Introduction M A R C E L a portal site for art-science-industry During a meeting in Souillac, France in July 1997 a group of international experts from art and industry agreed on the importance of fundamental artistic research, over applied arts, in the development of telecommunication networks. The need for collaboration between artists, artistic establishments and the public and private sectors in building a permanent high band-width network for artistic experimentation was stressed. During the second meeting in Souillac, one year later, it was decided to build a portal site for organising and co-ordinating the permanent art and cultural network. That decision marked the beginning of the project MARCEL. The model has been developed since Souillac to expand its possibilities, adding categories and enlarging others to better serve the needs described by all the working groups during all the meetings in Souillac including a third meeting in the summer of 2000. Development of MARCEL began last year at Le Fresnoy, an art research institute based in the region of Lille and is continuing in collaboration with the Wimbledon School of Art and other art institutions in Europe and North America. The portal site MARCEL will give participants access to and allow them to post information on relevant art projects, educational programmes, research, events, pertinent information in many categories, on-line collaboration, and partnerships. It will be an open platform for expansion to interested future participants. The overall goals remain: - to promote artistic experimentation and collaboration in all forms of interactive art, - to develop co-operation between art and industry, - to develop the potential of the network as an educational tool, - to consider the network as a worthy pedagogical subject. The three developmental stages of the project are: Stage 1 1 - identify institutional partners and artists, 2 - organise technical audits to determine what already exists, 3 - define the categories and the content of the site, Stage 2 4 - to design and complete the graphic interface of the Navihedron, 5 - identify sites and establish connections, 6 - identify the 12 managers and managing institutions of each of the MARCEL categories, Stage 3 7 - launch MARCEL, 8 - catalogue artistic, educational and cultural projects. Home | Contents | M A R C E L | MARCEL Stage 2 | Categories | MARCEL Stage 3 Souillac Charter | Navihedron | Members | Partners | Contact | French M A R C E L "The interactive network has become the metaphor of our civilisation and its geometry, the geometry of our imagination." MARCEL is evolving according to the expressed needs coming from the Souillac meetings. It is in the form of a site using the structure of the Navihedron where artists, scientists, industry and institutions can exchange and elaborate projects bring together the competence of each. Excerpts from the Souillac II Report, July, 1998 High Band-Width Network for Artistic Experimentation All of the artists and institutions present during the two weeks of Souillac II expressed the need for higher band-width possibilities and for a permanent "pipeline" for artistic, educational and cultural experimentation. Many of the institutions and individual artists are already confronting the problem of limited band-width in their work and the need to find solutions permitting larger scale experimentation in interactive work. It was obvious in the discussions that the people present working in these related fields already have existing programmes and projects capable of testing the possibilities broad-band networks could provide. Projects in the areas of art and education are by definition content based and the most demanding from the cultural, social and technical points of view. They are, therefore, ideal candidates for experimentation on the future use of such networks. These existing programmes and projects are sometimes associated with university departments, art schools or other administrative structures, but many exist independently which should also be included. It would be faster and more efficient to start where there is an existing demand rather than generally connecting institutions in hope of results. Art schools, universities, research centres, individual artists, industrial groups all agreed to pursue the idea further, tracing a line from the US west coast, through the east coast, Canada, across the Atlantic to France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Spain as the first steps in building a permanent network dedicated to artistic and cultural experimentation. The portal MARCEL will be the organisation and communication tool for that network. The first step in the development of MARCEL, identify the partners, do technical audits, define the categories of the site's content and to develop its graphic interface is now completed. The second step which includes building the MARCEL web site and starting the actual permanent connections between members has begun. Home | Contents | M A R C E L | MARCEL Stage 2 | Categories | MARCEL Stage 3 Souillac Charter | Navihedron | Members | Partners | Contact | French
