Digital meets Culture

Corfu (Greece), 25-27 September 2020

SEEDA-CECNSM 2020

The 5th South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM 2020), in its 5th year, will provide an insight into the unique world stemming from the interaction between the fields of computer engineering, networks and Design Automation.

SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 will provide an international technical forum for experts from the engineering industry and academia to exchange ideas, innovations, and present results of on-going research in the most state-of-the-art areas.

After four successful conferences starting from Kastoria (2016, 2017, 2018), and then Piraeus (2019), the SEEDA-CECNSM conference series has been consolidated as a reference event in order to discuss about the newest advances in the field.

SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and all papers will be indexed by IEEE Xplore.

Website: http://hilab.di.ionio.gr/seeda2020/

Calls for papers and special sessions are currently open.

CALL FOR SPECIAL SESSION PROPOSALS – Deadline: *February 28, 2020*

http://hilab.di.ionio.gr/seeda2020/index.php/special-sessions/

The SEEDA-CECNSM 2020 technical program will highlight a series of Special Sessions to complement the regular program with new or emerging topics of particular interest to topics of SEEDA-CECNSM community.

Inquiries Special Session Chair at the following address: Themistoklis Exarchos <exarchos@ionio.gr>.

CALL FOR PAPERS – Deadline: *April 24, 2020*

http://hilab.di.ionio.gr/seeda2020/index.php/conference/call-for-papers/

Topics of interest include various categories, such as but not limited to:

Design Automation (DA)
Computer networks and Communications
Social media and E-technologies
Social networks

More details on the topics are available here: http://hilab.di.ionio.gr/seeda2020/index.php/submissions/

* GENERAL CHAIRS:
Phivos Mylonas, Ionian University
Michael Dossis, University of Western Macedonia
Christos Douligeris, University of Piraeus

* CONTACT: hilab (at) ionio.gr

a call for filmmakers to inform the 10th anniversary edition of the renowned festival

Edinburgh Short Film Festival now open for entry!

The 10th Anniversary edition of the ESFF opens for applications, and will show up with more short film screenings in Edinburgh, including International Film Festival showcases, trophies, cash prizes and awards!

We’re also excited to be programming showcases of our best films for our 2020 partners:

Adriatic Film Festival
Stop Motion Montreal
Firenze FilmCorti
Sardinia Film Festival
Balkans Beyond Borders Film Festival
and Manipulate Theatre & Animation Festival!

Max Length 25 minutes, international films welcomed, all genres eligible.

Deadline 3 february 2020.

Open for entries online:

https://www.edinburghshortfilmfestival.com/call-for-entries-filmmakers/

Dallas (USA), 10 November 2019 - 22 March 2020

Exhibition in Dallas “speechless: different by design”

Steven and William Ladd, Scroll Space (2019), from DMA website

Explore the many ways in which we connect to the world around us through our senses in speechless: different by design, an exhibition of multisensory, interactive, and immersive experiences for visitors of all backgrounds and abilities. Created in collaboration with designers, scholars, and scientists, speechless presents unique opportunities for discovering new perspectives through communications beyond speech and words.
Co-organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and the High Museum of Art, speechless: different by design showcases site-specific installations and new commissions by six leading and emerging international designers and design teams—Ini Archibong, Matt Checkowski, Misha Kahn, Steven and William Ladd, Laurie Haycock Makela, and Yuri Suzuki. Their new works will create participatory environments in which senses are merged or substituted for one another—for instance, sound will become visible and language will become tactile—so that visitors can engage with their surroundings in new and unconventional ways.

Website: https://dma.org/speechless

Matt Checkowski, Glyph (2019), from DMA website

About the DMA Dallas Museum of Art
Established in 1903, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) is among the 10 largest art museums in the country and is distinguished by its commitment to research, innovation and public engagement. At the heart of the Museum and its programs is its global collection, which encompasses more than 24,000 works and spans 5,000 years of history, representing a full range of world cultures. Located in the nation’s largest arts district, the Museum acts as a catalyst for community creativity, engaging people of all ages and backgrounds with a diverse spectrum of programming, from exhibitions and lectures to concerts, literary events, and dramatic and dance presentations.

