Author Archives: valentina.bachi

“Building Communities” – Europeana AGM 2018

Europeana Network Association AGM 2018: “Building Communities” The AGM 2018 is an opportunity for Europeana Network Association members to voice their opinions and ideas and to showcase their projects. This year’s focus is on building communities. The AGM 2018 takes … Continue reading


More than real: art in the digital age

The annual Verbier Art Summit connects thought leaders to key figures in the art world and creates a platform for discourse, innovation and change in a non-transactional context. It is an independent initiative organised by a non-profit association in partnership … Continue reading


Cupid comes to life and gets out of Rubens’ painting

In a waiting room decorated with paintings by Rubens, a Cupid from the painting The Feast of Venus (1636) decided to have a good time randoming in the room. Continue reading


Congress Visual Heritage 2018 (November 12-15, 2018 | Vienna, Austria) – Deadline for CHNT Submissions extended!

Due to the request of many colleagues all around the world the deadline for the submission of CHNT paper, poster, and app has been EXTENDED to 15th July. Visit the program on the event’s website and choose the right session, … Continue reading


The Best In Heritage 2018 Core Programme Projects & Presenters

Dubrovnick, Croatia, 26-28 September 2018 The Core Programme in the Theatre “Marin Držić”. Featuring 28 presentations of best practices in museums, heritage and conservation awarded in 2017, with keynotes and the “spotlight” session. A conference like no other: annual, densely … Continue reading


The 2nd Digital Heritage Best Practice Competition

The 5th International Symposium on Cultural Heritage Conservation and Digitization (CHCD 2018) in Beijing is launching the 2nd Digital Heritage Best Practice Competition to promote the relationship between digital heritage and the advancement of cultural heritage business and technology with … Continue reading


Interaction Design students created a full-scale replica of 1968 semi-interactive installation “Colloquy of Mobiles”

from CCS’s website When we talk about talking to each other in the 21st century — communication, connection — the emphasis is often on how technology enhances or diminishes personal interaction. Every day we engage with smart machines and interfaces, from … Continue reading


“Moral Machines? The Ethics and Politics of the Digital World” symposium – call for papers

6–8 March 2019, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki. As our visible and invisible social reality is getting increasingly digital, the question of the ethical, moral and political consequences of digitalization is ever more pressing. Such issue is … Continue reading


TWA Cultural heritage Digitisation Grant fund returns for third year

After providing over £12,000 of support for UK cultural heritage institutions and business archives to digitise their holdings in its first two years, the TownsWeb Archiving Digitisation Grant has returned once more in 2018.   The Grant has funding awards … Continue reading


H2020 ViMM Project: Consultation for the final version of the EU Manifesto on Digital Cultural Heritage

The H2020 Virtual Multimodal Museum Project (ViMM: www.vi-mm.eu) is a high-visibility and participative Coordination and Support Action (CSA), funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme (CULT-COOP-8-2016). The project brings together Europe’s and the world’s leadingpublic and private sector organisations working … Continue reading