Author: Andreas Richter

Open Call European ARTificial Intelligence Lab

Open Call European ARTificial Intelligence Lab

Posted by | Jan 14, 2019 | , |

The European ARTificial Intelligence Lab offers international artists working in the field of artificial intelligence the opportunity to gain a residency at a scientific partner institution and at the Ars Electronica Futurelab. The first residency will focus on “Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence” and will be realized in collaboration with Muntref Centro de Arte y Ciencia (Museum of the Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Art and Science Center). Deadline for the Open Call: February 17, 2019   This project is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.   Source: https://ars.electronica.art/ailab/en/ Image...

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Mash it, move it, improve it! – Upcoming Cultural Hackathon Coding da Vinci Süd

Mash it, move it, improve it! – Upcoming Cultural Hackathon Coding da Vinci Süd

Posted by | Jan 11, 2019 | , |

The cultural Hackathon Coding da Vinci comes for the first time to the south of Germany, to Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The event will begin with a kick-off at the Munich City Library on 6 and 7 April 2019.  The results will be presented to the public at a large closing event on 18 May 2019 in the Tafelhalle – KunstKulturQuartier, Nuremberg. After a keynote speech by Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Julian Nida-Rümelin the jury will award particularly outstanding projects....

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Update on Hackathon Coding Da Vinci: Award ceremony in the Landesmuseum Mainz

Update on Hackathon Coding Da Vinci: Award ceremony in the Landesmuseum Mainz

Posted by | Jan 11, 2019 | , , , |

Last month, in December, the winners of the cultural hackathon “Coding Da Vinci Rhein-Main” were announced in Mainz (Germany). The first Coding Da Vinci Rhine-Main ended after five weeks with a festive award ceremony in the Landesmuseum Mainz. Open source applications were awarded in five categories, with which openly accessible cultural data from museums, archives, libraries and collections are made accessible in a new way. A total of 16 teams successfully participated in the Hackathon with their own project. With digital data on medieval monsters, films from the First World War and historical clothes, the first Coding Da Vinci...

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RheijnLand.Xperiences – Interactive Storytelling across Organisational and National Borders

RheijnLand.Xperiences – Interactive Storytelling across Organisational and National Borders

Posted by | Jan 11, 2019 | , |

Image Credit: Erfgoed Gelderland For people between the ages of 15 and 25, museums are considered boring. This is not only the case in Kleve, not only on the Lower Rhine or in the Euregio. Everywhere institutions are looking for solutions to inspire young meshes for their treasures, which are not boring at all. Susanne Figner of the Klever Museum Kurhaus works together with other museums between the Rhine and the Meuse (Maas) and the universities Rhein-Waal (HSRW) and Arnhem Nijmegen (HAN) on the problem as part of the RheijnLand.Xperiences project, reports RP Online. RheijnLand.Xperiences is a trans-national project...

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CARNIVAL – INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS

CARNIVAL – INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE IN DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS

Posted by | Jan 8, 2019 | , |

Image credit: Museum Narrenschopf Dürrenheim   Museums of Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht How can intangible aspects of cultural practices and customs be experienced digitally and the knowledge about them mediated interactively? The carneval museums Fastnachtsmuseum Narrenschopf and Fasnachtsmuseum Schloss Langenstein are exploring exactly this topic as a part of the museum4punkt0 project that is sponsored by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Museum Narrenschopf Bad Dürrheim and Fasnachtsmuseum Schloss Langenstein both present numerous exhibits and therefore primarily tangible artifacts related to Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht. However, the tangible reflects only a part of the culture connected to its artifacts. What...

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