Digital Call - Prince Claus Fund

Second Call 2012
Digital forms of social and artistic expression
33 projects granted by the Prince Claus Fund
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Second Call 2012: Number of applications per country
Countries Projects approved Projects rejected TOTAL
Afghanistan 3 3
Albania 2 2
Angola 1 1 2
Argentina 6 6
Armenia 2 2
Azerbaijan 1 1
Benin 3 3
Bolivia 2 1 3
Brazil 2 1 3
Burkina Faso 4 4
Cameroon 1 8 9
Chad 2 2
Chile 2 4 6
China 1 1
Colombia 6 5 11
Congo 2 2
Costa Rica 1 1
Democratic Republic of Congo 4 4
Ecuador 2 2
Egypt 2 6 8
Ethiopia 1 1
Georgia 1 1
Ghana 2 2
Guatemala 2 2
Guinea 1 1
Haiti 2 2
India 1 3 4
Indonesia 6 6
Ivory Coast 1 1
Jordan 3 3
Kenya 2 2
Kosovo 1 1
Lebanon 3 3
Mali 1 1
Mauritania 1 1
Mexico 2 3 5
Morocco 4 4
Nepal 3 3
Nicaragua 1 3 4
Niger 2 2
Nigeria 1 5 6
Palestine 3 3
Peru 2 3 5
Philippines 2 2
Rwanda 2 2
Senegal 9 9
Somalia 1 1 2
South Africa 1 9 10
Sri Lanka 2 3 5
Syria 1 1
Tajikistan 1 1
Tanzania 2 2
Thailand 1 1
Togo 2 2
Trinidad and Tobago 1 1
Tunisia 1 1
Turkey 2 1 3
Uganda 7 7
Ukraine 1 1
United Arab Emirates 1 1
Uruguay 1 1
Uzbekistan 4 4
Zimbabwe 1 1 2
TOTAL 33 164 197
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Second Call 2012: Granted projects per categories
Categories
Number of
Projects
Projects’ Name
Visual Arts / Festival 3 Carnival Dream, Colombia
Afrikanation International Art Exchange, Somalia
Visual Arts Festival Damascus @ Istanbul, Turkey
Performance / Dance 2 MPEMBA WA MUKUNDU - The Magic of RED, Angola
Augmented dance in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Audio / Music / Radio 5 Radio Program on Digital Culture, Bolivia
Audiomapa.org, Chile
Radio Mixticius, Colombia
Tzay Kin: Mayan Sound Art And Experimental Radio, Mexico
Spreading the first awajun radioseries nationwide, Peru
Video / Film 5 Echoes of Silent Voices, Ivory Coast
Cinema at your door, Kosovo
VICO, Videoclub of expanded operation, Mexico
Top Goon – Diaries of a Little Dictator, Season 2, Syria
Youth Activism, Arts and New Media Project, Zimbabwe
Cultural Heritage 4 Audio Guide to the Egyptian Museum, Egypt
Multimedia Training Resource for Classical Tibetan Artists,
Nepal
INCA, Peru
Pattini/Kannaki Sharing Devotion and Reconciliation, Sri
Lanka
Platform / Forum 9 Tu Memorial – Despertemos la Memoria Local, Chile
Loop en Vivo, Colombia
Proyecto Rosa, Colombia
NotiCultura, Nicaragua
Arte Base Africa, Nigeria
Zanews Network, South Africa
HerSpace, Sri Lanka
Website accessibility for audiences within MENA region,
Turkey
Microcircuitos, Colombia
Workshop 5 El Bus Digital, Bolivia
Labmovel, Brazil
Setting up e-art and culture sections, Cameroon
El Puerto MAMM, Colombia
Arab Digital Expression Camp, Egypt
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CONTENTS:
Page
MPEMBA WA MUKUNDU – The Magic of RED 5
El Bus Digital 6
Radio programme on Digital Culture 7
Augmented dance in Rio de Janeiro 8
Labmovel 9
Setting up e-art and culture sections 10
Audiomapa.org 11
Tu Memorial – Despertemos la Memoria Local 12
Loop en Vivo 13
Proyecto Rosa 14
Carnival Dream 15
Radio Mixticius 16
Microcircuitos 17
EL Puerto MAMM 18
Arab Digital Expression Camp 19
Audio Guide to the Egyptian Museum 20
Multimedia Training Resource for Classical Tibetan Artists, 21
Echoes of Silent Voices 22
Cinema at your Door 23
VICO, Videoclub of expanded operation 24
Tzay Kin: Mayan Sound Art And Experimental Radio, 25
NotiCultura 27
Art Base Africa 28
Spreading the first awajun radioseries nationwide 29
INCA 30
Afrikanation International 31
Zanews Network 32
Pattini/Kannaki Sharing Devotion and Reconciliation 33
HerSpace 34
Top Goon – Diaries of a Little Dictator, Season 2 35
Visual Arts Festival Damascus @ Istanbul 36
Website accessibility for audiences within MENA region 37
Youth Activism, Arts and New Media Project 38
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MPEMBA WA MUKUNDU - The Magic of RED
Who: Companhia de Dança Contemporânea de Angola
What: A choreography based on an ancient tale, built with new media technologies
Where: Angola
When: From 1-10-2012 to 31-12-2012
Amount attributed: 12,000 Euro
Founded in 1999 as the first professional Angolan dance group, the Companhia de Danca Contemporânea
(CDC) enjoys a large prestige and respect within the Angolan society and cultural sphere. The main goal
of the Company is the creation of new languages and aesthetics within Angolan dance, recovering
popular culture's elements and exploring the cohabitation between traditional and contemporary dance.
