Venue: Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Hviezdoslavovo nam. 18, Bratislava 

For a while now, digital technologies and services have been all around us on a worldwide scale. Art, design and media higher education institutions have taken into account this emerging and challenging trend in our societies. Many courses, curriculums, degrees and research projects have come to life over the past ten or fifteen years: «new media», «interaction design», «multimedia/hypermedia» etc.

Depending on each institution’s own history, on the personal interests of the pioneering founders as well as on national and local contexts, many different options have been explored. It may now be time, in 2007, to identify and to gather the various players in our institutions interested in what can be called a «digital culture» in a broader sense.

Therefore we are launching a call for participation in a potential new working group within Cumulus dedicated to this very topic. It is meant to be both a platform for discussion and exchanges about existing experiences, and a framework for future collaboration, including the quite contemporary issue of research.

Organizer: Frédérick Degouzon, L'Ecole de Design Nantes Atlantique