Digital meets Culture

A new model of digital participatory platform

Digital Historic Urban Landscape Methodology for Heritage Impact Assessment of Singapore

This research aims to show and explain the evolution of the architectural heritage of Singapore through the use of digital technologies that favour a participatory, dynamic and sharing approach.

The research carries out an inventory of the information technology currently used to represent the evolution of the architectural heritage highlighting its strengths and weaknesses in order to define a model of digital participatory platform able to improve and deepen the public knowledge of the landscape and cultural heritage of the historical urban centers.
According to the researchers, the use of intercultural and intergenerational dialogue is essential for ensuring and improving urban heritage conservation and planning.

For this reason the digital platform representing the evolution and structure of the architectural heritage of Singapore has to use the key concept of Heritage Urban Landscape as defined by the recommendations of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization: the HUL is a toll to support communities in the process of adaptation of new realities and evolution, preserving and transmitting in the same time their cultural and historical values.
Furthermore, UNESCO recommends to encourage civic engagement to facilitate intercultural dialogue and preserve history, traditions,values, needs and aspirations of communities.

From the comparative analysis of the current technology tools used to represent the structure of the architectural heritage, the researchers identify a new model of digital platform that aims to consolidate and summarize all previous results and outcomes.
This new technology it is based on the use of the Heritage Urban Landscape to holistically evaluate the role of a site or building for the urban heritage of Singapore.

The benefits of this new digital architectural heritage representation are several: recover and digitally recreate a lost architectural heritage; educate and instil to students the value of conservation and protection of the architectural and cultural heritage; support and improve tourism; create an archive for future generations interested in studying the urban and architectural landscape heritage.

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This workshop is focused on Arkivum, a market leading digital preservation and data archiving system

Arkivum Day Budapest – 25th June 2018

National Széchényi Library in Budapest regards it of utmost importance to make available its collected cultural heritage to the widest possible audience, with the help of the latest, state-of-the-art devices and tools. Aiming at renewing its integrated library system, National Széchényi Library is considering the launch of an advanced system, capable of embracing and integrating systems of other libraries as well as setting up a joint catalogue. We aim at inspiring libraries to plan a common future at forums such as the so-called MOKKA association. As a major first step of jointly brainstorming with other libraries, we are inviting developers of integrated library systems, so that libraries could get first-hand information about the latest developments. As part of this knowledge-exchange process, several presentations have been held in the National Széchényi Library, recorded and published in Videotorium – on topics such as integrated library systems, digitization and web archiving. The events were held in English.

The next occasion will be on Monday June 25, 2018, from 1 p.m. until 5 p.m., when software and service provider Arkivum will hold a software presentation in the Ceremonial Hall of NSZL.

We would like to invite you to take part in this event, if you are interested how to solve the Long Term Preservation in your institution, or if you are curious about how the Hungarian library community is trying to establish a platform of cooperation in this respect. You will learn also about how NSZL is involved in the FOLIO community www.folio.org and how the Arkivum solution fits into the FOLIO framework.

Please register to the event here: http://www.oszk.hu/en/registration-arkivum-day-budapest

More details: http://www.oszk.hu/en/events/arkivum-library-professional-presentation

Cagliari (Sardinia, Italy), 15-16 June 2018

UBIQUE – هنا، في كل مكان multimedia theatre performance

This is a multimedia performance generated from the meeting between the Lebanese company Minwal Theater and KyberTeatro, which will be presented in Cagliari on Friday 15 and Saturday 16 June, starting at 9 pm, at Spazio Osc di via Newton 12. The performance allows for the admission of 20 spectators at a time and over the two evenings will be repeated every half hour.

UBIQUE – هنا, في كل مكان, Latin adverb and the corresponding meaning in the Arabic language: everywhere, everywhere. The ubiquity, the concept underlying the theatrical event, offers a reflection on the real and virtual freedom of the human being. The performance is a collaboration between KyberTeatro, directed by Ilaria Nina Zedda and Marco Quondamatteo, with the collaboration of Claudia Pupillo, and the Lebanese (Sidon) of Minwal Theater, a company run by Jad Hakawati and Roaa Bzeih. It is the final outcome of a residency programme named A.R.T.E. which has the aim of fostering collaboration and mobility between artists from different countries.

