Sunday 25th May, h 4:00 p.m., Bari Fiera del levante, pavilion 152 - Regione Puglia

New technologies offer artists and cultural practitioners more possibilities than ever for creating, connecting and collaborating. This session will be a practical guide, with workshop leaders from LabforCulture.org, The Digital Artists Handbook (folly) and Neural.it acting as pathfinders, providing inspirational examples of ways participants can work together and create with the help of these tools (including free and open source software of all kinds, social networks, wikis, blogs, etc.). Participants will be actively encouraged to share their own experiences, perspectives and questions.

To participate in the workshop is requested a reservation at the Meeting Point.

About LabforCulture
LabforCulture develops innovative approaches, tools and technologies to strengthen, stimulate and facilitate cultural collaboration across geographic, cultural and imaginative borders. Lab4culture work with and for artists, arts and culture organisations and networks, cultural professionals and audiences in the 50 countries of Europe, as well as providing a platform for cultural cooperation between Europe and the rest of the world. Their mission is both to ensure that all those working on cultural collaboration have access to up-to-the-minute information and to encourage the cultural sector to become more experimental with online technologies.
Info: www.labforculture.org

About The Digital Artists Handbook
The Digital Artists Handbook is an up to date, reliable and accessible source of information that introduces different tools, resources and ways of working related to digital art. The goal of the Handbook is to be a signpost, a source of practical information and content that bridges the gap between new users and the platforms and resources that are available, but not always very accessible.
Info: www.digitalartistshandbook.org ; www.folly.co.uk

About Alessandro Ludovico
Alessandro Ludovico is a media critic and editor in chief of Neural magazine from 1993, (Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2004), Alessandro Ludovico will be invited to present the possibilities of networked media for dissemination, expression, and production in the cultural sector. He is the author of: 'Virtual Reality Handbook' (1992), 'Internet Underground.Guide' (1995), 'Suoni Futuri Digitali' (Future Digital Sounds, 2000) and co-edited 'Mag.Net Reader' (2006).
Info: neural.it ; magnet-ecp.org