1. 28 Apr



    Interested in cultural and creative industries? kreativORTungen explores what’s happening (GERMAN)

    After the Housing Forum in Budapest earlier this month I headed straight to Nuremberg to work with project leader Linn Quante on “kreativORTungen”, the second (and this time moving) conference on the cultural and creative industries.

    More on that in German:

    Wie möchtest Du in Zukunft leben und arbeiten? kreativORTungen lädt Künstler, Kultur- und Kreativschaffende zu einem zweitägigen Austausch über die zukünftige Gestaltung ihres Tätigkeitsfeldes ein. Das Symposium und die anschließende städteübergreifende Moving Conference bieten vertiefende und praxisbezogene Einblicke in den aktuellen Diskurs zur Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft. Thematisiert werden die vernetzten Arbeits- und Lebensentwürfe von Freelancern und kleinen Unternehmen in diesem Sektor. Neue Formen, Strukturen und Orte des Arbeitens und der Organisierung in der Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft werden diskutiert. Stets im Blickfeld ist dabei die Entwicklung von Positionen, Ideen und Utopien für die Zukunft dieses Arbeitsfeldes.
    via kreativortungen.wordpress.com

    Some visual documentation:

    via flickr.com

    We also had a TV team accompanying us:

    via youtube.com

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  2. 8 Feb



    The last two graphic recordings from the Free Culture Incubator at @transmediale #tm10 

    transmediale 2010 is over and it has been a great and inspiring festival in many ways. I’d like to thank Ela Kagel, who curated the Free Culture Incubator, for inviting me in to do graphic recording of the panel talks. A big thank you also goes to Mandy Schoßig at WWF Berlin for lending me their portable presentation wall. A little present for you is on it’s way :)
    And everyone who I talked and who took pictures to during those five days about the how and why of graphic recording - thank you for your interest and I encourage you to use the images in your own work or share them with others. They’re under a BY-NC-SA creative commons license. I will also divide the big graphics into smaller pieces which will enable you to remix the work.

    If you know of some kind of software or service that let’s you upload and arrange pictures freely let me know. Something like Prezi for pics, maybe.

    No. 3: Forms of Cultural Organisation

    Moderation: Bas van Heur (nl)
    Panelists: Mustafa Tazeoglu (de/tr) | Sebastian Sooth (de) | Trebor Scholz (de/us) | Michael Liebe (de)

    “Well, I have this project…” – this is how many stories around independent, creative labour begin. Cultural forms of organisation hardly ever develop on the basis of strategic considerations but rather cluster around the individual needs of a specific project. Teams are built for a limited amount of time, splitting up again, or merging into networks. Money sometimes comes from private sometimes from public sources; sometimes not at all. How is it possible to build sustainable structures in spite of such unreliable dynamics? Which models of organisation make sense in the field of art and free culture? And, most importantly: how will the cultural enterprise of the future look?



    No. 4: The Identity of Cultural Enterprises

    Moderation: Inga Wellmann (de)
    Panelists: Matthias Fritsch (de) | Regine Haschka-Helmer (de) | Clemens Lerche (de) | Tonia Welter (de)

    Each great brand needs its own culture for identity formation. Do cultural projects analogously have to become a brand too in order to attract a larger audience?
    Whilst traditional enterprises conjure up their corporate identity, the creative sector proudly points to its heterogeneity. Cultural producers however must find a language with which they can reach the public and be economically successful. How much corporate identity does a cultural enterprise need – and how does one communicate this identity?




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  3. 5 Feb



    Salon Talk at @transmediale No.2: Creativity as an Economic Resource #tm10

    No.2 : Creativity as an Economic Resource

    Moderation: Andy Cameron (uk) 
    Panelists: Matteo Pasquinelli (it) | Adam Somlai Fischer (hu) | Dr. Barbara Lippe (at) | Markus Kühn (at)

    Due to the economic crisis the creative industries have become a location factor praised by politicians as a growth market soon to outperform the car industry. The balance between artists and economic representatives is changing. It seems that the norm of the economy supporting the growth of culture is due to be reversed. We ask: in which way has this new framework changed the relation between art and capital? Can there be a balanced exchange between culture and economy? What are the preconditions for a cooperation at eye level?


    Videos over at the transmediale website.

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  4. 5 Feb



    Two graphic recordings of the Salon Talks at @transmediale coming up: No1 - Price and Value of Cultural Work

    The fourth and final panel is tomorrow from 11 to 13. I will post the pics one by one in the coming days. No. 1: Price and Value of Cultural Work
    Moderation: Jaime Stapleton (uk)

    Panelists: Kate Rich (uk) | I-Wei Li (tw/de) | Baruch Gottlieb (ca/de)| Dmytri Kleiner (de)

    What is the currency for the cultural enterprise of the future? Cultural producers and artists produce a multiplicity of values, most of which are immaterial and emerge from the social networks of cultural practitioners and their relation to the public: respect, appreciation or knowledge are the main resources. Cultural production basically happens through the support of numerous micro-economies which apply different currency systems such as bartering or contact brokering. On this basis cultural values develop which at best are beneficial to our entire society. But what flows back to the cultural producers? It is difficult to translate cultural values into adequate market values: how do you determine the economical value of cultural work? Which currency systems are available here? And, the other way around: how much is culture actually worth for us today?

    It’s also pretty neat to watch the videos and go through the graphic recording at the same time. I had a little talk  with Baruch about how cool it would be to make an interface of the pic and then be able to go to video or audio content as you click your way through the recording. That’s “Zukunftsmusik” (I love that German word), but I’m working on it ;) If you’re interested in working on sth. like that let me know.

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