Trbovlje, The New Media Setting

Contact

Trbovlje novomedijsko mesto

Trg svobode 11a, SI-1420 Trbovlje

http://www.tnm.si/

drustvo.tnm@gmail.com

Phone386 (0) 3 563 34 94

Trbovlje, The New Media Setting (TNM) was set up in 2009 as a comprehensive and wide-ranging programme of establishing a new-media-arts-sensitive culture in the former industrial town of Trbovlje and the wider Zasavje region. It aims to create a network featuring various protagonists from the arts and heritage scenes as well as with those working in science, technology and tourism.

The programme – yet also a cultural society of the same name – is spearheaded by the Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre.

A workshop by Stefan Doepner, organised under the auspices of the Trbovlje, New Media Setting project, 2015

Activities

Among its main outlets are the international new media festival Speculum Artium and the accompanying DigitalBigScreen Festival. However, TNM also sets up smaller exhibitions in the gallery of the Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre and at other festivals and exhibitions grounds around Slovenia. In 2017 the people involved in TNM opened up a virtual mining museum, called 4. Dritl.

Regular educational and cultural work with primary schools take place under the auspices of the project, as well as a high school course in "new media creativity". The enterprise has a long-term goal of co-establishing some sort of a new media arts academy.

TNM has established various connections with arts, research and education institutions all over Europe. Some of them are the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien and the Linz University of Arts.

The Telenoid™, designed to appear and to behave as a 'minimalistic' human, was featured at the Speculum Artium Festival, as was its main inventor, dr. Hioshi Ishigura, 2013

See also

• Speculum Artium Festival
• Delavski dom Trbovlje Cultural Centre

External links

• Trbovlje, The New Media Setting website
• Trbovlje Cultural Centre website (in Slovenian)
• Speculum Artium website
• DigitalBigScreen website
• 4. Dritl website

Gallery

The younger visitors of the Speculum Artium Festival watching a project set up by the Jožef Stefan Institute, 2013

Asimo by Honda, supposedly the world's most advanced humanoid robot, hosted by the Speculum Artium Festival, 2014

Invited by the Speculum Artium Festival, a group of Japanese artists studying Empowerment informatics at the University of Tsukuba meet with Borut Pahor, the president of Slovenia, 2015

A workshop by Stefan Doepner, organised under the auspices of the Trbovlje, New Media Setting project, 2015

As a part of the Trbovlje, New Media Setting endeavour, new media art workshops are held in high schools throughout the Zasavje region, 2016

Aereform is a Trbovlje-based company working in the field of aviation technology. As a part of the Trbovlje, New Media Setting project, they organised flight simulator sessions for the wider public, 2017