Seven Deaths by Marina Abramović in a new video immersive experience at Università di Torino

Seven Deaths by Marina Abramović for Icona Callas – UniVerso project

 

Università di Torino presents “Icona Callas”, a series of events celebrating the 100th anniversary of Maria Callas‘s birth. These events are part of the UniVerso project, a cultural initiative connecting Turin University with the city and the surrounding territory, offering culture accessible to all.

Maria Callas, an American-born Greek soprano, was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century.

The “Icona Callas” program includes an international conference with the title “Maria Callas at 100: Opera, Celebrity, Myth”, four exhibitions, a concert, a film festival, and masterclasses by prominent figures in the world of art and culture. The initiative aims to portray Maria Callas using as many languages and forms of expression as possible.

At Palazzo del Rettorato in Turin, the exhibition “Seven Deaths” is being held until February 29, 2024. It offers a video immersive experience featuring the reinterpretation by performance artist Marina Abramović of the deaths of protagonists from seven opera shows: Carmen, Tosca, Otello, Lucia di Lammermoor, Norma, Madama Butterfly, and La Traviata. These moments were previously depicted by the artist in “7 Deaths of Maria Callas”, her live action performance that premiered in 2020 at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Germany. The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Marina Abramović Institute.

Discover the detailed program


Europeana Digital Storytelling Festival 2024

Digital Storytelling Festival 2024, Europeana Foundation CC BY-SA

 

Join the Digital Storytelling Festival 2024 online on May 21-22, 2024, from 9 AM to 2 PM.

Organized annually by the Europeana Initiative, the international event encourages cultural heritage professionals, educators, creatives, and students from Europe and beyond to boost their storytelling skills and tell stories exploring culture.

The two-day event of talks, showcases and hands-on workshops aims to inspire participants to create connections between art, culture and history and the contemporary world.

Register now!


The international scholarly open access journal Arts accepting paper proposal on NFT art

The international scholarly open access journal Arts is now inviting submissions for the Special Issue “NFTs, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Metaverse: The Web3 Revolution that Has Transformed the Art Market”.

Are accepted original academic papers (6,000-8,000 words), based on either qualitative or quantitative research methods. Both theoretical and empirical contributions that address the contemporary digital art trends from a multidisciplinary perspective and examine their significance for the current state and future evolution of the art market will also be considered.

Please send a short abstract (250-300 words) and your CV to Dr. Elena Sidorova (elena.sidorova@sciencespo.fr) till 01 April 2024. The deadline for submitting full-length articles for peer-review is set for 01 June 2024.

Read more at this link.
Download the full Call for Papers here (PDF, 27,4 KB).


INCULTUM pilot in Al-Andalus, training on water

Training on water in Al-Andalus

Last Monday, January 29th, MEMOLab gave a training on water in Al-Andalus at the Rafael Vidal school in Fonelas, a municipality in the Altiplano of Granada.

The conference is part of the INCULTUM pilot about Desert landscapes and oasis in the Altiplano de Granada.

The event was the occasion to discuss the importance of historical irrigation systems and the possibility of their application in education and tourism.

 


The UNCHARTED Policy Seminar in Barcelona

The last event organised by UNCHARTED took place in Barcelona on 25/01/2024, under the organisation of the University of Barcelona.

It was part of the UNCHARTED Policy Seminars activity launched with the  Seminar held on Budapest on 8/12/2023.

In Barcelona, the theme connected with culture-led urban regeneration was explored via a rich programme that connected the presentation of the results of the work conducted in the frame of the Axis 2 of Work Package 5 with the points of view of a group of external experts who participated in a vivid debate.

The title of the seminar in Barcelona is “UNCHARTED: the Barcelona debates on cultural evaluation in cultural policy“.

The results of the work conducted in the two Policy Seminars of Budapest and of Barcelona are part of two deliverables that will be available on the project’s website:

  • D4.6 Roadmap for cultural policy action produced under the coordination of CEPEL, the research unit of the CNRS and Université de Montpellier (WP4 Leader)
  • D6.7 Third Policy Brief produced under the coordination of Promoter Srl.

The debates carried out in the Policy Seminars of Budapest and of Barcelona will be included in the UNCHARTED Book, which is under editing and published during the 2024 as an open access publication.

 

 


CULTUS: arebyte free online events by artist Zach Blas

img. courtesy: arebyte

CULTUS is the second instalment of the Silicon Traces trilogy, a series of moving image installations that contends with the beliefs, fantasies, and histories influential to Silicon Valley’s visions of the future. Spanning queer and speculative engagements with psychedelia, the nootropics industry, California futurism, network infrastructure, and political resistance, the trilogy surfaces the political unconscious of the tech industry.

