Art.on.Wires Society
SOCIETY FOR ELECTRONIC NOMADS
Art.on.Wires is an independent non-profit organisation dedicated to connect artists, designers and engineers to promote cultural and technical innovation. AOW was founded by Alexander Eichhorn and Ulli Dibowski in Oslo, Norway in 2010 with the aim of providing physical and virtual collaboration platforms and infrastructure for sharing, making, creating, exploring and inventing new technologies and novel intercultural communication forms.
We collaborate with cultural institutions, creative industries and research laboratories, and we operate beyond institutional and national boundaries. AOW is not and will not be aligned with any particular political party or religion. AOW is open to all electronic nomads,digital natives, creative lifeforms, and critical thinkers who feel they are responsible for a sustainable future and the cultural evolution of our societies.
Society Directors
Alexander Eichhorn (Managing Director)
Ulli Dibowski (Assistant Director)
Organisation
Reg.-Nr: 995938855
Form: non-for-profit society (foreningen uten profitmål)
AOW HISTORY
Art.on.Wires began as an idea in 2010, where Alexander Eichhorn, then a researcher at the Simula Research Laboratory in Oslo, Norway, arranged an Arts & Engineering Festival in the spirit of 9 Evenings, the first large-scale collaboration between artists, engineers and scientists organised in 1966 by Robert Rauschenberg and Billy Klüver in New York. Our mission was to explore space and interaction in networked mixed-reality environments where computer-based vision-, sound- and motion-sensing technologies are integrated to form a distributed performance space that allows real-time interactions between local and remote artists.
Research groups from the Simula Research Laboratory and the University of Oslo joined the first festival together with artists from all over Europe. The event raised much positive feedback from all participants and created contacts between people from different disciplines which afterwards turned into several collaborations. We realised that there is a tremendous need for education, collaboration and artistic exploration of new media technologies in the European arts scene and in particular in Norway. As a consequence we founded the Art.on.Wires Society in late 2010 as which we continue building a network for collaboration and a place for artistic, technical, and social exploration.
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