Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age

The project Masters & Servers investigated the relationships between digital culture, networked social and political organisation and new business models through a series of artisticand discursive activities. The project involved five European partner organisations in thedelivery of festivals, exhibitions, commissions of new artworks as well as lectures, debates,workshops, conferences and the production of collateral assets including books, digitalpublications, videos, a website and social media platforms. Through the project, we shed lighton the very nature of new media, on its “environmental” aspect. Computers, databases,networks and other digital technologies are foundational to contemporary notions of everythingfrom identity and business to surveillance and war.

In three co-produced exhibitions we firstshowed how technology was conceived and used as liberating tool for the rise of Internetamateur culture (Eternal September); then we exposed the tension between art, socialnetworking, political activism and business logic which are using the same tools and protocolsto achieve different outcomes (Networked Disruption); finally, we dealt with novel forms ofcontrol operating at anonymous and non-human levels (The Black Chamber). In the project weused the same tools as the ones we were examining. The produced artistic works weredeveloped by converting technology into an artistic medium that reveals the hidden aspects ofour environment (surveillance cameras and software, digital networks surrounding us in aninvisible spectrum, a physical infrastructure that is spread throughout our landscape, etc.).

Wedeveloped a broad European network of collaborators who were participating in thedevelopment of our main theme. That network was very useful in the implementation ofactivities, e.g., in the distribution of the public call to which 79 artistic proposals were submitted,the 6PM Your Local Time platform gathered more than 100 European institutions, museum andgalleries into a unique event. We used digital tools, e.g., Vimeo, YouTube, streaming services,etc. for the presentation, discussion and distribution of the main topics and project results. Thisapproach has resulted not only in widely shared knowledge about the intersections of thephysical and digital worlds, arts, activism, business and politics but also in shared lessonsabout control and liberation, about ongoing struggles that exist in “neutral” technology. (Source: EC)

Funded projects

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

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

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!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age

HEROES WE LOVE. Ideology, Identity and Socialist Art in New Europe

European Digital Art and Science Network

European Artizen Initiative

Ephemeral Heritage of the European Carnival Rituals

Sustainability is in the AiR

BeSpectACTive!

Artecitya

Advancing Light-driven Public Interactions

Quantum Music

Litterae Slovenicae - Small Literature Crossing Borders

CEE Animation Workshop (CEE AW)

Young Programmers for Young Audiences! European Film Festival Network

European Network of Film Discourse

Network of the Festivals in the Adriatic Region

YoCoJoin

GELATOn the ROAD

reDiscover

PS4Her

ARTAS - Art Archives Study.

Sense (of) sharing

Inspiration Forum LAB – Interdisciplinary art co-production program

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

OUT OF THE BOX

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Slavic Soundwalking (SSW)

European Itineraries of Roma Cultural Heritage (ROMHERIATGE)

Pariahs - Performing Europe's Historical Memory

TOBIES FRIENDS

Forest Encounters

Books on the Beach (BOB)

Made In 2.0 - Platform for Contemporary Crafts & Design

ARCH-E, European platform for architectural competitions

SEARCHER - The Art of Associative Searching

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Performing Landscape

Beyond Front@: Bridging Periphery

Puppet Nomad Academy IV

Other Words – Literary Circuit for Small and Minority Languages

Open House Europe (OHEu)

The Pulse of European Literature (UEL)

One Space

VigeVageKnjige - The Next Generation (VVK NextGen)

IMAGINE 2020 (2.0) – Art, ecology & possible futures

NTY - Your're never too young to change the world

Her Story Is Your Story, Too – universal values of European women's literature

Testing Ground: Reparative Practices for New Cultural Ecosystem

CW - Connecting the Worlds

Developing archaeological audiences along the Roman route Aquileia-Emona-Sirmium-Viminacium

CARAVAN NEXT – Feed the Future: Art moving cities

Augmented City – The Space for Digital Creative Citizenship

an Orchestra Network for Europe - ONE® is more

All Strings Attached: Pioneers of the European Puppetry Behind the Scenes

RECOVERING FREEDOM (RE-FREE)

Neither Voice

Future DiverCities: The School of Feral Grounds

DECONFINING: Deconfining arts, culture and policies in Europe and Africa

16th Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

Little Trouble Girls, The Jungle Film Project, The Doppelganger