Digital meets Culture

the festival is accepting submission from international videoartists

Magmart | video under volcano is an international videoart festival, which over the years has seen the participation of more than 1400 artists from +80 different countries, with thousand submitted videos.

The Festival is open to all international videoartists. Partecipation is free.

Between all submitted videos, will be done a final selection based on vote of an international Jury composed by experts.

Any author can participate with max 5 videos.

Deadline: Will be accepted only the videos received within midnight of April, 07 2019.

https://www.magmart.it/rules.php

Cyprus 29th October-3rd November 2018

REACH project supports EUROMED Conference 2018

The 7th edition of the International Conference on Digital Heritage will host hundreds of excellent oral and poster presentations, as well as workshops and demonstrations from academia and industry, reflecting the wide scope of the work of the main actors in the area of cultural heritage. Contributions are expected by policy makers, professionals, students and delegates from more than 60 countries.

The common goal is to focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, the use of cutting edge technologies for the protection, preservation, conservation, massive digitalisation and visualization/presentation of the Cultural Heritage content.

REACH project supports EUROMED 2018 because of the essential rule played by digitization for the promotion of participatory approaches to culture.
REACH is already coordinating its activity with other main players in the sector as VIMM project and Photoconsortium, both, directly involved in the support of the conference too. As in the past they will keep cooperating and promoting future initiatives in line with this upcoming one and support the use of new technologies for increasing the awareness and participation of people to the enhancement of the European cultural heritage.
Read more about Euromed 2018 at http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/7th-euromed-2018-conference-progress-in-cultural-heritage-e-documentation-preservation-and-protection/

interesting PhD dissertation by Serdar Aydin focused on the architectural heritage best practices tested in Kashgar, China

A digital design approach to creative and participatory content-making in digital heritage

“Decoding Kashgar: A Digital Design Approach to Steer and Diversify Creative Engagement in Digital Heritage.” is the title of a PhD thesis by Serdar Aydin at the Victoria University of Wellington.

Digital tools have become critical instruments in preserving and communicating the value of heritage as important cultural expressions of the past. A consequence of digitalisation is the democratisation of heritage institutions, such as museums, which are found to value increasingly new types of content and new profiles of audiences. Digitisation plays a vital role in the alteration of the convictions of the heritage field to ‘materiality’ and ‘actuality.’ Although researchers acknowledge the significance of digital heritage in leading us into new ways of expressing ‘authenticity’ and ‘virtuality,’ studies have been confined to heritage activities comprised of digital documentation, representation and dissemination. Previous studies have reported on the role of public engagement in digital heritage which is criticised as consumptive, passive, guided and descriptive. Instead, the motivation of this research is to explore a new role that is ‘generative,’ ‘active’ and ‘creative’ for the production of heritage knowledge.

This dissertation demonstrates an innovative digital design approach to creative and participatory content-making in digital heritage. The research investigated the use of creative content generated collaboratively for knowledge production and acquisition in architectural heritage and tested in Kashgar, the westernmost city in China. The research conceives an interdisciplinary methodology, integrating design with the standard activities involved in digital heritage. The research examines the role of creative engagement for constructing digital heritage: creative engagement in a hybrid immersive virtual reality environment is experimented with and findings are analysed qualitatively. Then, to measure the outcome of creative engagement quantitatively, a well-known technique in data mining is used to expose undisclosed patterns. It is the first time in digital heritage that a study employs association rule mining to interpret user-generated content. The qualitative findings of two initial experiments are synthesised with quantitative results of the third experiment to investigate how the creative contribution of people in content-making is generalizable.

Summary: http://www.themuseumofgamers.org/archive/2018/10/23/thesis-summary

Free access to the thesis: http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/7083

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Facet Publishing announce the publication of 'Digital Archives: management, use and access' edited by Milena Dobreva

A wide-ranging overview of how the shift to digital is changing the landscape of archives

Today, accessibility to digital content is continuing to expand rapidly and all organizations which collect, preserve and provide access to the collective memory of humankind are expected to provide digital services. Does this transition into digital space require a substantial shift in the professional philosophy, knowledge and practice of archives?

