Ministry for Creativity

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Ministry for Creativity

• New Modes of Cohabitation

Helena Drnovek - Head, Division for
International Cultural Relations - Ministry of
Foreign Affairs Republic of Slovenia
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On Creativity

• Creative people are those with unusual
  talents,that are able to make their creative
  mark without special help (and sometimes gain
  strength from educational failure)
• Creativity is embodied in different areas of
  human life, it is multidimensional and
  experiential
• Creativity is something associated with arts and
  culture
• Creativity is the ability to produce work that is
  both novel and appropriate
• On Creativity Towards an Understanding of
  Creativity and its Measurements, study by the
  European Commission

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Culture in Europe

• UNESCO   to contribute to peace and security
  by promoting collaboration among nations through
  education, science and culture
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• The Universal Declaration of Human Rights the
  right to participate in cultural life
• as being among those conditions that are
  "necessary for human survival, integrity and
  human dignity" .
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• Council of Europe fostering democracy, human
  rights and cultural cooperation

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And the European Union

• Treaty of Rome culture as exemption

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And the European Union

• Maastricht Treaty in 1991 Community shall
  contribute to the flowering of the cultures of
  the Member States, while respecting their
  national and regional diversity, and at the same
  time to bring their common cultural heritage to
  the fore.

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Approaches to European Cultural Agenda

• One dimensional, static approach driven by
• - the nationalist / localist argument
• - the neo liberal argument                        
  
• - the visibility argument
• Objectives
• - Decoration (art as music furniture)
• - Promotion (art as tourist agency)
• - Visibility (EU flags!)

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• If you wish to get to know European history, go
  to the opera.
• Mladen Dolar
• If you wish to get to know European
  contradictions, go to Slovenia
• Miko uvakovic

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Exclusive official cultural exchange

• National museums
• Traditional folklore
• Natural phenomena
• etc...

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Subversive/transversal art practices

• Conceptual art
• Rock culture
• Contemporary art
• etc...

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Intercultural dialogue

• Interdisciplinary role of culture
• - knowledge society
• - social change
• - education
• - migration    
• - employment
• - urban and structural development
• - creative industries
• - external relations

• Role of civil society
• - participation
• - shared ownership of the political process
• - bottom up approach
• - creating and protecting shared spaces of free
  cultural expression etc.

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Entropa
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Entropa
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European Year of Creativity and Innovation

• Objectives
• To promote creativity for all as driver for
  innovation as a key factor for
• the development of personal, occupational,
  entrepreneurial and social competences
• - To launch the debate on measuring creativity
• - To raise public awarness and promote public
  debate on creativity

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How to measure creativity?

• Situation in creativity research is similar to
  the fable of the blind man trying to describe an
  elephant by touching different parts of the
  animal, where the one touching the tail says it
  is like a snail and the other touching the flanks
  says it is an elephant.

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Transcendality

• Creativity is a process of interactions and spill
  over effects between different
• innovative processes which mixes elements of
•      -artistic creativity
• -economic innovation
• -technical innovation
• Ministry something that serves as an agency,
  instrument or means
• Public servant ministrates, serves
• Contemporary artist transfers countless
  strategies for investigation of the metaphorical,
  representational and symbolic levels

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Makrolab/I-TASC

• Marko Peljhan (SLO)

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Space Junk

• Sao Sedlacek (SLO)

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Slovenian Space Agency
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The declaration of the Slovenian artists

• Understanding that the cultures of Art and
  Science are connected by human curiosity,
  creativity and the quest for the understanding of
  the unknown
• Recognising the existence of art and culture
  programs within the current EU structures
• Understanding that there are numerous Art,
  Science and Technology related university
  programs being established in the last 25 years
  from the Americas, thought Europe, Africa, Asia
  to Oceania
• Convinced that a major drive for coordination and
  information and data exchange will lead to
  reassertion of a cutting edge third culture that
  combines the work of artists and scientists
• - Convinced that the public understanding of
  science and art will be greatly enhanced if we
  succeed

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• We propose
• To establish a transnational EC art and science
  collaboration and outreach work group that would
  be tasked to establish, identify and promote
• - Art and Science collaborative models within
  the EC culture and scientific communities, with
  the establishment of an Art and Science project
  and programs fund
• - Coordination and collaboration in data
  exchange, archiving and reflection of past and
  future Art and Science based activities within
  the existing and established EC programs
• The condition for the flourishing of a new third
  culture that will assert the existence of a
  historical, conceptual and methodological link,
  between the cultures of art and science
• Links with and between the existing art an
  science initiatives and university programs
  around the world
• - we propose that the EC Art and Science
  Collaboration and Outreach work group is
  comprised of the coordinators from the EC
  institutions and the representatives of
  transnational art science organisations such us
  INESCO, the Leonardo International Society for
  Art and Technology and others