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CONNECTING CITIES @ MEDIALAB-PRADO

On September 11 Connecting Cities partner presents three Connecting Cities projects which were produced and adapted for Medialab-Prado’s digital facade within the framework of the ‘Invisible and Visible Cities 2015 Open Call’ of the Connecting Cities Network. By aiming to build up a connected infrastructure of media facades, urban screens and projection sites to circulate artistic and social content, these Connecting Cities projects seek to fulfil a part of this theory and philosophy in Madrid.

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INNOVATIVE CITIZEN LAB @ DORTMUNDER U

From the 17th until the 20th of September 2015 the Dortmunder U is hosting the self-maker-based festival Innovative Citizen.
This fair focuses on the maker-culture which is connected to digital technologies.

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CONNECTING CITIES CONFERENCE @ ARS ELECTRONICA

// 3rd September 2015

// @ Conference Square, Ars Electronica

This year's Ars Electronica Festival, taking place from September 3 to 7 in Linz, topic is 'Post City'. It is an inquiry into how cities of the future will have to be configured when there are more robots than people working in factories, everything is intelligently interlinked, autos drive autonomously and drones deliver the mail. And what does it mean for future megacities — above all, those on seacoasts — when climate change really does shift into high gear? The rethinking of urban living spaces has already begun — all over the world, people are coming up with exciting ideas for new architectures and forms of social organization that are able to keep up with the changes the next few decades will bring.

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MUTEK CABARET @ ISEA 2015, VANCOUVER

// 16th-18th August 2015

// @ Goldcorp Centre for the Arts - Fei & Milton Wong Experimental Theatre, Vancouver

From August 16 to 18 2015 Connecting Cities partner MUTEK presents an amazing series of audiovisual performances from Québec artists. The 'MUTEK Cabaret' is staged in the framework of ISEA 2015 - the International Symposium on Electronic Art - in Vancouver.

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NEW PARTNER: CITY OF LIGHT JENA

We are happy to announce our new partner City of Light Jena!

From 8 to 11 October 2015 the new light and science festival CITY VISIONS JENA will be staged in Jena, Germany.

CITY VISIONS JENA is a new light- and science festival in Jena. It invites everyone to explore the curatorial topic of 'Invisible and Visible Cities' in a vibrant light parcours. How can we visualise our 'Invisible cities' that generate, process and manage data in realtime through artistic scenarios? Jena, city of lights and center for the science of optical technologies, opens up as an urban laboratory and stage for international media artists to investigate the applications and impacts of invisible technologies through interactive light installations.

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