About us

Our Lab

xDA (eXperimental Digital Atelier) is a medialab / hacklab collective dedicated to multi-disciplinary experimentalism focused, but not limited, around digital art.

We are part of Audiência Zero (*) nonprofit association, following their footsteps in Porto with LCD and Lisbon with AltLab. Everyone is welcome to show up at our weekly meetings, get to know us, and feel encouraged to join.

We’re located at Casa da Esquina, Coimbra, Portugal where we meet every Tuesday, 9:00pm (21:00h).

Interested? Subscribe to our mailing list , show up at our weekly meetings, or just contact us:

Tiago Serra / Ricardo Lobo

Audiência Zero (*)

Audiência Zero is a Portuguese cultural organization founded in 2006 with the goals of fighting the dispersal of people and means for cultural production,­ help create new audiences, and embrace new technologies as platforms for cultural development.

In 2008 the organization established the Center for Creativity and Technology through which it organizes courses and workshops focused on creative applications of technology, with a special emphasis on free and open­source tools and the active sharing of knowledge they inspire. From this program’s activity emerged the need for an informal space where people who are starting to use technology for creative purposes could gather to continue learning, share knowledge and experiences,­and develop projects together. That’s how the Audiência­Zero Labs project started, and in just two years it has grown from one to three spaces nationwide: Altlab in Lisbon, LCD in Porto and xDA in Coimbra.

­ Nowadays these spaces function as a regular meeting point for a new generation of creators, connected by a nation wide network, unafraid to tackle any technology or knowledge needed to bring their ideas to completion in an environment of open experimentation.

We are…

Tiago Serra
“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.”

Filipe “ps” Cruz
“Ph34r the darkside of the moomin”

Victor Martins
“Unique, like everyone else”

Maria Nunes
“Bioquímica em contínua aprendizagem e atadinha já formada.”

Tiago Pinto
“I’m not so humble because i’m not that good.”

Gil Abrantes
Intergalactic

Alexandre Lemos
“Eterno candidato a um prémio Nobel, que não o da paz, ambiciona adquirir a F. C. Gulbenkian, desenvolve um trabalho intermitente como idiota sensacional e fuma.”

Tony Gonçalves
“É pá, tou a rebootar o PC. É pá, não digas isso que eu uso Linux, parece mal.”