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Symposium for people from culture and digitalisation
Time and place: 11 June 2025 from 10:00 - 18:00 In Leipzig, at lobby of Schauspiel Leipzig (Bosestraße 1, 04109 Leipzig)
To the registration: https://formulare.leipzig.de/frontend-server/form/provide/3435/
Trude Richter lives as a digital avatar in the City History Museum, Schauspiel Leipzig has performed its first play with a hamster and VR glasses, and on New Year’s Eve the Gewandhaus Orchestra streamed Beethoven’s 9th on second screen. Digitalisation is taking place on stage. But only there? We are putting culture on the Data Week agenda. The Strategic Cultural Policy Department and the Digital Department are jointly inviting you to Leipzig on 11 June 2025. For one day, we will take a look at the backstage, the backend and the control centre of cultural institutions. This invitation is aimed at colleagues from cultural institutions in Central Germany. No matter where they work: from the stage to the museum, from the library to the festival, from the subsidised art project to the traditional house. The focus is on the interest in exchanging ideas about culture and digitalisation.
Program
Participation in the symposium is free of charge. Registration for the symposium is a prerequisite for participation.
Arrival (from 9:30 am)
Morning (10:00 - 12:00)
- Auctioning problems: Is it all a question of the right approach? We auction off problems submitted by participants to experts. Printed rosters, data that disappears in silos or missing programmers who are passionate about art and culture. The invited experts take on the submitted problems and develop solutions together with the participants.
In the afternoon (13:00 - 17:00)
- Panels and exchange formats on the topics of cultural data and digital forms of work. The invited experts will address the problems submitted and develop ideas for solutions together with the participants.
- Panel 1: Cultural data: standards, quality and re-use
- Panel 2: New paths: From co-creation to AI
- Panel 3: When cultural data reaches its limits: The search for the right approach (AT)
Conclusion: (17:00 - 18:00)
- Artistic impulse
Experts
Clair Bötschi (artist and cultural manager/specialist for art in public spaces for the city of Ludwigsburg)
Clair Bötschi is a freelance artist, author and cultural manager for art and business. He initially worked in the financial administration of the European Centre for the Arts Hellerau (Dresden) and now works as a consultant for art in public space for the city of Ludwigsburg. In 2024, he is developing an AI called Aiden, which has taken over the jury work for an art scholarship. https://herrclair.de/
Judith Brückmann (Berlin Bühnen/Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH)
Judith Brückmann is a theatre and literature scholar. She works as a communications manager, dramaturge and editor for cultural and educational institutions, festivals and performance and dance projects. She is editor-in-chief of the online portal Berlin Bühnen and gives workshops on communication strategies for artistic work. https://www.berlin-buehnen.de/de
Dr. Melanie Gruß (NFDI4Culture and Tanzarchiv e.V.)
Melanie Gruß is a research associate at the Institute of Theatre Studies at Leipzig University and works in the NFDI4Culture consortium of the DFG-funded National Research Data Infrastructure. She also supports various projects of the Tanzarchiv Leipzig e.V. https://nfdi4culture.de/
https://www.tanz-digital.de/de/connect/profiles/6ff1278a-bd28-4a41-975b-4e96b68bd75f
Peter Hense (Lawyer, Partner at Spirit Legal)
Peter Hense is a partner at the law firm Spirit Legal. He advises national and international companies on the implementation and enforcement of digital innovations and business models in the areas of IT, artificial intelligence, data protection and competition, in research & development, trade, marketing and industry. He publishes the monthly podcast ‘RegInt: Decoding AI Regulation’ on topics related to AI technology and regulation. https://www.spiritlegal.com/de/ueber-uns/peter-hense.html
Paolo Löffler (Managing Director Kunstkraftwerk)
Paolo Löffler is managing director of Kunstkraftwerk Leipzig. Kunstkraftwerk is a museum for digital and multimedia art. As such, it works with international artists and institutions and is not only an exhibition centre but also a producer and distributor. As a cultural centre, Kunstkraftwerk is also a hotspot for creatives and art lovers of all ages with immersive exhibitions, digital installations and events. https://www.kunstkraftwerk-leipzig.com/
Jamina Mertz (Head of Digital Strategy and Digital Marketing, Leipzig Tourismus GmbH)
Jamina Mertz is Head of Digital Strategy and Digital Marketing at Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH (Leipzig Region). She has been developing social media, online marketing and digital strategies for 15 years. Most recently, she developed digital city tours or LIO - the intelligent Leipzig Guide with LTM GmbH. https://sachsen.tourismusnetzwerk.info/2023/08/28/explore-leipzig-city-tours-spannende-touren-durch-leipzig-mit-interaktiver-stadtrundgang-app/
Sina Schmidt (German Theatre Association)
Sina Schmidt worked as a director and project manager. She founded the theatre association Uniater and the theatre collective FRITZAHOI. She works as a research assistant at the University of Potsdam on virtual reality and will take over the project coordination of the Smart Theatre Services for the German Stage Association in 2023 as part of the federal project Data Space Culture. https://www.sina-schmidt.de/
https://www.buehnenverein.de/de/projekte//de/projekte/datenraum-kultur.html
Moderation
Elisabeth Breitenstein
With a degree in theatre studies and general management, Elisabeth Breitenstein balances between the topics of culture, business and digitalisation. Digitalisation - particularly in the area of administration - is currently her main professional focus. She works as a personal assistant to the State Secretary and CIO of the State of Saxony-Anhalt in the Ministry of Infrastructure and Digital Affairs and is particularly responsible for the topic of digital transformation.
Contact
Jakob Freese, Coordinator eCulture City of Leipzig, City of Leipzig, Department of Strategic Cultural Policy, Phone: 0341/123- 4213, E-mail: jakob.freese@leipzig.de
