Depot:M3C Multimedia Centres Network of Slovenia

Contact

This logo is missing!

If you have it, please email it to us.

Mreža multimedijskih centrov Slovenije (M3C)

http://www.m3c.si/

mreza@m3c.si

The M3C Multimedia Centres Network of Slovenia gathers existing and emerging intermedia initiatives in all Slovene regions and encourages international cooperation. Its members enable free access to and encourage creative use of new technology. They function as venues, events, and workshop (co)producers and information nexuses.

The M3C Network was established in 2004 when 9 Slovene multimedia centres obtained a 3-year funding contract from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) by applying through the Ministry of Culture to develop an infrastructural environment in relation to information technology and digital culture.

Background

The M3C Network is rooted in a non-formal network, originally called the Cultural Information Backbone, which was formed in the second half of the 1990s. The project's aim was to connect organisations working with digital and information technologies and artistic production. Following funding from the Ministry of Culture and the former Ministry of Information Society, as well as from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in 2004, the infrastructure of the network was extended to cover all Slovene regions.

Members

Currently there are 16 members in the network: Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab and Cyberpipe in Ljubljana; KIBLA Multimedia Centre in Maribor; PINA Primorje Information Atelier in Koper-Capodistria on the coast; Mostovna Cultural Centre and Mink Multimedia Centre, Tolmin (the Goriška Region of western Slovenia); Multimedia Centre of Dolenjska (MCD) within the framework of Lokalpatriot in Novo mesto (the southeastern region); Posavje Multimedia Centre in Krško; KRIK Pomurje Multimedia Centre in Murska Sobota, Središče Art Centre and Prlekija Regional Multimedia Centre (Pomurje Region); Celje Youth Centre and Kunigunda Regional Multimedia Centre (KRMC), Velenje (Savinjska Region), Koroška Multimedia Centre in Slovenj Gradec (Carinthia Region), Pulsar Multimedia Centre in Škofja Loka (Gorenjska (Upper Carniola) Region), and Pivka House of Culture in Pivka (Notranjska-Carst Region).

Services

The M3C Network members (co)produce informal educational programmes for local artists and cultural workers to encourage the creative use of technology.

Some of the members have developed regional web portals based on open standards. A database covering daily cultural events around Slovenia is fed to Kulturnik.si, an aggregator based on semantic web tools and developed by Ljudmila - Ljubljana Digital Media Lab.

See also

• List of the Multimedia centres Network members
• Ministry of Culture
• Kulturnik.si

External links

• The M3C Network's website

The M3C multimedia centres regional web portals

• Gorenjski.kulturnik.si, Upper Carniola region
• Klopotec.net, Pomurje region
• Kunigunda.org, Savinja region
• Mikk.si and Krik-ms.si, Pomurje region
• Nucam.info, Carinthia region
• Porton.si, Coast and Karst region
• Posočje.net, Upper Soča Valley region
• Troblja.com, Prlekija region