Culturemondo presentation in CulturaDigital.br 2011 Experiences sharing.

1. Smart Cultures:
Culturemondo In Action
Shih-Chieh @ilya Li
Executive Consultant (TELDAP/Academia Sinica)
International Steering Committee member
of Culturemondo Network
Dec 3, 2011 at CulturaDigital.br
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2. Sharing These Experiences
• What is TELDAP?
• What is Culturemondo?
• What is Culturemondo AP Secretariat?
• What is Sharism❋?

3. TELDAP
http://teldap.tw
http://culture.teldap.tw

4. TELDAP History
• TELDAP stands for Taiwan’s E-Learning and
Digital Archives Program
•

5. What does TELDAP do?

6. TELDAP Collections A-Z
Anthropology
Archaeology
Architecture
Archive
Artifact
Audio & Video
Botany
Calligraphy & Painting
Chinese Classics
Geology
Journalism & Mass Media
Language
Map & Remote Sensing
Rare Book
Rubbing
Zoology

7. Overseas Culture Collaboration
! http://google.com/maps?q=http://taibif.org.tw/NSC_Visit.kmz
Sweden(1)
Russia (9)
U.K. (2) Germany (2)
Canada (1)
France (1)
S. Korea (10)
China (6)
U.S. (11)
Japan (16)
Vietnam
Singapore (3)
Australia (1)

8. Culturemondo
http://culturemondo.org

9. the Culturemondo Network
• Open, informal network of digital cultural specialists
from around the world
• Emerged from a roundtable at the Canadian Pavilion,
2005 World Expo, Japan
• Annual roundtables hosted by Croatia, Cuba, Taiwan,
New Zealand, Netherlands
• Leadership of the Asia-Pacific Secretariat
• Initially designed to serve the needs of those involved in
cultural Web portal development
• As Internet has shifted so has Culturemondo
• Frontline view of the current transformation

10. CulturemondoTrajectories
Year Host Place Countries Attendees
WorldExpo, Aichi,
2005 Canada 18 28
Japan
2006 Croatia Dubrovnik, Croatia 28 51
2007 Cuba Havana, Cuba 21 68
2008 Taiwan Taipei, Taiwan 21 34
Wellington, New
2009 New Zealand
Zealand
Amsterdam,
2010 Netherlands 15 39
Netherlands

11. Culturemondo & TELDAP
• TELDAP attends the first 2005 CM Roundtable
in WorldExpo, Japan
• TELDAP had become the sponsor right after
Canadian government in 2008 till 2010
• TELDAP had host the 2008 Taipei Roundtable
meeting right after Canada, Croatia and Cuba
• TELDAP formed Asia-Pacific Secretariat
project to syndicate exp. at regional level

12. Evolving Community Network
• Methodology: global agenda, roundtable
meeting and localized practices
• Issues discussed:
• cloud culture & new business models
• publishing paradigm
• culture policy at country and
transnational level
• Request for hosting proposal!

13. 2010 PICNIC Culturemondo
• Collaborated with PICNIC Network, one
of the biggest culture creative festival in
Europe and the world
• Hosted by Virtueel Platform, Netherlands
• 3 debates, 18 speakers, 1 day roundtable
meeting and workshop
• http://culturemondo.org

14. Smart Cultures
New Theme of Culturemondo Network
Asia-Pacific Secretariat 2012
With the collaboration and inspiration of

15. Smart Cultures
• What are Smart Cultures?
• Smart as in “Smart Mobs”: realtime
community networking
• Smart as in “Smart City”: pervasive/
ubiquitous computing + IOTs
• Smart as in “Smart phone”: new
programmable interface and middleware
to connect traditional culture and people
• Smart cultures would be a new sharing
paradigm for future culture specialists

16. Sharism❋
• Connecting back to the software cultures
• Free software movement
• Open source hardware
• Sharos: sharing heros leading the next trend
• Re-embed the technologies back to society

17. Why Asia-Pacific?
• In the past 5 years, cross-country collaboration
dynamics & dialogues has been developed in
regional conferences and projects
• Japan: eCulture research and development in
agriculture, virtual idol trend (vocaloid
Hatsune Miku) and culture heritage
institutions (e.g. LODAC)
• China: digital natives’ smart resistance, turning
into great profitable culture industries, against
smart surveillance
• Taiwan: virtual worlds culture, and hardware
enabled innovation on new culture interaction

18. Japan: eCulture
research & actions
• eCulture integration
framework across meta-
disciplinary projects on food,
agriculture and environment
• Dissemination and remix
within social media world
• Open data practices within http://www.alfae.org/html_src/alfae/alfae.html
culture sector (e.g. first LOD talk in
Taiwan at Sep. 2011)

19. image: Hideki Takeda @NII, Japan

20. image: Hideki Takeda @NII, Japan

21. China: Smart Resistance
•
Ai Wei Wei (2011) Let the Bullets Fly (2010) Subcomandante Marcos
Box office: unknown Box office: US$ 111.1M (1994)

22. Ai Weiwei’s Busy 2011
• 2011 Spring: since Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution,
massive interrogation, detention and forced silence
of suspected dissidents, supporters, and online
[micro] bloggers
• 4.3 Ai Weiwei “disappeared” and detained on the
way flying to Taiwan. Triggering global campaign to
press China for his release
• 6.22 Ai released after 82 days of illegal detention.
• 11.2 Ai is notify for tax charge US $1.85 million
• 11.4 Ai announce “borrowing money” on twitter
• 11.13 Ai received 29,434 people’s donation total
869,3366 RMB (US $ 1.366 million).

23. Ai Weiwei’s Busy 2011
• 11.2 Ai is notified for tax charge of 15M RMB
(US $1.85 million)
• 11.4 Ai announced “borrowing money” on
twitter
• 11.13 Ai received 29,434 people’s donation
total 869,3366 RMB (US $ 1.366 million).

24. Taiwan: social machinima
• Major League Azeroth(2010) by Afk
Pl@yers: using new collective tools to tell
real-world stories

25. Taiwan: Finding New
Disaster Communication Model
MoSOS
Dashboard Server
Dashboard (APIs)
Internet
3rd Party
Beacon Database
Data
Other Server LBS Info
Services
MoSOS MoSOS Operator's
Backhaul
Mobile Base
Connection
Phone Station
Detector MSG
MSC
BSC
Dashboard: Federated Data Services
LBS: Location-Based Service TBS
TBS
MSG: Message Service Generator TBS
Within
MSC: Mobile Service Center Golden After
72 hours 72 hours
BSC: Base Station Controller
TBS: Temporary Base Station
MPD: Mobile Phone Detector
phone
BS: Base Station phone
phone
Contain
Beacon information

26. Sharism: VJ Machine
• Milkymist One: the new DJ(Data Jockey)
• #OSHW Storytelling Machine
• Open source dev. fm the chipset level
• Programmable data remixing
• The “patches” as the new “template” system
that enables rapid commons generation
• Establish new sharing conventions just like
blogging and creative commons in 2001

27. Challenges of Smart Cultures
• Design of participatory structure on open
culture system (HW + SW + Services)
• Beyond screensaver & iTunes visualization:
integration everyware
• New literacy and tactics are needed:
“Switch on, and remix your story!”
• Organic visual form co-evolves with life
form: eCulture breakthrough

28. Thanks for UR Attention!