1. An Organized
Community Network:
Culturemondo In Action
Shih-Chieh @ilya Li
Executive Consultant (TELDAP/Academia Sinica)
International Steering Committee member
of Culturemondo Network
Feb 22, 2012 at TELDAP Smart Cultures Forum
Taipei, Taiwan
6. Overseas Culture Collaboration
! http://google.com/maps?q=http://taibif.org.tw/NSC_Visit.kmz
Sweden(1)
Russia (9)
U.K. (2) Germany (2)
Canada (1)
France (1)
S. Korea (10)
China (6)
U.S. (11)
Japan (16)
Vietnam
Singapore (3)
Australia (1)
8. the Culturemondo Network
• Open, informal network of digital cultural specialists
from around the world
• Emerged from a roundtable at the Canadian Pavilion,
2005 World Expo, Japan
• Annual roundtables hosted by Croatia, Cuba, Taiwan,
New Zealand, Netherlands
• Leadership of the Asia-Pacific Secretariat
• Initially designed to serve the needs of those involved in
cultural Web portal development
• As Internet has shifted so has Culturemondo
• Frontline view of the current transformation
9. CulturemondoTrajectories
Year Host Place Countries Attendees
WorldExpo, Aichi,
2005 Canada 18 28
Japan
2006 Croatia Dubrovnik, Croatia 28 51
2007 Cuba Havana, Cuba 21 68
2008 Taiwan Taipei, Taiwan 21 34
Wellington, New
2009 New Zealand
Zealand
Amsterdam,
2010 Netherlands 15 39
Netherlands
10. Culturemondo & TELDAP
• TELDAP attends the first 2005 CM Roundtable
in WorldExpo, Japan
• TELDAP had become the sponsor right after
Canadian government in 2008 till 2010
• TELDAP had host the 2008 Taipei Roundtable
meeting right after Canada, Croatia and Cuba
• TELDAP formed Asia-Pacific Secretariat
project to syndicate exp. at regional level
11. Evolving Community Network
• Methodology: global agenda, roundtable
meeting and localized practices
• Issues discussed:
• cloud culture & new business models
• publishing paradigm
• culture policy at country and
transnational level
• Request for hosting proposal!
12. 2010 PICNIC Culturemondo
• Collaborated with PICNIC Network, one
of the biggest culture creative festival in
Europe and the world
• Hosted by Virtueel Platform, Netherlands
• 3 debates, 18 speakers, 1 day roundtable
meeting and workshop
• http://culturemondo.org
14. Definition of OrgNets
• Ned Rossitor (2006)
• “...in order for networks to
organize mobile information in
strategic ways that address the
issues of scale and
sustainability, a degree of
hierarchization, if not
centralization, is required.”
• “...orchestration of social-
technical relations”
• hybrid form of on/offline form
15. In-situ New Media Culture
• The fine scene of the massive
digitization of cultural heritage
vs. conservative culture
landscape of traditional GLAM
• “One of the few unexplored
models left for new media
culture is that of networking
itself.”
• From exchange to cooperation
16. OrgNets with Community
• OrgNets is a hybrid concept itself
• re-introduce *partial hierarchy into network
• emphasizing its institutional form
• Late form of organized network
• (Digital cultural) community comparing to
(cultural heritage) sector
• Integrating the digitized and the born-digital
17. Smart Cultures
New Theme of Culturemondo Network
Asia-Pacific Secretariat 2012
With the collaboration and inspiration of
18. Smart Cultures
• What are Smart Cultures?
• Smart as in “Smart Mobs”: realtime
community networking
• Smart as in “Smart City”: pervasive/
ubiquitous computing + IOTs
• Smart as in “Smart phone”: new
programmable interface and middleware
to connect traditional culture and people
• Smart cultures would be a new sharing
paradigm for future culture specialists
19. Sharism❋
• Connecting back to the software cultures
• Free software movement
• Open source hardware
• Sharos: sharing heros leading the next trend
• Re-embed the technologies back to society
20. Why Asia-Pacific?
• In the past 5 years, cross-country collaboration
dynamics & dialogues has been developed in
regional conferences and projects
• Japan: eCulture research and development in
agriculture, virtual idol trend (vocaloid
Hatsune Miku) and culture heritage
institutions (e.g. LODAC)
• China: digital natives’ smart resistance, turning
into great profitable culture industries, against
smart surveillance
• Taiwan: virtual worlds culture, and hardware
enabled innovation on new culture interaction
21. Japan: eCulture
research & actions
• eCulture integration
framework across meta-
disciplinary projects on food,
agriculture and environment
• Dissemination and remix
within social media world
• Open data practices within http://www.alfae.org/html_src/alfae/alfae.html
culture sector (e.g. first LOD talk in
Taiwan at Sep. 2011)
24. China: Smart Resistance
•
Ai Wei Wei (2011) Let the Bullets Fly (2010) Subcomandante Marcos
Box office: unknown Box office: US$ 111.1M (1994)
25. Ai Weiwei’s Busy 2011
• 2011 Spring: since Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution,
massive interrogation, detention and forced silence
of suspected dissidents, supporters, and online
[micro] bloggers
• 4.3 Ai Weiwei “disappeared” and detained on the
way flying to Taiwan. Triggering global campaign to
press China for his release
• 6.22 Ai released after 82 days of illegal detention.
• 11.2 Ai is notify for tax charge US $1.85 million
• 11.4 Ai announce “borrowing money” on twitter
• 11.13 Ai received 29,434 people’s donation total
869,3366 RMB (US $ 1.366 million).
26. Ai Weiwei’s Busy 2011
• 11.2 Ai is notified for tax charge of 15M RMB
(US $1.85 million)
• 11.4 Ai announced “borrowing money” on
twitter
• 11.13 Ai received 29,434 people’s donation
total 869,3366 RMB (US $ 1.366 million).
27. Taiwan: social machinima
• Major League Azeroth(2010) by Afk Pl@yers:
using new collective tools to tell real-world
stories
28. Taiwan: Finding New
Disaster Communication Model
MoSOS
Dashboard Server
Dashboard (APIs)
Internet
3rd Party
Beacon Database
Data
Other Server LBS Info
Services
MoSOS MoSOS Operator's
Backhaul
Mobile Base
Connection
Phone Station
Detector MSG
MSC
BSC
Dashboard: Federated Data Services
LBS: Location-Based Service TBS
TBS
MSG: Message Service Generator TBS
Within
MSC: Mobile Service Center Golden After
72 hours 72 hours
BSC: Base Station Controller
TBS: Temporary Base Station
MPD: Mobile Phone Detector
phone
BS: Base Station phone
phone
Contain
Beacon information
29. Sharism: VJ Machine
• Milkymist One: the new DJ(Data Jockey)
• #OSHW Storytelling Machine
• Open source dev. fm the chipset level
• Programmable data remixing
• The “patches” as the new “template” system
that enables rapid commons generation
• Establish new sharing conventions just like
blogging and creative commons in 2001
31. Challenges of Smart Cultures
• Design of participatory structure on open
culture system (HW + SW + Services)
• Beyond screensaver & iTunes visualization:
integration everyware
• New literacy and tactics are needed:
“Switch on, and remix your story!”
• Organic visual form co-evolves with life
form: eCulture breakthrough