M A R C E L Stage 2 The first stage of construction of MARCEL, developed at the National Studio of Contemporary Arts, Le Fresnoy, by Don Foresta and Gabriella Kardos using the Navihedron of Roy Stringer, was finished during the summer of 2000. The second stage began in September, and concentrated on developing the content of the three levels of categories of access to be used by MARCEL. The French and English versions of the content are being completed now. The themes, such as rights and legislation, research space for scientists and artists, education on line, the relation between art and industry, to mention only a few, are being finalised in both languages with a German version planned. At the same time, continuing with a simple and easy approach to access to information and a clear system of navigation, a complete set of help balloons has been prepared. They will give at every level and at every point of activity, brief but clear information on the each of the themes and the potential of the connections between them. Parallel to that work, a thorough search has been made of the world-wide-web to identify the sites to be connected through MARCEL fulfilling the themes of the site and furthering its goals. Following that, the first tests of the high band-width connections began in November 2001 and have continued since with 12 institutions in the UK, Canada, the US, France, Holland and the Czech Republic now testing and beginning to do work on line. The 10 sites already on line are expected to expand to 20 institutions by the end of the academic year 2002/03. Finally, a graphic interface will be proposed to each interested site to provide a uniform and clear approach to its connection to MARCEL. The pilot version of the MARCEL web site will be on line by the end of the same academic year. Categories: Members Rights & Legislation Project workspace Electronic Art Technical information Newsletters Art & Industry Art & Science Discussion groups Research Education Resources Home | Contents | M A R C E L | MARCEL Stage 2 | Categories | MARCEL Stage 3 Souillac Charter | Navihedron | Members | Partners | Contact | French

M A R C E L Stage 3 The third stage consists in putting the site MARCEL on line with a system of management for each of the 12 principal categories. The management of the site comes from the network membership and a first parcelling out of the categories was made during the meeting in Souillac in June, 2000 where eight managing instituions were already identified. The responsible institution and the individual named by that institution will take in charge the up-dating of their category, its on-line maintenance and the inclusion of new member organisations and partners. Example: Wimbledon School of Art is in charge of the management of the "Research" category. The management system of 12 responsable intitutions will be completed at the same time the pilot version is put on line, the Fall of 2001.

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The Souillac Charter The Souillac Charter for Art and Industry A new communication space is growing from a merger of video, computer and telecommunication technologies, coalescing into a system - roughly called the network - searching for its own logic and a cultural, social and political identity. What this space will mean to society is not yet clear, its final content is uncertain, and how it will effect culture open to healthy speculation and necessary experimentation before its final specificity is defined. This proposal is A framework for dialogue and mutual recognition for artists working with communications technologies and the private sector creating the technologies and an interface with governmental and international bodies directly concerned with telecommunications. It is not A proposal for sponsoring or marketing. Souillac Charter for Art and Industry (Souillac I) http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/articles/souillac/souillac.html Results & Benefits Art and Industry collaborating can help: * to understand each other's basic imperatives, * to create products which are more relevant to the user and the citizen * to create processes of communication better representing society * to stimulate the innovative use of networks * to challenge and define management strategy to suit user needs * to create new forms of content * to develop new communications languages (software and operating systems) * to understand art as fundamental research rather than applied arts, decorative or design * to build new forms of cultural expression. The Souillac Report (Souillac II - Projects) http://mitpress.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/ isast/articles/souillac/malvy.html Home | Contents | M A R C E L | MARCEL Stage 2 | Categories | MARCEL Stage 3 Souillac Charter | Navihedron | Members | Partners | Contact | French

M A R C E L Partners The MARCEL project was launched thanks to several partners whose participation, support and financial contributions enabled the project to begin: * Le Fresnoy, the National Studio of Contemporary Art, Tourcoing, France * The Wimbledon School of Art, London, Great Britain * The Regional Council, Nord/Pas-de-Calais, Lille, France * The Arts Council of England, London, Great Britain * FEDER, Fond Européenne de Développement Economique Régionale * The European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Home | Contents | M A R C E L | MARCEL Stage 2 | Categories | MARCEL Stage 3 Souillac Charter | Navihedron | Members | Partners | Contact | French

