1. Global Arts and
Media Experiments
Artur Serra
Fundació i2cat
CERN, Geneve
October 14th 2010

2. 1. The Internet
of
Arts and Artists...

3. How a cultural anthropologist see the
Internet evolution?
 1st. 1970s-80s The Internet of the computer scientists
and technological people ( email,ftp,telnet,...) (6 M
personas)
 2nd. 90s-2010s The Internet of scientists and literated
people. ( WWW, Grid, Blogs, Wikipedia...). (1000 M
people)
 3rd. 2010s-2030s The Internet of artists and vocal and
visual communities. (VoIP, HD,videoconf,...) (6.000 M
personas)

4. Advanced Internet
and Arts
eArts, eCultures
Media:
HD/3DVideo/Visualization/Telepresence
eScience
Computation:
Supercomputació/GRIDs/Clouds
Research Networking:
Lambda Networking,4G...

5. New forms of art
Digitalization of
traditional arts e-Arts Performance art,Videoart,
Netart,videogames, serious
games,...
(Performing arts
Cultural heritage,...)

6. After 500 years

7. 2. Different approaches

8. a). The University approach.

9. Internet 2,
Arts and Humanities Initiatives at
Universities 1998. Seattle

10. Characteristics
Leadership from Fine Arts schools from
Universities
University to University communication
Master classes,
Interactive demonstrations,
Relatively low bandwidth (around 100 mbps)
Strong support from IT academic services

15. Dança Telemàtica
Univ. Bahia
Prof. Ivani Santana
RNP

17. b). The Technologist's Approach

18. CINEGRID (2006)

19. Cinegrid
Visionary approach from technology
Technology push: more bits, more bandwidth,
“very high quality media over photonic networks”
Virtual reality, telepresence, 4k,8k and beyond
Strenght in scientific visualization.
Cinegrid Exchange: Amsterdam, Chicago,
Monterey, Prague, San Diego, Tokyo, and
Toronto
Interest from technological companies

24. c). The Community Approach

25. Opening the RNs
Traditionally:

few people using high bandwitdh,

many people using low bandwitdh.

Research center leads...the rest follows.
New reality:

Many people using high bandwidth

Many people can experiment with high bandwidth

University co-leads with other institutions and
communities of artists and citizens.

26. The Anella Cultural,
the Cultural Ring (2006-2008)

27. The user-driven innovation
to Internet of arts

28. A consequence of
the end to end principle....

29. El equipo
Patrocinadores
Aj.Barcelona

30. La Anella Cultural

31. La Xarxa Transversal: la red de
programadores culturales locales

32. 1. Conectar los centros culturales
metropolitanos con los locales
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Teatre Bartrina - Reus
Teatre Principal - Olot
Teatre Monumental - Mataró
Teatre de l’Escorxador - Lleida
•IP network, from 5Mbps to 1Gbps symmetrics

33. 2. Convertirlos en platós
audiovisuales en red
• 2 portable PCs
• 1 audio card
• 1 HD projector
• Power amplifier
• Audio system.
• Audio mixer.
• Sony Anycast station

34. 3. Compartir eventos culturales
Poetry
festivals
Guided tours
Master Class
Workshops
Courses
Conferences
Artistic
performances

35. “Difussion is where technology
offers major opportunities to the
opera in the XXI century” J. Matabosch.

37. Metamembrana 2008,
New project of Netart

38. Marcel.lí Antunez

40. La leccion que mas valoran los programadores
culturales es la comunicación
Bi-direccional entre los centros gracias a la red

41. http://portal.ac.i2cat.net:8080/MediaTeca/inde
x.htm

42. Citilab, un laboratorio ciudadano

44. MUSICLab

46. Anilla Cultural
Latinoamerica-Europa
2009-2010...
Dirección de contenidos: Dirección tecnológica

47. Using Rns in LA and Europe for Arts
and Media experiments

48. Participants

49. Con la colaboración de

53. Next steps...

54. TEIN3 workshop in Daejeon, Korea

56. HD Dancing Q from Seoul to Mercat de les
Flors in Barcelona. 2005

57. Global Cultural Ring:
Conecting Arts communities through Global
Research Networks

58. Perspectives
Combination of the three approaches to e-Arts
and Media experiments: the university one, the
technologist and the community-based.
Future Internet as a Knowledge Ring, blending
arts, science and technology experiments with
our communities.
Future Internet as an open collaboratory
(Wulff,1999).

59. HD Gaudi, 2002
First compressed HD live transmissió between Europa-USA over
Internet at 270 mbps by i2CAT-Research Channel

61. Thank youuuuu :-)
Artur Serra,
i2cat,
artur.serra@i2cat.net