Brussels*Liverpool
4–5 October
AND Festival @ FACT Liverpool
Connecting Cities event @ iMAL Brussels
Istanbul*Marseille*Madrid
2 and 7 November
Amber’13 @ Istanbul
Connecting Cities events @ Medialab-Prado Madrid and Videospread Marseille
Aarhus*Berlin*Brussels*Dessau*Helsinki*Istanbul*Linz*Liverpool*Madrid*Marseille*
Melbourne*Montreal*Riga*Sao Paulo*Vienna*Zagreb
Connecting Cities events
Connecting Cities is a new urban media format, which connects cities and its citizens with artistic real-time projects on urban media facades. Every year the Connecting Cities Network (CCN) organises a series of Connecting Cities Events for presenting artists’ projects at central places of 16 cities worldwide. In 2013, several Connecting Cities Events already took place in Melbourne, Dessau, Berlin, Liverpool, Linz, Madrid, Riga, and Helsinki. More Connecting Cities Events will take place until November and are embedded in different festivals.
4–5 October
Brussels and Liverpool
The Connecting Cities Event in October takes place during AND Festival @ FACT Liverpool and the Connecting Cities Event @ iMAL Brussels
Urban media projects
Binoculars to… Binoculars from.. by Mar Canet & Varvara Guljajeva
Dance.AR by Sander Veenhof
WeTube by Sander Veenhof
Master / Slave Invigilator System by Jeremy Bailey
Project example
Jeremy Bailey is simultaneously all over Europe with Master / Slave Invigilator System. Take a stroll around Brussels or Liverpool and you’re likely to bump into the Canadian artist offering to give you a tour of the Connecting Cities Events.
2 and 7 November
Istanbul, Marseille, and Madrid
The Connecting Cities event in November takes place during Amber’13 @ Istanbul and the Connecting Cities events @ Medialab-Prado Madrid // Videospread Marseille
Urban media projects
Connecting Monsters by h.o
The Puppet Master by Joan Mora & Chema Blanco
United Colors of Dissent by Orkan Telhan & Mahir Yavuz
where2now by Pippo Lionni
Project example
The Puppet Master creates a playful connecting between public and private space with two defined roles: one for the citizens in front of the media façade, and another one for the people who can control and modify the digital world from another city to foster the interaction between both worlds.
Find more information on each city’s programme (dates + locations) and on the artists’ projects on www.connectingcities.net.
Call for Proposals: Participatory City 2014
You want to participate in Connecting Cities? We invite artists to submit projects that enable citizens to experience new ways of interaction with the urban environment.
In 2014, with the topic of Participatory City, the Connecting Cities Network will in particular discuss the question of how urban media facades as a temporary field of interaction can become a catalyst for shared encounters and a platform for urban activism. Can art projects trigger an engagement of the citizens within their local communities? Can they help us exchange our expectations and visions with our (European) neighbours? Participatory City 2014 is all about experimenting in the public space with participatory processes that aim at exploring these and other questions.
Please submit your proposal until 20 October via the application platform of Connecting Cites Network partner Amber Platform: submissions.amberplatform.org
+ more detailed information
About the Connecting Cities Network
The Connecting Cities Network (CCN) reflects on the increasing worldwide presence of large-format digital media in the public space and examines their function as cultural and communicative elements. By circulating artistic content on an internationally networked infrastructure of urban media facades, the CCN questions the increasing commercialization of our urban environments and supports the idea of the public space as a space for creativity, visibility and exchange of culture.
Initiators & partners
Connecting Cities is a project by Public Art Lab Berlin in cooperation with Ars Electronica Futurelab Linz, Amber Platform Istanbul, FACT Liverpool, iMAL Brussels, m-cult Helsinki, Medialab-Prado Madrid, Media Architecture Institute Vienna, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Riga 2014 and Videospread Marseille. Other partners include Aarhus University, Marseille-Provence 2013, MUTEK Montreal, Quartier des spectacles Montreal, Foundation Bauhaus Dessau, Verve Cultural Sao Paulo, Federation Square Melbourne and media partner ARTE Creative, content partner ikono and streaming partner Streampark TV.
