During the spring, 4 organisations explored different ways to teach Digital tools to those working in the cultural sector and in informal education. It has been an enriching journey during which librarians in Poland have been taught how to produce podcasts to generate a higher interest in reading, where Swedish stage actors have been given the opportunity to film theatre scenes using Virtual Reality, where media students in Scotland have given new life to their national history by projecting animated films onto [...]

An interesting project has been implemented in Medialab Gdańsk, which operates in City Culture Institute of Gdańsk  (one of the Bridging Digital Partners). A group of experts, philologists, translators and historians jointly prepared a transcription of the first volume of journals from the journeys of Christian Fischer and Nathaneal Jakub Gerlach from 1727 - over 300 pages of the manuscript! As a result, this eighteenth-century text in German is much more accessible to a larger group of researchers. CCI already [...]

Actors within the free performing arts can gain access to and learn to use Virtual Reality in their productions! Last week, Intercult organized a workshop in Gothenburg at Gothenburg Studios with our artistic director, film curator and immersive producer Jonas Myrstrand. During two days, 3 participants from a theater group got to explore and learn the possibilities that VR/360 design can bring to the field of performing arts. By the end of the workshop, the participants had recorded scenes from [...]