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CONNECTING CITIES @ ARTE CREATIVE #2

Connecting Cities proudly present episode #2 Binoculars to... Binoculars from by Mar Canet & Varvara Guljajeva.
The artist duo invites you to look through the binoculars and discover other cities in real-time. The interactive installation is able to connect to a number of cities in an extraordinary way. 

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CONNECTING CITIES @ ARTE CREATIVE #1

In the first episode of our Connecting Cities’ web series presented on ARTE Creative, we take a close look at TransEuropeSlow by Sergio Galán.
The interactive installation with a pedal interface proposes new ways of exploring a city. The bike itself is seen not merely as means of transportation but as a tool that offers novel perspectives on the urban landscape. The installation allows the audience to experience a virtual bike ride through a screen, captured with the eyes of a camera-equipped urban cyclist. 

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SP_Urban Digital, São Paulo

4 - 28 November
São Paulo, Brazil

During the second edition of SP_Urban Digital festival, the Connecting Cities project Sonic Skate Plaza by Pablo Ena, Reza Safavi and Sergio Galán transforms São Paulo’s urban setting.
The festival that takes place from 4 - 28 November, explores the theme Digital Citizen. SP_Urban Digital offers an urban stage to national and international artists whose works merge architecture, art and media using new technologies and a versatile program including many workshops.

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Call for proposals: Participatory City 2014

You want to participate in Connecting Cities? We invite artists to submit projects that enable citizens to experience new ways of interaction with the urban environment.

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Urban IxD: Designing Human Interactions in the Networked City

UrbanIxD is a Coordination Action project, running from 2013-2014, for the European Commission under the Future and Emerging Technologies programme. The project will define a coherent multidisciplinary research community working in the domain of technologically augmented, data-rich urban environments, with particular focus on the human activities, experiences and behaviours that occur within them (Interaction Design).

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