Paris, September 9th, 2016
Press release
In spite of the success of its various manifestations and especially the last edition held in Bordeaux last spring, the Forum d’Avignon is in a tight financial situation, which led its Board to decide to explore all forms of affiliation to partners, in particular communication or media groups.
The difficult economic context of funding cultural projects involving companies and public partners, did not allow overcoming the withdrawal since 2015 of the contribution of the Ministry of culture and communication and its operators.
For 9 years, the Forum d’Avignon has become a key space for exchange and reflection about cultural diversity and dialogue between artistic creation and economic innovation.
Eight editions of the International meetings were organized in Avignon, Paris and Bordeaux.
The Forum also expanded to the international scale, in Germany (5 editions of the Forum d’Avignon Ruhr in Essen, including the last one on August 25th, 2016), in Spain (Bilbao) and for the first time next September 28th-29th in Canada (Toronto).
Since its creation, the Forum has:
The Board
Culture, territories and Powers - The spirit of Atlas
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Update of the first report published in 2010.
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After the Big data revolution comes a second centered upon Open data and sharing
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L'Atelier BNP Paribas: Big Data: Big Culture?
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The age of curation : From abundance to discovery
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Instantaneity, hyper-choice, innovation.
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Cultural behavior and personal data
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The question of ownership of personal data is at the heart of this year’s Forum d’Avignon.
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Create, share and protect.
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The imperative of moving towards business-model hybridisation
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How harmony can triumph over cacophony.
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Generation #hashtag : a new wave of content in the age of digital natives
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