The A.R.T.E. residency project is implemented in Sardinia through the mobility of artists and their works from European and non-European countries (France and Lebanon, in fact). It foresees the digital creative exchange with Sardinian artists, in particular under 35, for continuous collaborations and new shows productions to be staged during the residency in Sardinia and also in the artists’ countries including in the main international digital creative festivals.

More info: Kyberteatro

www.kyberteatro.it – info@kyberteatro.it

Tel: + 39 070 8607175 Mob: +39 347 0484783

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2058683134384737/

Damage costs up to tens of thousands Euro

Brtnice town, Czech Republic, struck by flash flood after torrential rain

Czech Republic, 1st June 2018 – Brtnice, one of the Associated Partners of the REACH project (Small Towns Heritage Pilot), was severely hit by rain and flood on Friday 31st May afternoon. Water and mud damaged about 20 buildings, carried away parked vehicles and destroyed stone walls and an old barn. Twelve inhabitants of houses located near the pond in the town’s center were evacuated.
“Ponds saved us from even worse damage,“ said Miroslava Švaříčková, the mayor of Brtnice. “Volunteers, local firemen and communal technical service are helping and cleaning the town“ she said. “We will start to reckon the extent of the damage by the next week”, claimed the vice-mayor, Pavel Rubeš. “But it is already clear that the cost will rise up to tens of thousands Euro,“ he added.
This small town of about 3700 inhabitants with its characteristic urban landscape and its historical monuments, has a notable value for the cultural heritage of small urban centers of the Country. Particular interesting sites are the Castle, the Museum and Birthplace of architect Josef Hoffmann, the Baroque Bridges, the Greater Church of St. James and the Monastery of Minims’ Order. Besides, the town’s historical center is enlisted on Urban Heritage Reservations List of Czech Republic.
As the damage is so severe, Brtnice municipality is running a public collection of financial support for inhabitants affected by the flood. Everyone who wish to contribute to the recovery of the town can send the refunds to:
account no. 2101447580/2010 (CZ Fio Bank)
IBAN: CZ6420100000002101447580
SWIFT/BIC: FIOBCZPPXXXaccount no. 2101447580/2010 (CZ Fio Bank)
The experience and practices put in act by this community in order to recover its cultural and historical heritage will allow REACH project to collect testimonials and data for investigating the economic and cultural effects of a traumatic natural disasters and extrapolate best practices.
More information available in the following link links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t7h5YrbzX0
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Chicago (US), 24-27 September 2018

Communicating the Museum – CTM18 Chicago

Communicating the Museum (CTM) was launched in 2000 and since then over 5’000 professionals from the cultural sector have attended this conference.

Communicating the Museum’s 21st edition will take place in Chicago, 24-27 September 2018 at the Chicago History Museum, the Art Institute, the Museum Campus South and many more of the city’s finest cultural institutions.

Curated for the curious, CTM gathers a worldwide panel of museum professionals, thinkers, entrepreneurs and creatives.

2018 theme is DARE TO BE FUN.

After coming together to discuss engagement, dialogue and participation in recent editions of Communicating the Museum, it is now time for us to consider the museum’s personality and voice.

Once elitist and didactic, cultural institutions are increasingly dynamic, inclusive and exciting actors. With the rise of social media, museums have defined unique personalities and adopted more direct voices. Recent years have seen rise to labs, takeovers and hackathons, encouraging diverse actors to bring museums to life in their own ways. How are these new voices and attitudes impacting the global conversation about cultural communication and visitor strategies? How can the museum tell great stories, inspire imagination and be fun while remaining true to its values and missions in education and conservation?

