Art, Technology, Culture - A Series of Conferences at Friche Belle de Mai, 41 rue Jobin, 13003 Marseille, France :: presented by Alphabetville, Zinc-Ecm, and Leonardo/Olats :: Free entrance.

Interested in the field of technological and new media art, but also into the relations between scientists, engineers, artists and cultural players, this new series is opening an enjoying and common reflection around the relationship between art, technology and culture.

December 5, 2007; 6.30 pm: Critical Spaces for Art, Technology and Culture - This conference will propose a presentation of Leonardo/Olats, and will focus and report on the recent Mutamorphosis international conference in Prague. Then will go on a discussion about the necessary spaces for reflection and critic about art, knowledge access and communication in a technological society, and its effects for culture in general. Technological environment seen as a cultural element to be considered “through up good and evil”. With Colette Tron, Alphabetville organization responsible and Roger Malina, president of Leonardo/Olats.

December 6, 2007; 6.30 pm: Research Devices and its Diffusion in Art and Sciences - A meeting devoted to research in the technological art creation. From an historical point of view on the relationship in art and sciences, and to some hypothesis and directions for thinking current interdisciplinarity. With Roger Malina, Franck Bauchard, director of CNES La Chartreuse and Emmanuel Verges, director of ZINC-ECM.