The nice thing about the Skopje Bienniale is that you always meet interesting people - whether it be in the streets, at the meeting point or while having lunch or dinner. That's what happened yesterday: thanks to a fortunate coincidence I happened to sit at the same table as Herman Bashiron, whose thesis is looking at art as a tool for intercultural dialogue in the Mediterranean.

Herman is a cultural researcher at the University of Barcelona in Spain, but he is also one of the main contributors to Interartive, an open platform for dialogue about contemporary art, with content available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Italian and French (!).

He recently published Art 2.0 in the Mediterranean Digital Space, a fascinating article explaining the relationship between contemporary art and "2.0" technologies - and also investigating the importance of such a relationship in the Mediterranean area.