European Cultural Backbone

Set up in 1999 as a coalition of mediacultural institutions and individuals working together to creatively use and develop participatory media for social change. Based in Amsterdam and Vienna.

History

• 1997: Dutch Virtueel Platform organizes conference Towards a European Media Policy: From Practice to Policy, Amsterdam and Rotterdam
• 1998: Launch of position paper ‘Networking Centres of Innovation’ at the Cultural Competence conference, Linz, http://competence.netbase.org
• 4-7 Mar 1999: ECB meets in Rabenstein, Austria, link
• 1999: Publication of the book New Media Culture in Europe, containing many newly commissioned texts from ECB members and published by the Virtual Platform.
• 1999: launch of the Hybrid Media Lounge, database of new media culture practitioners in Europe, of which a Cdrom is included in the publication New Media Culture in Europe, http://www.medialounge.net/
• 1999: ECB meets in Helsinki, on the occasion of the event ‘Connected: networked media culture in a changing Europe’
• 10-11 Jul 2000: ECB meets in Brussels, on the occasion of the launch of the World-Information.Org exhibition. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0007/msg00051.html
• 2001: Official launch ECB website, including new Medialounge, Amsterdam; ECB meets

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