As children are now increasingly exposed to digital technology at a much younger age, the British Museum harnesses this opportunity to engage children with history and culture through new technology that they feel familiar with. Continue reading
Art direction and motion-graphics studio, Plenty, recently created five publicity videos for Volkswagen, advertising their new focus on eco-friendly vehicles. These adverts suggest that forward-thinking cars may be better represented through new, digital mediums, such as animation and graphic design. Continue reading
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Immediately following the EuropeanaPhotography software seminar organized by partners GenCat and CRDI, a plenary meeting of the project was held in Barcelona on 30-31 January, again at the premises of Palau Moja. This plenary meeting included the official announce of the upcoming EuropeanaPhotography exhibition, opening in Pisa (Italy) in April 2014. Continue reading
Topic: interactivity
Digital Intelligence 2014 (#di2014) is a new international scientific and interdisciplinary conference dedicated to digital society and cultures. It will be held in Nantes, on 17-19 September 2014 and jointly organised with Scopitone, the main French Festival on digital arts and electronic music (Scopitone 2014, Sept. 16-21, 2014). Continue reading
Within the framework of FIcontent and in collaboration with Barcelona the Lab, the 15th of March will take place in Barcelona a hackathon focused on creating augmented reality games. The Augmented Reality Games – Barcelona Hackathon is a one-day activity that brings together a group of developers and creatives to create, in a funny way, augmented reality applications. Continue reading
The i2CAT Foundation organises the Augmented Reality Games Hackaton in Barcelona. It is a one-day activity that brings together a group of developers and creatives to create, in a funny way, augmented reality applications. The hackaton will take place on 15 March 2014 Continue reading
On 29-31 October 2014 eChallenges e-2014 Conference will take place in Belfast, Northern Ireland. It is the twenty-fourth in a series of annual technology research conferences supported by the European Commission and hosted by national governments. The scientific programme for eChallenges e-2014 is based on an open Call for Papers and the conference language is English. Extended abstracts must be submitted online by 31 March 2014. Continue reading
The eChallenges e-2014 Conference takes place in Belfast, Northern lreland. It will provide an international forum to foster ICT related entrepreneurship and innovation, to share experiences, increase awareness of innovative ICT applications and research results and to identify opportunities for research collaboration under Horizon 2020, the new EU Framework Research and Innovation Programme that runs from 2014 – 2020. Continue reading
Middlesex University in London has launched a new digital installation which allows viewers to feel as if they are inside canvas paintings, through the development of robotic technology. The Haptic device, which is rotated and controlled by spectators through a pen, allows viewers to feel the textures of the painting. Continue reading
Google has launched a new competition that gives digital art creators the opportunity to gain recognition and exposure. ‘Devart’ is an exhibition that will be on show at the Barbican this summer to promote “the use of technology as an artistic canvas”. Continue reading
IRCDL is a yearly deadline for Italian researchers on Digital Libraries related topics. The University of Padua, who organised the 2014 edition of the event, presented and disseminated the final results of the CULTURA project to the participants. Continue reading
Two CULTURA posters have been presented at the NODEM Conference in Stockholm on 3 December 2013. Numerous discussions with conference participants raised awareness of the CULTURA project and its approach and solutions. Continue reading
On 21st January 2014, in cooperation with the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities at the University of Graz the TUG team had the opportunity to give a presentation on the CULTURA project to humanities students in the lecture ‘Basic Module: Digital Humanities’. Continue reading
