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VIRTUEEL PLATFORM FROM THE NETHERLANDS

PRESENTS SOME OF THE MOST INNOVATIVE E-CULTURE

PROJECTS IN HELSINKI. CHECK A SELECTION OF BEST

PRACTICES, WATCH CLIPS OF ONLINE STORYTELLING

AND OTHER E-CULTURE PROJECTS AND LEARN MORE

ABOUT RECENT PROJECTS FROM VARIOUS DUTCH

E-CULTURE ARTISTS AND MEDIALABS.

Virtueel Platform is the knowledge institute

for e-culture. Our mission is to strengthen

cultural innovation by sharing knowledge

about e-culture and increasing it’s visibility

and scope. Do contact us if you want to

know more http://virtueelplatform.nl

The Dutch E-culture Days is

part of the World Design

Capital Helsinki 2012

Pavilion Programme.

The Dutch E-culture Days is organised

by Virtueel Platform in cooperation with

Demos Helsinki, with the kind support from the

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of The Netherlands.

Virtueel Platform

Damrak 70 – 6.52

1012 LM Amsterdam

The Netherlands

+31 (0)20 – 6273758

info @ virtueelplatform.nl

15:00 – 17:00 PRESENTATIONSThe Netherlands features a number of design studios and broadcasting organisations that internationally operate at the forefront of transmedia. Three of the most prominent studios will give the audience a sneak preview into the future of digital storytelling.

Welcome by Floor van Spaendonck (di-rector Virtueel Platform), introduced and moderated by Martijn de Waal (co-founder TheMobileCity.nl).

• Jarno Smeets - Human birdwings• VPRO - The Netherlands from Above• Submarine Channel - Interactive

motion comics

19:00 – 20:00FILM SCREENING: FORGET THE FILM, WATCH THE TITLESSince 2006, Submarine Channel has been curating some of the most impressive title sequences on what has grown into an inter-nationally successful blog, interview series, screening series, and a DVD. This screening program features a one-hour selection of the very best title sequences. Fasten your seat-belt for a bumpy ride and, just this once, forget the film and watch the titles. You’ll be glad you did!

http://www.watchthetitles.com

15:00 – 17:00 PRESENTATIONSThere has been a lot of talk about smart cities recently, in which new media technology is said to make our cities more efficient. How-ever, cities are much more than a bunch of infrastructure to be managed as economical as possible.

How can we make use of new media to make our cities more social rather than just more hi-tech? Three Dutch (urban) designers will present their projects that aim to engage the public more deeply with their surroundings and bring urban public space to life.

Welcome by Floor van Spaendonck (di-rector Virtueel Platform), introduced and moderated by Martijn de Waal (co-founder TheMobileCity.nl).

• Michiel de Lange - The Mobile City• Kars Alfrink - Social games

for public space• Alper Çugun - Hack de overheid

DAY 1 TRANSMEDIA /THE FUTURE OF STORYTELLING

ONGOING PROGRAMME FROM 12:00 TO

20:00 HRS WITH SCREENINGS, BEST PRACTICE

SHOWCASES AND PRESENTATIONS ABOUT

TRANSMEDIA.

ONGOING PROGRAMME FROM 12:00 TO

18:00 HRS WITH SCREENINGS, BEST PRACTICE

SHOWCASES (INCLUDING AN AUGMENTED

REALITY LAYAR) AND PRESENTATIONS.

DAY 2 SOCIAL CITIES OF TOMORROW

SUNDAYJULY 22

SATURDAYJULY 21

SUNDAYJULY 22

SATURDAYJULY 21

Eat cookies and show your mood on the interactive map of Helsinki.

Our programme is divided into two themes:

transmedia and social cities. Transmedia

is about telling stories in new ways, us-

ing multiple media platforms. Social cities

explores the ways we can shape our cities of

tomorrow using digital media. Not to make

them more hi-tech, but rather to make them

more social.

The projects shown here are just the tip of

the iceberg of the Dutch E-culture scene,

consisting of designers and artists, cultural

organisations, medialabs and interdiscipli-

nary groups that explore emergent techno-

logies in relation to the arts and their impact

on the cultural sector and society.

In The Netherlands thousands of artists, pro-

grammers, geeks, mediamakers, researchers

and scientists are working in this field. Together

they generate an annual gross of 400 million

euros They are working towards artistic and so-

cial innovation, and they’re not limited by their

own fields. They are the creatives that team up

with other disciplines such as architecture, de-

sign and film to create the surprising projects

that you’ll see at the Dutch E-culture Days.

