Atle Barcley (former director for Atelier Nord) and Gunn Marit Christenson (culture entrepeneur in Grenland) has founded a new company, Ezenz. They have just launched three year project plan for technology and culture cluster developments in the Grenland region. A 28-page project description is available as a pdf here. (Norwegian only)
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IKT Grenland and Porsgrunn Kunstforening are organizing a two-day conference and exhibition about the possible development of a cultural infrastructure for art and new technology in and around the cities of Skien and Porsgrunn.
Atle Barcley, the former director for Atelier Nord and PNEK board who has recently relocated to the region, will present a sketch for these developments which will be presented at the conference on Feb 14 and 15.
It is now confirmed that Per Platou will participate in one or more roundtable discussions at Les Rencontres Internationales in Paris, taking place at the Centre Pompidou, the musée national du Jeu de Paume, the Palais de Tokyo contemporary art centre and other locations at the end of November.
The debates in this years edition will focus on issues in art programming between new cinema and contemporary art - film, video, installation and net art.
Participants will be curators, artistic directors and programmers from European and extra-European national museums, contemporary art centers and biennales, in the fields of contemporary cinema, video and new media. The presence of these participants in Paris, each of them having an expert view on cultural and contemporary art issues, is of genuine interest.
The debates that will be proposed have a real stake : presenting a panorama of preoccupations and tracks explored in each country to give an account of this contemporary practices, and to accompany them, from the criticism side as well as from the side of audiences and artists themselves. The issues approached in each round table are subject to a preparation according to the specific participants of each round table, to their centers of interests and their artistic and professional preoccupations.
In connection with the opening of the Generator X exhibition in Porsgrunn Kunstforening, PNEK director Per Platou will give an introduction to the field of Electronic Art in Norway on a conference October 23rd at Klosterøya, Grenland. The conference will be held in Norwegian.
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PNEK invites its members to take field trip to Ars Electronica in Linz.