TheGATE Festival

The Gate: Future Boundaries is an initiative dedicated to 21st century eCultures. The festival, whose first edition is taking place in 2024, is a broad programme of activities that aims to promote international meeting points not only between disciplines, but also between agents – university, industry, government, society and environment. The event is intended to be a space for exhibition, experimentation, training and debate, with a clear ambition for local, national and international impact, as The Gate will travel to Stuttgart in 2025.

Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation is an exhibition that synthesises years of intersectional research on the transformation of the oceans as a consequence of human activities. The ocean is a sensorium: it records the transformations of the earth in its complex dynamics, and it inscribes back in the forms of life its own cycles. Today, the global ocean is rapidly changing its circulations, energies, interactions, and ecologies. It is the most dynamic and sensitive component of our living planet, yet the most unknown. The ocean is in a new phase of its non-linear history, shaped by the intensification of the impact of human activities on the earth system—the Anthropocene.

Visiting hours
Tuesday to Thursday, 4 to 8 pm.
Friday to Sunday, 10 am to 8 pm.

Place
Fundación Épica Expanded and Centre de creació

Led by
Territorial Agency, commissioned by TBA21-Academy, Media Solution Center Baden Württemberg and Epica Foundation La Fura dels Baus.

Free admission with limited capacity.

The European Performing Science Night is a scientific outreach activity framed within the European Research Night, an initiative driven by the European Commission, which has been taking place simultaneously in nearly 400 European cities since 2005. From the Epica Foundation La Fura dels Baus we lead the initiative of the European Performing Science Night (EPSN) in collaboration with the Computer Vision Centre, the Institut de Ciències del Mar and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. EPSN proposes the use of artistic language as a means to reduce the distance between science and society, bringing researchers closer to the public in an experiential and emotional way about their work, the benefits they bring to society and their impact on everyday life. EPSN, as part of the European Performing Science Programme, has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement 101162558.

Schedules
18:30h – 23:30h

Place
Fundación Épica Expanded

Led by
Computer Vision Centre, Institut de Ciències del Mar, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and Epica Foundation La Fura dels Baus.

Pre-registration (free of charge) from 16 September.

European funding for cultural cooperation. Arts, culture, science and technology projects

The European Commission supports the cultural and creative sectors through different programmes and initiatives. In this conference, we will learn about the main funding lines of two European programmes, Creative Europe – Culture sub-programme – and Cluster 2 Culture, Creativity and Inclusive Society of Horizon Europe, with special emphasis on the existing opportunities for projects that combine art, culture, science and technology. In addition, there will be case studies of beneficiary projects, and a session where suggestions and recommendations for submitting a proposal to the Creative Europe Culture European Cooperation Projects call for proposals will be shared. We will also learn about the work of the EIT – European Institute of Innovation and Technology and its actions for European cooperation.  

Programme:

10:00 – 10:45 h. Creative Europe Culture  funding lines
Isabel Pérez Gálvez, Técnica – Oficina Europa Creativa Cultura, Ministerio de Cultura

10:45 – 11:45 h. Horizon Europe Cluster 2 Funding Lines
Aïda Díaz Sáez, Cluster 2 National Contact Point, Departamento de Investigación e Innovación – Generalitat de Catalunya

Use Case: Project SCENE: Searchable multi-dimensional Data Lakes supporting Cognitive Film Production Distribution for the Promotion of the European Cultural Heritage
Francisco Javier Iglesias Gracia, General Manager, Fundación Épica la Fura dels Baus.

11:45 h. EIT Culture and Creativity, innovation ecosystem in the cultural and creative industries 
Áurea Rodríguez, Directora, EIT CultureCreativity CLC SouthWest.

12:00 h. Coffee break

12:30 –13:15 h. Focus: Creative Europe Culture European Cooperation Projects. Requirements and recommendations
Isabel Pérez Gálvez, Técnica – Oficina Europa Creativa Cultura. Ministerio de Cultura.

13:15 –13:45 h. Use Case: Project Biofriction. Cultural transformations through Hybrid Spaces  
Laura Benítez Valero, Artistic , Hangar.

13:45 – 14:00 h. QA

End of the session

Registration is required.

The AIR Festival is the closing event of the AIR-S+T+ARTS residency project co-funded by the European Commission in which a total of 10 international artists have participated.
The project, which aims to collaborate at the intersection of art, science and technology, focuses on addressing two main challenges: interspecies resilience in urban ecosystems and artificial intelligence in human ecosystems. All this under a common theme, AIR, proposed by the members of the consortium responsible for the project. The resident artists will present at the AIR Festival the results of the research carried out during the months of residence.

Schedules
18:30h – 23:30h 

Place
Fundación Épica Expanded

Led by
Media Solution Center Baden Württemberg, High Performance Computing Center, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, SONY Computer Science Laboratories Rome, PiNA – Association for Culture and Education, In4Art, RCR Arquitectes and Epica Foundation La Fura dels Baus.

Pre-registration (free of charge) from 1 October.

The Gate Pro is an event aimed at professionals to promote debate and reflection on the challenges and opportunities in the confluence of Art, Science, Technology and Society as a key driver to face and imagine the future. Leading international figures from disciplines such as marine sciences, architecture, urban planning, climate change, artificial intelligence and art will participate in the event, proposing meeting points between disciplines.

Schedules
10:00h – 21:00h 

Place
Fundación Épica Centre de creació

Led by
Media Solution Center Baden Württemberg and Epica Foundation La Fura dels Baus. 

Event for professionals, for accreditation please contact thegate@fundacionepica.org