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Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 3-4 September 2020

Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2020 – call for papers open until 15/1/2020

Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2020
3-4 September 2020 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands

IntelliSys 2020 will focus in areas of intelligent systems and artificial intelligence and how it applies to the real world. IntelliSys provides a leading international forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse fields with the purpose of exploring the fundamental roles, interactions as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence.

Conference Topics are listed here.

The conference programme will include paper presentations, poster sessions and project demonstrations, along with prominent keynote speakers and industrial workshops. All submitted papers will be reviewed by experts in the field based on the criteria of originality, significance, quality and clarity.

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: 15 January 2020 (FIRM DEADLINE)
Acceptance Notification : 01 February 2020
Author Registration : 15 February 2020
Camera Ready Submission : 01 March 2020
Conference Dates : 3-4 September 2020

Complete details are available on the conference website : http://saiconference.com/IntelliSys

IntelliSys 2020 proceedings will be published in the Springer series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” and submitted for indexing to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. The publications within “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” are primarily proceedings of important conferences, symposia and congresses. They cover significant recent developments in the field, both of a foundational and applicable character.

Girona (Catalonia), 26 March 2020

International Seminar on Sports Archives

The complex management of the world of sport has many links with other professionals, such as those involved in health, journalism and the media, history, archive studies, political science, legislation, economics, philosophy, the sciences of physical activity, and sports and engineering, among other fields.

With a view to achieving the above aims, the ICA / SPO, the Diputació de Girona, the Girona City Council and the Generalitat de Catalunya are promoting a biennial seminar on sport archives in Girona.

The International Council on Archives (ICA), through the Section on Sport Archives (SPO), aims to make governments and the public aware of the need to preserve and conserve archives belonging to all the individuals, public and private institutions, associations and other organisations linked to the world of sport. The ICA’s activities, through ICA / SPO, are intended to raise awareness in society of the need to organise, preserve, disseminate and facilitate access to documentation and information produced by associations, clubs, federations, sports organisations and athletes, since they play a fundamental role in configuring the personal and collective memory of the world of sport and of society itself.

The event is aimed at sportsmen and sportswomen, clubs, organisations, sports federations, historians, journalists, researchers, doctors, physiotherapists, archivists, companies and universities (staff and students) managing documents linked to health, sport, history, sociology, etc.

Website: http://esportarxiu.ddgi.cat/en/

Open Calls for FILE 2020, 21st edition, from October 15, 2019 to January 14, 2020

FILE – Electronic Language International Festival

Text by Caterina Sbrana.

When art, aesthetic expression, animation, music, sound effects and sonority meet technology, through a deep artistic research, we are witnessing an incredible reinterpretation of reality.

FILE is a non-profit brazilian cultural organization established in the city of São Paulo that has been promoting exhibitions, workshops and gatherings that seek to investigate the appropriations of the technologic media in artistic accomplishments. Founded in the year 2000 by Ricardo Barreto and Paula Perissinotto, FILE aims to magnify technological discussions in the cultural scope, to promote a wider access from the general public to technologic languages, demonstrating how our contemporary world builds itself on the advances of new and digital medias.

In twenty years of artistic activity, FILE has become the biggest electronic art event in Latin America.

Michael Takeo Magruder, Monolith[s]

From October 15, 2019 to January 14, 2020 artists and researchers can submit their works through specific entry forms choosing different categories: Interactive Art, Digital Language, Electronic Sonority, Workshops, Symposium and Led Show. All works should be available for consultation online through video documentation. In the web site artists can find all necessary information about the file types accepted (.mp4 or .mp3 extension, MOV, MPEG-4 etc.).

As Organizers explain: “Digital Language: As digital language are understood all the research and experiences in the wide scope of the multiple disciplines that uses digital media.

Electronic Sonority: As electronic sonority are understood all research and experiences in the wide scope of sounds, having therefore a wider comprehension than the ambit of music, and open to possible transversalities with other disciplines.

