Anella Cultural: Building an eInfrastructure for Arts and Culture in Europe and beyond

Artur Serra, Deputy Director i2cat.

University of Essex 2009UK.

Evolution of a project (1) 1999-2009:

First strategic choice:From Research Networks

to Network Research

Experimental Infrastructure since 2000

2nd choice:From ICT to ICT and media:a media network research

Evolution of a project (2) 1999-2009:

V3/Media Experimental Plataform

A discovery:The most demanding

community for ICT and media has been the arts and culture

community.

Evolution of a project (3) 1999-2009:

HD Gaudi, 2002 First HD live transmissió between Europa-USA over Internet at 270 mbps by i2CAT-Research Channel

Modelization of Gaudi architecture

HD Dancing Q from Seoul to Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona. 2005

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HPDMnet – ART FUTURA 2007GDOM for Streaming MediaThe HPDM Testbed based on GDOM

Multiple Sites Require High Performance, High Volume, High Definition Digital Media Streaming

Simultaneously Among All Locations (Multi-Point to Multi-Point)

Optical

Multica

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Nortel Server

SARA

I2Cat

Nortel (Ottawa)

ICAIR (Chicago)Nortel

ICAIR

CRC

CRC (Ottawa)

I2Cat

ICAIR

CRC

I2CAT (Barcelona)

SARA

I2Cat

I2Cat

eChallenge

eCallenge

Booth

ICAIR

CRC

Nortel

SARANetherlight (Amsterdam)

Network of OME6500

2 waysconnections

Interactivity requires low latency applications

Dança TelemàticaUniv. BahiaProf. Ivani Santana

How to learn from the users, the citizens ?: The living lab approach

Evolution of a project (4) 1999-2009:

The Cultural Ring project: A Living Lab for Future Internet and Art

Centers

The project team:

In collaboration with

Ajuntament Barcelona

La Xarxa Transversal: a network of local cities interested in sharing culture

1. Connecting metropolitan centers with local theatres

Gran Teatre del Liceu

Teatre Bartrina - Reus

Teatre de l’Escorxador - Lleida

Teatre Principal - Olot

Teatre Monumental - Mataró

•IP network, from 5Mbps to 1Gbps symmetrics

2. To equip auditoriums as audiovisual studios

• 2 portable PCs• 1 audio card• 1 HD projector• Power amplifier• Audio system. • Audio mixer. • Sony Anycast station

3. Sharing cultural events

Poetry festivals

Guided tours

Master Class

Workshops

Courses

Conferences

Artistic performances

“Difussion is where technology offers major opportunities to the opera in the XXI century” J. Matabosch.

Opera to the cities:

first results

5 local theaters connected

3082 new spectators

5 operas from El Liceu

76% of occupancy

Metamembrana 2008,first Cultural Ring production

Marcel.lí Antunez

Inaugural Ceremony Olympics Games Barcelona 92

A major lesson for cultural programmers:Bi-directional flow between cultural centers

thanks to networking technology.

Major lesson for technological people: Learning cultural programming!

http://portal.ac.i2cat.net:8080/MediaTeca/index.htm

A “repository” result:The Mediateca Anella

Some conclusions

Research Networking: Lambda Networking,4G...

eScienceComputation:

Supercomputació/GRIDs/Clouds

eArts, eCulturesMedia:

HD/3DVideo/Visualization/Telepresence

1. RNs can develop a new networked media layer

This new layer/platform could be organized in GEANT3 for arts and culture as

soon as possible.

An Arts and Culture approach is also a good option also for Future Internet research

testbeds

Thanks for your attention:-)

Thanks a lot for your attention

:-)

Artur Serra, i2cat, artur.serra@i2cat.net