MD Lite’s Daniel Schutze speaks to Culturalink’s Sendy Ghirardi and Guillem Bacete about producing Artcast4D’s Valencia pilot.

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Daniel Schutze: Hello, Guillem and Sendy Ghirardi of Culturalink are the producers responsible for this amazing pilot.

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It was an experimental first phase, and to be perfectly honest, it was excellent.

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And I think you did very good work.

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But could you explain very quickly our cast and your role in our cast?

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Sendy Ghirardi: Do you want to go first with Artcast and explain the role of the Swirling?

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Guillem Bacete: Sure. Artcast is our Horizon project, research and innovation action.

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The aim of Artcast is to bring immersive technologies closer to cultural and creative organisations,

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particularly small-sized enterprises and companies.

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And we are based on the software, on open-source software called AAA Seed.

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With Artcast, what we are going to do is one step beyond the state of the art by implementing tracking features

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and bringing also immersive technologies to the streets and to the public.

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Daniel Schutze: Yeah, interactive immersive technologies.

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Keep this work.

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Okay, so Sendy Ghirardi, in this context here at La Granja Space, which was amazing, there was a long residence by Jaime.

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And it went really well.

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The session always happened, but good.

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Can you explain the context a little?

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Sendy Ghirardi: Yes, well, a little bit. I will explain who we are.

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I mean, Culturalink.

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Daniel Schutze: Who are you?

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Sendy Ghirardi: Culturalink is a consultancy specialising in the cultural and creative sector.

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And in the Artcast for the project, we have a double role, let's say.

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One of these is that we are responsible for the pilot in Valencia.

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We did this amazing collaboration with the Spiral Grancha and a group of dancers that are resident here in the Spiral Grancha.

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And with MDLite and Jaime Jimenez as a visual artist.

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And they create an amazing piece with the AAAseed software trying to satisfy, well, integrate functionality that satisfies the needs of the dancer and the choreographer.

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On the other hand, Culturalink is also conducting research about the needs of cultural organisations to adopt this kind of technology.

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Daniel Schutze: Yes, of course, it goes beyond simply producing a pilot.

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Sendy Ghirardi: Exactly.

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It's also to propose this open source technology to the sector, even the small companies.

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And this is really one of the big challenges because (for) most dance companies that use interactive technologies, it's big.

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And the idea is to make it, let's say, more accessible.

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Sendy Ghirardi: Okay.

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Daniel Schutze: Anyway, I'd like to thank you.

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Sendy Ghirardi: Thank you.

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Daniel Schutze: On behalf of the MD Lite team.

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Guillermo Bacete: Thank you.

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Daniel Schutze: On behalf of everybody because it was great.

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And it was a great stay for everybody and a great performance.

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Brilliant dancers.

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Guillermo Bacete: And we hope we will get another great performance next year.

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Daniel Schutze: Yeah, exactly.

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Okay, thank you very much.

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Sendy Ghirardi: Thank you.