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London (UK), 5-6 September 2019

Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2019 – call for papers

Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2019
5-6 September 2019 – London, United Kingdom

We’d like to invite you to submit your papers/posters/demo proposals for the Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) 2019 to be held from 5-6 September 2019 in London, UK.

IntelliSys 2019 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. It is part of the conference series started in 2013.

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:
Paper Submission Due: 15 January 2019
Acceptance Notification : 01 February 2019
Author Registration : 15 February 2019
Camera Ready Submission : 01 March 2019
Conference Dates : 5-6 September 2019

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

IntelliSys 2019 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.

developing a framework of visual recognition for algorithm training

A concept workshop for 50s in Europe Kaleidoscope

all photos courtesy Fred Truyen.

One of the technological aspects in the 50s in Europe Kaleidoscope project relates to implement a specific visual matching search tool for photography of the Fifties, that will support user engagement with Europeana content and also provision and matching of personal content.

This means to train an algorithm to browse huge amounts of visual resources and recognise certain, specific, aspects or – in other words – specific concepts relating to the visual imagery and historical context of the Fifties.

Initial thoughts on the main concepts of a ethical, societal, historical, philosophical and psychological nature to inspire discussion drove to the following “meta-themes”:

optimism vs. anxiety
innovation vs. tradition
east vs. west
freedom vs. restriction
liberalism vs. oppression
wealth vs. crisis
growth vs. competition

While the partners are already discussing under the guidance of Coventry University and KU Leuven / Photoconsortium for distilling key concepts applicable to the Fifties, a dedicated workshop was organized in Brussels on 10-11 December for partners to meet and refine the discussion, in sight of finalizing the list of concepts the algorithms will be trained with. The workshop was organized by partners imec and KIK-IRPA and welcomed content providers, photography professionals and amateurs, and photography expert from the project partners and from the Photoconsortium network.

the yearly event International Platform on Integrating Arab e-Infrastructure in a Global Environment was happily concluded

e-AGE18, Amman, Jordan, 2-3 December 2018

Amman – Under the patronage of HE the Minister of Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research, and chaired by H E Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, the “8th International Platform on Integrating Arab e-Infrastructures in a Global Environment” and the “10th Annual Conference of the Arab Organization for Quality Assurance in Education” concluded their activities on 3 December 2018. Academics, scientists, experts, and representatives of institutions and research and education networks in Europe, America, Africa and Asia.

Video links for the sessions and presentations HERE

PHOTO GALLERY at Dropbox HERE

The meeting was attended by HE Mr. Sami Al-Salaita, Secretary General of the Ministry of Education, HE Dr. Sabri Saidam, Minister of Education and Higher Education in Palestine, HE Dr. Duaa Khalifa, Director of the Department of Education and Scientific Research, League of Arab States, HE Mr. Andrea M. Fontana, the EU Ambassador to Jordan, and Dr. Abdel Rahim Al-Hunaiti, Assistant Secretary General of the Association of Arab Universities

HE Dr. Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, Chairman of the Arab States Research and Education Networks and the Arab Organization for Quality Assurance in Education, acknowledged the role of the European Union in co-funding high speed networks in the context of EUMEDCONNECT and AFRICACONNECT projects. These networks have contributed to supporting research and education in the Arab region through interlinkage to the European GEANT research and education network.

A cooperation agreement was signed with the Palestinian Ministry of Education and Higher Education for cooperation to launch education for innovation in schools. Other cooperation agreements were also signed with the research and education networks in Morocco and Tunisia to establish high speed links for research and education and linking to ASREN POP in London.

A number of case studies have been presented on the status of national and regional research and education networks and their importance in supporting research communities. The development of a comprehensive Arab regional e-infrastructures is needed to advance research and provide access to computational resources and repositories.

Research and networking priorities have been identified, including the development of services, coordination with regional e-infrastructures, and enhanced research and education cooperation in various areas among Arab countries and regional communities in Europe, the United States, Canada, Latin America, Africa.

