Creative Communities Meetup

This event was a great gathering of creative coding, curators, shapers and catalysts from different countries around the world.

Representatives from various communities around the world shared their stories: how they started a Creative Community, what challenges they face and how they are running their events and program.

Learning and Networking Platforms at the same time: What is the impact of communities on creative coding and the individuals that participate?

In this meeting, we discussed the opportunities and struggles that come along with our practice and that strengthen our network as a global scene.

 

 

Creative Coding Communities

Representatives from different Creative Coding Communities discussed several aspects of organizing a local creative coding community.

Representatives came from:

Amsterdam – Berlin – Tehran – Cairo – Utrecht – and Tilburg.

Artistic Communities

Artistic practices are in a period of evolution all over the world. Universities offer new degrees, artist groups create new communities of artistic exchange and new curatorial practices shape the art field from the bottom up to the establish art world – be it in Iran, in Kenya or in Argentina. However, there are challenges that these new fields of practice encounter globally as well.

 

 
 

Input 1:
The Digital Media Art Scene in Shiraz – Mohsen Hazrati and Milad Forouzandeh

Mohsen Hazrati and Milad Forouzandeh founded Dar-al-Hokoomeh, a New Media art project in Shiraz, Iran, a year after graduating from Shiraz Art Institute with the vision of creating a space for emerging artistic practices.
Dar-al-Hokoomeh has hosted exhibitions, screenings, talks, lectures and workshops and has from its inception been at the forefront of the intersection of culture, art and technology within Iran and on an international level.
Dar-al-Hokoomeh produces New Media events that are a chronological step in continuing an Iranian tradition of exploring media ranging from film to video and sound art. Not only through the exploration of the possibilities of New Media itself but also through combining this with an underlying depth, richness and humorous wit that is uniquely Shirazi.

 
 
Input 2:
The Folder Foundation – Ali Khadivar

The Folder Foundation is based in Shiraz and was established in 2017 by Ali Khadivar, an art investor and entrepreneur. It is an art sponsorship initiative focused on supporting and promoting emerging artists who are mostly – but not exclusively – active in the field of digital and new media arts. It aims to provide them with the education and the equipment they need for further developing themselves as artists. The foundation is the first in a series of planned projects, initiatives, and organisations in order to explore artistic, social, cultural, educational, technological, and the financial possibilities and intricacies of the digital, post internet era.

 
 
Input 3:
New media art and its development in Argentina – Cristian Reynaga

The context of artistic production and theoretical research of media art in Latin America reveals that its political, economical and cultural history comes from a complex social development.
The ups and downs that new media art has faced in the last 20 years in terms of production did not allow it to be a formal discipline in the institutional scene. Most of the times, the pieces reflex about itself and how the piece works or was created, and this situation avoid the perception of non-technical spectators and broad audience.
 
 
 

 

Cristian Reynaga

Mohsen Hazrati

Milad Forouzandeh

Ali Khadivar

Melisa Allela

Awuor Onyango

Sabrina Verhage

Lisa Rombout

Amir Bastan

Rosi Grillmair

Jeanne Charlotte Vogt

Alexandra Waligorski

Lilian Nejatpour

Simon Weckert

Mohamed Elwakil

Raphaël de Courville

Matthias Zauner

Carolien Teunisse