CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Our DIALOG CITY ART FOR PUBLIC RESIDENCY PROGRAMME invites professional artists from all disciplines —ranging from painting, photography, and sculpture to design and architecture— to apply for the art residencies in Montpellier (FR) and Aschaffenburg (DE).
For the Montpellier (France) art residency we aim to question how human identities and bodies are increasingly shaped by the digital data we produce and consume. Being fed by data, our online profiles reflect analog humans and are continuously constructed through micro-targeting and digital profiling, where personal data is used to tailor content and experiences. For more information, please see here.
The art residency in Aschaffenburg (Germany) will take place under the theme Society in Transition. We particularly welcome project proposals that highlight aspects of sustainability and/or cultural heritage. For more information, please see here.
What about the future?
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Is your artistic work tackling current issues at stake such as climate change, migration, gender, justice or digitalisation? Are you working in the field of arts and education?
Are you an artist or a cultural practitioner looking to expand your skills, get trained on Futures Literacy and have the opportunity to transform this concept in your work? Being futures-literate empowers the imagination. It enhances our ability to prepare, recover and invent in the face of change.
We are excited to announce a series of workshops designed just for you!
Submit your application by filling out our Typeform here.
For more information click here.
The Citizen Archive Platform (CAP)
The Citizen Archive Platform (CAP), an important component of the Dialog City project, was presented at the second Hybrid Festival in Graz (June 6-8, 2024). This new tool offers citizens, artists and civil society organizations the opportunity to upload, archive and permanently save their digital data. In this way, CAP helps to preserve digital treasures of memory for future generations.
For further information please click here.
You can also visit the CAP-Website here.
Second Art for Public Residency
LONGINGS is the title of the second art residency project for the public by DIALOG CITY featuring visual artist Lenka Holíková. It bridges research and artistic production, focusing on migrant narratives closely tied to Graz City.
Developed in collaboration between the Graz Museum and individuals who have migrated to Graz due to forced displacement, the project centres around the personal stories of those who sought safety and peace in Graz after leaving their homes.
Among various significant aspects discussed by the participants are the reasons for leaving their homelands, emphasizing that “no one leaves home unless it is necessary,” moments of frustration and fear experienced, and the challenges of being far from familiar surroundings.
Through empathy and artistic interpretation, the artist internalizes these shared experiences, transforming them into visual and auditory expressions and metaphors.
Special thanks are extended to the individuals who generously shared their time and intimate stories.
Visitors are invited to witness this reflective artistic process at the Graz Museum until 1 September 2024.
For more information see here.
First Art for Public Residency
News From Home is an ongoing project by the artist duo Anne Fehres and Luke Conroy, capturing overlooked stories from communities. The 10th edition of this project took place during a 4 week artist-residency in Mondovì, Italy.
The outcome of this research and image collection was the creation of a large-scale 6×2 metre photographic composition. This work was presented on a wall in public space during the Hybrid Festival in Mondovì from July 20 — July 22. The final composition consists of almost one thousand individual elements, inspired by the multi-layered identity of Mondovì.
These layers present a diversity of perspectives on Mondovì and include such elements as children’s drawings, historical images, photography of daily life submitted by the community, graffiti scratched into walls around the city and spontaneous staged portraits in the streets. Through this collision of diverse layers, the work celebrates Mondovì as a place where elements of the past, modern reality and future dreams constantly overlap, inviting the audience to consider diverse narratives from both a local and global perspective.
About DIALOG CITY
DIALOG CITY aims to increase accessibility to culture through a dialogical approach by developing new practices on how to connect digital innovation to citizens’ physical participation. In doing so DIALOG CITY creates a socially inclusive, environmentally friendly, and economically sustainable urban digital environment.
Co-creation is at the core of the project encompassing a CITIZEN ARCHIVE PLATFORM for the cultural heritage sector and an innovative design thinking toolkit on FUTURE LITERACY.
Highlights
DIALOG CITY was presented at the re:publica 23
The project partners informed about the goals and contents of “Dialog City”
For three days (5-7 June 2023), 25,000 visitors had the opportunity to get to know many new and innovative projects at the festival for the digital society re:publica, which took place in the Arena Berlin. At such an event, the EU project “Dialog City” could not be missing.
Read moreHYBRID FESTIVAL IN MONDOVÌ
OUR COMMON FUTURE
The first DIALOG CITY Hybrid Festival of Mondovì was organized by the Cirko Vertigo Foundation and almost 500 people were actively involved in the event that literally invaded the streets of Mondovì for three days from 20 to 22 July.
Read moreGame Jam in Aschaffenburg and Mondoví
Imagine our Common Future
How do we imagine a future worth living in? How can our common history help us in this? How can we shape our current actions accordingly?
From July 20-22, 2023, a parallel Game Jam will take place in Aschaffenburg (Germany) and Mondoví (Italy) as part of the first hybrid festival of the European cultural project DIALOG CITY.
First Game Jam in Aschaffenburg
The first Game Jam took place in Aschaffenburg from July 20th to 22nd, 2023. This event, carried out within the EU project “Dialog City”, ran parallel to the Game Jam and the first hybrid festival of the same project in Mondovi (Italy). During these three intensive days of play, there was at times a direct online connection between the participants in Aschaffenburg and Mondovi, which primarily served the purpose of exchanging new ideas and experiences and learning from one another.
Read moreSmart Country Convention 2023
Our “Dialog City” project was also there!
The Smart Country Convention (SCCON) in Berlin is Germany’s largest congress trade fair for the digitalization of the public sector. The focus is on the approach of not only realizing innovations as isolated solutions in a city, but also to realize them in a large scale.
Read moreIMAGINE OUR COMMON FUTURE!
Lenka Holíková is selected for the DIALOG CITY RESIDENCY in Graz 2024
DIALOG CITY ART FOR PUBLIC RESIDENCY PROGRAMME invites professional artists to develop ideas for urban interventions dealing with local or global topics that are of great significance for the respective urban society based on participatory approach. Participating European cities are Turin and Mondoví (IT) in 2023, Graz (AT) in 2024, Aschaffenburg (DE) and Montpellier (FR) in 2025.
Read moreDialog City Hybrid Festival in Graz
An event focusing on the topic of digital archiving
The second Hybrid Festival took place in Graz from June 6 to 8. After last year’s Hybrid Festival in Mondovì, it was the second festival in our Dialog City project.
Read moreWho We Are
DIALOG CITY consists of 7 project partners that are based in small and medium-size cities in 5 European countries. It comprises city archivesmuseums and city museumsarchives, urban activists and social architects, cultural organisations and a contemporary circus art institute as well as vocational training facilities.