Angolan society is developing in a fast pace despite the fact that the country civil war just ended 15
years ago. The Angolan society is increasingly open to new and creative ideas in which their cultural
identity has been explored by a wide range of artistic practices, especially among music and
contemporary dance sectors.
The proposed project is articulated in a choreography piece with 7 dancers, 3 international new media
artists and a musician. It is planned to be shown in a public space in the city of Luanda as well as in
different theatres among the country and abroad. The project aims to identify an oral traditional
narrative, transform this narrative into a choreography and build it up with the use of new media and
audiovisual technology.
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El Bus Digital
Who: Fundación Visión Cultural
What: A digital bus bringing digital technologies to the rural areas in Bolivia
Where: Bolivia
When: From 01-11-2012 to 31-10-2013
Amount attributed: 22,497 Euro
El Bus Digital is a project launched by Fundación Visión Cultural, a Bolivian institution whose mission is
to help strengthening the cultural life in Bolivia and to support the intercultural exchange in the region.
The project aims at promoting digital technologies as a tool to express cultural identity of semi-urban
and rural young Bolivians. For this purpose a bus will be equipped and driven throughout these rural
zones.
The bus will serve as a platform for a training process to motivate local participants to actively use
digital tools. This challenge will involve professional artists as well as community leaders, which have a
key role in the process, increasing participant’s self-esteem, strengthening identities and motivating their
creativity. The Fundación Visión Cultural as coordinator of the process will set up the cooperation with
the municipalities that take part of the three planned geographical routes. Institutional participation of
the La Paz, Cochabamba, Oruro and Beni governorates will be requested, as well as the participation of
an internet provider that will be working in the field. Union Latina de Bolivia will be one of the strategic
allies as one of the institutions that has worked with high effort in the cultural field of Bolivia.
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Radio Program on Digital Culture
Who:
Samanta Orihuela Yucra
What:
The realization of a radio programme in Quechua and Spanish concerning digital
culture
topics that can help people perform better socially and economically in the digital
environment.
Where: Bolivia; Cochabamba - Oruro- Tarija
When: From 5-11-2012 to 31-10-2013
Amount attributed: 9,700 Euro
Samanta Orihuela Yucra, involved in research on digital culture and cultural management projects will
implement a radio programme on digital culture both in Quechua and Spanish. The targeted audience of
the programme are Quechua communities , which are usually unfamiliar with the possibilities that
technology has to offer. The Radio Program is about life in the virtual world and about how to acquire
little by little social capabilities for life in a digital society.
This project aims to help youngsters enter the digital environment with more knowledge beforehand in
order to help them feel more self-assured to contribute with their own content and to shorten the
digital gap. The knowledge that will be offered on the programme is vital in order to prevent them from
dangerous situations of the digital world so that people can practice their freedom of speech and their
right to enjoy technology as part of their lives.
This project could pay a great contribution in getting many youngsters to learn and get thrilled about
digital world, to investigate and seize opportunities presented to them and, above all, smash
technological taboos, which only generate fears and create mental barriers.
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Augmented dance in Rio de Janeiro
Who: Daniella de Aguiar
What: Virtual dance performances to be accessed for free.
Where: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
When: From 7-01-2013 to 30-11-2013
Amount attributed: 18,062 Euro
This project combines Mobile Augmented Reality, Contemporary Dance, Music, and
Architecture; Its main goal is to endow specific locations of the city of Rio de Janeiro with virtual dance
performances, accessed through locative media (smartphones or tablets). Summarily, any user equipped
with a tablet or smartphone with an Internet connection will have free access to experimental
multimedia pieces of contemporary dance and music while moving through specific points of the city of
Rio de Janeiro.
This project will reach audiences that normally have no access to live ballet and modern dance
performances staged indoors and for which admission fee is charged. It is true that recordings of such
performances can be accessed on the internet, but this project offers something different: site specific
dance and accompanying music. As long as those who do not own those tools will be given access to
them and as long as information about the project is sufficiently disseminated as foreseen by the project
it can be considered a significant, innovative, and most democratic cultural enterprise combining
traditional and very modern media for aesthetic and educational purposes. A digital catalogue about the
project that will be organized by João Queiroz (researcher/professor) and distributed among educational
and cultural institutions.
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Labmovel
Who: Gisela Domschke
What: LABMOVEL, a mobile lab platform
Where: São Paulo, Brazil
When: From January 2013 to April 2013
Amount attributed: 13,000 Euro
Labmovel is a mobile lab platform based in São Paulo with the main objective of promoting social change
through art and knowledge sharing. The project will be particularly focused on youth aged 12 to 18
years old of critical areas in city of São Paulo, and will gradually spread to various locations in the city
outlying regions. The project offers a series of activities and workshops involving the use of digital media
in public spaces. Eight female artists from Brazil are invited to monitor the workshops, which will mainly
discuss the themes of “Playing” and “Identity”. From building an electronic music instrument to playing
with mirrors and video cameras or discussing the role of women within new media, workshops will be
diverse and heterogeneous.
