Digital meets Culture

21-22 November 2019

Education, Youth, Culture and Sports European Council

These days, 21-22 November 2019, the European council is meeting in Brussels to discuss Education, Youth, Culture and Sports.

Culture was one of the main topic of yesterday meeting which aimed to improve the contribution of culture to the global challenge of sustainability by adopting a resolution to strengthen the contribution of culture to sustainable development.

With the goal of understanding the current situation of the European cultural, creative and audiovisual industries (ICCs) and assessing how they can operate and position themselves better on the global market, the ministers of culture held a public debate titled ‘Strengths, innovation potential and global competitiveness of the European cultural, creative and audiovisual industries’.

During the discussion Ministers identified the main challenges for the CCIs in the EU and the most important strengths of European CCIs:
– huge potential for growth
– ability to provide local content
– high quality of production
– linguistic and cultural diversity

The debate highlighed the need to create favourable conditions for the functioning of CCIs (legislative measures, facilitating funding, investing in digital skills and media literacy) and stressed the importance of cooperation at European level as a key for strengthening the competitiveness of European CCIs.

At the end of the meeting the Council adopted a resolution on the cultural dimension of sustainable development that will start a process aimed to develop an action plan by the European Commission in cooperation with member states.

Read the outcome of the Council meeting of 21 November here.

20 November 2019, Brussels

RURITAGE and ROCK projects joint workshop

The workshop “Heritage-Led Regeneration: What Is Our Vision?” will take place in Brussels on Thursday 20 November, co-hosting by RURITAGE and ROCK projects.
This joint workshop will discuss the use of cultural heritage as a driver for sustainable growth in both urban and rural areas.
It will be part of the Playground events organized by the ILUCIDARE project with the aim of stimulating interdisciplinary interactions and networking among participants with discussions, inspirational speeches, workshops, panels and speed-networking.

Three working groups will explore different aspects of heritage-led regeneration:

how heritage can contribute to building community resilience.
what is the role of heritage in creating social inclusion, in particular access to cultural heritage for vulnerable groups.
how heritage drives creativity, bringing together the concepts of creative cities and arts as an innovative force for rural regeneration.

The joint workshop will serve for drawing a European Vision Paper for urban and rural regeneration through cultural and natural heritage.

The RURITAGE project, with support of ROCK and other experts, will continue working on the Paper even after the workshop, and will share the final document in May 2020.

the 9th international platform on integrating arab e-infrastructures in a global environment

e-AGE 2019 registrations are open

Register Now and join us at our 9^th International Conference e-AGE19 at Khalifa University (جامعة خليفة ) hosted by Ankabut 11-12 December 2019 in Abu Dhabi.

e-AGE19 theme is “Groundbreaking Research and Education Networks” and all activities will be centered on this. Special sessions will be dedicated to specific domains, mainly focusing on experiences in connectivity and e-Infrastructure, applications and services across a variety of scientific domains

Please visit http://asrenorg.net/eage19/

tools and knowledge to help creating museum experiences combining the physical and digital

Sharing The GIFT box to all museums and cultural heritage professional

The GIFT Box is a set of free, open-source tools and ways of working to help museums offer richer digital experiences for their visitors. It includes resources to help design, plan and implement enhanced visitor experiences.

The GIFT Box provides:

Easy to use design and planning tools that help museums make richer visitor experiences.
Ready-made open-source digital tools that have been developed and tested in museums.
Practical recommendations on how to deal with digital design and change from 10 international museums.

The GIFT Box is a result of the GIFT project – a research project funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research programme. The project brings together internationally renowned artists, designers, museum professionals and researchers to help museums create hybrid experiences: Experiences that combine the physical and digital to create personal encounters with cultural heritage. The project started in January 2017 and run for three years, to December 2019.

Discover! https://gifting.digital/the-gift-project/

extended deadline is 19th January 2020

Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2020 open for submissions

International law firm Ashurst and Oaktree & Tiger announce the launch of the sixth annual Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize, a major global prize for emerging artists.

The sixth year of the internationally successful Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize is open for entries! The prize is open to artists working across all genres, styles and backgrounds. The overall deadline is the 19 January 2020.