This edited collection attempts to explore these uncharted territories by bringing together inspirational and informative chapters from international experts to help readers understand the drivers for change and their implications for archives. Editor Milena Dobreva said, “I hope the book will broaden and deepen the thinking and dialogue between all those academics, professionals and students who are working on different aspects of the digital cultural and scientific heritage”.

The book: http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=049344#.W87TXfZuLIU

Reassessment of the role of archives in the digital environment serves to develop critical approaches to current trends in the broader heritage sector, including cultural industries experimenting with sustainable business models for cultural production, digitization of analogue cultural heritage, and the related IPR issues surrounding the re-use of digital objects and data for research, education, advocacy and art.

Professor Kalpana Shankar said, “Archives and access continue to matter, perhaps more than ever. As digital material proliferates and the tools to manipulate it do so as well, what is real and what is false online become difficult to disambiguate. Human rights, scientific research and ‘wicked’ geopolitical problems (and solving them) rests on accurate and universal access to records and data, whether one is talking about the international crises of forced migration and refugees, human rights, political corruption or climate change. The work of this book is in helping us, the reader, understand how archives and archivists navigate the entanglement of technical, social, organizational and legal challenges they face daily”.

Dr. Milena Dobreva is an Associate Professor at UCL Qatar where she is coordinating the MA in Library and Information Studies leading the introduction of four pathways in the programme including a specialisation on Archives, Records and Data Management. Previously she served as a Head of the Department of Library Information and Archive Sciences at the University of Malta spearheading the redesign and expansion of the departmental portfolio, and as the Founding Head of the first Digitisation Centre in Bulgaria where she was also a member on the Executive Board of the National Commission of UNESCO. Milena is a member of the editorial board of the IFLA Journal, and of the International Journal on Digital Libraries (IJDL) and is the co-editor of User Studies for Digital Library Development (Facet, 2012).

Contributors
Carla Basili, Italian National Research Council and Sapienza University;

Pierluigi Feliciati, University of Macerata; Edel Jennings, Waterford Institute of Technology; Enrico Natale, University of Basel; Gillian Oliver, Monash University;

Elli Papadopoulou, European Open Science Cloud pilot project; Oleksandr Pastukhov, University of Malta; Guy Pessach, Hebrew University, Jerusalem; Trudy Huskamp Peterson, archival consultant and certified archivist; Panayiota Polydoratou, Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki;

Kalpana Shankar, University College Dublin; Sotirios Sismanis, information professional; Donald Tabone, Middlesex University, Malta.

The book is published by Facet Publishing and is available to pre-order from Bookpoint Ltd | Tel: +44 (0)1235 827702 | Fax: +44 (0)1235 827703 | Email: facet@bookpoint.co.uk | Web: www.facetpublishing.co.uk. | Mailing Address: Mail Order Dept, 39 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4TD. It will be available in North America from the American Library Association.

Warsaw University,16th October 2018.

REACH project presented at the International Conference on Multiple Heritages

Last Tuesday 16th October, was celebrated the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the Centre of studies of French language and culture at Warsaw University. For the occasion an International Conference titled: “Science et Société dans une Europe qui change”was held, where REACH project and its pilots were presented by Dr. Luda Klusakova, from Charles University, task leader of the Small Towns Heritage Pilots. This true cultural heritage of Warsaw University founded in 1958 with Michel Foucault as its first director, the center considers as its cultural heritage also the Staszic Palace, the seat of contemporary Polish Academy of Sciences, where in 1924 the French institute was founded.

Read more about the celebration at http://www.okf.uw.edu.pl/fr/multimedia/item/729-60-urodziny-okfisf-uw.html

the international art and design competition based in Venice stands calls artists to offer various opportunities

Open call for artists and designers of the 13th Arte Laguna Prize

The call for artists of the 13^th Arte Laguna Prize has officially opened. Arte Laguna Prize is an international art contest that has been promoting contemporary art for thirteen years, collecting thousands of applications from artists from all over the world, selected by a jury of excellence for the great exhibition in March in the evocative spaces of the Arsenale of Venice. In addition, the participants have the chance to win several awards in collaboration with companies, foundations, galleries, including cash prizes.