Interactive Arts: As interactive arts are understood all research and experiences in the ambit of art that uses interactive media and which take into account the relationship between the work and its viewer; works inserted in the intersecting fields of art and science, technology, among others …

Symposium: Talk proposals that have the aim to expand an international discussion on electronic digital culture in its interdisciplinary extension.

Workshop: Projects that has the main purpose of transferring knowledge and also the research on the use of computing – and other technological languages – for creative purposes.

Led Show: consists of a public art show in the large Led panel located on the Fiesp building’s façade, at Paulista Avenue, 1313. FILE Led Show gets interactive and non-interactive proposals to be presented at the Digital Art Gallery”.

Workshop FILE Sao Paulo 2019, Maurício Jabur & Rodrigo Rezende

Each participant may send up to 3 proposals of works that have been accomplished in the last 3 years (2017, 2018, 2019) for FILE 2020 and include the work’s descriptive documentation, as well as the biography.

A specific section of the Regulation is dedicated to the selection of works that will be analyzed by an internal judging commission, which will select the works that will be part of FILE exhibition.
The artists receive the notification about the selection through the e-mail address specified in the Registration Form, as well as any posterior contact. Other sections are related to Participant’s Responsibility, Intellectual Property, Copyrights And Related Rights.

Workshop FILE Sao Paulo 2015, Paul Robertson

To participate, the artists need to fill out the entry forms, free of charge, being in accordance to the General Regulations of FILE and they must accept completely terms and conditions.

Only the registrations made through the website will be accepted.

ENTRY FORMS:

DIGITAL LANGUAGE:https://file.org.br/inscricao/en/digital-language
ELECTRONIC SONORITY: https://file.org.br/inscricao/en/electronic-sonority
INTERACTIVE ART: https://file.org.br/inscricao/en/interactive-art
LED SHOW: https://file.org.br/inscricao/en/led-show
SYMPOSIUM: https://file.org.br/inscricao/en/symposium
WORKSHOP: https://file.org.br/inscricao/en/workshop

Website: https://file.org.br/highlight/opencall_file2020/

to realize 10 events (plus a final one in Belgium) we leveraged on a network of partners and colleagues from across the entire continent

WeAre#EuropeForCulture: partnerships across Europe

WeAre#EuropeForCulture is about engaging local communities with cultural heritage, to connect people and histories at local and European level. According to the European Commission guidelines, the project principally addressed teenagers, adults and ageing people, with a particular view in engaging, at each location, communities which are considered hard-to-reach, marginalized or minority.

The idea of the project was to hold co-creation events in 10 European countries plus a final one in Belgium, so that a vast and varied population could be addressed. To achieve all this, the project leveraged on the network of members of Photoconsortium Association: these are trusted colleagues from prestigious institutions, museums and archives, all well established on the territory and with a long-standing partnership with Photoconsortium for the realization of photographic heritage exhibitions and user engagement activities. The strength of this partnership with Photoconsortium members mainly lies in a deep knowledge and understanding of the local context and sensitivities, next to the expertise in engaging local communities without any language or cultural barrier, as the local organizations are of course native from the country.

The Photoconsortium partners who enthusiastically jumped on board, and without whom the project could not exist, are all relevant cultural institutions in their countries:

OSZK, Országos Széchényi Könyvtár, the National Library in Hungary
the NALIS Foundation, National Academic Library and Information System in Bulgaria
Museovirasto, the Finnish Heritage Agency in Finland
the Walery Rzewuski Museum of History of Photography, in Poland
the Museum of Graphics of Pisa, in Italy
the University of Basel, in Switzerland
Lietuvos dailės muziejus, the Lithuanian Art Museum in Lithuania
Ajuntament de Girona / CRDI, the Centre for Image Research and Diffusion of Girona, in Catalonia
the Digital Heritage Research Lab at the Cyprus University of Technology in Cyprus

and in the Netherlands a series of events was organized in collaboration with the Baking Lab and the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam.