Open to artists anywhere in the world, entries are accepted in a wide range of media. The shortlist is to be announced in April 2020 and final winners announced in July 2020.

PRIZES INCLUDE:

– Value of Prizes increased to £10,000 prizes, for the Overall Winner, the Choice Award, the Sculpture Award, the New Media Award with partners Rich Mix and Photography Award with partners Genesis Imaging.

– £1500 worth of services and a 12 month mentorship with Genesis Imaging

– Includes £1,000 of vouchers from Cass Art for 3 Winners

– Three month exhibitions in London, England

– Group Show for 25 Shortlisted Artists in April – August 2020

Early entries will feature in our ongoing campaigns to clients, invitations to our informative talks. For further information and the application form see here http://www.artprize.co.uk/or please email mailto: info@artprize.co.uk with questions.

This year Melanie Lenz, curator at the V&A Museum, joins the panel as a judge. Melanie is the curator of Digital Art at the V&A. Based in London, she previously worked at the Barbican Art Gallery and Tate Modern and has over 15 years of experience of curating, commissioning and delivering creative projects. Josh McNorton, cultural director for Wembley Park, returns to judge for the second year of the new media award, as do independent art advisor Averil Curci and creative director of Genesis Imaging Mark Foxwell who will again judge the Photography Award. They join returning judges Dr David Anfam, senior consulting curator at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver and author of the catalogue raisonné ‘Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas’, Howard Lewis, director of the Schorr Collection, and Ashurst partner Anna Delgado. They are also joined by new guest judge Magnus Brooke, director of policy and regulatory affairs at ITV plc.

Full information about how to enter, including entry forms and rules, can be found online at www.artprize.co.uk.

Tokyo (Japan), 23 November 2019 - 9 February 2020

“OPEN SITE 2019-2020” by TOKAS, exhibitions and more in Tokyo

Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) is an arts center dedicated to the creation and promotion of contemporary artistic expression from Tokyo and supports a wide spectrum of artistic activities including crossover and experimental projects. Established in 2001 as Tokyo Wonder Site (TWS), an initiative for the support and nurturing of young artists, it was renamed Tokyo Arts and Space in 2017.

As part of the activities, TOKAS holds an open call project OPEN SITE, which is a program aimed at creating a platform that brings together a full range of projects seeking to create new forms of expression across all genres, open to society.

This year marked the fourth annual call for proposals, successful candidates included four projects in the Exhibition category, three projects in the Performance category, and two projects in the OPEN SITE dot category. Moreover, a total of 12 projects will be implemented including the TOKAS Recommendation Program and Educational Programs. And also, tickets for Performances and OPEN SITE dot are available now.

Website: https://willap.jp/t?r=AAAJGAk20OKmMy2Hcay97z.y3OWKxJTUiCdCpQ

OPEN SITE 2019-2020
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[Exhibition]
Part 1: 11/23 (Sat) – 12/22 (Sun), 2019 Part 2: 1/11 (Sat) – 2/9 (Sun), 2020
Venue: Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo (2-4-16 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo)
[Time]
Exhibition: 11:00-19:00 (Last entry: 18:30)
Performance | OPEN SITE dot: Varies depending on the program
[Closed] Mondays (Except 1/13), 1/14
[Admission]
Exhibition: Free
Performance: Admission-paid / Booking required
OPEN SITE dot: Free / Booking required (Varies depending on the program)

[Part 1]
OPENING TALK: 11/23 (Sat) 16:00-17:30
Guest: HATANAKA Minoru (Chief Curator, NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC])
Artist: YOF (OHARA Takayoshi + FURUSAWA Ryu + YANAGAWA Tomoyuki), UNNO Rintaro
With Japanese-English interpreter / Admission Free / No booking required
Exhibition:
YOF (FURUSAWA Ryu, OHARA Takayoshi, YANAGAWA Tomoyuki) “2D Painting”
UNNO Rintaro “Counterattack by Land / Curious Obsession”

Performance:
Nuthmique “days and a festival” *TOKAS Recommendation Program
Physical Theater Company GERO “Dance and talk? or Talk and dance?”