10 Contest categories: painting, sculpture and installation, photographic art, video art and short films, performance, virtual art, digital graphics, land art and this year’s new entry, urban art, design. The theme is free and there are no age or nationality restrictions.

The international jury will select 120 artists for:
– the final exhibition in Venice in March 2019
– 6 cash prizes of € 7,000 each
– publication in the official catalogue

The Prize international Partners will select the winners among all the participants for:

4 personal exhibitions in international Art Galleries
9 Art Residencies
4 collaborations with companies
2 collaborations with art platforms and foundations
participation in 4 International Festivals end exhibitions

www.artelagunaprize.com >>

ENTRIES OPEN UNTIL 27.11.2018 >>

FINAL EXHIBITION: ARSENALE OF VENICE

The collective exhibition will take place in the historical location of the Arsenale in Venice in March 2019. The exhibition’s opening ceremony will be on March 16^th, 2019.

CURATOR AND HEAD OF JURY: Igor Zanti (Italy, Curator and Art Critic)

JURY

Maxa Zoller (Germany, Artistic Director of the International Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne)
Eva González-Sancho (Spain, Co-curator of the first Oslo Biennale)
Vasili Tsereteli (Russia, Executive Director of MMOMA Moscow Museum of Modern Art)
Flavio Arensi (Italy, Director of the Museums of Legnano, Milano)
Alessandra Tiddia (Italy, Chief curator at l Mart Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto)
Richard Noyce (United Kingdom, Writer, Scholar and Art Critic)
Simone Pallotta (Italy, Curator of Public and Urban Art)
Enrico Stefanelli (Italy, Artistic Director of Photolux Festival, Lucca)
Filippo Andreatta (Italy, Theatre Maker and Co-curator Centrale Fies)
Alfonso Femia (Italy, Architect)
Danilo Premoli (Italy, Architect and Designer)
Mattias Givell (Svezia, Co-Director of Wanås Konst, Vännäs)

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the event takes place in London (UK) on 16-17 July

Call for papers is still open for next SAI – Computing Conference 2019

Computing Conference (formerly called Science and Information (SAI) Conference) is a research conference held in London, UK since 2013. The conference series has featured keynote talks, special sessions, poster presentation, tutorials, workshops, and contributed papers each year.

Despite the short history of computer science as a formal academic discipline, it has made a number of fundamental contributions to science and society—in fact, along with electronics, it is a founding science of the current epoch of human history called the Information Age and a driver of the Information Revolution

The goal of the conference is to be a premier venue for researchers and industry practitioners to share new ideas, research results and development experiences in various fields. It is one of the best respected conferences in the area of computer science.

Talks by industry experts on the state-of-the-art in computer science
Lectures by eminent scientists designed to inspire and inform
Presentations by innovative researchers coming from 50+ countries
Discussion-oriented sessions and networking breaks to enable collaborations

More info and call for papers/posters: http://saiconference.com/Computing

Deadline: 1 November 2018.

Vienna (Austria), 12-15 November 2018

Visual Heritage 2018, Cultural Heritage and New Technologies

The next edition of CHNT – Cultural Heritage and New Technologies will be organized in cooperation with the EG GCH (Eurographics Symposium and Graphics Cultural Heritage) and other partners in the City Hall of Vienna, Austria.

Visual Heritage 2018

DIGITIZE: RESEARCH – RECORD – REACTIVATE – RECONSTRUCT

The aim of this federated event is again to bring different communities in the same venue, to share experiences and discuss methodologies concerning digital visual media and their use in the context of heritage applications, to document digitally on at-risk archaeological sites, historical buildings, museums… and their texts, books, paints, pictures, objects … all records of through collecting original image collection’s source.

The 2018 edition will be a special event, since 2018 has been declared by the European Commission the “European Year of Cultural Heritage”. The event will take place during the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, in November 2018.