Website: http://asrenorg.net/

Daring participation! 20-21 November 2018, Berlin

The REACH Workshop on participatory approaches for Cultural Heritage management

On 20 and 21 November 2018, an international workshop entitled “Daring Participation!” took place in Berlin, organized by the Institute for Museum Research/Institut für Museumsforschung (SMB-PK).

Participants from different institutions (museum, archive, library, ministry, association) were invited to present their participatory activities and to discuss their experiences and the value of participatory management of cultural heritage.

The topics covered different areas of work (exhibition, conservation, education), various participatory practices (e.g. co-creation, out-reach, digital/analog) and participation as an institutional concept.

In this lively and very enriching exchange it became clear that the implementation of participatory initiatives concerns different areas of work and that the social dimension of this work gains importance through the involvement of citizens. Participation should therefore be seen as an integral part of the institution’s concept and should provide a structural framework for the specific needs. All staff in the institutions must be involved in this process and receive comprehensive training.

Get more information here.

From Coimbra to Vieira de Leiria in the city of Marinha Grande in Portugal follows the International Art Exhibition of Surrealism Now 2019

The 13th edition of the international “Surrealism Now” exhibition

Open January 26 of 2019 and stands for indefinite duration in the Municipal Gallery of Vieira de Leiria in the Municipality of Marinha Grande, the International Surrealism Now is the world’s largest surrealist exhibition in the 21th century.

Municipal Gallery of Vieira de Leiria

Presenting so far 118 of the main surrealist artists from 49 countries of the five continents, continuing its work this time in the city of Marinha Grande in the Municipal Gallery of Vieira de Leiria, after having already passed through the cities of Lisbon, Porto, Setubal, Amadora, Lousã, Aveiro, Coimbra, Conimbriga Museum and in the Medieval Castle of Ega’s palace.
This ground breaking project is presented by Santiago Ribeiro, Portuguese surrealist painter, dedicated to promoting Surrealism of the 21st century, through exhibitions presented over the last 8 years in various parts of the world: Berlin, Moscow, Dallas, Los Angeles, Mississippi, Warsaw, Nantes, Paris, London, Florence,Madrid, Granada, Barcelona, Lisbon, Belgrade, Monte Negro, Romania, Japan, Taiwan and Brazil.

International Surrealism Now of the 21st century presents a strong force for freedom of creativity, love and hope. This can be see in the works of the personal visions of 118 of the world’s leading surrealism artists representing the hopes, dreams and idealogies of 49 countries proposing new perspectives, solutions and healing journeys.

