Share Festival 2010, Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino. November 3, 2010 - 14.00-15.30. Panel hosted by DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre, Aarhus University) and DUL (Digital Urban Living).

Presenters: Christian Ulrik Andersen (DK), Tatiana Bazzichelli (IT/DK), Geoff Cox (UK/DK), and Les Liens Invisibles (IT).

The panel investigates some of the interconnections between art, activism and business. Presenters examine how artists, rather than refusing the market, are generating cultural Trojan horses — social hacks, or “smart errors” — producing critical interventions from within. As the distinction between production and consumption appears to have collapsed, every interaction in the info-sphere seems to be a business opportunity. Therefore, the creative intersections between business and art become a crucial territory for re-invention and the rewriting of symbolic and cultural codes, generating political actions, attempts of social innovations, but also unexpected consequences and a deep level of irony. Errors or mistakes demonstrate the permeability of systems — that these can be reworked — and more so, that radical innovation requires modification of the prevailing business logic.

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Digital Urban Living is co-organiser together with Aarhus city libraries of a day seminar on new literary forms with participants from libraries, the literary scene nationally and internationally, e.g. the net-artist Christophe Bruno (FR). From DUL Søren Pold is participating with the talk "Digital literature in libraries without books?" The day will end with performances and readings from 17-19. It all takes place Friday 5th November at Aarhus Main Library and will mainly be in Danish.

For more information and registration: https://www.aakb.dk/biblioteker/hovedbiblioteket/blog/international-temadag-nye-litteraere-tendenser

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Calm, stoic, almighty – the statue of Holger the Dane seems almost intimidating as he just sits there sleeping – somehow awaiting for something to happen. When the visitor stands in front of the two metres tall concrete statue it is not hard to imagine how Holger the Dane will one day come to life a day when needed. Through collaboration between Kronborg Castle administration, CAVI – Centre for Advanced Visualization and Interaction, DUL – Digital Urban Living, TEKNE Produktion and Aarhus University it is now possible to bring Holger the Dane to life trough an interactive visualization.

Read more on CAVI.dk or watch the YouTube video The Journey of Holger the Dane.

Conference and PhD workshops 
12-14 January 2011 
Aarhus University, Denmark

Conference website

The event brings together researchers from Aarhus University, University of Plymouth, and guests to address the broad theme of Public Interfaces as part of the ongoing research in Digital Urban Living. It is organized by Center for Digital Urban Living and DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Centre), Aarhus University in collaboration with Dept. of Aesthetic Studies, Aarhus University.

Emerging from Digital Urban Living’s ongoing research around interface aesthetics and criticism, the aim is to broaden issues to encompass the development of urban interfaces, and the changing concept of the ‘public’. What do we mean by public interface now?

Sensorial Cartography is a seminar by DARC (Digital Aesthetics Research Center) and Digital Urban Living, which shows examples from Roberto Paci Dalò’s works based on urban explorations and expanded cartography.The seminar is held at the Department for Information and Media Studies, october 6th.

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