Through its mobility, the project will be able to reach areas of the city as well as communities that are
outside the hit of the main cultural hubs in Brazil. This will thus offer a unique opportunity to explore
the creative and empowering use of media (arts) and technology. Through the Labmovel it is the
temporary cultural infrastructure that literally goes to the heart of these communities.
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Setting up e-art and culture sections
Who: National Book Development Council Cameroon
What: Setting up of e-art and culture sections for 3 community libraries in Cameroon
Where: Ideanau, Kumba and Bamenda, Cameroon
When: 1-3-2013
Amount attributed: 12,000 Euro
The National Book Development Council Cameroon (NBDC) is a non-profit, non-governmental
organisation. It has taken the noble responsibility of building a sustainable book/library culture in
Cameroon for the past two decades. Between 2008 and 2011, they initiated a mobile library, “books-onwheels”,
a project which distributed books among ten community libraries in the region.
Their current project’s goal is to use the access to the internet and e-resources to promote research,
information exchange and enhancement of artistic skills in Cameroon. Actually, e-learning has hardly
taken off in the country even though it is known its great potential to improve art exchange and skills.
The three pilot libraries are having a relative high influx of users. They are located in towns where
electricity supply is stable and their internet speed relatively fast and with enough library space.
This project aims to directly respond to the problem by using ICT hardware and training and establish e-
art corners in the 3 pilot libraries. These e-art corners will offer the possibility for students, artists,
cultural practitioners and researchers to have access to solutions, websites, resources, software, and all
material present on the Internet.
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Audiomapa.org
Who: Tsonami
What: Audiomapa.org
Where: Aysen, Campos de Hielo and Atacama desert in Chile.
When: February 2013
Amount attributed: 8,000 Euro
Tsonami is a non-profit organisation dedicated to promote culture of sound and technologies in Chile
and South America. The organisation, from Valparaiso, organises an international festival once a year,
where people interested in sound and related contemporary issues share experiences and projects.
Audiomapa is a Soundmap on the web dedicated to sound recording of natural and urban places in
ecological or social danger. The project focuses on field recordings of sound in different places in Chile.
This grant finances three travels into Chilean territory, where we can identify potential political,
economical, or ecological disasters. The selected locations include Atacama region (mineral and natural
resources extraction and devastation), Aysen (huge hydroelectric project) and glaciers (big water
resources). The idea is to preserve the actual Soundscape of this three in danger places, and put the
recordings on an open web platform. www.audiomapa.org
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Tu Memorial - Despertemos la Memoria Local
Who: Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos
What: A microwebsite with research on collective memory of dictatorship done by youth
groups throughout Chile.
Where: Cities throughout Chile
When: From 1-11- 2012 until 30- 09- 2013
Amount attributed: 12,000 Euro
The Museum of Memory and Human Rights is dedicated to expose the systematic human right violations
which occurred between 1973 and 1990 under Chile’s military dictatorship led by general Augusto
Pinochet. The museum offers a permanent exhibition based on the findings of commissions of truth and
reconciliation in the country. In addition, the museum offers educational, cultural and research-based
activities. By exposing these crimes to the public, and by instigating an ethical reflection on memory,
solidarity and the importance of respect for human rights, the museum aims to “strengthen the national
will so that never again these events will be repeated and the dignity of human beings affected”.
The project Tu Memorial’ – Despertemos la Memoria Local (‘Your Memorial’ – Awaken Local Memory) is a
microwebsite fueled by research from youth groups throughout Chile. The site documents local
memory (memorials, street names, places of torture, disappearance, political imprisonment, memories
of relatives and neighbors, etc.). The project aims to give new impact and appreciation to the more than
200 memorials throughout the country, reveal the diverse perspectives of local memory and contribute
to the development of human rights education.Working with the second generation after the
dictatorship the project seeks to contribute to heal and overcome the polarization that still exists in the
country. Once the project is finished, the website will remain online as part of the museum website.
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Loop en Vivo
Who: Wilson Diaz on behalf of Helena Producciones
What: An online critical TV show providing live broadcasting of the 8 th edition of “the Festival
de Performance de Cali” and promoting a critical dialogue from different points of view.
Where: Cali, Colombia
When: From 20-11-2012 to 24-11-2012
Amount attributed: 9,000 Euro
Loop en vivo (8th edition of the Festival de Performance de Cali) will become an online critical TV show
that will provide live broadcasts of all the events of the Festival de Performance de Cali and promote a
critical dialogue from different points of view (gender, geography, culture, diasporas) about the 8th
Festival de Performance de Cali, which will take place from 20 until 24 November 2012. This project
will also link this broadcast to the video archive of Helena Producciones. Loop en vivo aims to create a
bigger audience for art in Cali through opportunities that promote access for and encourage discussion
between people.
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Proyecto Rosa
Who: Blogosfera Producciones SAS-La Silla Vacía
What: Proyecto Rosa, Visibilization of a land restitution leader's work through art and
journalism.
