GRADE in Paris: An event co-organised by Echtzeit, the Cookie Collective and DOC Paris
[ Echtzeit – Digitale Kultur ] GRADE in Paris: An event co-organised by Echtzeit, the Cookie Collective and DOC Paris
Research meets Art meets Free Knowledge meets Activism meets Institutions
Too often our different groups work in silos, follow completely different ways of working and still all have the same goal: make space for digital art and culture, generate visibility, respect, acceptance and resources. We could achieve so much more, if we would exchange more and invite each other into our words.
Given that, we’ve been excited about the request by the COST-Action GRADE (Grassroots of Digital Europe) whether we would like to organise one of their network meetings in 2026 with a strong community focus. After having had the pleasure of taking part in their network and several conferences, we found a lack of francophone exposure (honestly, similar to Echtzeit itself). And after our previous great experience working with the Cookie Collective, we knew exactly who our dream partner for this event would be!
Thanks to Baya’s (Azertype) contacts to the cultural centres and artist scene of Paris and his experience in event tech, we were able to provide a unique programme of frontal presentations, artistic installations, workshops and exchange opportunities between our different worlds.
The presentations included anything from the work of GRADE, Open Science, -Software and -Knowledge topics, Community organising until background information on current artistic projects by the Cookie Collective, for example different live coding platforms, XR (Extended Reality) and Hard- and Software Hacking.
Additionally visitors had tons of fun with the Incontrolab installations by Emilie Breslavetz and Leon Denise ( https://playful-machines.com/), Crashboard 2000 and Orbital, as well as a live act in the evening by Azertype with his amazing body-extension for live coding!