Underground City 3D XXI

An artistic and cultural interdisciplinary
Platform and utopian future online 3D city
Supported by the European Commission and the European Cultural Foundation

Join the interdisciplinary art community &
Experience the vision of utopian future cities

Click here to see photos of previous UCXXI workshop !!!

LIBAT and PRAGUE COLLEGE present

OPEN DOORS

Saturday 17.07.2010 | 12 to 6.30 pm
Monday 19.07.2010 | 12 to 8 pm

--> Exhibition of interactive installations
--> Presentation of Underground City 3D platform in progress
--> Seminar and discussion | Saturday 17.07. @ 3pm:
"Cyclic permutation generating different spaces" by Stefano Cavagnetto

Where?

--> Prague College Studios
Polská 26, Prague 2
(Entrance from Budečská)

--> Free entrance

What will you discover during the Open doors?

Underground City XXI interdisciplinary Platform is a project organized by Libat (FR), LAE (HR), NomadTheatre (AT) and PragueCollege (CZ). It has established a specific cultural and art community, from transforming architectural and industrial heritage of ex-coal mine from Labin (HR) into an avant-garde cultural and art project created as an online collaborative interdisciplinary network. Underground City team is now working on developing UC3D, a futuristic and utopian 3D City using the potential of contemporary multi-user game technologies and which will be implemented on Internet. The project is like an Agora which connects interactive media artists, architects, programmers, designers, interdisciplinary researchers, students. Together they can imagine, create and share alternative models for building future multicultural communities and elaborating new citizenship principles. During a two-week workshop, from 3rd to 17th of July, the interdisciplinary group meets in order to work together on the 3D experimental architecture models and on collaborative experimentation into 3D interactive multiuser environments.

Last day of workshop is open to public. You will have the chance to discover how the project has evolved and to meet the different artists and researchers who are taking part in this cultural community. It will be a great opportunity to discuss through different fields like architecture, design, 3D, media and audiovisual art, about diverse innovative issues such as building new forms of societies and democracies, as the implications of living under the ground, or as collective virtual communities.

Interactive installations principles

During the Underground City workshops, the artists collaborated on the creation and development of interactive installations that inter-connect virtual and real environments, under the direction of Pascal Silondi. You will have opportunity to discover the resulting art works which utilized sensors, camera tracking and digital representations. These works researched into the topics of identity in cyber worlds and cellular automaton,conceptually inspired by Stefano Cavagnetto's paper “The Conception of the Self in Multiple Cyber Worlds”.

Pascal Silondi (FR)
is an artist living in Prague since 2000. He developed various interdisciplinary projects where virtual and real environments meet. He likes to explore the complex Art-science-new technologies of information. He’s especially interested in architecture systems, particularly in interactive multimedia storytelling in 3D shared environments.
Pascal has been directing LIBAT - Hybrid Lab for Arts and new Technologies since 2002 and leading the interactive media department at Prague College School of Art and Design since 2006.

"Cyclic permutation generating different spaces"
by Stefano Cavagnetto

In this talk we describe how the crypto-machine Enigma works and its internal structure from a mathematical point of view. Then we investigate some conceptual consequences on how this structure may be used to generate different "spaces".

Stefano Cavagnetto (IT)
is a Doctor in Mathematics and Philosophy. He earned his degrees from Charles University, the Institute of Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences and the Amedeo Avogadro University, in Vercelli, Italy respectively. His MA in Science Communication was completed at COREP - Centre for Education and Permanent Research - of the Polytechnic University of Turin.
Stefano was a visiting scholar at Columbia University in New York City and the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge. He founded the Prague College Research Center in 2008 and is currently exploring with his staff such diverse topics as the history of programming languages, exploring links between art and mathematics in cooperation with the design school, and looking at game theory and its application to philosophy.

More information:

Facebook --> Underground city XXI _ Interdisciplinary platform
Libat --> libat.net
Prague College ---> praguecollege.cz

Contact:
--> libat@silondi.net