Hungary -- C³ - Center for Culture & Communication in Budapest

Number of residencies: 1
Period and duration of residency: during 2004


C³: Center for Culture & Communication

The aims of the are the cultural application and creative employment of new scientific and technological discoveries, the research, development and support of innovative artistic potentials, and the initiation and realisation of art, science, communications, educational and cultural programmes.

C³ is an open, not for profit institution, a space for innovative experiments and developments related to communication and culture, its main focus the fostering of meetings and cooperation among spheres of art, science and technology.

In accordance with our goals, the C³ addresses the following objectives:

·To ensure the space and opportunity for open information exchange without special interests or bias, for dialogue related to media culture, and to make the results of these accessible to the wider general public.
·To support artistic and interdisciplinary projects of a high standard, which may be realised via the aid of in-house resources and infrastructure.
·To expound, interpret and distribute the positive examples established with the initiatives of large-scale events, exhibitions and conferences, traditional and electronic publications, research reports, bulletins and periodicals, via their publication in various media, as well as specialist documentation, and the maintenance of an archive and media library.
·To propagate the presence of digital culture with the initiation and operation of educational programmes of various level, as well as the new knowledge required by the functioning of the information society.
·To continuously develop the content and technical conditions of the direction of the new communications technologies in the sense of open strategy; to endeavour to create new results on the user-level, as well as on the level of basic research.
·To provide the opportunity for network access and publication of a non-profit character according to the given possibility, for other public institutions and organisations, especially those with similar goals to the C³.

Facilities available for the artist

During the residency period the artist can use the facilities of our production lab: a number of PCs (generations from 400MHz to 2GHz) all linked to our high speed internet connection (4Mbit), a Macintosh G4 and some special hardware (SGI Onyx, Trinity Play, Matrox Digisuite). We host streaming servers as well. The computers are equipped with a number of software (different kind of web and CD-ROM authoring tools, 3D modelling, audio and video editing). We provide technical assistance for the artist’s project. There are also peripheries available, like scanner, CD-burner, camera etc.

Possibilities and preferences for the residency artist

C3 will organise a public presentation of the artist's work. We provide also information on and contacts with the local art scene.
More information about our activities at http://www.c3.hu/.