Where: Bogota
When: From 12-8-2012 to 21-12-2012
Amount attributed: 20,000 Euro
Throughout journalistic contents, artistic proposals such as works of art, posters and songs, and online
viral campaigns, Proyecto Rosa is a project that wants to make visible the universe of those who lead
the fight of the victims in Colombia. Ever since the Project’s conception, the idea was to rescue an
anonymous figure who would deserve to become a national hero, thanks to his or her work, effort and
struggle. This idea was perfectly articulated to a second objective of journalistic nature: not to allow the
killing of those who are struggling to regain their land, or those who tell the reality or know the truth
about the war, with getting no reactions from the country. Proyecto Rosa is one of La Silla’s journalistic
experiments, which intends to generate new multidisciplinary narrative and research possibilities that
revolve around stories of power and politics in Colombia.
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Carnival Dream
Who:
Efrain Fajardo on behalf of ReconoSer Foundation
What:
Self-expressions of children artists in “El Carnaval de Negros y Blancos” in Pasto
Where:
Pasto, Colombia
When: From15-11- 2012 to 28-2- 2013
Amount attributed: 10,000 Euro
Foundation ReconoSer designs, implements and promotes educational, cultural and social
projects for marginalized people. Through artistic, cultural and educational programmes, the
organisation promotes inclusion and employment and aims at strengthening these vulnerable groups.
The project Carnival Dream aims to present “El Carnaval de Negros y Blancos” (“The Carnival of Blacks
and Whites”) as perceived in children’s imagination through modern technology and media. There will
be an open invitation to children aged 8-12 years to participate in the Carnival and perform as dancers,
actors, musicians etc. Carnival Dream collects the true stories from children and create a digital book.
The content of the book will include texts, photographs, drawings or videos made by the children during
the workshops and the carnival. The training sessions aim to develop the necessary skills for a digital
world among the children. Sessions will promote creativity, artistic experience and play.
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Radio Mixticius
Who: Radio Mixticius
What: The on-site recording of five music festivals in Colombia.
Where: Latin America
When: From January 2013 until January 2014
Amount attributed: 10,000 Euro
Radio Mixticius is a radio-blog that presents digital recordings, interviews, analysis and interpretation of
local music in specialized podcasts. Radio Mixticius has an innovative approach that integrates digital
culture and social networks with digital recording of live music. With this particular project, Radio
Mixticius wants to increase the breadth of music and reach new audiences. The grant will enable
recording and broadcasting five festivals of traditional music. En la escena, one of the Mixticius’ nine
streams, presents local concerts and cultural events. Documenting current music helps creating a state
of art, which is invaluable for those who cannot attend the events, as well as for archiving purposes.
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MICROCIRCUITOS
Who: Microcircuitos
What: A web platform with free and public access of specialized contents about sound art,
radio art and contemporary music
Where: Colombia
When: October 2012 to May 2012
Amount attributed: 23,000 Euro
Microcircuitos is an open access website with sound art, radio art and contemporary music materials
from1960 to the present. The platform aims to make accessible a set of publications that are the result
of longstanding research carried during the past 15 years. The research has been done and self-managed
by Cortocircuitos members and it will now be available to download under the Creative Commons 3.0
license. The website will cover a database of artists, events and institutions that promote sound art and
contemporary music in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina and Venezuela. The online Library will
propose a collection of documents, scores, audio and visual material built for the specific purpose of
public consultation.
Microcircuitos will also provide an online radio, the first of its kind in South America, featuring the
existing catalog of approximately 100 works by South American sound artists. The power of the radio
will consist on developing current audiences and promoting exchange and interaction within sound art
communities in the subcontinent. In short, a pioneering project that proposes a regional dialogue among
the artists themselves and an excellent vehicle for visibility of works of this type where artistic and
cultural merit often outweigh commercial appeal.
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El Puerto MAMM
Who: El Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM)
What: El Puerto MAMM
Where: Medellín, Colombia
When: From 15-06-2012 to 15-06-2013
Amount attributed: 12,000 Euro
Since its establishment in 1978, the Medellin ModernArt Museum considers itself as a participative
meeting space for Colombian citizens, a permanent cultural centre for the development of conservation,
research and dissemination of art practices in the audiovisual field. The museum aims to stablish a link
between the public, issues in society and art practices.
El Puerto MAMM (the port of MAMM) is a project of El Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín based on
the model of the so called Media Lab. With El Puerto the museum aims to create a space for research
and creation of projects that integrate art, science, ecology and digital media for the benefit of the
community. El Puerto is conceived as a laboratory prototype for Medellín that extends the opportunities
of technology and uses technology to try to solve specific problems or questions from groups in the
local community and neighborhoods.
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Arab Digital Expression Camp
Who: Arab Digital Expression Foundation
What: Arab Digital Expression Camp
Where: Egypt
When: From 1-10-2012 to 30-09-2013
Amount attributed: 15,000 Euro
Arab Digital Expression Camp is a yearly residential summer camp for Arab youngsters aged between 12
and 15 years. It aims at promoting the sustainable use of information and communication technologies
for digital expression and artistic creation. Each year they develop - in collaboration with distinguished
Arab professional artists, thinkers, techies, bloggers and educators from across the region - a multi track
educational curriculum in Digital Sound and Music, Digital Video , Animation and Web 2.0 based on
open source concepts and tools. In these canmps children and young learn how to use new media and
digital culture and specially how to apply these tools to develop freedom of expression and critical
thinking.
