AVnode LPM 2015 > 2018

UPDATES: The success story of AVnode LPM 2015 > 2018 in numbers:

• 47 events, 3 Meetings, 3 Audience Development Conferences and 38 festivals (exceeding the grant proposal by 2) over 3 years in 12 countries


• 3.000 digital artists/creators moved around Europe beside the 630 expected in the grant project. The development of new networks, skills and knowledge, the pathway to new initiatives at local and international level.


• 286.000 People attended


• 1 AVnode Online Environment was born bringing together over 20.000 AV Artists and 300 user organizations and thousands of visitors everyday


• Over 3.000 partners from legal institutions, universities, media outlets, business companies, festivals and projects from all over the world involved in 47 events


• 168 Networking activities beside the 45 expected in the grant project


• 100 Communication activities beside the 49 expected in the grant project


• 40 Schools/universities in the field of cultural & creative industries involved beside the 20 expected in the grant project.


• 90 Local, regional and national institutions involved beside the 30 expected in the grant project


• 150.000 General public visiting the events beside the 70.000 expected in the grant project


• 120.000 Students visiting the events beside the 30.000 expected in the grant project


• 10.000 Artists beside the 5000 expected in the grant project


• 6.000 Cultural & specialist experts visiting the events beside the 1000 expected in the grant project.


• 2.000 Staff from educational institutions involved beside the 1000 expected in the grant project


• 2.000 Staff from local, regional and national institutions involved beside the 1000 expected in the grant project

From quantitative to qualitative effects of the partnership:

• Athens Digital Arts Festival is selected as EFFE Laureates (Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe). EFFE is a celebration of festivals which are recognised for their exceptional quality, work, commitment and impact within their contexts and territories.


• 7 new events were born.


• Increase in the number of artists commissions.


• The partners have made several co-productions and launched the worldwide tour of the project together with some other artists.


• The project was a guest as a model example in many festivals and events in Europe and beyond.


• Created space for dialogue and exchange of information and ideas among visual artists from Europe and all over the world.


• Through workshops, masterclasses, lectures and open meetings, the project encouraged:
  
  
  
  • the research, experiments, encounters between the different forms of artistic expression (e.g. electronic music to visuals, visuals to video mapping),
  
  
  • Stimulated creative process of the artists
  
  
  • the interaction of the manifolds techniques,
  
  
  • fusion of digital and analogical technologies,
  
  
  • learning new software and hardware in almost all the partners events.
  
  
  
  


• During the residencies, new open source softwares and patches (specifically, touch designer) were created, presented during the events and utilised by artists in the performances.


• Technical and technological skills (e.g. softwares used to create video mapping and the practical tasks following to install it) of the artists were expanded during the workshops.


• We celebrate our ability to foster a dialogue between cultural and scientific, educational, business, policy and other sectors, since diverse collaboration is the only means to bring about a cultural change.


• The positive effects on some of the partner institutions e.g. universities programmes are added with innovative elements on the recent technological advancements that foster students interest and expand skills.