Artists:
Achraf Baznani, Morocco / Agim Meta, Spain / Aissa Mammasse, Algeria / Alessio Serpetti, Italy / Alvaro Mejias, Venezuela / Ana Neamu, Romania / Ana Pilar Morales, Spain / Andrew Baines, Australia / Aquilino Ferreira, Portugal / Asier Guerrero Rico (Dio), Spain / Brigid Marlin, UK / Bien Banez, Philippines / Can Emed, Turkey / Carlos Sablón, Cuba / Cătălin Precup, Romania / Cristian Townsend, Australia / Conor Walton, Ireland / Cynthia Tom, China / USA / Dag Samsund, Denmark / Daila Lupo, Italy / Dan Neamu, Romania / Daniel Chiriac, Romania / Daniel Hanequand, France / Canada / Daniele Gori, Italy / Delphine Cencig, France / Dean Fleming, USA / Domen Lo, Slovenia / Edgar Invoker, Russia / Efrat Cybulkiewicz, Venezuela / Egill Eibsen, Iceland / Erik Heyninck, Belgium / Ettore Aldo Del Vigo, Italy / Farhad Jafari, Iran / France Garrido, USA / Francisco Urbano, Portugal / Gabriele Esau, Germany / Genesis Cabrera, USA / Graça Bordalo Pinheiro, Portugal / Graszka Paulska, Poland / Gromyko Semper, Philippines / Gyuri Lohmuller, Romania / Hector Pineda, Mexico / Hector Toro, Colombia / Henrietta Kozica, Sweden / Hugues Gillet, France / Isabel Meyrelles, Portugal / Iwasaki Nagi, Japan / James Skelton, UK / Jay Garfinkle, USA / Jay Paul Vonkoffler, American / Argentine / Jimah St, Nigeria / Joanna Budzyńska-Sycz, Poland / João Duarte, Portugal / Keith Wigdor, USA / Leo Wijnhoven, Netherlands / Leo Plaw, Germany / Liba WS, France / Lubomír Štícha, Republic Czech / Ludgero Rolo, Portugal / Lv Shang, China / Maarten Vet, Netherlands / Maciej Hoffman, Poland / Magi Calhoun, USA / Marnie Pitts, UK / Maria Aristova, Russia / Mario Devcic, Croatia / Martina Hoffman, Germany / Mathias Böhm, Germany / Mehriban Efendi, Azerbaijan / Naiker Roman, Cuba / Nazareno Stanislau, Brazil / Nikolina Petolas, Croatia / Octavian Florescu, Canada / Ofelia Hutul, Romania / Oleg Korolev, Russia / Olesya Novik, Russia / Olga Spiegel, USA / Otto Rapp, Austria / Paula Rosa, Portugal / Paulo Cunha, Canada / Pedro Diaz Cartes, Chile / Penny Golledge, UK/ Peter MC LANE, France / Philippe Pelletier, France / Roch Fautch, USA / Rodica Miller, USA / Ruben Cukier, Argentine / Israeli / Rudolf Boelee, New Zealand / Russbelt Guerra, Peru / Sabina Nore, Austria / Sampo Kaikkonen, Finland / Santiago Ribeiro, Portugal / Sarah Zambiasi, Australia / Serge Sunne, Latvia / Sergey Tyukanov, Russia / Shahla Rosa, USA / Shoji Tanaka, Japan / Shan Zhulan, China / Shia Weltenmenge, Germany/ Sio Shisio, Indonesia / Slavko Krunic, Serbia / Sônia Menna Barreto, Brazil / Steve Smith, USA / Stuart Griggs, UK / Svetlana Kislyachenko, Ukraine / Svetlana Ratova, Russia / Tatomir Pitariu, USA / Tersanszki Cornelia, Romania / Ton Haring, Netherlands / Victor Lages, Portugal / Vu Huyen Thuong, Vietnam / Yamal Din, Morocco / Yuliya Patotskaya, Belarus / Yuri Tsvetaev, Russia / Zoltan Ducsai, Hungary / Zoran Velimanovic, Serbia.

a new project financed by EU will realize 10 pop-up exhibitions of cultural heritage across Europe!

REvivEU.. it’s our history too!

REvivEU is a project financed by the EU in the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage. The objective is to realize a series of pop-up exhibitions across 2019 in various European cities, to celebrate the diversity of European cultural heritage and to empower citizens in a more participative approach to cultural heritage. The exhibitions will be co-created joining institutional cultural heritage with crowdsourced stories and personal items. Each exhibition will be mixed physical-digital and highly interactive for the visitors, including a contest for the best cultural items presented in the exhibitions. The most voted crowdsourced item in each city will grant the holder a trip to Brussels for participating in the final event of REvivEU.