On "Training of Trainers" Arab professionals train younger aged 20-30 in implementing this curriculum
and mentoring youngsters (aged 12-15) for a two-week summer residential camp in "digital expression".
These camps bring together youth from all over the Arab world, which ensures that the used
methodology is will be duplicated in the different Arab countries in the future.
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Audio Guide to the Egyptian Museum
Who: Contemporary Image Collective (CIC) / Thomas Hartwell
What: Mp3 'audio guide' to the Egyptian Museum
Where: Cairo, Egypt
When: From 1-10-2012 to 31-8-2013
Amount attributed: 20,000 Euro
Contempory Image Collctive (CIC) is an independent initiative founded in Egypt in 2004. Its
mission spans comtemporary art and media educational programming that responds to and develops
visual culture and artistic practice, engagement and discourse. Contemporary art programming at CIC
aims to produce critical contexts for a range of practices via exhibitions, residencies, special projects,
discursive events, publications and educational activities.
Starting October 2012, the Audio Guide project commissions 8 practitioners in the fields of art, sound
art, music to develop audio works for free download, with an open brief of the work designed to be
listened specifically in the Egyptian Museum. 4 of the practitioners are Egypt-based and 4 come from
abroad. Foreign visitors are welcomed in a research residency of up to two weeks', during which they
would be asked also to give a public talk or short workshop at CIC in relation to their practice. All
verbal contributions are produced in Arabic and English.
Furthermore, the area of Tahrir and Downtown Cairo where the Museum is sited is being associated
with crime, graffiti, and protest violence. Due to this context and despite being affordable to Egyptians,
the Museum is suffering low visitor figures. This project aims to attract visitors back to Downtown
Cairo, enlivening this area where a great deal of the contemporary art scene is also located.
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Multimedia Training Resource for Classical Tibetan Artists
Who: The Orient Foundation
What: Digital multimedia training
Where: India and Nepal
When: 15/10/2012 to 14/10/2013
Amount attributed: 12,000 Euro
Since 2003, The Orient Foundation has been working in cooperation with leading artists of central
Tibet, Amdo and Kham to create a digital multimedia resource documenting the endangered knowledge
and skills of Tibet’s greatest 20th century classical artists. If the rich and sophisticated classical painting
traditions of Tibet are to be revitalised, if the regional communities for whom the arts have been the
mainstay of the economy need to survive, and if the historic sacred Buddhist sites of the Tibetan cultural
areas of Asia are to be restored to a high standard, the artistic knowledge and skills held by elder master
artists have to be successfully transferred to future generations.
Over a year, The Orient Foundation photographer, Lobsang Palden, will visit each of the partner
collections photographing their works which are of exemplary quality. The photographs will then be
assessed by the Foundation’s arts consultants at the Central University of Tibetan Studies and selected
works will be included. Thus, the current generation of classical artists will be able to view and study an
extensive range of surviving masterpieces of classical Tibetan art. Also during that period, the research
team will add the remaining 300 iconographic charts to the existing collection, providing a complete
reference of 1,200 major sacred figures which compose the principal iconographic spectrum of Tibetan
art.
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Echoes of Silent voices
Who: Selay Marius Kouassi
What: Bringing voices of people from zones of silence to the global world.
Where: Ivory Coast; Abidjan (South), Man, Guiglo, Duékoué (West)
When: From 1-11-2012 to 1-11-2013
Amount attributed: 12,000 Euro
“Echoes of Silent voices” is a project that aims at facilitating freedom of expression and development of
the conflict-affected rural community in the western Ivory Coast. It aims at telling, to a wider audience,
the stories of people hit by the conflict in that region of the country. Foreign journalists covered
extensively the events in Ivory Coast , however the people on the ground had limited opportunities of
telling their stories. The digital news mobile project proposes to promote forms of expression within
and outside these communities to foster understanding of the past. The first goal of the project is to
establish an interactive platform, and make it central to the access and exchange of information. The
second aim is to empower members of the former warring communities by teaching them how to share
news content within the platform. Equipped with internet connected phones these leaders will be the
main actors and editors of the news updates on the platform. The news will be also broadcasted in local
languages (Weh, Guerey, Dioula) to ensure reaching the local population.
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Cinema At Your Door
Who: Dokufest, The International Documentary and Short Film Festival
What: : A documented series of film screenings in 30 rural villages in the region of Prizren.
Where: Kosovo; Rural villages of Prizren Region
When: From 1-12- 2012 until 30-11- 2013
Amount attributed: 16,000 Euro
DokuFest started in 2002 with the screening of films, mostly from Kosovo and the neighbouring
countries, on the old cinema of Prizren. The growth of attendance each year forced them to explore for
alternative options of screening venues and exhibiting spaces.The number of cinemas in Kosovo, which
was 30 before the conflict, has dropped to a single permanent cinema operating in the new millennia in
the capital of Kosovo – Pristina.
DokuFest is now planning a further enlargement of its activities that would include communities
inhabiting rural areas of the Prizren region. After the initiatives involving the inclusion of high school
students into the group of film lovers, this project concentrates on the activation of rural areas in the
industry. The lack of cultural activities is a reality of the rural areas of Kosovo, including the film sector.
The incapacity of providing the country with permanent cinemas has deeply affected the local film
production which is made up of individual initiatives in general.
