- Part 15

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Three of the CCCB’s projects nominated for the «Best of the Web Awards» at the Museums and the Web conference

March 29th, 2011 CCCB No Comments

Museum and the web logo The CCCB Lab blog, the Kosmopolis Bookcamp collaborative platform and the interactive City of Horrors web-mural from the exhibition “Barcelona-Valencia-Palma” are the CCCB’s three candidates for the «Best of the Web» prizes. These prizes are awarded every year at the Museums and the Web conference, one of the principal international meeting points for everyone involved in developing and managing cultural and museum websites.

A jury made up of specialists from around the world will be selecting the best museum projects in areas such as education, audiovisuals and exhibitions (see prize categories).

All members registered in the Museums and the Web platform can vote for their favourite project from this year’s 109 candidates, between 25 March and 7 April. The CCCB is taking part in Exhibition with “The City of Horrors”, Social Media with Kosmopolis Bookcamp, and Museum Professional with the CCCB Lab blog.

The results of voting will be announced during the conference, which will be taking place from 6 to 9 April in Philadelphia (USA). Museums and the Web is one of the foremost meeting points for the culture sector because it deals with the principal trends for the future of museums.

In 2009, Barcelona’s Picasso Museum received the Best of the Web Social Media Prize for its strategy and use of 2.0 tools, and the MACBA was awarded the prize to the best podcast for Radio Web MACBA.

The city of horrors web-mural

CCCB Lab blog

Wiki Bookcamp Kosmopolis

The CCCB Lab blog, the Kosmopolis Bookcamp collaborative platform and the interactive City of Horrors web-mural from the exhibition “Barcelona-Valencia-Palma” are the CCCB’s three candidates for the Best of the Web prizes. These prizes are awarded every year at the Museums and the Web conference, one of the principal international meeting points for everyone involved in developing and managing cultural and museum websites.

A jury made up of specialists from around the world will be selecting the best museum projects in areas such as education, audiovisuals and exhibitions (see prize categories).

All members registered in the Museums and the Web platform can vote for their favourite project from

A jury made up of specialists from around the world will be selecting the best museum projects in areas such as education, audiovisuals and exhibitions (see prize categories).

All members registered in the Museums and the Web platform can vote for their favourite project from this year’s 109 candidates, between 25 March and 7 April. The CCCB is taking part in Exhibitions with “The City of Horrors”, Social Media with Kosmopolis Bookcamp, and Museum Professional with the CCCB Lab blog.

this year’s 109 candidates, between 25 March and 7 April. The CCCB is taking part in Exhibitions with “The City of Horrors”, Social Media with Kosmopolis Bookcamp, and Museum Professional with the CCCB Lab blog.

Posted in Sin categoría el March 29th, 2011

Tags: cccb, CCCB Lab, Internet, kosmopolis, web

Past, present and future come together in the opening of the CCCB Theatre

March 10th, 2011 CCCB No Comments

March 2011 could be a moment to remember in the history of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. This month sees events that have marked the course of the CCCB in its 15 years of existence and link the past, present and future of the institution.

Firstly, the exhibition “The Trieste of Magris” has just opened. This project continues the spirit of a model of exhibitions created by the CCCB: cities seen through the work and the eyes of a writer. The Trieste of Magris is preceded by Joyce’s Dublin, Kafka’s Prague, Pessoa’s Lisbon and the Buenos Aires of Borges—literature and urban space, two key themes in the work and the programming of the CCCB.

Then, on 25 and 26 March, the Centre hosts year six of Kosmopolis, the Amplified Literature Festival, another of the cultural projects that bears the CCCB’s conceptual brand. Since 2002, Kosmopolis has become consolidated as one of the most innovative meeting points for literature and new forms of written, oral and electronic storytelling.

These two events, the exhibition and the latest Kosmopolis, have been scheduled to coincide with the third activity that makes March 2011 the month of the CCCB: the opening of the CCCB Theatre.

A new stage for culture and the arts

The CCCB Theatre is located in Plaça de Coromines, in a building on the other side of the Pati de les Dones courtyard. The Old Theatre of the Casa de la Caritat almshouse was built in 1912 by the architect Josep Goday i Casals. In 1994, the CCCB started to use it as an office space for collaborating groups before remodelling it to provide more venues for its activities.

The CCCB Theatre opens its doors on 16 March 2011, after the completion of remodelling work directed by the architecture practice Martínez Lapeña-Elías Torres.

The new facility is physically connected with the existing spaces of the CCCB by an underground passageway. The Centre thereby gains over 3,000 m² in the form of two multipurpose halls, the Sala Teatre and the Sala Raval, and space for installations, storage and offices.

From the Old Theatre of the Casa de la Caritat almshouse (1912) to today’s CCCB THEATRE (2011)

What will happen at the CCCB Theatre?

In 2011, the CCCB opens a new venue to provide better conditions for the activities scheduled as part of the CCCB’s calendar, such as Kosmopolis, Sonar, the Flamenco Festival, Hipnotik, etc.

To welcome the new space, Wednesday 16 March sees the public inauguration of the CCCB Theatre, at 7.30 p.m. An audiovisual installation has been created for the event, starting in the foyer of the existing building and ending in the new auditorium of the CCCB Theatre. The montage is designed as a journey through the past, present and future of the CCCB, and includes the testimonies of many of the personalities to have taken part in activities at the Centre.

During the weekend of 19 and 20 March, the CCCB opens its doors so that the public can visit the new amenity and the exhibitions “Disappeared” and “The Trieste of Magris”. Welcome to the future!

CCCB banners for exhibitions about city and literature. The banners will form part of the installation being prepared for the opening of the CCCB Theatre. Photo: Oscar Monfort

Posted in Sin categoría el March 10th, 2011

Tags: ciutat, kosmopolis, literatura, Magris, Teatre CCCB

Jesper Huor: “There’ll be more Wikileaks”

January 27th, 2011 CCCB 1 Comment

On 19 January, the CCCB organized an Off the Programme activity, one not scheduled in the Centre’s annual agenda but that was motivated by current affairs: Wikileaks. The event consisted of screening the documentary produced by Swedish television, “Wikirebels”, followed by a debate with one of its makers, Jesper Huor, the artist Daniel G. Andújar and the activist Patrice Riemens.

As a result of the impact caused on the Internet by the “Wikirebels” documentary and all the questions arising on the subject of Wikileaks, we thought it would be interesting to interview Jesper Huor, a journalist who investigated the organization, and some of its foremost members.

We asked the readers of VEUS CCCB to put forward questions for the Swedish journalist Jesper Huor. We then picked out some of the questions suggested by Borja, Emma Guasch, Javier, Pau, Marula and Neus Flores prior to the interview. Using these and other questions proposed by Lucia Calvo and Ingrid Guardiola at the CCCB, we came up with this short collaborative interview. Jesper Huor talked to us about the “Wikirebels” documentary project and how Wikileaks works: its members, how it’s financed and how leaks are confirmed.

As a result of the impact caused on the Internet by the “Wikirebels” documentary and all the questions arising on the

subject of Wikileaks, we thought it would be interesting to interview Jesper Huor, a journalist who investigated the organization, and some of its foremost members.

Posted in Sin categoría el January 27th, 2011

Tags: Jesper Huor, wikileaks, wikirebels