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Get in-depth perspectives through commissioned articles, interviews and reports on current topics for Asia-Europe cultural relations.


By Florentina Bratfanof

16 Jan 2012

Maribor 2012 | "Townkeys" for a young city and a new image

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[caption id="attachment_18464" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="The "Townkeys" team"][/caption] The programme of the Europe Capital of Culture Maribor 2012 may be seen through an horizontal-vertical structure. Horizontally, lie strands of individual artistic …

By Katerina Valdivia Bruch

13 Jan 2012

Beyond the East: A Eurocentric gaze on Indonesian contemporary art

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From October 2011 to February 2012, the city of Rome presents an extensive programme of events in the frame of the international cultural biennale Vie della seta (Silk Roads).

Cultural Transitions: George Town

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Since George Town received the World Heritage title from UNESCO, jointly with Melaka as historic cities of the Straits of Malacca in 2008, it has experienced growing attention and underwent …

By Claire Wilson

11 Apr 2011

New connections in new media

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The Asia-Europe Foundation continued its work in new media artist exchange and policy dialogue through the Asia-Europe Cultural Partnership Initiatives (AECPI). AECPI projects connected 40 experts from across 14 countries …

By Claire Wilson

11 Apr 2011

New Media Lives | research on new media workers in Asia and Europe

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During the Shanghai Expo, media practitioners, artists and civil society organisers met to find out about the changes taking place in the web-based industries in the two regions.

By Anupama Sekhar

11 Apr 2011

New ways of promoting artistic and cultural expressions

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New media, which combine communications technologies and the arts, is providing new ways of promoting the diversity of cultural expressions.

By Bharti Lalwani

15 Feb 2011

Beyond an Art Fair – part 1

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culture360 contributor, Bharti Lalwani was in New Delhi last month to attend the third edition of the India Art Summit. In this two parts in-depth, she interviews the founding director …

By Siddharth

03 Dec 2010

An experimental artistic journey through local communities of South India

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In South India, Reloading Images (a Berlin based art association) and Maraa (a Bangalore based artists collective) collaborated with the support of the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) and Arts Network Asia …

By Florentina Bratfanof

01 Dec 2010

2010lab.tv stimulates cultural creativity

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2010LAB.tv is an interactive web TV, blog and audio podcast for creative people in the Ruhr Metropolis and Europe. As a media hybrid of TV and internet, it is an …

By Anjali Devidayal

12 Apr 2010

Indonesia-India: arts frameworks best practices

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The following brief interviews of Mirwan Andan, Researcher, Ruangrupa (Artist Inditiative) Jakarta, Indonesia and Tushar Jiwrajka, Director – volte gallery, Mumbai, India have been conducted simultaneously using a similar set …

By Judith Staines

22 Mar 2010

Digital culture festival considers the future

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Gustaff H.Iskandar from Bandung Center for New Media Arts, Indonesia, has written a review of the transmediale festival and conference held in Berlin in February 2010.

By Judith Staines

22 Feb 2010

In conversation at Transmediale

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Transmediale.10 took up residence at the House of World Cultures in snowy Berlin in the first week of February 2010. Transmediale is an internationally prestigious festival for contemporary art and …

By Siddharth

18 Feb 2010

Riding the radio wave: community radio in South Asia

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India’s first cable community radio station, Namma Dhwani (meaning ‘Our Voice’) has made a small but substantial impact on the everyday lives of the villagers.

By Judith Staines

01 Jan 2010

Solutions for the mobility of visual artists in Europe

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[caption id="attachment_1023" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Image credit: Trans Europe Halles http://teh.net/"][/caption] The Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (IGBK) organised a meeting of European experts on ‘Mobility in the Visual Arts Sector …

By Siddharth

20 Nov 2009

Video: What do you think of media piracy?

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Video: What do you think of media piracy? Siddharth Chadha has asked this question to a broad group of people in the streets of New Delhi, India.

By Siddharth

20 Nov 2009

India: media piracy-intellectual property interview

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Lawrence Liang is a researcher and writer based at the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore. His areas of interest have been in the intersection of law, culture and technology.

By Siddharth

20 Nov 2009

Media Piracy in India

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Piracy in the Indian Media and Entertainment Industry. In Bangalore, the racks selling pirated copies of the latest Hollywood, Bollywood and Tamil films could almost go unnoticed.

By Valentina Riccardi

17 Nov 2009

Cultural journalism and its grasp on cultural policy

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The Central European University, Budapest, held a seminar to give cultural journalists an overview of the major trends in cultural policy-making in Europe.

By Judith Staines

14 Oct 2009

LabforCulture: online resources for cultural cooperation in Europe

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LabforCulture is a European Cultural Foundation project. Online since June 2006, its mission is to ensure access to arts & cultural information & encourage experimentation with web technologies.

By Jeffrey Withaya Campbell

18 Apr 2008

The impressive rise of Korean film

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South Korea has played host to one of the most interesting film industries of the past ten years. While gradual change has been the norm, Korea's film sector has been …