E-culture fair 2010: connecting creativity, art and research

E‐CULTURE
 FAIR
 2010

23
 till 
25 
AUGUST, 
OPEN 
10:00
–
20:00


DORTMUNDER 
U
–
CENTRE 
FOR 
ART 
AND 
CREATIVITY, 
DORTMUND,
 GERMANY

E‐CULTURE
 FAIR
 2010 will be showcasing innovative projects in the cross-over fields of creative industry, research, education, art and design from Flanders, the Netherlands and North Rhine-Westphalia from
 23
 till 25
 August in
 the brand new
 Centre
 for
 Art
 and
 Creativity
 'Dortmunder
 U'
.  E‐Culture
 Fair
 2010
 is exhibited projects, information stands, live presentations and demonstrations, workshops and performances.  



E‐CULTURE
 FAIR
 2010
 is a joint cooperation of
 Virtueel
 Platform (Dutch sector institute for e‐ cultuur),
 BAM
 (Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and media art)
 and Medienwerk.NRW.
E‐CULTURE
 FAIR
 2010
 is
 a partner
 event
 of
 ISEA2010
 RUHR,
 16th
 International
 Symposium
 on
 Electronic
 Art and part of the RUHR
2010 programme.

• Programme
• Guided tours: book here!
• Mini Picnic Salon
• Sponsors and partners

For many years now, digitization and networking have been changing our social interactions, the working environment, cultural exchanges and ways of making and engaging with art. By now the possibilities of digital media are integrated as a matter of course into daily life.

Topical examples of this common electronic culture are social networks like YouTube or Facebook, the widespread use of platforms like Twitter and the ubiquity of smartphones. Based on these examples, the E-CULTURE FAIR can be envisioned as a communicative laboratory, a workshop in which in an experiental manner new ideas are presented, which may soon become well-known concepts for many people. The E-CULTURE FAIR is aimed at professionals in the field of new media, as well as to anyone who is curious about what electronic culture will look like tomorrow.

E‐CULTURE
 FAIR
 2010
 presents cultural innovation and the innovative potential of culture in other fields. This encompasses projects for multiple users, that deploy an interesting combination of the possibilites of (networked) media technology and physical space. We present projects that allow for interesting social interaction (indoor and outdoor), tangible interfaces, new ways of playing and learning, and that propose good ways to apply (compex) information in practical contexts.
  Fundels,
 a project by Playlane, for example brings any picture book to life through the use of multimedia.

 Musescore on the other hand aims at all ages with their free open source music annotation programme, or how after being fixed to paper for the past 500 years, sheet music finally becomes social.
 Grendel
 Games develops serious
 games
 for health care. Their
 Wii‐Medic makes use of
 Wii‐motes
 in
 combination with medical instruments. 



PROGRAMME

• OVER THREE DAYS the fair will open from 10:00-20:00h at the Dortmunder U - Centre for Art and Creativity in Dortmund. On each day, from 10:00 to 16:30h various developers , researches, laboratories and artists will introduce their latest applications, tools or work methods in live presentations.

• E‐CULTURE 
FAIR
 2010: outdoor area
The multimedia festival "Prototypen://" from the Labor für sensorische Annehmlichkeiten (the Sensory Amenities Lab) is being held on the Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse at the main entrance. In front of the Dortmunder U, those in possession of an iPhone or Android enabled phone can play with huge Augmented Reality toy blocks. Likewise in an outdoor area right next to the U, a truck trailer with an oversized, interactive video screen conceived by the Dropstuff team is parked – ideal for playful manipulation and public interactive engagement. And if you ever wonder what it would be like to look out from another person's head, in W(double U) users can experience this walking around in the Dortmunder U linked to someone else using the newest immersive technology developed by Crew in collaboration with the Expertise Centre for Digital Media, University of Hasselt, Belgium.

• GUIDED TOURS from Flanders and the Netherlands on 23, 24 and 25 of August. Don't miss this unique opportunity and book here!