Under the motto “It’s our history too!”, the work of the project’s and partners’ facilitators and the storytelling approach of each exhibition was specifically tailored to engaging the target community identified at each location, in their native language as well as in English, keeping in mind the connections between local history and European history and between individual stories and the bigger picture. The use of co-creation techniques enabled a deeper participation of the target communities in a participative and inclusive approach joining museum and exhibition professionals and citizens.

Also, the closing phase of the project, realized by KU Leuven, comprises a workshop and exhibition in Leuven and a final event and exhibition in Brussels at the House of European History, this latter to be held in February 2020.

About WeAre#EuropeForCulture: https://www.photoconsortium.net/europeforculture/

More about Photoconsortium and its network: https://www.photoconsortium.net

Firenze (Italy), 14-16 October 2020

Florence Heri-Tech 2020, new dates

NEW DATES! 14-16 October 2020

The International Conference Florence Heri-tech: the Future of Heritage Science and Technologies, involves a large number of researches and scholars from around the world and puts the industry’s current issues under spotlight, specifically on issues related to innovative techniques and technologies for Cultural Heritage. The Conference is part of the Florence International Biennial for Art and Restoration, an international event attracting prestigious institutions and companies and creating a unique opportunity to bring together the academic word with industry. The Conference will be a significant opportunity to bring together the academic world with industry.

Heri-Tech is the first International Conference to welcome major researchers and scholars from all over the world, focusing on current and future issues in the field on issues related to innovative techniques and technologies. The city of Florence will therefore be the international heart of Restoration and Cultural and Environmental assets as well as a forum for meeting and discussing for experts, operators and enthusiasts from around the world. The Conference will be a significant opportunity for exchange between researchers and companies for the promotion of productive excellence, technological evolution, the greater use of culture for younger sections of the population and specialization in the educational field for graduates and PhD students.

More info and call for papers: http://www.florenceheritech.com/

Areas and topics: https://www.florenceheritech.com/areas-and-topics/

engaging audiences on cultural heritage, with a little help from technologies

WeAre#EuropeForCulture: the QANDR tool

WeAre#EuropeForCulture is about engaging communities with cultural heritage, helped by the use of digital technologies. To deliver 10 exhibitions of local cultural heritage in 10 European cities plus an additional one in Leuven as part of the final stages of the project, a programme of co-creation sessions allowed people participate in the exhibition set up with their photographs, stories, opinions and other user-generated content. Students, children, artists, craftsmen, elderly people, fishermen, amateur photo-collectors, museum curators, archivists, librarians and any other kind of people of any age were engaged in a truly open and participative approach to cultural heritage.

Sebastiaan ter Burg CC-BY

The co-creation sessions were coordinated by KU Leuven and Photoconsortium, in collaboration with the local partners hosting the workshops and exhibitions. As part of the technology made available for use in this project we find QANDR, Noterik’s tool to gamify any type of group discussion. QANDR offers several types of interactions, as a way to involve people into a discussion. It is possible to do polls, pointers, wordclouds, gradings, dilemma’s, ratings and it has an interaction model whereby it is possible to create moodboards together, which is fitting very well in the visually orientated project goal of making exhibitions together. QANDR works directly from the browser of the phones and also the mainscreen only needs an internet browser in full-screen mode, so it was very flexible and easy to use this tool on the different locations of the project. Detailed explanation about the tool is offered at this video.

QANDR in Pisa

Whether you’re engaging casually with a small group of elderly people, or instigating a more formal discussion with an aula full of tech savvy students: everyone loves to play with the moving dots, fiddle with the pie charts or upvote words in a wordcloud. QANDR outsmarts other interactive discussion tools on the market, and perfectly integrates presentation slides for a sleek finishing touch, says Sofie Taes, curator-storyteller-workshopper at KU Leuven, who coordinated the co-creation programme.

About WeAre#EuropeForCulture: https://www.photoconsortium.net/europeforculture/

More about QANDR: https://www.qandr.eu/portfolio/qandr-is-contagious/