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Audience participation in digital culture

Consciousness of our own manipulation through medias .

Human in contemporary society If one is or is not interested in culture or new medias,the man lives absolutely under their spell. The medias totally have rule us. Collective memory and intelect as a source of information. How much this feeling is ignored, his influence is becoming stronger. Contemporary age needs creativity of everyone.(Entry:i them or them me.)the strongest resource of manipulation is word and rhytm. In music rhytm completely determines mood or character, underseeing blicking monitor is pushing everybody somehow into a concrete form of trans or a hypnosis.Suggestive advertisement depends on rhytmical repeating of concrete word or word connection.-password. Also grafic raster plays a role.

 

Main project activities:

- Meetings to exchange experience and jointly develop ways to contribute to increasing audience participation in digital culture

- Research on European models and policies of audience development in digital arts and on the contribution of digital culture to individual and social development

As part of A.P.D.C. audience participation test beds initiative is an installation conceived as an open system and tool for other artists to realize their own sound content. ADD soundsystem can become a space for some form of music production or performance, it can be used as a sound installation or a sonic playground for a workshop. The aim is to create a specific social context, space for encounters, communication and participation. ADD soundsystem oscilates between different types of sound production and perception. It decentralizes the position of musician / performer and obliterates both creative and physical gap between the creator and the audience. The installation is designed to be as transparent, easily understood and operated for any audience member.

ADDsoundsystem is a low cost, DIY portable surround system with a decentralized control. It is a rhizomatic structure. It can be hacked into numerous ways. It may be installed in numerous constellations, reduced or expanded. It is an ongoing project and a traveling installation (a soundsystem is supposed to travel). Wherever it is installed it is open to input from others both at the level of installation and on the level of sound content. It may be installed on its own or it may co-exist with other installations.

ADD soundsystem is a participatory project by rRadim Labuda and Darina Alster.

 


As part of A.P.D.C. audience participation test beds initiative we have introduced “SYNCHRONI-CITIES” project. It brings forth the diversity and cultural specificity of different European spaces. It is based on the idea of cultural exploration, dialogue and simultaneity.

The game is shaped as a simultaneous urban exploration quest based on the idea of creating “synonymous places” (different locations in different cities/countries that have a common definition: the same trail leads to them). It takes place in the real world and the internet. A mixed-reality platform will be developed in order to allow artists and the general public to explore and share cultural aspects of the European urban space. Thus, it gives the artists and communities the opportunity to engage in an intercultural dialogue that simultaneously stresses upon identity and alterity.

The concept: ”A trail can lead to many places. Places a given trail leads to define a multiplace.”

http://synchroni-cities.net

 

More informations abouth the APDC project you can find on the blog:

http://apdc.wordpress.com

 

 

Partners:

Fundatia AltArt pentru Arta Alternativa / Cluj-Napoca, RO

Atrakt Art - Association for Advanced Arts and Culture / Bratislava, SK

CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies / Prague, CZ

TMA Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau / Dresden, DE

 

Project has been financially supported by program EU Education and Culture.