Curator Statement
E-Culture Fair
The Flemish participants in the E-Culture Fair 2010 present research projects, tools, methods, applications and installations at the intersection of culture and new media technology. These crossover projects originate from quite different backgrounds, domains and disciplines such as cultural heritage and ways to categorise cultural and leisure information (“Cultuurlab”), generative art applications (“Nodebox”, “City in a Bottle”), interactive cinematic narratives and digital distribution (“Where is Gary?”), education and elearning (“Fundels”), artistic reflections on digital and analogue phenomena of seeing (De Werktank), music, gaming, design, ecology… What they have in common is that they explore social and cultural potentials of technology, going from multi-touch technology (e.g. “Social Spaces”), to omni-directional video techniques
(Crew), RFID, interactive visualisations of the internet (“DarkMatr”) and of course in several cases networked technology (“Musescore”).
With:
- ARCHIE–mobile interactive museum guide
- Expertise Centre for Digital Media (Hasselt University)
- Behind the Horizon De Werktank
- Biomodd Angelo Vermeulen
- City in a Bottle
- Cupid Cultuurlab, IBBT/SMIT
- DarkMatr Tom Heene
- Fundels Playlane
- Musescore Thomas Bonte
- Nodebox Experimental Media Group,
- Sint Lucas School of Arts, Antwerp
- Noisetube VUB, Sony CSL Paris
- Out of Curiosity Social Spaces, Province of Limburg,
- Art Centre Z33
- Social Spaces Media & Design Academy, KHLim, Art Centre
- Z33, Expertise Centre for Digital Media (Hasselt University)
- Where is Gary? Potemkino
- W(Double U) Crew
- BAM – Flemish Institute for visual, audiovisual and media art of Ghent, Flanders, Belgium enicpa.info/members/flandersartsinstitute
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