About

The E-CULTURE FAIR 2010 will be showcasing innovative projects in the fields of creative industry, research, education and media art at the Dortmunder U. It is the first step of the envisaged long-term cooperation between three partners: Virtueel Platform (NL), BAM (BE), and medienwerk.nrw (DE).

Location

Location

Dortmunder U - Centre for Art and Creativity
Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse
D-44137 Dortmund

nrw@eculturefair.eu

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Partners

Partner

Everyone who helped... Alle, ohne die die Eculture Fair 2010 nicht möglich wäre.

Timeline

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23. Aug.
11:00 - 11:30
Opening Session

presenting the E-Culture Fair 2010 & the Live Programme
Speakers: Dr. Inke Arns (HMKV/medienwerk.nrw) - Floor van Spaendonck (Virtueel Platform) - Dr. Andreas Broeckmann (ISEA2010 RUHR/Dortmunder U)

11:30 - 11:45
Out of Curiosity

An exploration of the educational e-culture field in Flanders, the Netherlands and North Rhine-Westphalia.

11:45 - 13:30
Crossover Lab Lowlands: Where traditional meets innovative

by Nathalie Goethals

13:30 - 15:30
Crossing over - interdisziplinary Practices

Projects/Presenters: Cultuurlab - Wii Medic - Angelo Vermeulen - Botanoatopt - City in a Bottle - NoiseTube

15:15
Crosstalks

Booklaunch: "We can change the weather: 100 cases in changeability", Marleen Wijnants (ed.), VUBpress

15:45 - 17:30
Baltan Laboratories/Lablife 1 - Ecological and substainable designs

Introduction: BALTAN Laboratories
Projects/Presenters: OKNO - FoAM - Prototypen//

16:45
Baltan Laboratories

Booklaunch: "The Future of the Lab"

24. Aug.
10:30 - 12:30
Urban Regeneration and Media Technology

hosted by Patching Zone
Projects/Presenters: Patching Zone -Dropstuff -
MediaLAB, HvA - TwitterHouse - UPLabs

13:30 - 15:00
Baltan Laboratories / Lablife 2 - Urban interventions

Projects/Presenters: Recycle X / Patching Zone - 7scenes / De Waang - timelab - (Q&A)

15:15 - 17:00
Subjectivities

Projects/Presenters: CubeBrowser - De Werktank - Crew - BigBrotherAwards

25. Aug.
10:30 - 12:30
Participatory Culture

Projects/Presenters: Instructables Restaurant - Mediamatic Travel - Where is Gary? - Folkwang Museum Essen - Social Spaces - DarkMatr - SK Stiftung Kultur - (Q&A)

13:30 - 15:30
Baltan Laboratories / Lablife 3 - Wearable Technologies

Projects/Presenters: V2 - Constant

15:00 - 17:00
ToolPool

Projects/PResenters: Fritzing - Fundels - Musescore - CityShapes - Nodebox - Netzspannung.org&Medienfluss - ARCHIE - mobile interactive museum guide

19:00
Closing Remarks & Outlook

Speakers: Dr. Inke Arns (HMKV / medienwerk.nrw) - Prof. Dieter Gorny (RUHR.2010 / ecce) - Dr. Ingrid Stoppa-Sehlbach (State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia) - Floor van Spaendonck (Virtueel Platform) - Dirk De Wit (BAM) - Dr. Andreas Broeckmann (ISEA2010 RUHR / Dortmunder U)

21:00 - 02:00
Interactive Facade Projections

The closing party of the E-CULTURE FAIR 2010 on 25th August, starting at 21:00 h, opens with large interactive video projections on the facade of the office building adjacent to the Dortmunder U. The projections can be played by the audience from small stages in front of the facade. The project is developed by MediaLAB (Hogeschool van Amsterdam).

23:00 - 06:00
Electronic Beats

From 23:00 h the vaulted cellar under the Dortmunder U opens and provides an opportunity to get to know each other enjoying electronic music. The final party is jointly organized with ISEA2010 RUHR.

