cultural ring, future internet culture and people
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The Cultural Ring project as an open living labs in the area of culture.TRANSCRIPT
Anella Cultural,
Cultural Ring: “Think culture”, Future Internet,
and Living labs.
Artur Serra,
i2cat Head of eCulture at EnoLL
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, ….
