What is the most urgent need that you have?
A support system to foster transdisciplinairy collaboration between European – Asian master and Phd students from a range of creative disciplines.
What is the best/ interesting case or project on new media arts that you have just recently experienced?
Make Your mark by The Patchingzone
MYM is a mobile art-studio that toured through Gouda (NL). Various locations were visited by the mobile art-studio where the people of Gouda placed their most beautiful or fondest memories literally on the map of Gouda. The visitors are therefore invited to collectively create a mobile art piece or “memory capsule” of Gouda. During the creative process of constructing the art piece, those participants with an original, special, beautiful, moving, trendy or strange contribution will be invited into the mobile art-studio for an in-depth interview.
In the evening the interviews were remixed by VJ Nolander and DJ Triggerbangbang. The tour, was live reported and documented via internet.
MYM is part of Cultuur Lokaal, that researches how cultural institutions can relate in innovative ways to the public in a world that is increasingly digitalised. How do individual citizens and (informal) local networks express their local identities, and how can they be thus supported by professional institutions? Which new products, services, and external relations can be developed for this purpose?
In your opinion, is there a potential for change on and change through a policy level, i.e. has the status of policy as an accelerator/ a meaningful factor for practice changed?
Firstly we recently observe a shift from technology oriented innovation towards social aspects, also in the field of interaction we observe a similar shift where the user often changes into a co-creator, this consequently requires new models for innovation and experimentation. Secondly our society is confronted with complex issues that are not easy to solve or handle by a singular discipline or one specific approach. The Patchingzone therefore developed a so called ‘processpatching’ transdisciplinairy method that mixes expertise and approaches from art, design, ICT, social sciences etc to deal with complex issues in today’s society where the participant plays a key role. Most policy plans today do not acknowledge transdisciplinairy collaboration, the current innovation programmes and the related funding schemes are based on the traditional divide between the disciplines and therefore are not suitable for new combinations of expertise.
