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MaP is an R&D project bringing together artists and scientists organized by MARCEL, an international network of 350 members pursuing interactive online creation. MaP-MARCEL convened six European partners aiming to create permanent laboratories as an important step forward for the implementation of a new creative space.

MaP aims to build a platform for multidiffusion arts, education and science. The platform should offer a high-quality picture and sound, opportunities for interaction with other platforms and generally offer users complete control of all “dimensions” of multipoint transmission. It is in itself a creative tool. It is an open system, combining multidiffusion technologies and creative programming tools, which offer customizable templates for each specific use: workshop, concert, theatre, dance, conference, etc. The MaP consortium crosses arts, science and technology in order to develop the tools, test and experiment with artistic and educational projects in real time using the public.

MaP is a tool at the very heart of the network, which operates in real-time, allowing several people:

• To exchange data within a network with very high bandwidth;
• Agglomerate their own data to produce content by many;
• To co-create new shared data at the heart of the network;
• To interface their existing tools locally with real-time network sharing;
• More generally, to create together interactively and instantly.

New practices, new relationships and new business

Today, the network literally participates to our current realities. In a more participatory society, opening a new space for creative freedom allows us to glimpse the transformation of the links between art and society, artists and the public. Joined within the same flow of information, we can hope with confidence that art emerging from museums, theatres and cinemas, to participate more actively in the cultural and social bonds and profoundly modify those structures.

Moreover, as in cinema, radio, television and then the Internet have opened in their time the door to new practices, the inclusion of art in the network necessarily creates new vocations : with new conventions put in place ,international technical experts, training for performance artists in handling these new codes and their constraints (actors, dancers, …), as well as many others …

(1997 - without spaces / 2348 - with spaces)