MeioLab (may-o-lab) is a low and high tech media platform mobilizing collaborative mark-making techniques to produce collective (audio)visuals.
At its simplest, MeioLab seeks to think and carry out “organic machines for communication” by multiplying inscription layers into a structure and have them feedback into the system, so that audio-visual results can be cross-referenced in real time by means of user-friendly equipment (often low-tech) and/or writing-drawing activities.
MeioLab aims to expand audio-visual experience in order to widen and diversify opportunities for inscription and critical readings. This expansion takes place, on the one hand, by working the projection architecture (screen structure, location and nature of workstations and audience etc.); on the other, procedures for collective and/or collaborative writing-drawing are explored (fill-in-the-gaps formsheets, typescaping, live drawing etc.).
Thus, MeioLab has taken up a variety of set-ups, according to the demands of a given place and situation. Past activity include activist meetings, outdoor projection with public interaction, workshops and thematic gatherings.
