Presentation at the TEIN3 worshop on Performing Arts and Cultural Heritage over Future Internet. KAIST, Daejeon, 20-21 October 2010

1. Why does Future
Internet
need e-Culture?
Artur Serra
Fundació i2cat
TEIN3, KAIST
October 20-21 2010

2. 1. Old and new Internet

3. The Internet of
technologists and scientists
First Internet generation:
– Internet of technologists and scientists.
– The English only Internet
– few people using high bandwitdh,
– many people using low bandwitdh.
– Science and technology are based in
universities

4. The Internet of Arts and Cultures
Current Internet:
Music and video overflow the Net.
The Internet of languages.
Many people using high bandwidth
Many people can experiment with high bandwidth
Arts and media contents are coming mostly from
outside of Universities and research centers

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

6. Internet evolution from
cultural anthropology
 1st. 1970s-80s The Internet of the computer scientists
and technological people ( email,ftp,telnet,...) (6 M
people)
 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
people)

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

8. After 500 years
The Leonardo's
Dream

9. 2. Different approaches
to the Internet of Arts and Cultures

10. a). The University approach.
(1995-...)

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

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

14. 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

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

30. Characteristics
Universities should agree with cultural centers
outside campuses.
Opening up the NREN to cultural centers
Performing Arts initially. Cultural Heritage
follows...
Master classes, cultural performances from
cultural centers to universities
Support from Ministries of Culture.

31. The Anella Cultural,
the Cultural Ring
Catalonia, Spain (2006-2008)

32. The user-driven innovation
to Internet of arts

33. The team
Sponsors
Aj.Barcelona

34. La Anella Cultural
The Cultural Ring

35. La Xarxa Transversal: a network of
cultural programmers in cities

36. 1. Connecting their cultural centers
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Teatre Bartrina - Reus
Teatre de l’Escorxador - Lleida
Teatre Principal - Olot
Teatre Monumental - Mataró
•IP network, from 5Mbps to 1Gbps symmetrics

37. 2. Transforming into media studios
• 2 portable PCs
• 1 audio card
• 1 HD projector
• Power amplifier
• Audio system.
• Audio mixer.
• Sony Anycast station

38. 3. Sharing cultural events
Poetry
festivals
Guided tours
Master Class
Workshops
Courses
Conferences
Artistic
performances

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

41. Exploring new art formats
Metamembrana 2008,

42. Marcel.lí Antunez

44. Exploring new educational programs
MusicLab (Citilab 2009)

45. The main lesson: sharing
muldirectional communication
between cultural centers

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

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

48. Opening RNs in LA and Europe for
Arts and Media experiments

49. Participants

50. Collaborating institutions

54. Next steps...

55. Europe-Asia Cultural Ring
on Performing Arts and Cultural Heritage

56. Thank you :-)
Artur Serra,
i2cat,
artur.serra@i2cat.net