Netherlands
AR CityShapes
TAG / Sander Veenhof
AR CityShapes

Sander Veenhof constructs a set of virtual 3D buidling blocks in Layar (an AR browser for public space, a free application that runs on iPhones and Android phones). Anyone with that app on his/ her phone can stack virtual blocks at a designated spot in the city. The idea is that collaboratively people build a huge virtual structure at the square in front of the Dortmunder U - a structure that is visible through a mobile phone with Layar, and that is visually placed in between the real buildings and trees that are already there.


Netherlands
BALTAN LABORATORIES (Eindhoven)
Photo: Boudewijn Bollmann www.twistedstreets.nl

BALTAN LABORATORIES (Eindhoven) organises and hosts a presentation of Dutch, Belgian and German media art laboratories, brought together around three shared themes. This is an international presentation of the Baltan Lab program 'The Future of the Labs'.


http://www.baltanlaboratories.org
Flanders
BEHIND THE HORIZON
De Werktank (Kurt d’Haeseleer, Ief Spincemaille)
BEHIND THE HORIZON

De Werktank is a small-scale production house for media art. De Werktank wants to give artists from different backgrounds the possibility to create media art under professional circumstances. It is an organisation by artists for artists, which focuses on the practical aspects of the artistic work.


http://gallery.canvas.be/wiels/behind-the-horizon/
NRW
BIGBROTHERAWARDS
FoeBuD e.V.
BIGBROTHERAWARDS

Seit dem Jahr 2000 vergibt der Bielefelder Verein FoeBuD e.V. über eine partizipative Internetplattform den Negativ-Preis „Big Brother Award“, nennt Personen und Institutionen, die für Datenschutzvergehen, für Überwachungstechnologie und uferlose Datensammlungen stehen. 


www.bigbrotherawards.de
Flanders
BIOMODD
Angelo Vermeulen
BIOMODD

Biomodd is a collaborative art installation in which a living ecosystem coexists with a networked computer system. The challenge is to bring biological life physically as close to the electronics as possible and create functional hybridity. It is crucial that the electronics and ecosystem are 'communicating' with each other and have some form of symbiotic relationship.


www.biomodd.net
NRW
BOTANOADOPT
431art, Münster/ Cologne
Botanadopt

Botanoadopt is an interdisciplinary and participatory art project in which users can adopt a plant that is shown like a person with an own history and background via the Internet. Botanadopt works with means of humor and transference of contexts.


www.botanoadopt.org
Netherlands
COOL MEDIATORS
Cool Mediators Foundation
Cool Mediators / interactive discussions

Cool Mediators is an opensource crossmedia platform that offers tools and methods to organise an open interactive debate online, loosely modelled after a talkshow. By using the web interfaces of the CMHT, audiences can program the content of the shows and participate in them directly. 


www.coolmediators.net/
NRW
CUBEBROWSER – A situationistic voyage through online images and collaborative associations
Ludwig Zeller, Cologne
CUBEBROWSER – A situationistic voyage through online  images and collaborative associations

CubeBrowser is a six display cube with digital screens that connects to online databases like Flickr.com. The visitor is able to move through thousands of image-sets by turning and shaking the small cube in space. The pictures, which are streamed onto the cube from the internet, are grouped by tags.


www.cubebrowser.de/
NRW
CULTURAL EDUCATION IN WEB 2.0
Folkwang Museum, Essen
CULTURAL EDUCATION IN WEB 2.0

Presentation by Heike Kropff (curator for cultural education) and Hendrik von Boxberg (public relations) of Folkwang Museum Essen on new possibilities for engaging with art in web 2.0 and digital archives.


www.museum-folkwang.de
Flanders
CUPID – CULTURELAB
Gert Nulens, Stijn Bannier, IBBT/SMIT VUB

In the research centre IBBT-SMIT at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels several researchers are joining in the research cel 'Cultuurlab'.


https://projects.ibbt.de/cupid/
Netherlands
DROPSTUFF
Dropstuff at Venice Biennale

Dropstuff is an interactive narrow casting channel that transmits both art works from professional artists and creative contributions from the audicence at www.dropstuff.nl. The flagship of the project is the DS_pavillion, a 60m2 mobile led screen that travels from square to square in the Netherlands and abroad. All screens are equipped with a range of interactive technologies like a touchscreen, cameras and bluetooth that allow for live responses.


