E-Culture is all about new ways of making, distributing and archiving of and participation in culture under the influence of technology, in the broader context of the knowledge and information society.

WHAT?

E-culture is about new forms of creating, spreading, archiving and participating in culture, under the influence of information and communication technology.
E-culture is not a new discipline. Rather, it is a process of new forms of expression, new practices and new roles that continues systematically into the cultural field.

The way we create, spread, maintain and participate in culture is changing radically because of the new network space that promotes the growth of the dialogue culture and stimulates cross-disciplinary collaboration, decentralised production processes, self-organisation and active participation. In this network space, we can see cultural content being increasingly offered in digital form, and we can see new players emerging.

E-culture does not mean that existing (analogue) forms of creation, spreading and participation will disappear. Rather, they will change under the influence of technology.

WHY?

The impact of information and communication technology on cultural practice and cultural policy is of such a nature that it requires our specific attention. BAM is leading this theme on behalf of the art support points. The support points are active in the field of e-culture and do so in consultation with the cultural field, with related fields like media, education, science, innovation and cultural industry, as well as with the government.

It involves working on vision development with the cultural sector and creating policy on the impact and possibilities of technology and the network for art and culture.

It means building knowledge about makers, organisations and projects active in the field of e-culture and the specific practices and methods they develop.

It involves promoting e-culture as a modern way of creating, spreading and showing art as well as archiving and implementing it into existing practices.

It means thinking about digitisation, knowledge centres and knowledge networks, stimulus policy, laws and legislation concerning e-culture, in cooperation with the cultural sector and policy-makers (culture, media, economy and education), as well as with Virtueel Platform, the Dutch sector institute for e-culture.