Learners in the Scottish team – Bridging Digital
Learners – Dunure Learning in Dunure took place on multiple levels with different demographics. The multi media students made their preparations under the guidance of artist and teacher, Trent Kim The StudioFV film makers (longterm unemployed/people with longterm conditions) gathered film footage and vox pop interviews with Audience participants and local residents (councillors, community leaders, business owners) who had never thought of new media arts as something that could support their heritage tourism aspirations Committee members [...]
Digital exhibition of S.O.S. Climate Waterfronts – Stockholm Conference
We are so pleased to present you the S.O.S Climate Waterfront-Stockholm conference digital exhibition! S.O.S Climate Waterfront project creates new perspectives, fresh ideas and highlights the sustainability in urban waterfronts. During the Stockholm conference last May-June, our invited guests had only 4 weeks to observe the city’s waterfronts, get informed about the areas and the future plans of the city of Stockholm , think and produce impressive masterplans, detailed digital and hand drawn sketches, 3D digital models and more . [...]
VR for the Stage sector – Report
Intercult has organised a workshop led by Jonas Myrstrand, an experienced filmmaker working with immersive media productions, and hosted by Gothenburg Film Studios. The workshop was part of our Erasmus+ Bridging Digital project. The workshop was designed to introduce participants to the skills and techniques required to create VR immersive productions. During two stimulating and inspiring days, the participants explored the challenges of immersive media, the technologies available to facilitate the experience and how to adapt a classical stage performance [...]
Exploring how digital tools can be used to develop cultural and educational practices
During the spring, 4 organisations explored different ways to teach Digital tools to those working in the cultural sector and in informal education. It has been an enriching journey during which librarians in Poland have been taught how to produce podcasts to generate a higher interest in reading, where Swedish stage actors have been given the opportunity to film theatre scenes using Virtual Reality, where media students in Scotland have given new life to their national history by projecting animated films onto [...]
Nordic Talks -The Role of Culture in Sustainable Society–Sustainability in Art and Cultural Projects
Welcome to our online Nordic Talk about culture and sustainability! The purpose of this talk is to make the theme of culture and sustainability more tangible, and to inspire not only people in the cultural sector but everyone interested in culture and the role of art in society. Invited Speakers - Germaine Sanders (NL) - Artist Urbanist Futurist - Lecturer in Sustainable Urbanism design and strategy - Ed Caroll (LT) - community artist - Fred C. Sanders (NL) - Director [...]
Second transnational meeting in Gdansk
On 20-22 September 2022, Bridging Digital team met at Gdansk to discuss the progress of each partner organisation and plan the future activities together. The second transnational meeting was hosted by our partner Instytut Kultury Miejskiej. During our travel to Poland, the Bridging Digital team visited the PAN Biblioteka Gdańska, where we saw Jan Heweliusz masterpieces and watched a presentation of the reconstruction of a telescope by Heweliusz in 3d printing technology, a project of Instytut Kultury Miejskiej together with [...]
A new transcription of a valuable book at Gdansk
An interesting project has been implemented in Medialab Gdańsk, which operates in City Culture Institute of Gdańsk (one of the Bridging Digital Partners). A group of experts, philologists, translators and historians jointly prepared a transcription of the first volume of journals from the journeys of Christian Fischer and Nathaneal Jakub Gerlach from 1727 - over 300 pages of the manuscript! As a result, this eighteenth-century text in German is much more accessible to a larger group of researchers. CCI already [...]
VR workshop at at Gothenburg Studios
Actors within the free performing arts can gain access to and learn to use Virtual Reality in their productions! Last week, Intercult organized a workshop in Gothenburg at Gothenburg Studios with our artistic director, film curator and immersive producer Jonas Myrstrand. During two days, 3 participants from a theater group got to explore and learn the possibilities that VR/360 design can bring to the field of performing arts. By the end of the workshop, the participants had recorded scenes from [...]
Augmented reality workshops – Renfrewshire Witch Hunt 1697
Fablevision, Trent Kim and students of University of the West of Scotland worked together on the Erasmus+ project, Bridging Digital, to produce augmented reality video content to tell the story of the Renfrewshire Witch Hunt in 1697. Here are the five steps of their work. Stop 1 Bargarran House https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29m5WLTukQ8 Stop 2 The Jail In 1697, following the strange events at Bargarran, the accusations of witchcraft and the naming of almost 30 people by 11 year old [...]