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M A R C E L Categories Examples of Navihedron levels The MARCEL site will be navigated using the Navihedron, which is a non-hierarchical information architecture tool allowing intuitive navigation of the network space. The information will therefore be organised into three different layers each containing 12 categories or links: 1st level 12 categories 12 x Members Rights & Legislation Project Workspace Technical Information Electronic Art Education Art & Science Art & Industry Research Discussion Groups Newsletters Resources 2nd level 12 categories 12 x 3rd level 12 categories 12=1728 potential links in 3 clicks Author's rights Legislation Licences and source codes National education network International Institutions User rights TEN-155 (Europe) StarTap (USA) CANARIE (Canada) SuperJANET (UK) Research Projects - with Password Research results Project proposals List of laboratories Research sites Publications Project grants Conferences, symposiums Art theory Epistemology ZKM, Germany Le Fresnoy, France MIDE, Spain V2, Netherlands Wimbledon School of Art, UK Super Computer Center, UC-San Diego, USA Home | Contents | M A R C E L | MARCEL Stage 2 | Categories | MARCEL Stage 3 Souillac Charter | Navihedron | Members | Partners | Contact | French

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M A R C E L Members Confirmed Institutions and Individuals by country (institutions highlighted in red are on the Access Grid platform):

Australia * University of Technology, Sydney, Creativity and Cognition Studios, Faculty of IT, Sydney (Ernest Edmonds, Professor) Belgium * Université Catholique de Louvain, Faculty of Applied Sciences, Labo TELE, Louvain-la-Neuve (Benoit Macq, Professor) Canada * Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science & Technology, Montreal (Jean Gagnon, General Director) * Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver (Dr. Ron Burnett, President) * Hexagram, Institute of Research/Creation in Media Arts and Technologies, Montreal (Executive Directeur, Alban Asselin, Scientific Directors, Bill Vorn, Concordia University, Nicolas Reeves, University of Quebec at Montreal) * McGill University, Music Technology Area, Music Faculty, Montreal (Wieslaw Woszczyk, Professor) * Oboro, Centre for the production & presentation of art, Montreal (Daniel Dion, Director) * Ryerson University, School of Image Arts, Toronto (Pierre Tremblay, Professor) * Societé des Arts Technologiques, Montreal (Monique Savoie, Director) * University of Montreal, Laboratoire de Museographie, Ecole de Design Industriel, Montreal (Luc Courchesne, Professor) * University of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM), o NXI GESTATIO Design Lab, School of Design (Nicolas Reeves, Director) o Department of Communications (Jean-Pierre Boyer, Professor) o Teslab (Charles Halary, Professor) * University of Calgary, Faculty of Communication and Culture, Calgary (Linda Goldenberg, Research Associate) * University of Toronto, McLuhan Centre, Toronto (Derrick de Kerckhove, Director) Croatia * Multimedia Institute, MAMA, Public Space & Media Lab, Zagreb (Teodor Celakoski, Project Manager) Czech Republic * Czech Technical University, Computer Graphics Group, Prague (Jiri Zara, Professor) * CIANT, International Center for Art and New Technologies, Prague (Pavel Smetana, Director) * Palac Akropolis, Prague (Jaroslav Rauser, Director) Elsewhere * Alok Nandi, Media author, Artist * Mathias Fuchs & Sylvia Eckermann, Digital Artists * Steina Vasulka, Artist * Woody Vasulka, Artist Finland * The Sibelius Academy, Helsinki (Shinji Kanki, Artistic coordinator) * Kiasma Museum, Helsinki (Perttu Rastas, Senior Media Curator) * University of Art & Design, Media Lab, Helsinki (Philip Dean, Director) France * Centre Interational de Création Vidéo, Montbeliard (Pierre Bongiovanni, Director) * CYPRES, Centre Interculturel de Pratiques et de Recherches Transdisciplinaires, Marseille (Louis Bec, Director, François Mourre, artist) * Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, Strasbourg (Eleonore Rueff, Professor) * Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Tours (Alain Coulange, Directeur) * Ecole Européenne Supérieure des Arts et Technologie de l'Image, Angoulème (Sally Jane Norman, Director) * Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Arts, Cergy/Paris (Jacques-Emile Bertrand, Professor) * Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Nancy (Samuel Bianchini, Professor) * Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Nantes (Georges-Albert Kisfaludi, Christiane Carlut, Professors) * IRCAM, Centre Georgres-Pompidou, Paris (Vincent Puig, Pedagogical Director, Olivier Lescurieux, Industrial Liasison Manager) * Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing (Alain Flesicher, Director) * Les Ateliers - Ecole Nationale Superieure de Creation Industrielle, Paris (Jean-Paul Robert, Director) * Luc Martinez, Nice (Sound Designer) * Université de Montpellier III, Performing Arts