Global Screen, an open participative exhibition of the Contemporary Culture Center of Barcelona

We would like to share with you one of our main participative projects this year: Global Screen. It consists of a physical exhibition that will take place at the CCCB from January to May 2012. And it is also a virtual platform (http://pantallaglobal.cccb.org/en_GB) that we launched last October to build the exhibition with the audience creativity.

Through the virtual platform we are asking people to send videos to reflect on the thesis of the exhibition: how the screens influence us in the 21st century. At work, on the underground, at home, at the doctor’s surgery, at the airport, at the shopping centre, in the street… We live surrounded by screens, images and cameras that record our activity. The audiovisual language has become one of our main forms of communication.

The CCCB’s Global Screen exhibition is a reflection on how we see and how we understand the world through screens. The exhibition’s curators, Gilles Lipovetsky and Jean Serroy, understand that to create this exhibition it is essential to include the vision of screen users: anyone who is interested can participate by sending a video of their own creation which reflects upon the power of the screen.
All the videos sent by the users will be showed in the physical exhibition. We will confront the discourse of the commissioners with the point of view of the users.

The exhibition's creative process reveals a series of questions that it aims to make visible through the exhibition's virtual platform. Therefore, a blog has been created where curators, collaborators and contributors can expound upon and debate the script's successes and dilemmas, and its progressive formalization.

Global Screen has become an experiment of creation and co-creation with audiences. It’s a challenge for us, a new way to create exhibitions. We would like to know your opinion about this project and to learn more about your experience on similar projects. We keep on learning!:-)

More info:

Virtual platform
http://pantallaglobal.cccb.org/en_GB

Global Screen: a project in three phases
http://www.cccb.org/lab/en/ici/pantalla-global-un-projecte-en-tres-fases/

Global Screen: Create, publish and exhibit your vision
http://www.cccb.org/lab/en/escenaris-virtuals/pantalla-global-crea-publi...