EASTN-DC: European Art-Science-Technology Network for Digital Creativity

EASTN-DC, European Art-Science-Technology Network for Digital Creativity, is a network dedicated to the time-based digital arts: musical arts, visual arts, performing and interactive arts. In this field, the democratization of digital tools has provoked a spouting of new contents, ideas and commitments, premises of ongoing profound changes that rattle the practices along with the actors and the public.

In the meantime, a lack of synergy between the different functions carrying the digital mutation (research, creation, pedagogy, diffusion and valorisation) led to some deadlocks. The latters range from disciplinary imperviousness to inadequate relations between researchers, artists, educators and mediators, or from the very form of the new art pieces, the matter of their presentation to the public, to pedagogical concerns regarding the teaching of digital tools and their concepts.

In that frame, and by this fact, EASTN-DC actions aim at:
– Experimenting this synergy between research, creation, pedagogy, diffusion and valorisation at the European level
– Proposing new models for cooperation and digital content production connecting Art, Science and Technology.
– Establishing a sustainable base for a large European network in the field of time-based digital arts.

To do so, EASTN-DC is gathering 17 partners in 13 different countries from Europe to the Americas. They will host and exchange about 70 creators in the frame of a 16 international events tour spread over 4 years. These privileged moments, in direct contact with the audience, will frame a new and systemic approach, binding the Knowing “Disseminate”, the Learning “Inseminate”, the Making “Collect”, a digital creativity factory leading to a creative citizen.

Some statistics about the project:
– 14 partners, 10 European countries.
– 3 resource partners, 3 American countries
– 25 partners-creators + 47 invited-creators
– 4 activities : Tour, Residency, Communication, Coordination/Administration
– 335 mobilities regarding the 2 first activities
– 16 EASTN-DC events in 4 years.

Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory residencies provided insight into the entire process of creating artistic works in the field of new media art. The interested public was, through direct contact with guest artists (Irene Posch, Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos, Olivia Kotsifa, Sarah Grant & Danja Vasiliev and Rosi Grillmair; through workshops, informal meetings, and lectures), involved in specific know-how transfer, exchange of ideas and a variety of artistic practices between the artist and the audience.

Ljudmila Art and Science Laboratory

(Partner) Ljubljana

All projects of Slovenian producer

Foreign producers in the supported project

Association pour la Création et la Recherche sur les Outils d’Expression (leader)

France (EU)
Aalborg Universitet (partner)

Denmark (EU)
Cardiff Metropolitan University (partner)

United Kingdom (EU)
Conservatorio di musica “G.F.Ghedini” (partner)

Italy (EU)
Institut polytechnique de Grenoble (partner)

France (EU)
Interactive media art laboratory ASBL (partner)

Belgium (EU)
Ionian University (partner)

Greece (EU)
Kungliga Musikhögskolan I Stockholm (partner)

Sweden (EU)
Miso Music Portugal, associação cultural de utilidade pública (partner)

Portugal (EU)
OpenUp Music CIC (partner)

United Kingdom (EU)
Scène de Musiques Actuelles du Pays de Romans, La Cordonnerie (partner)

France (EU)
The University of Manchester (partner)

United Kingdom (EU)
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (partner)

Germany (EU)

Funded projects

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges (OLL LE)

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

CEE Animation Forum 2021

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!