By  Jorge Rocha
An initiative of  XEREM in partnership with RE.AL
November 26 and 27, 2011
From 2pm to 8 pm at Atelier Real in Lisbon

The workshop “WordPress and the free platforms on culture” aims to provide basic knowledge of digital culture from the perspective of the user, focusing its action on WordPress and also addressing some known free social media.
WordPress is a free software for web content management that allows the user to build and update a website/blog in an easy and intuitive way.  Considered one of the largest and most dynamic tools of this kind,     it grows in a collaborative way and allows us to share knowledge in the use of designs and different plug-ins that extend its basic tools.

The workshop is divided into the following modules:
- Digital Culture: introduction to digital cultures, free software and networking .
- WordPress: to build a website in wordpress. Basic and additional tools of the wordpress software
- Interaction with web applications: (social networks, platforms for storage and sharing images, and other applications)

Target: cultural agents, artists and other creative people and general public with interest in the matter.
Prerequisites: Familiarity with the use of Internet in the logic of the user.
Additional Requirements: Each participant should bring a computer with wifi connection
Participants: 12
Price per participant: 50 €

Dates and time: November 26 e 27 de Novembro, from 2 pm to 8pm

Online Registration  here (form)
Language: Portuguese

Adress: Atelier Real, Rua Poço dos Negros 55, 1200-336 Lisboa
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Jorge Rocha
Born in Lagos, Portugal, Rocha is an independent artist and producer who seeks to establish connections between different artistic fields, proposing a cross-disciplinary approach to contemporary art. He graduated from the Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha with a degree in Visual Arts, and worked as an exhibition producer at the Centro Cultural de Lagos, between 2005 and 2008. The projects which he has produced include: Zoologia dos Trópicos: obras de Nelson Leirner e Jorge Dias; Laccobriga: a ocupação romana na baía de Lagos and Mundos Locais: espaços, visibilidades e fluxos transculturais within the scope of Allgarve08.
In 2005, he became an artist in residency at the LAC (a cultural association in Lagos), where he created the performance Procedimento Administrativo. This work was presented within the scope of Expoarte Contemporânea, which took place in Mozambique at the National Art Museum in Maputo, and at the CINEPORT festival in João Pessoa, Brazil. In 2009, he produced the project Underconstruction de Mónica de Miranda e Paul Goodwin, undertook experiments in Portugal for Ricardo Basbaum’s project NBP-Novas Bases para a Personalidade, and took part in the “Sansa International artist’s workshop” in Kumasi, Ghana, within the scope of the Triangle Arts Trust.
In 2010 he directed the film “Escrito nas Telhas” during the Festival Ver e Fazer Filmes – Cineport held in Cataguases in Brazil, and led the International Artists Workshop “Home and Abroad”. He is a member of the LAC – Laboratório de Actividades Criativas and co-founder of the Xerem.  Today is also dedicated to the promotion of digital culture in the creative process.

Production of                                                          In partnership with

RE.AL is funded by MC (Ministério da Cultura)
/ DGArtes (Direcção-Geral das Artes)                                                         

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