how your response modifies the compass rose.

If you need to install a QR reader or an augmented reality codes reader in your phone and you don’t know how, come to the organisation booth, we will be happy to help you. Otherwise you can download the reader from here.

On April 15th at 7:30pm Jürgen Scheible will create a live demo of his Mobispray project over the Arriaga Theater in Bilbao. Mobispray is an artistic tool that with the help of a mobile phone, a computer and a projector, can paint buildings. This is a live activity opened to the general public. Everyone is invited. Check here for more info and event details.

For those of you attending to Technarte as a speaker or an attendee, we would like to show you some interesting things to do before or after the international conference. For those of you who have not yet decided to come to Technarte, we hope this guide will help you make up your mind and join us! This is our best picks of Bilbao! Enjoy!

The Guggenheim Museum is always a good choice, especially now that you can admire Anish Kapoor’s exhibition. If you enjoy Photography, we suggest that you visit Bilbao’s Fine Arts Museum, where you will find a great retrospective on Alberto Schömmer’s work. Alberto Schömmer is a very famous contemporary Spanish photographer and artist.

Eating out is always a pleasure in the Basque region. Go for a walk through El Casco Viejo, the old town of Bilbao, and taste the famous pintxos, a type of snacks, typically offered in bars.

Another suggestion to experience the city, its buildings and citizens from a different perspective, is to take a tour on Bilbao’s tramway or to go through the “Fosteritos”, the entrances to Bilbao’s subway designed by Norman Foster, and visit one of its clean and streamlined subway stations.

What are mixed realities? Augmented realities or Mixed Reality (MR) is a term to define the new spaces and ways to visualize information that is created as a result of the fusion between the physical and virtual worlds and their coexistence, in real time, with physical and digital objects.

Through the Encryption of embebbed URLs withing 2D codes, mobile tagging allows to add a digital layer to any physical object and offer new augmented reality layers of information of that phisycal object. An example of this would be the QR codes or Datamatrix codes.

Martha Gabriel´s presentation, she is a researcher at the University of Sao Paulo, will focus in the multiple uses of mobile tagging and mixed realities applications that are being developed in various sectors such as advertising, art, industry, etc.

Martha Gabriel will present Sensitive Rose, one of her most known projects, which will also be shown live at the conference venue. Sensitive Rose is and interactive compass rose that shows on a big screen or a computer the desires of people in the form of QR codes that express people´s moods and desires.

To be able to express their mood, people must read a QR code with their mobile phones that will open a mobile site on their phone from which they will be able to select in which mood they are and send that information wirelessly to the interactive screen. The sensitive rose will show people´s mood and desires at a certain place and time

The multifaceted artist Jaime del Val repeats as Chairman at Technarte and he will present the speakers and will be the moderator of the rounds of question and answers. We think del Val is the perfect person to take the most out of every speaker and every conference.

Jaime del Val (Madrid 1974) is a transdisciplinary artist, composer and pianist, digital visual artist, performer and choreographer, activist (post-gay/post-queer and environmental); art body and technology theorist, producer, coordinator of REVERSO project where he promotes various initiatives at the crossroads of body art and technology.

His metaformance and interactive dance performances, electro, video, virtual architecture and urban intervention have been represented in Europe, South and North America and Africa, and the nomadic Workshop Technology Corps, organized since 2003.

His writings of theoretical research have been disseminated in numerous print and online publications. He edited the Journal Reverso in 2000, the first academic queer theory publication in Spanish.

Since 2004 he coordinates a number of the most emblematic projects against real estate speculation in Spain, most notably the cessation of illegal Algarrobico hotel in Almeria, why in 2008 was chosen by the newspaper El País as one of the 100 Latin American of the year.

The yearly Technarte Conference, will take place as always in Bilbao, an energetic city with great architecture and fantastic restaurants.

The Venue is a very unique building: the Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall. It was inaugurated on February 19th 1999, and is now one of the flagships of the new Bilbao of the 21st century together with Guggenheim Museum, Iberdrola Tower or the Alhondiga building.

In 2003, the building was awarded by the AIPC (International Association of Conference Halls) as the best congress centre in the World.