Lecture "Culture 2.0" will present global experience at the intersection of digital technologies and the arts
The announced program of the lecture series "Culture 2.0", which from 17 to 18 November, will gather the world's celebrities from the field of digitalи culture in the marble hall of the Ethnographic Museum. Person number one will be Fabien Riggall ‑ founder of the British Secret Cinema project, which in the framework of the Business area Vl of the Saint-Petersburg international cultural forum will read a free lecture for everyone.
Fabien Riggall, for the first time come to Russia and tell about the new format of film screenings, which he launched ten years ago, combining the art of theater, cinema and music. Starting with 400 spectators, now it sells tens of thousands of tickets and the implementation of representations leases entire city blocks. These screenings are visiting spectators from all over the world and tickets selling out in the first hour. Sessions are held in random places, converted into a cinema. Viewers will learn what the film will look for a few minutes before the show. By registering on the project website, participants receive strange instructions by executing a series of instructions, find themselves in a completely unexpected place, surrounded by actors. The audience is completely immersed in the film and become characters themselves play their role.
Development of games and immersive practices in the culture? How to create the perfect mobile Museum app? That the cultural sector can borrow at technology and how technology is changing the cultural sector? These are the main discussed issues in the lecture "Culture 2.0".
The Congress will bring together more than 20 leading practitioners and facilitators of educational and cultural projects on different topics from Russia, USA, UK, Austria, etc. Among the confirmed experts: Andrea Carafa, founder of the platform ArtsUp; Brendan Sieko, Creator of mobile apps for the world's museums Cuseum; Marina Loshak, Director, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin, Fyodor Elyutin, producer of the largest immersive theater productions in Russia; Olga Sviblova, art historian and Director of the MAMMA; Andrei Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov, the artists of the creative team Recycle Group, representing the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale of architecture; Stephen Obermayer, composer and DJ; Simon Posch, Executive Director of the House of music in Vienna; Svetlana Dragieva, co-founder of children's mobile apps Virry; Vasily Ryzhonkov, Director of the centre of mobile technologies "SKOLKOVO" and many others.
"Culture 2.0" is a special project of the Business area VI St. Petersburg international cultural forum. All lectures of "Culture 2.0" is free and requires only registration through the link https://reg.culturalforum.ru/register/public/
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Program of the LECTURE series "Culture 2.0":
November 17, Friday
18:00-19:20 (Marble hall)
"History in 140 characters: innovative formats of historical projects-reconstruction in the age of Twitter" (panel discussion).
Moderator: Anna Baranova, journalist, editor, digital projects of the TV channel RT.
Participants: Alexey Nikolov, Deputy editor-in-chief, General Director, RT; Sergei Davydov, Deputy Dean, Faculty of communications, media and design / Department of media, higher school of Economics Konstantin Mogilevsky, Executive Director of the Fund "History of the Fatherland"; Mikhail Afanasyev, Director, State Public historical library; Evgeny Kozlov, Twitter Russia.
18:00-19:00 (conference hall)
"Transforming the cultural sector through design thinking, entrepreneurship and local community"
Speaker: Andrea Carafa, founder of the ArtsUp platform connecting owners of unusual venues and creators of unique events.
19:30-20:30 (conference hall)
"How technology is changing the cultural sector"
Speaker: Brendan Sico, founder of Cuseum platform, mobile applications for digital engagement of Museum visitors around the world.
19:30-21:00 (Marble hall)
"Secret Cinema: secret live cinema experience"
Speaker: Fabien Riggall, founder of Secret Cinema.
18 November, Saturday
16:30-18:00 (Marble hall)
"Art start-UPS: what the cultural sector can borrow at technology?" (panel discussion)
Participants: Andrea Carafa, founder of the platform ArtsUp; Brandon Sico, founder of Cuseum platform, mobile applications for digital engagement of Museum visitors all over the world; Svetlana Dragieva, co-founder of mobile app Virry; Vasily Ryzhonkov, Director of the centre of mobile technologies "SKOLKOVO"; Olga Sviblova, art historian, Director of MAMM; Alexei steblyov, head of the RDI Digital Russia.
16.30 - 18.00 (conference hall)
"Games and immersive practices in the culture" (panel discussion)
Participants: Fabien Riggall, founder of Secret Cinema; Fedor Elyutin, the largest producer of immersive stage productions in the Remote Moscow; Andrei Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov, the artists of the creative team Recycle Group.
18:30-20:00 (Marble hall)
"Generation Z. what language to speak to the culture?" (panel discussion)
Participants: Marina Loshak, Director, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin; Andrei Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov, the artists of the creative team Recycle Group, representing the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale; Olga Sviblova, art historian, Director of MAMM; Aleksey Sulimov, marketing Director of KudaGo; Fedor Elyutin, producer of the largest immersive theater productions in Russia; Stefan Obermayer, composer; Simon Posch, Executive Director of the Vienna House of music.
18.30-20.00 (conference hall)
"Creative entrepreneurship: the business model and growth" (panel discussion).
Participants: Julia Rybakova, the Director of the Department of tourism of the Yaroslavl region;
Shawn Prime, associate at NESTA, Director of the master programme in creative and cultural entrepreneurship goldsmith University (London); Mieke Renders, managing Director of Trans Europe Halles.