To offer a solution in this matter, Dokufest introduces travelling cinema throughout rural areas of
Prizren region offering free film screenings. As part of the project, each day a new village will be
introduced to new films, while the audience will have the chance of participating in debates on the
everyday difficulties and the lack of the cultural activities in their surroundings. After the 2 months
travelling, the entire material will be collected and edited into a single film. The film will be exhibited in
the cinema run by DokuFest.
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VICO, Videoclub of expanded operation
Who:
Javier Toscano
What:
The VICO project: A mini-archive for exhibition, production and analysis of
visual media from Mexico and Central America and the workshop “Citizen
Video”.
Where:
Mexico ; Tijuana, San Luis Potosí, Oaxaca, Mérida
When: From 1-11- 2012 until 31 August 2013
Amount attributed: 14,350 Euro
The VICO, Videoclub of Expanded Operation, is a dynamic mini-archive of contemporary video art and
short film. This initiative is already widely known in Mexico City, but the limitation of resources has
constrained its outreach. The VICO proposes ways of expanding to different cities and contexts within
the country though a specific seminar-workshop: Citizen Video, based on a civic-engaged approach to
contemporary video tools. The special module The Citizen Video is designed for 35-40 hour courses,
repeated along 4 major presentations of the project in 4 Mexican cities. It is aimed at a general audience,
with emphasis on young artists and students in the areas of communication, filmmaking and journalism.
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Tzay Kin: Mayan Sound Art And Experimental Radio
Who:
What:
Where:
When:
Byrt Manfred Wammack, Yoochel Kaaj: Cine Video Cultura, A.C. Turix Collective
independent
New media training, creation of collective artworks, setting up a radio station for local
communities
Mérida and Valladolid, Yucatán México
Amount attributed: 15,000 Euro
Tzay Kin: Mayan Sound Art And Experimental Radio is a contemporary sound art and experimental
electronics project, which will connect two rural Mayan communities in the Yucatán Peninsula with
international collaborators from Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere by means of a locally-built and
operated open internet radio station. The project takes its name from one of the original sound artists,
Cicada, or Tzay K’in, as it is known in Yucatec Maya. This project will be a diagnostic exploration of
digital and analogue technologies that have failed to provide a voice for the rural Maya. Marginalized
group have limited access to radio and television, and are bound to listen to broadcasts in a language
other than their own. This creative alternative outside of the mainstream radio stations will provide the
possibilities of open communication and greater opportunities for artistic and intercultural collaboration
for marginalized groups.
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NotiCultura
Who: NotiCultura.com
What: Workshops on digital cultural journalism
Where: Carribean coast of Nicaragua; cities: Bilwi (Puerto Cabeza), Bluefields
When: From 12-11-2012 until 25-10- 2013
Amount attributed: 10,000 Euro
The Nicaraguan online platform, NotiCultura, has the goal of promoting regional cultural activism in
Nicaragua through the use of new online media tools. The platform has the objective of creating and
facilitating intercultural dialogue between the Caribbean and the Pacific region of Nicaragua. Through
workshops participants from the Caribbean region will learn about Internet journalism, tools for online
activism and will have the opportunity to share opinions and experience with their counterparts in the
Pacific region.
This first phase of the project includes workshops on digital cultural journalism for participants from
Bilwi and Bluefields, two important cities in the Nicaraguan Caribbean region. The participants will be
young leaders (between 18 and 30) of different organisations that work on subjects connected to the
Nicaraguan Caribbean community. After the workshops are finished the works resulting from them will
be published on the platform NotiCultura.org, hosting the opinions, cultural information and productions
coming from both the Pacific and the Caribbean regions of Nicaragua.
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Art Base Africa
Who: African Artists’ Foundation
What: Online Journal, Database, Participatory Forum for Contemporary African Art
Where: Lagos, Nigeria
When: From 1-11-2012 until 1-11-2013
Amount attributed: 19,200 Euro
The Nigerian non-profit organization African Artists’ Foundation is planning on establishing the ART
BASE AFRICA, an online platform for fostering an interactive and participatory forum for critical debate
on contemporary African art. Through a website, mobile application, and radio broadcast, ART BASE
AFRICA will act as an artistic journal published quarterly on thematic issues. ART BASE AFRICA is
important because it fills the gap between the access to information that is readily available in Western
art markets, and levels the playing field for African artists to gain exposure and situate their work in a
critical discourse. The expected result of ART BASE AFRICA is to build and sustain an online
community for those seeking information about contemporary African art and to build a platform that
allows for artistic collaboration and scholarly reflection. For the local audience, such a project will allow
for the general public to gain access to the African arts community and become involved. For local
artists, it will allow for their work to be exhibited online.
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Spreading the first awajun radioseries nationwide
Who: Asociación cultural Proyecto Radionovela
What: Spreading the first awajun radioseries nationwide
Where: Peru
When: From October 2012 until 01-03-2013
Amount attributed: 15,000 Euro
“Etsa nantu, pasión en la Amazonía” was the first ever radio program to portray the native Amazonian
ethnic groups: Awajun and Wampis. The 24-episode series was written, recorded and produced by
ethnic minorities in question. The current project aims at broadcasting "Etsa nantu, pasón en la
Amazonía" to the whole country and raising awareness about cultural diversity through entertainment.
