[spectre] digital culture networking event in Cluj/Romania

[Andreas Broeckmann]

dear rarita, dear friends,

this is excellent news! i look forward to coming to cluj next month 
and hope that a few others will also make it there for this third 
picnic.

i found this page which has some useful first leads for travel information etc.

http://www.romaniatourism.com/cluj.html

i'd love to come over land, but looking at the train times, i guess 
that i will fly from berlin.

greetings,
-a


>Dear friends,
>
>We invite you to join us for "Mind the Gap", a european digital culture
>networking event that will take place in Cluj-Napoca (Romania) in
>16-18 June 2006.
>
>Culture flows. And it seems that Bernoulli’s principle laid out in the
>late 1700’s applies well to this kind of fluid too: you just connect two
>or more – cultural - recipients and transfer begins. But what is
>transferred and when? And what is the direction of transfer? In digital
>culture technology penetration lag or maturization cycles are just two of
>the parameters affecting all actors on the cultural scene. How do
>differences or similarities between connected cultures influence transfer?
>Either cultural producers or audiences, understanding the phenomena of
>cultural transfer is to our best interest. It helps us fit in the flow.
>
>The meeting aims to contribute to the networking of artists and
>organisations working in the field of digital culture across Europe and to
>foster the debate on the trends and developments in media arts in
>different parts of the continent and the connections and transfers that
>occur among the producers of digital content.On the same occasion AltArt
>will officially launch the BINAR Centre for Digital Culture, the first
>initiative of its kind in the country.
>
>Mind the Gap intends to continue the media picnic series initiated by kuda
>and V2 in 2004 (Trans-European Picnic, Novi Sad) and continued by
>SCCA/pro.ba (_Sarajevo Picnic_2005, Lost In Transition) in 2005 in
>Sarajevo.
>
>We warmly invite you to join us. And also to contribute to the refining
>and the selection of the topics to be discussed. For more details about
>the event and to view and comment on the proposed topics please visit our
>forum at www.altart.org/mindthegap.
>
>Partner: Transmediale/Berlin
>With financial support from: Romania National Cultural Fund, Goethe
>Institute, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Cultural Programme in Romania, SC Fornetti
>SRLFor more information please contact us at the details provided bellow.
>
>Hoping to meet you soon,
>
>Rarita Szakats
>
>AltArt Foundation
>Tel +40 723 263072
>Fax +40 264 587467
>office at altart.org
>www.altart.org
>www.altart.org/mindthegap
>
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