EMAC meeting, Istanbul, 2011

Michal MášaMichal Mariánek

CIANT

• CHAllenging Networked CommunitiEs• cooperation project co-funded by Culture

programme of the European Commission

• 1 Nov 2010 – 31 Dec 2011• CIANT (CZ), BIS (TR),

M2F (FR), Nuromedia (DE)

Project Objective

The main objective of CHANCE project is to harmonize and utilize the best of current

social networking technologies in order to stimulate intercultural dialogue with

concrete artistic and cultural results visible and circulated around Europe on a

trajectory from virtual to physical domain

Specific Objective

• A tool making it possible to effectively announce, manage, circulate and bring visibility to cultural operators, groups of artists as well as creative individuals, across all sectors and regions in Europe.• Open-source platform that would support user-friendly mass collaboration and promotion of artistic and intercultural values.

CHANCE Platform

For whom?Institutions! (art|sci|tech bodies)

What do they do mostly?Events! (Festivals, Biennials, Triennials, Quadrennials, Exhibitions, Installations, Performances, Workshops, Conferences, Symposiums, Presentations, Panels, Roundtables, Seminars, Lectures, Trainings, Artist Residencies, …)

Who do they invite?People! (artists/researchers/…)

Amber Festival (BIS), Enter Festival (CIANT), GAMERZ (M2F), Cynetart (TMA), Transmediale, SONICA (MoTA), Ars Electronica, WRO Biennale (WRO Art Center), Multiplace, Media Lab Prado, Coded Cultures, Dutch Electronic Art Festival (V2), Piksel Festival, Digital Art Festival (Bulgaria), Bang on a Can (NY) , 404 festival (Taiwan) , Mutek and Elektra (CA), …

CHANCE Platform

http://www.chance-network.eu

Yet Another Social Networking Site for Artists?

NO!

CHANCE PlatformOpen for anybody

with an emailFriendship between

usersEvents published once

fully confirmedAttendants of events

are users

Only for established cultural bodies

Connection between institutions

Events announced in very early planning

People chosen from a Database

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VIDEO

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Why should you bother?

• Get close to institutions working in the same field• Less hassle than on open social networks• See what other are up to, know things in advance

• Database of artists/researchers/…

• Share travel costs

Future plans

• Publicly accessible finalized confirmed events• Not only names of artists/researchers/… but

full description of their work/talk/… including documentation (photo, video, …)

• Large archive of new media art providing content to Europeana

Contact us!

http://www.chance-network.eu

chance@ciant.cz

Request your membership now!