Therefore, Visual Heritage 2018 will be an ideal context for discussing European policies on digital heritage and digital humanities.

Website: http://www.chnt.at/

THE DETAILED SCHEDULE IS NOW ONLINE: https://www.chnt.at/program-visual-heritage-2018/

The STARTS Residencies Program organises collaborations between artists and tech projects, APPLY NOW!

Open call for STARTS residencies!

Atlas by Yann Deval and Marie G. Losseau – Credit : Tom Mesic

Tech Projects

Interested in working with artists to expand technological boundaries, explore novel utilizations, produce new prototypes, and stimulate groundbreaking processes? Boost the innovation potential of your technology by applying to the STARTS Residencies!

Only two weeks left to submit your project!

What is a Tech Project?
A research and innovation project (collaborative or internal to a lab or company) in the field of information and communication technologies.

Artists and Creatives

Want to work with Tech engineers, travel arround Europe, showcase your artworks to new audiences, and obtain a grant of up to 30 000€ to do so?

Be part of a STARTS Residency and produce an original artwork based on a specific technology! Discover the available Tech Projects. The call for Artists will close in a month!

Who can apply?
Experienced artists of any artistic field and nationality. An artist must be a physical person and will be the author of the produced artwork.

More info and application details: https://vertigo.starts.eu/calls/starts-residencies-call-3/detail/

Brussels (Belgium), 20 November 2018

A New Era for Data Protection: Implementing the European Data Protection Reform

Introduced in May 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is considered “the biggest change to the EU’s data protection rules in over twenty years” (EUROPA 2018). Prior to their introduction, 8 out of 10 people felt they didn’t have complete control of their personal data (Eurobarometer 2015). Whether these developments allay concerns and implement comprehensive measures for dealing with the Internet era’s global and ubiquitous data requires examination.

Designed to create a modern framework for data protection with increased legal certainty, protections and obligations, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Directive (DPD, so called Police Directive) came into force in May, having been agreed on by the European Parliament and Commission in 2015. The reforms aim to strengthen individual rights, streamline the data economy through standardised legislation across the Digital Single Market and facilitate the free flow of data to promote public security. Currently, the EU’s ePrivacy Directive, Regulation 45/2001 outlining rules for data protection in EU institutions and a directive on Protection Rules for Telecoms Networks and Internet Services are being considered, altered and replaced to ensure they are in keeping with the reforms.

The rapid advancement of technology makes data protection especially challenging. The latest reforms, designed not to be prescriptive or short-sighted, contain general terms which are at risk of misinterpretation or manipulation. Moreover, third country agreements and information sharing, recently illustrated by the EU-US Privacy Shield issues and the application of the Passenger Name Records Directives, demonstrate the complexities of data protection which stretch far beyond the European community. Navigating incompatibility issues and ensuring suitable security measures which don’t breach fundamental rights remains a challenge.

This international symposium offers an invaluable opportunity for key stakeholders in the public and private sectors to assess the latest data protection developments and their practical implications for individual privacy, the digital economy and security. The event will discuss the changing relationship of the user to their data and its impact on the digital economy. Striking the balance between security and privacy concerns will also be addressed. Furthermore, the event will explore the interoperability of EU data protection regulation with privacy frameworks worldwide and solutions for overcoming current incompatibilities.

Website: http://www.publicpolicyexchange.co.uk/events/IK20-PPE1?ss=em&tg=1a

Delegates will:

Assess the data protection reforms in practice and their impact on users, the digital economy and security
Debate the future of data protection regulations in a rapidly advancing digital environment.
Discuss the practical implications of a user-centric approach to data protection
Reflect on the opportunities and challenges posed by data portability
Consider ways to embrace the potential of the digital economy whilst protecting fundamental rights
Explore the relationship between data protection regulations and emerging technologies
Determine ways to guarantee public security without compromising data protection rights
Examine the interoperability of EU rules with privacy frameworks worldwide

To view our brochure, including the full event programme, click here.