OPEN SITE dot:
Timeline Project “WOMEN Artists & History”
abirdwhale | Kakinoki Masato “We, Questioning Norms of Love and Sex, and Attempting to Build Love Relationships with Hongo”

[Part 2]
OPENING TALK: 1/11 (Sat) 16:00-17:30 Guest: MOURI Yoshitaka (Sociologist / Professor, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts)
Artist: IHARADA Haruka, Tess MARTIN etc.
With Japanese-English interpreter / Admission Free / No booking required
Exhibition:
IHARADA Haruka “Exposing the bushes”
Tess MARTIN “Orbit”

Performance:
NAGAI Nozomi × MEGURO Yosuke “A form of a human telling of things”
babytooth “SCREEN BABY #2”

OPEN SITE dot｜TOKAS Educational Program:
harawata “tsugu”
WADA Nahoko (Access Point: Architecture-Tokyo) “Learning and Experience: History of Hongo through Architectural Tour”

Adaptive Strategies for Water Heritage - Past, Present and Future

New ICOMOS publication: a multidisciplinary research linking water to heritage

ICOMOS (Institutional Council On Monuments and Sites) Netherlands, in collaboration with scholars from the LeidenDelftErasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development, published a new work presenting multidisciplinary research that connects water to heritage.

The society has not come to terms with its own water insecurity: chronic scarcity, over-extraction, natural catastrophes caused by water; the risks to both people and nature will increase as climate change will change the hydrology of the planet.

A discussion on water is needed, even if it is complicated because carries multiple economic, legal, political, and cultural values.
What is possible to do is learn from the past to tackle our future.

Water has served and sustained societies throughout the history of humankind.
The book explores landscapes, cities, engineering structures: a rich world of narratives, laws, practices and an extensive tangible network of infrastructure, buildings, and urban form.
It describes how people have modelled its course, shape and function of water for human settlements and the development of civilizations.

This book links the practices of the past to a present in which heritage and water are largely two separate disciplinary and professional ﬁelds and suggests the need of a common agenda and an integrated policy to address the preservation, transformation and adaptive reuse of historic water related structures.

The book is organized in five thematic sections that link practices of the past to the design of the present and visions of the future:

drinking water management;
water use in agriculture;
water management for land reclamation and defense;
river and coastal planning;
port cities and waterfront regeneration.

For more information and to download the Pdf, here.

Girona (Catalunya, Spain), 12 November - 19 December 2019

BLUE SKIES, RED PANIC exhibition about the 1950s in Europe

“BLUE SKIES, RED PANIC” photographic exhibition, realized in the framework of the 50s in Europe Kaleidoscope project, was opened at La Mercè Cultural Center in Girona on Tuesday 12th November, organized by CRDI / Ajuntament de Girona.

During the inauguration, Martí Anglada, journalist and former representative of the Generalitat de Catalunya in Switzerland and France, gave the conference “France, at the European rudder of the 50s; Germany, at the helm of the 2000s “. As Martí Anglada says, the European Union was born in the fifties with an economic base, but with a strong desire for political integration. The passage of decades and successive enlargements have been strengthening economic union, but have debilitated political will. In the fifties France was clearly the helmsman of the European Union, while in the 21st century Germany reunified has taken over. The future is hopefully uncertain.

BLUE SKIES, RED PANIC is a travelling exhibition that comes from Pisa and after this display in Girona will continue its European journey towards Antwerp and Berlin. It is part of the European Kaleidoscope project in which the CRDI participates. The objective of this project is to relate heritage photography to new technologies, in order to discover life in the fifties through the iconographic legacy and at the same time to enhance the citizen interest in heritage. The exhibition has 26 large-format photographs grouped into 11 different themes that offer a “kaleidoscopic” vision of the Europe in the fifties. This exhibition was on show in the cloister of the La Mercè Cultural Center between November 12 and December 19, 2019.

Applications are accepted during the period of 11 November - 31 December 2019

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS – bang.prix 2020 digital artists

bang. Prix is Turkey’s leading platform where art, design, technology and science intersect, founded in 2015 by a team of interdisciplinary minds with backgrounds in various fields and the common desire to share their curiosities and develop beyond the scope of their fields.
To date, bang. Prix has provided the support and mentorship to 57 participants in the development of their projects, showcasing them to thousands of audiences in 13 exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. In its fourth year, bang. Prix is expanding beyond support for project-based development and exhibitions as a platform that supports practitioners from different disciplines and countries to develop themselves at the nexus of art, technology, design and science.
Under the scope of the bang. Prix 2020 program, we open our call for applications to those interested in participating. The program provides resources, mentorship and networking opportunities customized to each participant.

