cultural ring, future internet culture and people

Anella Cultural,

Cultural Ring: “Think culture”, Future Internet,

and Living labs.

Artur Serra,

i2cat Head of eCulture at EnoLL

artur.serra@i2cat.net

EUROPEANA PLENARY, Leuven, 14-15 June 2012

The Cultural Ring : an Internet for Culture and People

A country of culture

The project team:

In collaboration with

Ajuntament Barcelona

La Xarxa Transversal: a network of local cities interested in sharing culture

i2cat Foundation

•The board is composed by 4 public institutions, 3 universities •and 9 private companies from the telecommunications and media sector.

IP experimental Infrastructure

Multimedia Experimental Plataform

HD Gaudi, 2002 First HD live transmissió between Europa-USA over Internet at 270 mbps by i2CAT-Research Channel

HD Dancing Q from Seoul to Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona. 2005

The Cybertime

Until now we hava Cyberspace (virtual, digital space).

Now we also have Cybertime (global real time performing scenario). Global interactive live.

Synchronous, Delay,...

The Internet as a performing space when we do things in a concrete slot of time

A real challenge:How to arrive to

cities and citizens?

The Cultural Ring (2006)

1. Connecting metropolitan centers with local theatres

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Teatre Bartrina - Reus

Teatre de l’Escorxador - Lleida

Teatre Principal - Olot

Teatre Monumental - Mataró

•IP network, 34 Mbps symetrics

2. To equip cultural centers as audiovisual studios

• 2 portable PCs• 1 audio card• 1 HD projector• Power amplifier• audio system. • Audio mixer. • Sony Anycast station

3. Sharing cultural events

Poetry festivals

Guided tours

Master Class

Workshops

Courses

Conferences

Artistic performances

“Difussion is where technology offers major opportunities to the opera in the XXI century” J. Matabosch.

Opera to the cities:

first results

5 local theaters connected

3082 new spectators

5 operas from El Liceu

76% of occupancy

Metamembrana 2008,first Cultural Ring production

A major lesson:Bi-directional flow between

cultural centers.

Cultural Ring 2012

TheatersArts centersMuseumsLibrariesArchivesCivic Centers

Current problems:

1.Explosion of repositories2. Engaging more people

The archives issue:How to organize, share, distribute

a huge cultural mediateque?

The INDICATE Project,Digital Heritage eInfrastructure

Linked Heritage: Collaborating with Europeana

The people's engagement:Open living labs

What open Lls is all about?• Engaging citizens, researchers,companies,

public adminstrations in user-driven innovation processes.

• Learning how to innovate? • Creating PPPP structures that facilitates such

kind of innovation in any area in any territory.• Innovation is for everyone.

ENoLL: Network and association

• Founding members create the European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) under the Finnish Presidency of the European Union 2006.

• 6 successive ‘Waves’ of ENoLL Call for Memberships has since 2006 been launched with the support of the ‘rotating’ EU presidencies.

• The European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is the international, non-profit, independent association of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and worldwide (founded in 2010 as international association).

• ENoLL Office in Brussels (BE) close to EU institutions.

Current network

Colonia Güell, cultural heritage and people's memories

25% of the 46 new 6th wave ENoLL members reported

activities in Culture, creative industries or Education

Some conclusions

1. The future of Internet is culture

1st. 1970s-80s The Internet of the computer scientists and technological people ( email,ftp,telnet,...) (6 M personas)

2nd. 90s-2010s The Internet of scientists and literated people. ( WWW, Grid, Blogs, Wikipedia...). (1000 M people)

3rd. 2010s-2030s The Internet of artists and vocal and visual communities. (VoIP, HD,videoconf,...) (6.000 M personas)

Both Internet and Culture need to engage people.

Europeana as European cultural laboratory

Museums and Libraries as innovation

ecosystems

Smart Cities and Smart Regions as ground for

experimentation in Culture and Creativity

Research Institutions

promoting living labs for digital

culture research and

experimentation 1st Workshop on Digital Cultural

Heritage and Living Labs, celebrated in Barcelona Nov.2011

Searching tags at www.openlivinglabs.eu

Museum, Cultural Heritage, Creative

industries, Library, ….

Thanks a lot!artur.serra@i2cat.net

http://www.cccb.org/ca/curs_o_conferencia-i_c_i_ciutats_lab-40762