Department, Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier (Ray Gallon, Roberto Barbanti, professors) Germany * Academy for Art and Media, Cologne (Heide Hagebölling, Professor) * Animax (BEC), The Bonn Development Workshop for Computermedia, Bonn - Bad Godesberg (Bodo Lensch, Director) * CyberCinema, European Audiovisual Center, Babelsberg (Wieland Schulz-Keil, Director) * ERICArts, European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policy and the Arts, Bonn (Danielle Cliche, Researcher) * ZKM, Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (Peter Weibel, Director) Hungary * C3 Center for Culture & Communication, Budapest (Miklos Peternak, Director) Italy * Accademia di Belle Arti, Video & Electronic Art Laboratory, Palermo (Umberto De Paola, Director) Netherlands * Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam (Marleen Stikker, Director) * V2 Media Lab, Rotterdam (Anne Nigten, Director) * V2 Organisation, Rotterdam (Alex Adriaansens, Director) Spain * Museo Internacional de Electrografia (MIDE), Cuenca, (Jose Ramon Alcala, Director) Sweden * Malmö University, Creative Environments, Research Studio, Dept. of Art, Culture&Communication, Malmö (Lone Malmborg, Director, Elisabeth Nilsson, Student) Taiwan * Taipei National University of the Arts, Graduate School of Technology and Arts, Taipei (Xiaoniu Suchu Hsu, Chair) UK * Corner House, Centre for International Contemporary Art, Manchester (Kathy Rae Huffman, Director of Visual Arts) * Goldsmiths College, University of London, Department of Computing, London (Michael Casey, Lecturer) * London Institute, IT Research & Development Unit, London (Fariba Farshad, Head, Sats Anandhan, technical suppor) * London School of Economics & Political Science, Media@lse, London (Roger Silverstone, Director) * Proboscis, SoMa (social matrices) research programme, London (Giles Lane, Research Director) * THEpUBLIC, West Bromwich (Graziano Milano, Graphic Project Artist) * The Science Museum, London (Hannah Redler, Curator) * University of East London, Digital & Virtual Reality Media Research Lab, London (Haim Bresheeth, Chair of Cultural Studies, Michael Pinsky, artistic coordinator, Martin Andrew Barrett, pedagogical coordinator, Stacey Pogoda, network coordinator) * University of Manchester, e-Science Team, Manchester Computing, Manchester (John Brooke, Director, Michael Daw, technical support) * University of Salford, School of Art & Design, Greater Manchester (Paul Sermon, New Media Programme Leader, Mathias Fuchs, Course Leader in Creative Technology, Sylvia Eckermann, Digital Artist) * University of Sussex, Creative Systems Lab., Brighton (Drew Gartland-Jones, Head, Lecturer in Computer Music) * Wimbledon School of Art, Research Centre, London (Naren Barfield, Director of Research) USA * Arizona State University, Institute for Studies in the Arts, Tempe, Az. (Vibeke Sorensen, Professor) * Ayers Island, Souillac Group, Orono, Maine (George Markowsky, President, Peter Rottmann, Director) * Boston Cyber Arts Festival, Boston, Mass. (George Fifield, Director) * Columbia University, Teachers Collge, Institute for Learning Technologies, New York, NY (John Black, Professor) * Electronic Music Foundation, Albany, NY (Joel Chadabe, Founder/Director) * Kansas City Art Institute, Photography & New Media Department, Kansas City, Missouri (Patrick Clancy, Chair of Photography & New Media) * New York University, Dept. of Music and Performing Arts Professions, New York, NY (Robert Rowe, Professor) * Ocean of Know: Young McDonald's Farm, NY (Daniel P. McVeigh, Director) * Rhizome, New York, NY (Mark Tribe) * Savannah College of Art & Design, Savannah, Georgia (Tim Jackson, Professor) * School of Visual Arts, New York, NY (Bruce Wands, Head of the MFA Computer Art Programm, Joe Dellinger, Professor) * Smith College, Dept. of Art, Northampton, Mass. (Barbara Lattanzi, Professor) * Temple University, i@lab Interactive Arts & Technology Lab, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (Peter d'Agostino, Maurice Wright, Directors) * University of Alaska Fairbanks, Music Department and the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, Fairbanks, Alaska (Scott Deal, Associate Professor of Music) * University of Buffalo, Media Department, Buffalo, NY (Tony Conrad, Professor) * University of California at Irvine, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIt2) Irvine, California (Simon Penny, Professor) * University of California at San Diego, Department of Music, California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CalIt2) San Diego, California (Rand Steiger, Miller Puckette, Professors) * University of Maine, New Media, Orono, Maine (Mike Scott, Director, Media Lab) * University of New Mexico, Art and Technology Center, Alberquerque, NM (Danae Falliers, Associate Director) Interested industrial groups: * Nascent Form, Ldt., Liverpool, UK (David Oliver, Director) * Verizon, Washington, DC, USA (Steve Kohn, Director, Strategic Alliances - Education & Disability Initiatives) * TELEFONICA, Foundation for Art & Technology, Madrid, Spain (Roberto Velazquez, Director Home | Contents | M A R C E L | MARCEL Stage 2 | Categories | MARCEL Stage 3 Souillac Charter | Navihedron | Members | Partners | Contact | French