For more information about what the program offers, please visit the website here: http://www.bangprix.org/eng.html

Applications are accepted during the period of 11 November – 31 December 2019. A selection committee consisting of 5 external jury members and the bang.prix team will select the finalists to participate in next year’s program (January 2020 – November 2020). Application results will be released at the end of January.
Application is free of charge.

Who can participate?
Creatives who apply digital technologies or science, including:
● Artists
● Designers
● Architects

Professionals from science and technology fields expanding their practices to include artistic approaches. These fields may include:
● Neuroscience
● Biology
● Computer Science
● Sociology
● Philosophy
● Psychology

Priority will be given to those at early stages of their career, but applicants looking for opportunities will also be considered. The program is international and open to any nationality and country of residence. Individuals and groups/collectives may apply.

While the program is flexible for participants based in different countries, selected participants are expected to communicate openly and promptly and dedicate time from their usual activities to program activities throughout the program period (Jan – Nov 2020).

Evaluation criteria
Applicants are judged on the following criteria:
● Level of curiosity and motivation towards working in the intersection of art, science, design and technology
● Need for support provided by the bang.prix program
● How realistic the development goals are
● Clarity in expression of the applicant’s self and work

How to apply?
Submit your application documents to register@bangprix.org. The entire application process will take place digitally. Applications by courrier will not be accepted. Application documents should be in a folder named FirstName_LastName_withabang , and includes:
1. A completed application form downloadable here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-7MS8UhyOCPaOd-F9a-ln-vNBAYX-F12/view
2. CV and portfolio, if applicable, of previous projects and works.
3. Motivation letter (max. 800 words, titled FirstName_LastName_ML )
a. Why you wish to participate in the program
b. The work you wish to develop during the program (project or research idea)
c. The people or organizations you want to be in touch with during the program who may inspire or support your development
d. What you expect from the program
4. Other supporting documents related to the work you plan to develop during the program, if available
5. Contact information of two reference persons
6. Video supporting your motivation letter less than 1 minute (Optional)

Applications will be accepted in English or Turkish and in pdf or MP4 formats ONLY.
If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch at hi@bangprix.org.

Beijing (China), 17 November - 6 December 2019

Exhibition “Fragmenta“ by Artist Gianluca Cingolani at Today Art Museum in Beijing

Gianluca Cingolani is a multidisciplinary artist, working with video, photography, graphic and music.

The exhibition Fragmenta, that opens in Beijing on 16th November, is a journey in Time, a reflection on the concepts of Narration. Fragments, the origin cells, take us in the eternal Time. Achieving and ending the action no longer exists. Fragmenta projects us in the dimension of pure events, which is that of infinite time. An action has always already happened and is always about to happen.

Striding across these different disciplines,Gianluca Cingolani’s process of art creation is centered on the technique of digital compositing, through which the work is created layer by layer, integrating, overlapping, manipulating signs, photogtaphic traces, video frames, sounds which are fragments of memories and of ancient knowledges. The result of this interdisciplinary investigation is a dialogue between natural and artificial, figurative and abstract, old and new, in an artistic setting evoking the eternal Time, which is the main theme of the exhibition Fragmenta. With his digital works Cingolani creates shapes from the void. The images of his photographic works emerge from and leave the two-dimensional perspective, taking on the appearance of objects that decidedly place themselves in space with their corporeality.

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The narration in his video creations is built on textures of fabric, organza, tarlatan, cotton, nets, mixed with other textures, plaster, rice paper, evoking the arts of tailoring, carpentry, spinning, which weave and construct the plots of the narratives world offers us.Whether the represented image is immobile or moving is relative.

What matters is to stop the gaze. Contemplating becomes listening and action, synchronicity. Contemplate, therefore, to see oneself and at the same time to vanish.

Web: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/wsaICTvejnGHNm_yUJY-Jg