Curators Statement
The E-Culture Fair 2010, held at the Dortmunder U, will be showcasing innovative projects in the fields of media art, creative industry, research and education. It is the first step of an envisaged long-term co-operation between three partners: Virtueel Platform of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, BAM – Flemish Institute for visual, audiovisual and media art of Ghent, Flanders, and medienwerk.nrw of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in affiliation with ecce – european centre for creative economy, organised by Hartware MedienKunstVerein In line with previous events held regularly since 2000 in the Netherlands, the E-Culture Fair 2010 is being presented for the first time in Germany as an ISEA2010 RUHR co-operation project. In an exhibition and trade fair environment – in workshops and through live presentations – international artists and creatives showcase their latest works and anticipate future collaborations in the context of electronic culture. The intention is to display the current state of artistic reflection, and to debate social as well as cultural transformations and various creative applications in the digital field.
Programme:
- Speakers: Dr. Inke Arns (HMKV/medienwerk.nrw), Floor van Spaendonck (Virtueel Platform), Dr. Andreas Broeckmann (ISEA2010 RUHR/Dortmunder U)
- Out of Curiosity: An Exploration of the Educational E-Culture Field in Flanders, the
Netherlands and North Rhine-Westphalia. - Crossover Lab Lowlands by Nathalie Goethals
- Crossing Over – Interdisciplinary Practices
- Projects/Presenters: Cultuurlab, Wii Medic, Angelo Vermeulen, Botanoadopt City in a Bottle, NoiseTube
- Crosstalk: Booklaunch “We can change the weather: 100 cases in changeability”, Marleen Wijnants (ed.), VUBpress
- BALTAN Laboratories/Lablife 1: Ecological and Sustainable Designs Introduction: BALTAN Laboratories
- Projects/Presenters: OKNO, FoAM, Prototypen://
- BALTAN Laboratories: Booklaunch “The Future of the Lab”
- Urban Regeneration and Media Technology, hosted by Patching Zone
- Projects/Presenters: Patching Zone, Dropstuff, MediaLAB HvA, TwitterHouse, UPLabs
- BALTAN Laboratories/Lablife2: Urban Interventions
- Projects/Presenters: Recycle X/Patching Zone, 7scenes/De Waag, timelab (Q&A)
Subjectivities - Projects/Presenters: CubeBrowser, De Werktank, Crew, BigBrotherAwards, Participatory Culture
- Projects/Presenters: Instructables Restaurant, Mediamatic Travel, Where is Gary?, Folkwang Museum Essen, Social Spaces, DarkMatr, SK Stiftung Kultur (Q&A)
- BALTAN Laboratories/Lablife 3: Wearable Technologies
- Projects/Presenters: V2, Constant Toolpool
- Projects/Presenters: Fritzing, Fundels, Musescore, CityShapes, Nodebox, Netzspannung.org & Medienfluss,
- ARCHIE–mobile interactive museum guide
- Closing Remarks & Perspectives. Speakers: Dr. Inke Arns (HMKV/medienwerk.nrw), Prof. Dieter Gorny (RUHR.2010/ecce), Dr.Ingrid Stoppa-Sehlbach (Staatskanzlei NRW), Floor van Spaendonck (Virtueel Platform), Dirk De Wit (BAM), Dr. Andreas Broeckmann (ISEA2010 RUHR/Dortmunder U).
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