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Art connects the cities around the Baltic
This weekend is the last chance to visit the exhibition The Baltic Goes Digital at Gdansk City Gallery. According to Gazeta Wyborcza it is one of the 10-must-sees in Poland this fall.
Build the Baltic Agora on an Internet-platform – connecting Baltic cities online and IRL
 The artists Mateusz Pęk and Klaudia Wrzask have created an imagined Baltic City based on a 3D topographic map of the Baltic sea bottom – as a transforming installation in the gallery. You can become a part of building the Baltic Agora on an Internet platform. Log in at http://www.ggm.guest.ggm.home.pl/ and click yourself further into “ggmguest” where the Baltic sea appears from an unexpected perspective. Baltic cities as Kaliningrad, Klaipeda, Karlskrona, Riga, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Rostock, Gdansk are marked. The Agora, the centre, and the coastline of the Baltic grows in physical and colourful form in the installation at Gdansk City Gallery depending on where you are geographically located when logging in on the internet platform.
Contemplate sounds from the other side of the Baltic
 AudioElsewhere by Marek Dybuść is a project in two parts, connecting people from two cities of the Baltic sea. The robot installed at the Blekinge Institute of Technology transmits sounds from Karlskrona to the earphones used by the exhibition audience. Each head movement of the listener evokes the same movement of the robot’s head. The audience can undergo a realistic experience of the audio-sphere of a distant place by pricking up their ears at certain sounds. The project doesn’t leave space for any comments or discussions concerning the impressions evoked by the experience. This is because the authors are aiming to help the listener reach the highest possible concentration by focusing on the signals received by the sense of hearing alone.
Last weekend to take part if you are in Gdansk or in Karlskrona. Move your head in Gdansk and see and hear how people react in Karlskrona. Surprises on both sides.
Listen in to the sea traffic in the bay of Gdansk
 The Baltic Sea Radio is a sound installation by Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet Sola. It makes use of the sea traffic in Baltic Sea and offers a novel sonic experience to the audience. The artwork reflects the local ships’ movements in real-time and applies marine traffic as a score of a sound composition. In short, the boats that can be reached by the AIS-receiver are affecting and determining the behavior of the artwork.
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Hydro Active City-contest – Call for entries!
An open contest for an art work using digital media technology in public space has been launched by The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre. We are looking for art works using digital media technologies in a creative approach to public space.
Interactive art works involving people in the Baltic countries are looked upon as especially interesting. The winning art works will be shown presented in Gdansk city during an international seminar on art and public space, held in between May 16-18th 2013.Deadline: 1st February 2013.
Read the guidelines here.
More news next week already. In the headlines:
♦ Art Line is nominated to be a EU-flagship in art collaborations!
♦ Telling the Baltic opened up at Gdansk Science- and Technology-center with opening ceremonies, performances and a lot of visitors.
♦ Storytelling was part of the Art Line presentation during the South Baltic Annual Event.
♦ The partners of Art Line gathered for a day of Future Laboratory-work.
♦ The “Performing Exhibitions – displaying digital art and media”-seminar was organized successfully.
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Lead partner: Blekinge museum. Partners: Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Rostock, Art Centre Gallery EL, Gdańsk City