10 European cities – Cultural heritage and local history – Co-creation and crowdsourcing

Discover the event in your city, and join in to share the stories from your family and add your bit of family heritage to the bigger picture of European history. And you can win a trip to Brussels to the great final party of REvivEU in February 2020. WeAre#EuropeForCulture

AMSTERDAM / BUDAPEST / SOFIA / HELSINKI / KRAKOW / BASEL / VILNIUS / PISA / GIRONA / CYPRUS / FINAL EVENT

REvivEU team

KU Leuven: Content coordination
Photoconsortium: Networking and exhibition coordination
Noterik: Technical coordination

MORE INFO: http://www.photoconsortium.net/reviveu-home/

Save the date: 17-18 January 2019, Milan

TRACES project Final Conference: Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts

TRACES, Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts: From Intervention to Co-Production will conclude its three years research programme with a two-day event conference in Milan, next January. The symposium is conceived to provide a critical overview on the main findings and results ensuing from the investigations and the Creative Co-productions developed within the project, as well as to foster the critical debate about the transmission of contentious heritages and the process of Reflexive Europeanisation. The meeting intends to promote an inter-disciplinary and forward-looking discussion aimed at opening new perspectives based on the Project outcomes.
The Simposia will culminate in the opening of TRACES final exhibition,Contentious Objects/Ashamed Subjects, curated by Suzana Milevska at the Politecnico di Milano.

TRACES is funded in 2016 by the European Commission as part of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. The main topic of the project is to investigate the challenges and opportunities raised when transmitting complex pasts and the role of difficult heritage in contemporary Europe.

Venue of the conference:
17 January 2019: MUDEC-Museo delle Culture, Milan
18 January 2019: Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Exhibition:
18 January- 6 February 2019 Galleria del Progetto, Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Get more information about TRACES conference and the exhibition

3-4 December 2018, Huelva (Spain).

REACH at the Faro Convention research-action workshop

The second Faro Convention research-action workshop “Cross-fertilization roads between Heritage and Participatory Citizenship” took place in Huelva (Spain) the 3-4 December.

It focused on the actual organization of “heritage communities” to both manage such enlarged “cultural heritage” and participate effectively in its governance. Involving both civil society (heritage communities) and academia (Universities), it discussed the various governance models and practices most adapted in achieving Faro Convention values and principals, taking into account the various specific contexts.

Dr. Gábor Oláh research assistant at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) presented REACH project at the workshop and hosted the world café table on social cohesion and integration.

Programme and information here.

The Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (2005) has been ratified by 17 member states of the Council of Europe and signed by 6. It is a powerful, innovative and democratic tool for facing complex social and cultural challenges. Likewise, the Faro Convention Action Plan is designed to translate the Faro Convention principles into practice through an active learning platform (the Faro Convention Network) to build on good practices and to generate dynamic dialogue among practitioners, facilitators and heritage stakeholders.

The event took place in Girona and included presentations, keynotes and workshops from Europe and beyond.

I&R conference as one benchmark event for professionals in photography and audiovisual

During the third week of November (from 21 to 24) it was held a new edition of the Image and Research Conference, organized by the Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI) of the Girona City Council with the collaboration of the Association of Archivists of Catalonia and promoted by ICA. In that edition, around 150 people attended representing eighteen different countries. The Image and Research Conference held its fifteenth year, and after 28 years, it has become the one if the benchmark events in Europe for professionals involved in photography and audiovisual mainly in the field of archives, preservation, history and document management.

15es Jornades Imatge i Recerca al Palau de Congresso de Girona. Acte d’obertura de les jornades. D’esquerra a dreta, Joan Soler, president de l’Associació d’Arxivers – Gestors de Documents de Catalunya, Narcís Sastre, regidor de Paisatge i Hàbitat Urbà de l’Ajuntament de Girona, Elsa Ibar, directora general de Patrimoni Cultural de la Generalitat de Catalunya i Joan Boadas, director del Centre de Recerca i Difusió de la Imatge.

The Conference started on the 21st with a workshop devoted to photography conservation titled “When the alarms fire, 5 critical aspects for conservation of photography”. The teacher was Fernando Osorio, a well-known conservator of photography of the international scene. Three days later, on the 24th, another workshop took place. In this case, it was devoted to the digitissation of color photography, by Bea Martínez, Chief of Studies at the Center for Image and Multimedia Technology (CITM) of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).. 45 people attended the workshops.