http://www.dropstuff.nl
Netherlands
FRITZING
Dirk van Oosterbosch
Fritzing

Fritzing is an open-source initiative to support designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists to work creatively with interactive electronics. Fritzing allows users to document their prototypes, share them with others and to create a pcb layout for professional manufacturing


http://fritzing.org/
Flanders
FUNDELS
Playlane
FUNDELS

Fundels brings alive existing physical picture books and books for children aged between three and eight. We create a digital world around the book constantly referring to the book and its characters (drawing, games,…). The innovative startup, i.e. the combination of an rfid-chip in the existing picture book and a reader, makes Fundels child- and user friendly. Children can discover a book in a new innovative way. Fundels combines the pleasure of reading and viewing and stimulates language, cognitive and motorical skills.


www.fundels.com
Flanders
GENERATIVE ART WITH NODEBOX
Tom Desmedt, EMG/Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Tom Heene
Generative art with nodebox

NodeBox is an ongoing effort to create novel graphics software that allows more people to express themselves creatively. Their newest development is “NodeBox 2”, an open source application that generates visual output based on programming code, a node-based interface or natural language (i.e. English).


http://nodebox.net
Netherlands
INSTRUCTABLES RESTAURANT
Arne Hendriks & Bas van Abel
INSTRUCTABLES RESTAURANT

Instructables Restaurant is the first open source restaurant in the world. The idea is to create a physical place in between the endless amount of information online and the physical reality. A place that connects this reality with the online world, and communicates with it. 


instructablesrestaurant.com/
Netherlands
MEDIALAB, U-turm project
MediaLab, HvA (Amsterdam)
MEDIALAB, HvA (Amsterdam)

A team of international MediaLAB students, in collaboration with the artist Matthias Oostrik, have developed an interactive urban projection for the facade of the Dortmunder U. On Wednesday 25 August everybody in Dortmund can dance on the facade of the Dortmunder U, as part of the closing party of the E-Culture Fair 2010.


http://uturm.medialab.hva.nl/
Netherlands
MEDIAMATIC TRAVEL
Mediamatic
MEDIAMATIC TRAVEL

This site is a network of people interested in arts who are willing to give visitors an introduction to their local cultural scene. At the E-Culture Fair 2010 travel agents that know the Ruhr area well will be able to show the visitors of Ruhr.2010 the inside of culture in the Ruhr. 


http://travel.mediamatic.net/
Flanders
MUSESCORE
Thomas Bonte
MUSESCORE

MuseScore is a free cross platform WYSIWYG music notation program, licenced under GNU GPL.


http://musescore.org
NRW
NETZSPANNUNG.org & MEDIENFLUSS
Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss
NETZSPANNUNG.org & MEDIENFLUSS

Mit der Explosion der Formen und der Verbreitung installativer und multi-sensorischer Medienkunst nehmen auch die Schwierigkeiten der Ordnungskategorien zu und diese im digitalen Hypermedium zu erfassen. Unter dem Titel Netzspannung.org – Performing the Archive werden intuitive Formate einer Living Database realisiert.


www.netzspannung.org
Flanders
NOISETUBE
Nicolas Maisonneuve, Sony CSL Paris, Matthias Stevens PROG, Vrije Universiteit Brussels/Sony CSL, Paris, Luc Steels ARTI, Vrije Universiteit Brussels/Sony CSL, Paris
NOISETUBE

Noise pollution is a serious problem in many cities. NoiseTube is a research project about a new participative approach for monitoring noise pollution involving the general public. By installing the free application on your GPS equipped phone, you will be able to measure the level of noise in dB(A), and sending this geolocalized information automatically to the NoiseTube server by internet (GPRS).


http://www.noisetube.net/
Netherlands
PATCHING ZONE (Rotterdam)
PATCHING ZONE (Rotterdam)

PATCHING ZONE (Rotterdam) presents their forthwithcoming book about the Patching Zone methods and about 'appropriate' media technologies. Patching Zone organises a session that is part the live presentations on urban regeneration. 


http://www.patchingzone.net/
NRW
PROTOTYPEN:// – Multimedia Festival without Electricity
Labor für sensorische Annehmlichkeiten e.V., Dortmund
PROTOTYPEN – Multimedia Festival without Electricity

