APO33 , as an interdisciplinary laboratory drawing on the artistic and technological fields, fosters various collective projects associating research, experimentation and social intervention.
In the continuity of the dynamics that has been opened by the free software movement, apo33 is structured as a modular space, initiating collaborative projects and creative processes, as well as exploring new artistic and creative modes of production and diffusion.
Through workshops, seminars, artistic creation, international meetings, on-line contributions, publications and interventions in public spaces, apo33 queries to-day’s transformations in artistic and cultural practices consequent to the current re-appropriation and usage of Communication and Information technologies. This questionment has driven apo33 to work at the edge of the cultural field, by exploring possible passages and crossings between artistic creation and other social fields or practices (political activism, social mediation or action, human, environmental, natural and applied sciences, urbanism, economy, ecology…).
Activities:
- Creation: develop experimental sound and multimedia creation practices. APO33 with the CIA (Cell of Intervention of Apo33) an artistic collective working on sound and net art (artistic research, participation in festivals, residences, publications…).
- Theoretical Research : organization of seminars, colloques, workshop on the issues of new media practices
- Technological Research : technological research on sound creation and digital tools (web-radios, server networks, collaborative plateforms…). Reappropriation of knowledge in relation to tools (electronic and digital) and invention of new digital tools to work on the audio and the multi-media (APODIO distribution).
- Pedagogy and knowledge sharing: proposing workshops,training sessions, interventions in schools and colleges on sound art and new media practices, initiating to experimental music, GNU/Linux and audio systems, or listening sessions
- Resource centre on experimental and free/open arts and practices
- Diffusion : invitation of international artists and researchers to collaborate or present their work (temporary test zones, concerts, installations, residencies…)