The organization wants to create a new way of digital media production in Peru making the series
available through cell phones. Making “Etsa nantu” a mass media phenomenon will mark the first time
that an Amazonian fiction series is listened to by a broad audience. Ultimately, the initiative will raise
awareness and knowledge of the cultural richness and issues that exist in this part of Peru.
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INCA
Who: Alejandra Ballón Gutierrez
What: Nationwide, Critical research and Art/Investigación Nacional Crítica y Arte.
Where: Lima, Peru
When: From 1-10-2012 until 30-09-2013
Amount attributed: 15,000 Euro
INCA project is an online platform for contemporary Peruvian memory and theory. The first stage
encompasses the development of an e-archive with around 70 digitalized documents from the Peruvian
art scene from the 1950s up to the present. Articles and audios of the abstracts will available in Spanish,
Quechua and English. The second stage involves the production and online publication of 10 trilingual e-
books. The aim of the project is twofold: to recuperate and protect the content of the recent Peruvian
cultural memory, and to produce new opportunities for viewing the contemporary Peruvian cultural
scene.
Due to the extreme censorship and destructive policy towards the arts during the decade of the
Fujimori dictatorship (1990-2000), Peru was left with a ‘vacuum’ in which there are no archives,
publications, or critics. INCA proposes to regenerate and heal Peru’s contemporary arts scene by filling
the gap in the infrastructure for the creation, presentation, and discussion concerning contemporary
arts, to create a space for critical reflection on Peru’s social, economic and political context.
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Afrikanation International Art Exchange
Who:
What:
Where:
When:
Afrikanation Artists Organization
Afrikanation International Art Exchange, an intercultural, artistic exchange online
amongst Somali & Ethiopian artists
Hargeisa, Somalia and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
From 15-10- 2012 until 15-10- 2013 (one year)
Amount attributed: 10,900 Euro
Afrikanation Artists Organization develops a website for international, cross-cultural and
interdisciplinary artistic collaborations, centering around two main topics: ‘Family Rituals and Traditions’
and ‘Goals and Dreams’. The initial content of the website will be a result of artistic collaborations
between 10 artists in Hargeisa, Somalia and 10 artists in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. With support from local
community organizers Mustafe Saeed (Hargeisa) and Zerihun Seyoum (Addis Ababa), they will upload
video interviews, images, audio files, and personal profiles. The platform and the artists involved will be
presented at a community event in Hargeisa, Somalia in October 2013. Afrikanation Artists Organisation
envisions a world where cultural differences are respected, where cultural heritage is safeguarded and
where artists are offered the opportunities to gain a better understanding of their cultural heritage.
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Zanews Network
Who: Bothe Worlds Investment pty Limited
What: Makeover of existing website
Where: South Africa
When: From 1-06-2012 until 30-05-2013
Amount attributed: 15,000 Euro
The ZANEWS NETWORK project involves a major overhaul of the ZANEWS website, to create the
ZANEWSNETWORK, a content-rich online platform combining videos, audio, articles, cartoons, art
and user-generated content, providing a one-stop hub for active citizens wishing to stay in sync with
local and global current affairs. In cooperation with affiliated quality satirical content creators, the ZA
NEWS NETWORK will be filling a gap in the local and international current online offering, addressing a
need for free, vibrant and humorous political and social commentary, providing an open and flexible
platform to access and share the best satirical forms of expression, deepening engagement via a vibrant
community of active and critical users, available to all, from legacy phone users to tablet owners, via an
innovative website powered by the latest web and mobile technologies.
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Pattini/Kannaki Sharing Devotion and Reconciliation
Who: Sharni Jayawardena
What: Pattini/Kannaki Sharing Devotion and Reconciliation
Where: Sri Lanka
When: From 1-01-2013 until 31-12-2013
Amount attributed: 20,000 Euro
The project will explore concepts of justice, security, healing and reconciliation in the current Sri Lankan
post-war context by studying and documenting devotion to the Goddess Pattini/Kannaki by Sinhala
Buddhists and Tamil Hindus. Devotion to Pattini/Kannaki is an inspiring example of Hindu-Buddhist
syncretism in Sri Lanka. The goddess is revered by both Sinhala Buddhist and Tamil Hindu Sri Lankans,
though rituals and practices of veneration vary between the two religions, and regionally. Ironically, most
Sri Lankans are unaware that she is a shared. Sinhala Buddhists know her as Pattini, and Tamil Hindus as
Kannaki. Pattini/Kannaki is a fascinating and complex example of womanhood: She remains the chaste
and loyal wife of Kovalan, despite his unfaithfulness and betrayal. She is also the outraged widow who
pulls out her left breast and sets alight an entire city in her determination to redress injustice.
The documentation – comprising photography and text – will be shared through an interactive and
trilingual website that will enable the continuous incorporation of information and perspectives. It is
hoped that the narratives and conversations that are generated will bring about a keener sensitivity to
the experiences of people affected by the armed conflict and a better understanding of what is needed
to achieve reconciliation.
