From Friday to Sunday, Karlskrona residents and anyone else who visits the city to have the opportunity to experience how the digital and the physical world are merging. In a three-day festival called # MIXITUPFEST with most varied elements – both tangible and dreamy – everybody is welcome to view or participate in a variety of activities in different locations in central Karlskrona and at BTH college.

The event has attracted participants from all over the world. Among them are drama scholars from Georgia Tech University in the U.S., as well as one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of “augmented reality” Professor Jay Bolter.

The international art project Art Line, part-financed by the EU and with partners in five countries around the Baltic Sea, is behind this digital festival together with Blekinge Institute of Technology. Whoever moves in central Karlskrona during the weekend will be able to take part in various installations and performances, but also take an active part in the creation.

Examples include the use of digital technologies in contemporary performing arts, an advanced digital room where you can take a “bath” without water, dance, music, video in various formats where the different realities meet.

Applications and more information about the three-day festival is the Art Line website:

http://artline-southbaltic.eu/sv/event/mixing-realities-digital-performance-festival/

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/events/140299872829923/

We include also a “short program” with descriptions of the festival’s content.

Questions about # MIXITUPFEST to Art Line Communications Ingemar Lönnbom:

Mobile: 0708 310392

email: ingemar.lonnbom @ Artline-southbaltic.eu
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Ingemar Lönnbom
Information officer
Art Line

ingemar.lonnbom @ Artline-southbaltic.eu

telephone: +46 708 310392

Art Line
www.artline-southbaltic.eu

Lead partner Blekinge Museum
Borgmästaregatan 21
SE-371 35 Karlskrona, Sweden

South Baltic Cross-Border Programme
Part Financed by the European Union (ERDF)

Cecilia Wikström, Annika Thelin, Anna Ekström

Member of the EU parliament Cecilia Wikström (to the left in picture) visited international art project Art Line on May 17. Ms Wikström was greeted and informed by financial manager Annika Thelin (middle). Art, cooperation and regional development were some of the meetings topics. Ms Wikström says she will gladly advocate the Art Line concept and help the project expanding its network in Brussels. To the right Anna Ekström, chair of Folkpartiet Liberalerna in Karlskrona.

]]> http://artline-southbaltic.eu/pl/2013/05/eu-politician-visited-art-line/feed/ 0 http://artline-southbaltic.eu/pl/2013/05/trojmiasto-art-tours-happy-participants/ http://artline-southbaltic.eu/pl/2013/05/trojmiasto-art-tours-happy-participants/#comments Mon, 20 May 2013 13:05:48 +0000 lonnbom http://artline-southbaltic.eu/?p=3003 Read more]]> A number of art tours are made to the Tri-city area in Poland as a part of the Art Line project. This is a cooperation with project partner Stena Line and Swedish art associations. One of the art tours took place in mid May 2013. Participants Solgerd Bussenius, Mira Mathesdotter and Björn-Åke Zetterberg all went back to Sweden with a lot of impressions and expressed their contentment both with the arrangement and the art itself.

The speakers were Julia Draganović, Julita Wójcik, Agnieszka Wołodźko, Torun Ekstrand and Bettina Pelz. As day one there was a roundtable discussion as a conclusion. The arranging part got well deserved praise as did the interpreters and the technical staff at the Baltic Cultural Center in Gdansk, where the conference was held.

See pictures from the conference day 2 here:

Morning day 2

Afternoon day 2

(high definition pictures are avaliable, just get in contact with the Art Line information officer, Ingemar Lönnbom)

Exclusive interview with Michaela Crimmin from the Royal College of Art in London. She shares her thoughts on the conference and how to continue. Don’t miss!

The day ended with a Roundtable Discussion with all five participants.

Sound has been recorded from the speeches and will be published at a later time. As of now we have pictures - and an exclusive eight minute interview with artist Dominik Lejman, who among other things say that artists should be just as respected for their professionals skills as, say, a doctor or a lawyer.

Listen to the interview with Dominik Lejman!

One thing that has recently stirred up the discourse in the Tri-City (Gdynia-Sopot-Gdansk) area is the growing number of festival-like projects with a more or less populist profile appearing in the urban space. The festivals vary in form and purpose but what they all share is the common air of an ephemeral event.

Often dubbed interventions in the public space, their aim is to familiarise the average viewer with art.

The conference will penetrate questions like: What about the responsibility to local communities involuntarily exposed to and involved in such activities? What strategies, if any, could be employed to initiate cooperation with all those locals who experience thousands of strangers flooding their streets in a quest for artistic projects? And last but not least – what is the public space as such, since it no longer embraces merely the urban space?

The invited curators and artists will share their experience with projects in the public space.

However, it is the inhabitants invited by the organisers who will remain at the centre of the discussion, both those accepting and rejecting such projects.

Art in the public space – festival or not ?

A conference on art in the public domain and digital media will be a part of the international Art Line project.

17 – 18 May, 2013

Venue: the Baltic Sea Culture Centre, Korzenna Str. 33/35, Gdansk

The project is co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.

You can join the event on Facebook

More information:

Ingemar Lönnbom, information officer at Art Line:

ingemar.lonnbom@artline-southbaltic.eu

cell phone +46 708 310392

Within Sweden: 0708 310392

Links to more information:

Read what the speakers reveal on beforehand!

Information in Polish.

The decision was based on conclusions from the project assessment, such as:

“The project enhances the dissemination of the already achieved results, and improves their durability. It is valuable contribution to the South Baltic area in the context of enriching the cross-border cultural arena. The proposed activities, in majority, are innovative, have logic of intervention, and positively impact the situation of the target group.

The Art Line project is valuable for the Programme area and symbolizes good practice example in terms of management, partnership and progress of implementation. The project is represented by the small institutions with a large dedication to the development of the culture/art field in the Programme regions. Within the project lifetime high ambition level and commitment are observed by the JTS, resulted in the appointment to the Flagship project for the EUSBSR. Following the assessment criteria the proposed extension should be considered as deserved prolongation, chance to reinforce impact of activities and networks development for durability in the future.”