Curator Statement
E-Culture Fair
The Dutch contributions to the E-Culture Fair 2010 offer a varied collection of ways in which digital culture plays out in the real world. Together they demonstrate that e-culture does not only happen in digital on-screen spaces, but has intimately woven itself into many of the ways we do things in our work and the rest of our lives. A few examples: “UPLabs” (Urban Park Laboratory) explores the near future of the public park by inserting public entry digital services into the Westerpark of Amsterdam. “CityShapes” allows people to build life-size toy castles with huge (virtual) building blocks on the Leonie-ReygersTerrasse in front of the Dortmunder U. “Fritzing” allows technical amateurs to design and test their electronic circuits on screen until they work, and then gives them a blueprint to make them real. These designs can, of course, be published and improved by further users. The “Instructables Restaurant” is an open source/do-it-yourself restaurant that can be started from scratch anywhere. It is continuously improved and reiterated in an open design practice. Social media and mobile internet are the driving
forces in the development of this hybrid mix that offers immense opportunities to blend artistic, design and entrepreneurial practices.
With:
- CityShapes Sander Veenhof
- CoolMediaHotTalk Show CoolMediaHotTalk
- Dropstuff dropstuff.nl
- Fritzing fritzing.org
- Instructables Restaurant instructablesrestaurant.com
- Interactive Urban Projection MediaLAB, Hogeschool van Amsterdam
- Media Art Labs BALTAN Laboratories (Eindhoven)
- Mediamatic Travel Mediamatic
- Patching Zone (Rotterdam)
- TwitterHouse XML Architecture Research Urbanism
- Urban Park Laboratory Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek
- Wii Medic Grendel Games
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