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HerSpace
Who:
Women and Media Collective
What:
Training in new media production and design for a multi-ethnic online community
Where:
Colombo and two other selected districts in Sri Lanka
When: From1-10- 2012 until 30-09-2013
Amount attributed: 15,000 Euro
Women and Media Collective will develop HerSpace (Agay Avakashaya in Sinhala and Aval Kalam in
Tamil), a community of women bloggers and other women new media producers in Sri Lanka
(photographers, film makers, graphic designers, cartoonists, painters, etc.). They will meet, train and
work together; operate online and offline, to become a strong community that works, writes and
produces via new media on the most salient issues in post-war Sri Lanka. The project aims to impart
knowledge and skills on safety in ICT use so that the participants are more aware of paramount need
for self-protection. The workshops include training on online security and safety, production of creative
and effective new media, promotion of content online, and awareness raising workshops on prominent
issues in post-conflict Sri Lanka, such as reconciliation, gender based violence, migration and inter-ethnic
development and arts and culture. The space will be in English, Sinhala and Tamil to allow these women
to express themselves and create a network as well as a common voice, something innovative in its local
context and especially relevant socially as it targets women living inside and outside Colombo.
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Top Goon – Diaries of a Little Dictator, Season 2
Who:
What:
Where:
When:
Masasit Mati, a group young Syrian and international artists
Fifteen episodes of Top Goon – Diaries of a Little Dictator, a weekly web-based finger
puppet show
Social media and in broadcasts on Syrian and Arabic satellite channels.
From 15-5-2012 until1-8-2012
Masasit Mati aims to implement the second season of Top Goon during May and
broadcast its first episode around June.
Amount attributed: 17,150 Euro
Top Goon – Diaries of a Little Dictator is a weekly web-based finger puppet show created by a
group of young Syrian and international artists seeking to contribute to the popular uprising and peaceful
regime change in Syria through political satire, using creative resistance to fight for freedom of
expression. It is strongly inspired by the principles of the non-violence successfully practiced by
movements around the world and theorized by Gene Sharp, its most prominent theoretical
representative. The artists are from different backgrounds, such as acting, playwriting, sculpturing,
scenography, costume designing, music and film making.
As the crisis in Syria enters a dangerous new phase of escalating violence, with an increasingly violent
regime and the emergence of armed opposition groups, threatening to tip the country into civil wa Top
goon – Diaries of a Little Dictator spreads its core message of peace and non-violence, using humour and
black comedy to foster democratic debate and reduce sectarian tensions.
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Visual Arts Festival Damascus @ Istanbul
Who: DEPO / Anadolu Kültür
What: Visual Arts Festival Damascus, Eastern Mediterranean Region Digital arts festival
Where: Istanbul, Turkey
When: June 2013
Amount attributed: 12,030 Euro
The VAFD was set up in Damascus in 2010 as a platform for exchange and artistic collaboration, where
Syrian and international artists could meet. In June 2013, DEPO and VAFD intend to collaborate on a
special program, which focuses on how visual artists from Arab countries, Syria in particular, make use
of digital media to reflect on the social and political conflict currently affecting their societies. During the
‘revolution period’, digital technologies have emerged as popular means of communication for many
artists. Art therefore has transformed from something that was exclusive to the elites, to a tool for
protest reaching people from all layers of society, and artists have become emblematic characters of the
revolution (Ahmed Bassiony in Egypt, Ali Ferzat in Syria).
Arab contemporary visual arts will be introduced through video artworks (selected though an open call
on social networks in November 2012), films and documentaries from well-known and emerging Syrian
film makers, a digital art installation, an exhibition (showing work from Turkish and Middle Eastern
artists selected via an open call, who will also have the chance to meet each other), and panel
discussions between Arab and Turkish artists and intellectuals.
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Website accessibility for audiences within MENA region
Who: ArtRole
What: To engage with local artists and communities through a sophisticated website in
Kurdish, Arabic and Turkish and Persian
Where: Turkey-Iraq
When: From 01-05-2012
Amount attributed: 8500Euro
As an international organisation, ArtRole has been instrumental in raising the profile of contemporary art
and culture within Iraq and Iraqi Kurdistan overseas. The supported project proposes an online platform
that provides information in Arabic, Kurdish, Turkish and Persian on contemporary cultural activities
and projects in the region of Turkey and Iraq. Besides cultural information, this new website will feature
information on local art galleries, art organizations and educational centres. It will include links to
relevant social media and provide facilitation tools, resources and materials to learning institutions and
individuals.
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Youth Activism, Arts and New Media Project
Who: Magamba Network
What: Art, Cultural Activism, New Media
Where: Zimbabwe
When: From 1-09-2012 until 31-08-2013
Amount attributed: 7,300 Euro
The Magamba Network was set up in November 2007 with the aim of using arts and culture in
the struggle for democracy and social justice in Zimbabwe. The aim is to develop free expression for
young people and to build a new generation of community activists who can heal and democratise their
communities. Magamba tries to fulfil this aim by creating and disseminating a satirical show that
addresses issues in Zimbabwean society. In addition, Magamba is developing a new youth project
focused on empowering youth organisers with social media skills in order to report on the society they
live in. The aim is to create well rounded, creative activists who can organise actions and events, as well
as report on them.
As a parody of a typical Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation news program, Zambezi News satirizes the
relentless propaganda and astounding journalistic ineptitude on state TV through its two comical news
presenters. It has been performed at the presentation of the Prince Claus Award to Pamberi Trust in
Harare in March 2012.
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