FLOOR VAN SPAENDONK

director Virtueel Platform

floor@virtueelplatform.nl

WELCOME TO THE DUTCH E-CULTURE DAYS @ THE

WORLD DESIGN CAPITAL HELSINKI, WHERE YOU

CAN LEARN HOW TO FLY WITHOUT AN ENGINE,

EXPERIENCE JAW-DROPPING DATA VISUALISATIONS

AND SEIZE THE OPPORTUNITY TO MEET AND MINGLE

WITH DUTCH INNOVATORS.

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INTRO-DUCTION

FLORIS KAAYK - HUMAN BIRDWINGS

Floris Kaayk is a visual artist / filmmaker. Floris

will show his latest project, Human Birdwings

(produced by Revolver Media), a transmedia

story project about the mechanical engineer

Jarno Smeets, who builds himself a set of

wings to fly like a bird. Within his art projects

he often fantasises about the future impact of

this technological revolution.

www.humanbirdwings.net / www.floriskaayk.com /

www.revolver.nl / info@floriskaayk.com

JASPER KONING

THE NETHERLANDS FROM ABOVE

The Netherlands from Above is an ambitious

transmedia project from Dutch broadcasting

organisation VPRO. Various sources of data

are used to tell the story of everyday life in the

Netherlands. Jasper Koning, project manager

at VPRO, will talk about (and show) the spec-

tacular data visualisations and interactive

online maps that were created for the project.

www.vpro.nl/nederlandvanboven / www.422south.com /

www.stamen.com

REMCO VLAANDEREN - SUBMARINE CHANNEL

Submarine Channel is an online channel that

creates projects that explore the possibilities

of new storytelling techniques, and researches

the parameters of emerging genres. Crea-

tive director Remco Vlaanderen will zoom in

on several recent projects, the motion comic

The Art of Pho, and the video games made as

part of the Split Second project.

splitsecond.submarinechannel.com /

artofpho.submarinechannel.com / remco@submarine.nl

KARS ALFRINK - HUBBUB

Kars Alfrink is the founder and principal de-

signer of Hubbub, a networked design studio

for applied pervasive games. He’ll talk about

PLAY Pilots, a project commissioned by the city

of Utrecht, the Netherlands, consisting of three

live games produced for cultural festivals and

one online game that ties them together.

www.hbbb.nl / www.playpilots.nl / kars@hbbb.nl

MICHIEL DE LANGE - THE MOBILE CITY

Michiel de Lange is a part-time lecturer New

Media Studies at Utrecht University and co-

founder of The Mobile City. In his talk he will

present the ideas, methods and outcomes of

two recently organised workshops in which

digital media were used to strengthen citizen

participation in solving real-world complex

urban issues.

www.themobilecity.nl / www.socialcitiesoftomorrow.nl /

michiel@themobilecity.nl

ALPER ÇUGUN - HACK DE OVERHEID

Alper Çugun is a technologist and activist on

the board of Hack de Overheid (‘Hack the

Government’) with an interest in data and

games. He will talk about the successes and

future of application competitions such as

Apps for Amsterdam, and how they greatly

accelerated the release of open data and

created public awareness.

alper@hackdeoverheid.nl

PRESENTATIONS

PRESENTATIONS

BESTPRACTICES

BESTPRACTICES

SUPER CRATE BOX

Game Collective Vlambeer builds minimalistic games inspired by the old school arcade game experience including 8-bit soundtrack.

PROUN

Artistic skill game Proun by Joost van Dongen gives a new view on the es-thetics of games and on the painter El Lissitzky.

HUMAN BIRDWINGS

Floris Kaayk created a buzz across many media platforms surround-ing his idea of building real human birdwings.

15 MINUTES OF BIOMETRIC FAME

Marnix de Nijs’ 15 Minutes of Biometric Fame questions the reliability of online fame.

ROOM RACERS

Room Racers by Lieven van Velthoven projects virtual cars on the racetrack you build using everything available.

NEDERLAND VAN BOVEN

NLvanBoven by VPRO shows the Neth-erlands from a new perspective using data visualisations to tell unordinary stories about the country.

FILM IT YOURSELF

Film It Yourself combines the iPhone videos taken by the audience to create a crowdsourced registration of a concert.

PIG CHASE

Designed to improve the living quali-ties of pigs, Pig Chase lets humans and pigs play together using a tablet PC.

COLLAPSUS

Trans-media story using a game, documentary and online information to involve a younger audience in the energy crisis.

IKPOD

Mediamatic designed a special iPod with a RFID chip reader in order to link objects in museums to online information.

JUGGLING SOUND BALLS

STEIM lets you make your own music with these juggling balls filled with electronics.

UAR

This 3D architecture app by NAi uses Augmented Reality to shows informa-tion about the heritage of buildings in the past, present and future.

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