Not the most exciting way of interviewing, but an interesting overview of the current possibilities Augmented Reality offers to education.
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This is the title of a publication which covers essays linked with a workshop or more precisely a joint project of KHLim’s Media & Design Academy and art centre Z33, which took place about a year ago at Z33 and is contentwise concted with the MDA research project Hybrid City & the exhibition Place@Space (re) shaping everyday life. 
Unfortunatelly I could not make it at the time, therefore I was happy to read the essays. Editors Rosanne Van Klaveren and Niels Hendriks asked some participants to write a text about (digital) art and hybrid spaces. There is an article about CREW, and Maja Kuzmanovic (FoAM) reflects on an (changing) types of conversation in a networked society, but especially the articles of Eric Kluitenberg (Public Agency in Hybrid Space - In Search for new forms of public engagement) and Anne Nigten (Doctors have to deal with Aesthetics) drew my attention.
Kluitenberg argues that due to the fragmented landscape of hybrid media, society is changing. I like his metaphore of the ‘warm publics’ which are highly unstable and temporary constellations, mostly organised against subjects.He highlights that the there is a question that is largely left unaddressed: what with the engagement of a wider public in social and political processes? taking into account the technological changes. Discussions take place on different levels and in different spaces at the same time. We have to face a multi-dimentional public space.
Nigten investigates in her paper the way interactive media-art and electronic art is communicated. She looks at it in its broadest sense and illustrates this with two case studies. One investigates engaged interaction with the audience in such a way that virtual and physical environments mix or support each other. Cultuur Lokaal took place in Gouda and looks at new opportunities for collaboration with (in) formal local networks. It’s a collaboration between the Waterwolf laboratories (Haagse Hogeschool lectoraat Society and ICT by Dick Rijken and three cultural institutions in Gouda) and The Patchingzone student team in The Netherlands. The evaluation process confirmed that the proces of patching knowledge and methodologies from diffrerent knowledge fields in a kind of smooth, remix fashion is actually a specialism in its own right.
As the editors note in the afterword that the power of the corporeal presence in any kind of space should not be underestimated (…) Virtual elements are able to strengthen but also to alienate this spatial perception.
Mijn deel van het BOF project tussen Artesis - Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten en UA - Informatie en Bibliotheekwetenschappen is ondertussen helemaal afgerond. Deze week werd het rapport besproken met directie en betrokken docenten. Uit de studie kwam duidelijk naar voor dat we een enorme inhaalbeweging moeten doorvoeren om ons papieren erfgoed veilig te stellen voor de toekomst. Een drama zoals dat van Keulen drukt ons nog eens met de neus op de feiten. Het culturele erfgoed decreet zet een belangrijke dynamiek in gang, maar we moeten eerlijk zijn. In Nederland werd deze dynamiek al in 1990 in gang gezet. Er is dus nog veel werk aan de winkel. Hier en bij de publicaties vind je de conclusies. Het volledige rapport kan opgevraagd worden bij de Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten.
So two months ago I started to combine my freelance jobs with a coordinating job in Higher Education. Must say that it is quite new for me to work 50% of my time in a Higher Education setting, but due to the dynamic team and due to the fact that we are dealing with all issues linked with communication & media design I felt immediately at home. I love the combination (communication, design and media with the user at the centre), it is challenging, but inspiring and it matches nicely with some of my other jobs. It is hectic but Being a coordinator is hectic but exciting. Luckily it is not always linked with education programmes and sheets 
We are currently working on a new website (more news after the summerbreak) and at this very moment for instance students are presenting their work made during a workshop at De Brakke Grond in Amsterdam as part of Victorian Circus V. On Friday reseach projects were presented at a rondtablediscussion organised by BAM at Brakke Grond. And the master students will present their work at a barcamp later in May (I’ll keep you posted).
It was an fantastic week. I’m missing the artist meetings Tnx Reiu, Redas, Elena, Nath, Olivier, Richard, Greg, Senso, Alain, Sabina, Anne, Hanne and Daniel!
Photo: Artur Eranosian - StampMedia, more about the week in Denmark see the blog StampMedia made.
A massive amount of works were produced. It will be difficult to make a selection of both a virtual and a physical exhibition, because the quality of the works produced by Aivis, Alise, Urte, Monika; Athanasia, Kaya, Laurène, Aristeio, Lucrezia, Annapaola, Màrio, Daniela, Aleksandr, Tiia, Ida, Marianna, Qiqi, Francesca, Thomas, Artus, Luisa, Theodora, Krista, Alexandra, Evelyn, Klara, Svan, Adèla, Julie, Ibrahim, Christoffer, Daniel, Ryan, Hayley, Nicole, György, Fanni, Patryk and Joanna is amazing.
As Daniel says, the results speak for themselves:
In March the Alter Ego project (the EUNIC project, one of the flagships of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue) started with a meeting, setting up the whole project. And look, today we are in the middle of the first workshopday. The winners of the Europeanwide competition arrived yesterday…and it is indeed exciting to see how all cultures and nationalities mingle here with one common interest share their artistic/creative qualities together.
We have an amazing group of artists here. Richard Sammel, Olivier Cherki, Senso, Greg Avau, Hanna Siira, Anne Schönharting, Alain Mbaki Makengo, Redas Drizys, Daniel Scott, Sabina Grigorieva, Nathalie Vasco, Elena Crisanti and Reiu Tuur are giving the best of themselves. And work with 40 youngsters from 22 countries on unique art pieces.
Thanks the the youth press agency StampMedia you can follow the daily work online and later on there will be a documentary made of the week.
The results of the workshop will travel through the Internet via a virtual exhibition later this year and some of the works will also be part of a physical exhibition, travelling through Europe in 2009.
Het was al een tijdje zo. Vorige week kwam er dan een feestelijk orgelpuntje aan. Met de groeten uit Leeds en nog eens een welgemeend Dank je aan iedereen die me gesteund en geholpen heeft bij het het behalen van deze PhD.
Nu nog even genieten van een weekje vakantie en dan weer volop vooruit.
Brandpunt 23 bestaat 10 jaar. 10 sociale fotografie wordt gevierd met een overzichtstentoonstelling die vorige donderdag opende in ontmoetingscentrum Sint Andries. Zeker de moeite om even bij stil te staan. Vrijdagnamiddag had er dan een colloquium plaats rond ‘armoede en cultuur”. Alles is gebaseerd op wederzijds respect en vertrouwen. Er zijn gedurende die 10 jaar al heel wat stappen gezet, maar het thema van vrijdag geeft aan er nog een hele weg te gaan is. Spijtig genoeg kon ik zelf niet blijven tot het einde van het debat, maar op indimedia vind je een interview met de bezielers van Brandpunt 23 en uitgebreid verslag van de studienamiddag .
Het Stormt momenteel volop in HETPALEIS. Regisseur Piet Arfeuille zette weer een eigenzinnige, sterke bewerking van een Shakespeare klassieker neer. Net als bij zijn bewerking van Hamlet, werden ook nu weer de koppen bij elkaar gestoken voor een webkwestie, ook deze keer gericht op 16+. Insteek voor deze webkwestie rond De Storm is de scenografie.
Together with Hadise, Ronny Mosuse and JOSHUA the Belgian part of Alter Ego (a EUNIC-project in the frame of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue) has been launched. This European wide competition (22 countries take part) and exhibition invites young people (14 to 18 years old) to create their doubble portrait (film, video, photo, visual arts) and upload it on the ALter Ego website. 3 October we will know who wins. The winners will join each other in Denmark to take part in an art workshop. 12 artists from all over Europe will be their mentors.