On the 22nd and 23rd it took place the sessions for papers and presentations that make up the main event of the Conference in the Girona Conference Centre. To highlight the speakers we quote Frederik Temmermans, from Vrije Universiteit (Brussels) and Research Manager at IMEC (Interuniversity Microlectronics Center), who gave a talk about technology and methods for the integrity of digital images. Tomislav Ivanjko, assistant professor at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences (University of Zagreb), dedicated his talk to the gamification of photographic archives, as a way for users engagement. Bea Martínez, the workshop teacher, made a theoretical approach to the digitisation of colour photography. Last, Joan Boadas, Director of CRDI – Girona City Council, explained how to manage a photographic archive and he focused in how to project it towards the future.

15es Jornades Imatge i Recerca. Taller “Quan es disparen les alarmes. 5 aspectes crítics per la conservació de la fotografia” a càrrec del conservador de fotografia Fernando Osorio.

The experiences session was mainly focused on institutions and companies in Latin America in order to better understand the reality of these countries and learn from their experience. Sergio Burgui, from Moreira Salles Institute in Brasil, Daniel Sosa, from Photography Center in Montevideo (Uruguai), and again Fermando Osorio, representing the company Televisa in Mexico, were the representatives of this territory. They made evident the important works that are going on in all these countries. Last, a completely different experience, by Alain Dubois, archivist of canton of Valais, who explained a pilot project at the regional television, using a speech recognition tool.

The program gives also special importance to the debate and participation. On the 23rd it took place a debate about how to engage new audiences in which people talked about the possibilities that the digital media offer to archives, the interactivity with users, the social media and mainly Instagram, the professional creativity, the use of technologies, etc. It was a dialogue between David Iglésias, from CRDI, and Irina González, Master’s in Business Innovation, who provided an innovative and creative point of view.

15es Jornades Imatge i Recerca al Palau de Congressos de Girona. Pausa.

In the section of Conservation, dedicated to the Ángel Fuentes Memorial, CRDI made a presentation of Ángel Fuentes Collection of daguerrotypes, ambrotypes and ferrotypes. It was acquired this year and is one of the most important collections in the country. The conservator of Photography, Josep Pérez, made an assessment of this collection. Fernando Osorio, a colleague of Angel Fuentes in Latin American, gave a more personal approach to this man.

Last, we should mention the session of 23rd afternoon dedicated to papers. 30 papers were presented, from 10 different countries. This makes evident the need to count on this kind of forums to share knowledge and experiences. Once again, the four-days meeting and workshops in Girona was for all of us a good opportunity to be in contact with colleagues with different backgrounds, but with a shared interest: the photographic and audiovisual heritage.

Link to the papers and the photographic reportage:

https://www.girona.cat/sgdap/cat/jornades_properes-ENG.php

Blog and Photos courtesy Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI). Girona City Council

14-16 November 2018, Prague

Outcomes of the International workshop “Resilience of Heritage in Resilient Cities”

In the framework of the Small Towns Heritage Pilot of REACH project, the brainstorming workshop was focused on the definition, conceptualization and application of the term resilience in humanities and social sciences.

The meeting took place at Charles University, Faculty of Arts in mid November. The workshop was very well attended by scholars working in Archeology, Social and Urban History, Literature, Architecture and Urban Planning, Anthropology and Public History. They also represented a variety of linguistic milieux – Italian, English, Finnish, Polish, Slovak and Czech, which influence the usage of the term resilience in scholarly and public discourse. The presentations explored the context of resilience in small towns with rich cultural heritage, contribution of museums, the effect of educational programs carried by community workers trained in anthropology, the chances of activists struggling with extremism through instrumental use of cultural heritage. Participants wish to publish the summary of the discussion and the variety of contributions. Organizers believe that this meeting creates basis for the planned REACH workshop on resilience in April 2020.

More blog on the workshop

Link to the workshop webpage.