News

Call for Proposal for the Visible City 2015

BERLIN - BRUSSELS - HELSINKI - LINZ - LIVERPOOL - MADRID - MARSEILLE - MONTREAL - SAO PAULO - ZAGREB

Our today's modern cities are hybrid structures in which technology is invisibly interweaved in the perception layers of our everyday lives. With the curatorial theme of InVISIBLE and VISIBLE Cities we want to develop an awareness on the changes which are hardly visible to the eyes and are underlying our nowadays cities.

More

Connecting Cities @ New School, NYC

Understanding Media Studies: 'Urban Screens as Community Platforms'

The School of Media Studies presents a discussion with Susa Pop, Director of Public Art Lab, at the New School in New York City.

More

Connecting Cities Event: Human Beeing @ FACT Liverpool

4 October 2014 / 7pm / FREE / Ropewalks Square

German art and technology collective The Constitute have created a project that projects big bees onto big buildings in cities including Helsinki and Berlin.

Here in Liverpool we have been working with students and staff at The Academy of St Francis of Assisi and local beekeeper Andrew Hubbard (producer of Liverpool Postcode Honey) to care for a new beehive designed and built in the shape of Ropewalks Square, on the roof of the school.

More

Connecting Cities @ International Forum of Media Arts City 2014, Sapporo, Japan

International Forum of Media Arts City 2014 “Aesthetics of Mediation: Creativity in an Age of Social Media”

In November 2013, Sapporo became a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network as a "City of Media Arts". A media arts city senses the breath of the city and arbitrates the challenges of the future. The aesthetic, sensing the city, is a vital organ in relation to our recognition and communication.

More

CONNECTING CITIES EVENT #9: Madrid

26.-27. September 2014
Fachada digital (Plaza de las Letras)

Presentation of the projects produced and adapted for Medialab-Prado's digital façade, within theopen call Participatory City 2014. The following projects will be shown: Urban Alphabets (Helsinki), Human beeing (Holland), Telepuppet.tv (USA), Organic cinema (Holland) and n'UNDOing Cities (Madrid).

Bees, plants, urban alphabets and many other elements of the city come alive on the digital façade, which turns into a canvas with which the citizens interact from the space of the Plaza de las Letras.

More

Pages