For one day and one night a green lawn in the City of Dortmund turns into a laboratory for future research in which electricity is produced only by the movements of the visitors. In a wide spectrum of multimedia art there will be performances by international and local media artists, musicians and scientists. The scenario: Huge activity on the festival site, moving objects, interactive installations and discussion panels.


www.labsa.de
Flanders
SOCIAL SPACES: CREATING SPACES & INTERFACE OUR SPACE
Liesbeth Huybrechts (Media en Design Academie, Katholieke Hogeschool Limburg (KHLim,) Research Group Social Spaces, Art centre Z33 and the Expertise centre for Digital Media (EDM) of Hasselt University (UHasselt)
SOCIAL SPACES: CREATING SPACES & INTERFACE OUR SPACE

The project Creating Spaces explores the possibilities of multi-touch technology (and its interactions with physical and networked environments) for communicating past, present and upcoming projects outside the walls of art centre Z33 in the framework of a large 'art in public space' project.


http://www.interface-our-space.be
NRW
THE MOON GOOSE EXPERIMENT – A Bio-Poetic Investigation
Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Cologne
THE MOON GOOSE EXPERIMENT – A Bio-Poetic Investigation

The Moon Goose Experiment (MGE) is based on an excerpt from the book The Man in the Moone, written by the english bishop Francis Godwin in 1603. Godwin was the first person ever to describe weightlessness – long before Newton’s theory of gravity. The protagonist in the book flies to the moon in a chariot towed by gansas birds, more commonly known as geese. These special moon geese migrate every year from the earth to the Moon. The artist equips the space expedition on a sand island in the Siberian river Ob and observes the effect of the total eclipse of the Sun on the behaviour of the moon geese. The Moon Goose Experiment is a part of Curated Expedition by Capsula.
[...] I found then by this Experience that which no Philosopher ever dreamed of, to wit, that those things which wee call heavie, do not sinke toward the Center of the Earth, [...]
Francis Godwin (1603), The Man in the Moone


http://www.forschungsfloss.de/
Netherlands
TWITTER HOUSE
XML Architecture Research Urbanism
TWITTER HOUSE

Eleven students of the architecture department of the TU Delft (Technical University Delft) followed the online lives of the same amount of inhabitants of Amsterdam. Based on the image they developed of their "virtual clients" they designed a house for them. The teachers gave them the following design constraints: The designed living space should be placed in the urban texture, and nothing can be demolished.


http://public.x-m-l.org/twitter/
Netherlands
URBAN PARK LABORATORY / UPLABS
Cultuurpark Westergasfabriek
URBAN PARK LABORATORY / UPLABS

Culture park Westergasfabriek is the city park of the 21st century. Since its opening in 2003 the people of the Westerpark have been adressing the question: How can digital technology for sharing culture and knowledge enrich the park for its visitors? This innovation agenda was called: Urban Park Laboratories (UPLabs). The Culture Park is outfitted with 8 urban screens, an augmented reality machine (De Tijdkijker), an oral history installation (De Fluisterbank) and 10 GPS Tours. 


http://www.uplabs.nl/
Flanders
W (DOUBLE U)
Eric Joris, Crew
w(double u)

W (Double U) is an interactive installation for 2 persons at a time and for an unlimited number of spectators. In W (Double U) two immersants (users), walking in a public space, are linked to another by ‘swapping their sight’. They discover what it is like to look out into the world out from each other’s heads! 


www.crewonline.org/art/projects/51
Flanders
WHERE IS GARY?
Peter de Maegd, Potemkino
WHERE IS GARY?

Gary is a con artist who operates in various European train stations. In Brussels he conned documentary film-maker Jean-Baptiste Dumont for 100 Euros. A big mistake because now Gary is getting into the centre of attention: "Where is Gary?" is an interactive search for this con artists.


www.whereisgary.net
Netherlands
WII MEDIC
Grendel Games
WII MEDIC

Although this is a medical training tool, the game looks like a game and not like a laparoscopy simulation. The handle of the controller is shaped like the laparoscopy tools and is made from a Wii mote.


http://control-online.nl/gamesindustrie/2010/03/10/gdc-2010-grendel-nl-demonstreert-zijn-wii-medic/

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