Archive for June, 2007
BYTES & PIECES
Bytes & Pieces is a series of 3 workshops developed by digital musician Tarek Atoui together with Takuro Mizuta Lippit from STEIM studios in Amsterdam that brings new technologies and art-making together.
Following the VidéoAvril festival in April 2007, the second stage of ALMOSTREAL will be continued through Bytes & Pieces workshops held in […]
Guest ≠ Welcome
The editors of OPEN invited Jeanne van Heeswijk and architect Dennis Kaspori to guest edit a supplement for the journal ‘OPEN’, published by the Dutch Foundation for Public Art. This issue of OPEN (#12) raises questions regarding the privatisation of intellectual property and presents several alternative approaches to urban design that aim […]
Host-Guest exchange between the Blue House and the European Cultural Foundation
Inter-sectoral exchange between art organisation and funding insitution. From early November 2007 onward, artist Jeanne van Heeswijk and ALMOSTREAL initiator Igor Dobricic will swap office locations. The swap is part of ALMOSTREAL stage 4 which considers in uncovnetional ways the theme of hospitality.
In this exchange, the relationship between funder and artist will be upturned and […]
“…the future is uncertain because it will be what we make it”
‘It will be what we make it’ is a 21-day research for artists, theoreticians and programmers of various geographic, cultural and disciplinary backgrounds to build a temporary platform to individually and collectively learn and share, develop and experiment with methodologies of working in the performing arts. From 12 November till 2 December 2007, Alkantara and […]
ALMOSTREAL lecture, American University of Paris
On 11 April 2007, Igor Dobricic gave a presentation on ALMOSTREAL to introduce some perspectives of funding and researching collaborative cultural practices in Europe today.
Igor Dobricic spoke about ALMOSTREAL as part of the Global Communications undergraduate programme at the American University Paris.
This lecture is held in the framework of Global Communications and the module “Cultural […]
Conference on cultural diversity in Europe
ECF arts officer, Igor Dobricic presented ALMOSTREAL at a conference on cultural diversity Europe: state and civil society in cooperation in Essen, Germany, 26 April - 28 April 2007.
Organised by the German Commission for UNESCO, this international conference held a broad-based debate on the concept of Cultural Diversity: What does it mean, where do dangers […]
Ljubljana Getogether
The 5th getogether was held in the City Museum, Ljubljana, Slovenia 6 - 8 May 2007. This first objective of this getogether was to reflect on the activities that have been supported by ALMOSTREAL providing an occasion for participants to exchange their working processes. The second objective was to introduce ALMOSTweb as a database-in-the-making that […]