Title: e-AGORA - Virtual Platform for Performing Arts

Project has been appointed by the European Commission a reference number CLT2004/A1/PA/CZ-170 in order to be realized within the CULTURE 2000 programme.

The project aims to develop a virtual multimedia platform for innovative production and presentation of Performing Arts. An intended 3D (three-dimensional) environment will use the latest audiovisual technologies in order to interconnect European cultural centres and artistic communities, and to enhance the process of their collaboration on common productions by efficient distribution of realization tasks in the virtual space.

Thanks to interactive and adaptive nature of the e-AGORA platform these new productions will embed and generate original formats of creativity. We aim to stimulate real to create virtual communities active in the field of Performing Arts and provide them with innovative instruments for how to prepare, produce, share, present, exchange, memorize, and disseminate their performances.

The e-AGORA platform will become an experimental ground for realizations of Performing Arts intersecting real and virtual spaces employing multimodal interfaces and techniques of hybrid scenography. Professional operators as well as individual creators will use the platform as a complex tool and network for producing and sharing in a distributed way new artistic expressions.



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° To create new virtual multimedia platform for production and presentation of Performing Arts

° To enhance the platform by development of new tools and interfaces for experimental expression in shared (real and virtual) environments and make them available for broad scope of creative individuals

° To integrate techniques for large-scaled interactive participation of both actors and audience

° To allow and stimulate artistic experiments in the field of hybrid scenography (mixing real and virtual theatrical stages) and interactive performances

° To organize a series of creative workshops in order to realize prototype performances

° To foster mobility of artists and cultural operators in domain of Performing Arts related to new media

° To transnationally disseminate at public events (international festivals, school workshops, conferences) and over the Internet know-how, methodology, and newly created tools
° TECHNOLOGICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE MULTIMEDIA PLATFORM

° 1st WORKSHOP
“SHARED VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR THEATRE”
(25-31 of October 2004)

° 2nd WORKSHOP
“MULTIMODAL INTERFACES FOR STAGE PERFORMANCE”

° 3rd WORKSHOP
“HYBRID SCENOGRAPHY”

° DISSEMINATION including a final public presentation within the “ENTERmultimediale 2” - Festival of Art, Performance and New Media (May 2004 in Prague)