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AC/E digital culture ANNUAL REPORT 2014A NIGHT AT THE SIDNEY OPERASITE Distribuciónhttp://www.sitedistribucion.es/Online platform for information services on the main systems for the distribution of the performing arts in Spain: circuits, networks, distributors, fairs and venues. The site forms part of a larger programme of action called SITE (Servicios de Información de Tendencias Escénicas), organised by the Cultural Management Department of the ICCMU–Madrid Complutense University. SITE Distribución is the first product of the programme to reach the market and from 2013 access is unrestricted and free of charge. It has a powerful search-engine, has thorough, updated information about any company or cultural agent, in Spain and abroad, and can draw up a plan or strategy for the distribution of shows in Spain. The aim is to make it easier for new players to enter the scene and to let it be the theatrical projects themselves, and not the control of specialised information, that conditions access to the market.A NIGHT AT THE SYDNEY OPERAIn early December 2013, the Sidney Opera invited a hundred computer experts to spend 24 hours on the premises, including the night hours, to create anAC/Einnovative application to promote the institution’s iconic building. Aspirants had to register on the theatre’s website and to present themselves on the appointed day with everything necessary to spend the day working on the new application. No sooner had they arrived than they toured the complex and collected photographic and audiovisual material that was available to the theatre so as to get down to work. Notable amongst these materials was a project carried out by a Scottish company that generated 56,000 3D digital photos of the entire complex. The experts were to work alone or in groups to create the application. They were to submit it the following day at noon and the best prototype would be awarded a prize of 4,000 Australian dollars.BLOG CREATIONTeatros del Canal (Madrid)http://www.teatroscanal.com/Blog “No me montes una escena” (Don’t make a sce- ne!). Conceived as an independent page of the theatre’s website: http://blog.teatroscanal.com/FOCUS 2014: THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE PERFORMING ARTS3.1 THE USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO CREATE A COMMUNITY CURRENT PAGE...LA MAISON DE LA CULTURE’S BLOG154