CULTUS Online Panel Discussion
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
7:30PM – 9PM

Together with academics, artist Zach Blas and arebyte curator Rebecca Edwards unravel complex intersections of artifical intelligence, religion, feminism, ani-racism, and speculative thinking present in CULTUS.

CULTUS: Online Lecture Performance
Thursday, February 15, 2024
6:30PM – 8:00PM

Artist Zach Blas delves into the key concepts behind his new work CULTUS. Blas takes us through research into organisations like The Way of The Future Church, theories like Ray Kurzweil’s spiritual machine, and transhumanism in sci-fi and religion.

Both events are free of charge and will take place online


EVA Florence 2024

 

 

EVA FLORENCE, the annual event in Firenze of the EVA series.

Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts

Conference, Training and Workshops

Only in-presence, Grand Hotel Minerva, Florence (Italy)

27th May 2024

 

 

Main topics:

– European Commission Projects, plans regarding Cultural Heritage
– Artificial Intelligence
– Cybersecurity
– Digital art, music, theatre
– Ethical and environmental issues
– 2D and 3D digital image acquisition and display

Who Should Attend:
– The Cultural Sector
– The Government Sector
– Media & Related Sectors
– The ICT Industry, especially multimedia SME’s
– Tourism & Travel Sector
– Technology & Visual Arts Research Organisations
– Trade Culture Activities

Organised by Professor Vito Cappellini

An eBook (with ISBN), containing the Final Program and the accepted Papers, will be edited with “free” international distribution.


Download announcement and call for papers here (PDF)


Lambousa Fishing Boat: progresses on digital preservation

images in this post courtesy of Cyprus University of Technology.

January 12 2024 marked a significant milestone as the EUreka 3D partner UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage had a productive meeting with the esteemed members of the Δήμος Λεμεσού – Limassol Municipality. Progresses have been shared of the Lambousa Fishing Boat case study, part of the EUreka3D project, showcasing the incredible strides made in digitization, modeling, and the development of the e-platform dedicated to Lambousa.

The team has been hard at work, passionately committed to preserving and promoting the rich cultural heritage embedded in the Lambousa Fishing Boat, a unique part of Cypriot fishing tradition and industrial heritage. Through meticulous digitization efforts, detailed modelling, and collaborative initiatives, this fascinating piece of history is being brought to life in the digital realm.

The Lambousa Fishing Boat case study

The upcoming e-platform for Lambousa is set to be a comprehensive hub, housing all materials and insights related to the case study. From historical documentation to 3D models, the platform will provide an immersive experience, allowing enthusiasts and researchers alike to delve into the intricate details of the Lambousa Fishing Boat. The model, accompained with informative metadata and paradata, will be published soon on Europeana, the European website showcasing heritage collections, openly available for education and resercah purposes.

The meeting was a wonderful opportunity to share the achievements with the Municipality of Limassol, fostering a collaborative spirit for the preservation of cultural heritage.

Learn more about the Lambousa Fishing Boat case study


Participatory Governance and Models in Culture and Cultural Tourism

This book has been developed within the framework of the INCULTUM project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

Authored by Kamila Borseková, Katarína Vitálišová, Alexandra Bitušíková and reviewed by Antonella Fresa and Agnieszka Rzenca, the publication was developed by the Matej Bel University in the frame of WP4: Policies and participatory models of INCULTUM.

The main purpose of the book is to define the key terms of participatory governance in culture, to identify and characterise the participatory models in culture, cultural tourism as a part of sustainable development, based on literature review, own knowledge, and experience from previous empirical studies and to demonstrate their application on the selected examples of good practices.

A real useful instruments for students, teachers and professionals who are interested to go deeper on the question of how participatory approaches can be beneficial for more harmonious governance, respectful development of territories and promotion of cultural tourism.

The book is freely accessible via the DOI link.

 


How the EUreka3D project supports 3D in the data space for cultural heritage – a new blog post on Europeana

img. from Europeana website

 

3D technologies offer opportunities to broaden access to culture, preserve our shared cultural heritage and spur creativity and innovation. In support of the Twin It! 3D for Europe’s culture campaign, the EUreka3D project tells us how they are supporting cultural heritage institutions to unlock the potential of 3D digitisation for their collections.

Discover how with the blog post recently published on Europeana Pro

The post offers a very interesting opportunity to explore the possibilities of 3D for cultural heritage and was written collaboratively by Valentina Bachi, Antonella Fresa, David Iglésias and Ignacio Lamata Martínez, project partners of EUreka3D.