• PICNIC 
Mini
 Salon
 (25 
August): Cross‐over
 salon
 with professionals from Germany, the Netherlands and Flanders. The best projects of this salon will be presented at het large-scale PICNIC salon in Amsterdam, September 2010. An initiative of BAM,
 Mediadesk
Vlaanderen,
 PICNIC,
 ECCE,
 Virtueel
Platform,
 Creative
Factory 
en 
CCAA. Flemish contribution is supported by Flanders 
District 
of
 Creativity.
 More information.

• 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). 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.

• Projects:
 WHERE
 IS
 GARY
 (Potemkino),
 GENERATIVE
 ART
 WITH
 NODEBOX,
 CITY IN A BOTTLE, DARK MATTR, BIOMODD 
(Angelo 
Vermeulen),
 CUPID
–
CULTURELAB 
(IBBT/SMIT
VUB),
 W(DOUBLE
 U)
 (Crew),
 MUSESCORE 
(Thomas
 Bonte), 
De
Werktank,
 SOCIAL
 SPACES
 (Media
 en 
Design 
Academie,
 KHLim,
 EDM, Z33
 Hasselt), FUNDELS 
(Playlane),
 Future
 of
 the 
labs 

door 
BALTAN 
LAB 
(Eindhoven), 
MEDIALAB,
 HvA
 (Amsterdam),
 PATCHING
 ZONE
 (Rotterdam),
 INSTRUCTABLES
 RESTAURANT,
 FRITZING,
 DROPSTUFF,
 WII
 MEDIC
 (Grendel
 Games),
 COOLMEDIAHOTTALK
 SHOW,
 URBAN
 PARK
 LABORATORY
 /
 UPLABS
 (Cultuurpark
 Westergasfabriek),
 MEDIAMATIC
 TRAVEL
 (Mediamatic), TWITTER
HOUSE 
(XML 
Architecture
 Research 
Urbanism), 
#3e41db 
(TAG
/
Sander
Veenhof),
THE
 MOON
 GOOSE
 EXPERIMENT
 (Agnes
 Meyer‐Brandis,
 Keulen),
 NETZSPANNUNG.org
 &
 MEDIENFLUSS
 (Monika
 Fleischmann
 &
 Wolfgang
 Strauss),
 CUBEBROWSER
 (Ludwig
 Zeller,
 Keulen),
 BOTANOADOPT
 (431art,
 Münster/Keulen),
 PROTOTYPEN
 (Labor
 für
 sensorische
 Annehmlichkeiten
e.V.,
Dortmund)
,
 CULTURAL 
EDUCATION 
IN 
WEB
2.0 
(Folkwang
 Museum,
 Essen),
 BIG BROTHER AWARDS
 (FoeBuD
 e.V.),
 KASK,
 KHLim,
 KHM,
 HOWEST,
 Piet
 Zwart Instituut,
 TU
 Eindhoven,
 HKU ,
 HKM
...

Dortmunder
 U 
– 
Centre 
for 
Art 
and 
Creativity
As the first event of its kind in the Dortmunder U,
 E‐CULTURE
 FAIR 
2010
 shows what the concept of creativity can mean in the 21st century for the regions NRW, Flanders and the Netherlands.

Besides the presentation and communication of art, the fostering of creativity is one of the integral elements of the new Centre for Art and Creativity in Dortmund, encompassing creative industry, media art institutions, universities with creative departments and media artists. The E-CULTURE FAIR 2010 is developed in cooperation with ecce (European Centre for Creative Economy), one of the partners in the Dortmunder U, which is being founded in the framework of the European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010. The long-term goal of ecce is to make the Ruhr Metropolis Europe's leading creative region.

E‐CULTURE
 FAIR
 2010
 is supported by the Flemish Authorities (Flemish Minister
 of Innovation and Media
 Ingrid
 Lieten),
 State Chancellery NRW,
 the City of Dortmund
 and Ministery of
 OCW,
 The Netherlands.

The Flemish part of the E‐Culture
 Fair
 is also supported by Flanders
 DC
 and
 IBBT.