SMART CITY eu

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SMART CITY eu

• Festivals as part of urban new media
  interventions
• throughout Europe
• Anne-Marie Autissier
• Institute of European Studies, Paris VIII

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FROM DEDALE TO SMART CITY

• Dedale is a platform promoting production and
  experimentation in the field of new medias
• European resource centre
• Workshops and conferences
• D-lab, projects incubator and artistic residency
  programme

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Emergences festival

• Since 2002, Dedale has initiated and organised
  the  Emergence  digital arts festival in Paris
  every year - in September - and every two years,
  in the frame of La Villette Numerique Biennal.

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PUBLIC FRENCH FUNDINGS

• DEDALE is funded by
• The French Ministry of Culture and Communication
• The French Ministry for Research and New
  Technologies
• The  région Ile-de-France 
• Ville de Paris 

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Private partners

• Hewlet-Packard
• NEC
• Sony
• Orange
• www.culturemobile.net/innovations

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Main objectives

• As far as digital and new media arts are
  concerned, Dedale encourages
• 1 - collaboration between digitalization experts
  with artists, cultural professionals and
  institutions, research labs and academic networks
  and inhabitants.
• 2 - the creative work  in situ , based on a
  precise knowledge of a district, an area or a
  neighbourhood.

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DEVELOPMENT PHASES

• Identification of intervention territories
• (with local actors)?
• Arts projects selection
• (with the Art Comittee)?
• Urban survey
• (with architects, artists, urban planners,
  sociologists)?
• Production implementation

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EMERGENCES Festival

• More than 30 artists in the 5th edition
• From September 26th up to 29th, 2007, Paris
• Electro-music concerts
• Installations
• Ephemeral radio
• Mobile art
• Urban game art
• Locative art
• Lectures with the Cité internationale

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Smart cities eu design

• The idea is to organize - all year long -
• A set of workshops, conferences, selected
  projects production, lectures,
• Cooperation with universities (Paris I Art in
  public space Master and LEcole du Paysage de
  Versailles?
• A festival in Paris and other EU cities

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LIST OF EUROPEANPARTNERS

• Wro Wro Art Center, Wroclaw, Poland
• Funded by the municipality of Wroclaw
• Zoneattive, Rome, Italy
• Born in 1999 on the initiative of the City
• Altart, Cluj, Romania
• Created in 1988 by a group of artists

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ASSOCIATED PARTNERS

• Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia
• Founded in 1996.
• Recyclart, Brussels, Belgique
• Funded in 1997 by the Municipality of Brussels
• Kibla, Maribor, Slovenia
• Founded in 1996
• Waag Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Founded in 1994

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EXPECTED AUDIENCES

• The Emergence festival has about 1.000 persons
  by evening all the exhibitions and conferences
  attended. On the whole, the organisers expect
  about 40. 000 visitors for all European events,
  including lectures and workshops.

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CONCLUSION

• DEDALE wants to focus on North-East of Paris.
  They are settled in La maison de la Villette,
  Cité des Sciences.
• According to them, festivals are a priviledged
  moment in a series of activities, developed all
  year long with inhabitants and urban experts.
• The idea is to design the city all together.
• BUT SOME CLOUDS ARE GATHERING IN
• FRENCH DIGITAL ARTS SKY

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115 ECM centres in France

• Labomedia in Orléans
• Acts as a free ICT trainer for inhabitants
• Animates a recycling workshop, to provide
• inhabitants with creative common software and
  contents
• Offers residencies to French and foreign artists
• Organizes a free festival -  La Fête 01 
• Notably cooperates with with Transmediale
  (Berlin)
• Has just lost its annual funding by the French
  Ministry of Culture
• - 20.500 euros.
• Some years after launching Espace Culture Media
  (ECM),
• the government wants to stop the experimental,
  critical and artistic aspect of it.

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CONCLUSIONS

• Dedale and other organisations try and create a
  collaborative design for urban spaces, together
  with inhabitants.
• Festivals here appear a a climax in a regular
  activity based on worshops, lectures, cooperation
  with universities.
• Such an activity needs a continuus and open
  support.
• In France, there is no evidence that local
  authorities can replace the States intervention
  for an experimental, collective and critical
  appropriation of ICT urban knowledge.