Metalab

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Metalab
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Country Austria

State or District

Vienna

City Vienna

Date of founding

2006/04/01

Website http://metalab.at

Wiki

http://metalab.at/wiki

Jabber

xmpp:jabber.metalab.at

E-mail

core-AT-metalab.atwarning.pngURIs of the form "core-AT-metalab.at" are not allowed.

Mailinglist

http://lists.metalab.at/mailman/listinfo/metalab

Snail mail

Rathausstraße 6
W-1010 Vienna
Austria

Number of members

130

Membership fee

EUR 20 per month

Size of rooms

200m²

Members AndiS, Astera, Burning, Consti, Enki, Fin, Gnarfoo, Kewagi, Kintel, Kyrah, Lfittl, MovGP0, Pk, Red667, Scriptythekid
Location 48.20941° N, 16.356175° ELatitude: 48°12′33.876″N
Longitude: 16°21′22.23″E
Latitude: 48°12′33.876″N
Longitude: 16°21′22.23″E

Status active
Entrance of the metalab

The Metalab is a 200sqm non-profit hackspace in Vienna's first district - right next to the vienna city hall. It offers space for free exchange of information, and collaboration between technical-creative enthusiasts, hackers and founders. Metalab is dedicated to providing infrastructure for projects and offers a physical space for interested people from the wide fields of IT, new media, and hacker culture.

Metalab's expenses are covered by the membership fees of over 100 members. Public Funding and sponsoring, in part from the net culture funding budget of the City of Vienna ("NetzNetz"), allow the expansion and improvement of the space, purchase of equipment, and realization of bigger projects.

Lecture held at the metalab

Metalab featured various high quality talks and workshops with various personalities from the tech and culture field. The members of the Metalab initiated many digital culture and digital art projects in Vienna. The Metalab was also part of Paraflows 2006 and 2007, an international festival for net cultures and net art.

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