Topic: Uncharted-culture

UNCHARTED poster on the REACH digital gallery

  The REACH project had to cancelled their final conference planned for the 4-5 June 2020 in Pisa due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the REACH Consortium decided to keep alive the call for posters and videos until October 2020 … Continue reading


Museums and Social Responsibility – Values revisited

NEMO and the German Museums Association, within the framework of Germany’s presidency of the Council of the European Union, are co-organising an online conference from 17-18 September 2020. This conference is the first of three events organised by museum organisations … Continue reading


The impact of the COVID-19 on the Cultural and Creative Sector

The Cultural and Creative Sector (CCS), comprises all the sectors whose activities are based on cultural values, or artistic, creative expressions. Beyond its value for the European economy, it plays a crucial role in the well-being and cohesion of the … Continue reading


The Prix Ars Electronica

The Prix Ars Electronica, which has been happening every year since 1987, is considered to be one of the most prestigious media arts competition in the world. The 2020 edition received proposals from 90 countries, for a total of 3,209 … Continue reading


EC launches public consultation on digital access to European cultural heritage

The Commission has opened a public consultation on the opportunities offered by digital technologies for the cultural heritage sector. Stakeholders and all interested people are invited to provide feedback on the Recommendation of 2011 on digitising cultural material and digital … Continue reading


UNCHARTED Project on CORDIS website!

“What is the social value of culture? While culture is increasingly being viewed from an economic perspective, there is much more at stake. Focusing on the valuation practices developed by different actors involved in the cultural sector, the EU-funded UNCHARTED … Continue reading


Public Domain and misuse: some thoughts

image: Rank Badge with Leopard, Wave and Sun Motifs, China, Qing dynasty (1644–1911), late 18th century, silk and metallic thread, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 30.75.1025. Being so deeply embedded in the Europeana ecosystem, the new CEF project PAGODE – Europeana China (2020-2021) … Continue reading


VORTIC: the new virtual reality app brings art galleries straight to collectors’ homes

The entrepreneur Oliver Miro, with decades of sales experience in the family art gallery, has launched an extended reality platform that offers to private galleries the opportunity to virtually reproduce their spaces, adapting the artworks here displayed. This new tool … Continue reading


27-30 October 2020, the ROCK Open Knowledge Week

From 27th October 2020 to 30th October 2020, the ROCK Open Knowledge Week will take place online on the topic: Cultural Heritage as Oxygen in Times of Crisis. After the annulation of the conference in Bologna, scheduled on 14-15 May, … Continue reading


“Changing with the Times” – ICSB Arts & Entrepreneurship Series

Put forth by UNESCO, artists around the world engage with the “ResiliArt” movement to demonstrate how “confinement can also be a period of openness to others and to culture, to strengthen the links between artistic creation and society.” The movement remains strong … Continue reading