Across a four-day programme of events, debates, workshops, talks and tours, you will discover the best museum branding, outreach initiatives, and the most insightful successes (and failures) in the fields of communications, education and audience engagement.

Confirmed speakers include:

Jake Barton, Principal, Local Projects, USA
Nina Diamond, Managing Editor and Producer, Digital Department, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
Dustin Growick, Senior Creative Consultant, Museum Hack, USA
Russell Lewis, Executive Vice President and Chief Historian, Chicago History Museum, USA
Gill Nicol, Director of Audience Engagement and Learning, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Australia
Erika Stenson, Head of Marketing, Communications and Business Development, Royal British Columbia Museum, Canada
Gary Stoppelman, Deputy Director Marketing & External Affairs, Newfields, USA
Wouter van der Horst, Educator Schools & Digital, Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

More info and registration: http://www.agendacom.com/communicating-the-museum-2018-chicago/

Applications are now open for Fiaticorti, the international short film festival based in Istana, Treviso, Italy. The call for entries is open until August 3, 2018.

Fiaticorti Film Festival: Entries to the 19th Edition are now open

The Festival is organized by the Municipality of Istrana (TV) and designed by a group of young people under 30 years of age.

The 19th edition is divided into three sections:

• Fiaticorti: dedicated to national and international short films;
• Fiaticomici: dedicated to short films belonging to the genres of comedy, satire or slapstick;
• FiatiVeneti: dedicated to short films by filmmakers living in Veneto, Italy.

The theme is free for all sections. Only short films made after January 1, 2017 and with a maximum running time of 20 minutes are admitted to the competition. Works already presented to other competitions are admitted as well.

In order to participate it is necessary to fill in the entry form and send it to info@fiaticorti.it by August 3, 2018.

The artistic direction will select the 24 films that will be screened during the festival and that will compete to get to the suggestive awarding ceremony, which will take place in an exceptional location: the cinema theatre of the military airport of Istrana!

Among the selected short films, the Jury will identify the winners of the Fiaticorti Award for the best short film, the Fiaticorti Award for the best short film in the Fiaticomici section, the FiatiVeneti Award and the Fiaticorti Award for the best actor/actress.

The best short film in the Fiaticorti section will win prize money of € 500 euros.

Among the jurors there is Umberto Curi, film philosopher and university professor who was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Venice Biennale.

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About Fiaticorti

Born in 2000 from an idea of a group of young people belonging to the Youth Project of the Municipality of Istrana, over the years Fiaticorti has become the longest-running film festival in the province of Treviso and one of the first Italian festivals dedicated to short films.

Fiaticorti stands out for its identity that recalls the film clubs from the Seventies. The festival is organized in four evenings during which the best works in the competition are screened. Another element that characterizes this festival is the great attention paid to the Veneto region, the territory where it was born, to which the FiatiVeneti section is dedicated, introduced in 2006 to reward short films produced by authors from Veneto.

CONTACT INFO
Tel. +39 041 5937242
info@fiaticorti.it
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Different artistic languages and digital tools are connected and explored during the residency, for a greater audience involvement at the final performance

“UBIQUE”, a theatre and new technologies play as the outcome of an artistical technological residency

Minwal Theater Company is a Lebanese theatre company awarded last year at the third edition of Le Meraviglie Del Possibile, LMDP International Theater art and new technologies’ Festival, with their work BARZAKH | Isthmus, in December 2016.
Jad Hakawati and Roaa Bzeih, theatre makers and artists members of Minwal Theatre Company, come back in Italy for and artistic and technological residence called “A.R.T.E. Augmented Reality Theater Experience”. This kind of residency began already last December during the 4th edition of LMDP Festival with the performance “MAP E.T” of the French multimedia artist VEIA. The transdisciplinary and transmedial project is produced by Kyber Teatro about augmented reality in the theater and it won the second prize of “ScrabbleLab” competition announcement promoted by Sardinian Region.

Through the mobility and the creative exchange of artists from different European and not European countries (V.E.IA from France and Minwal from Lebanon), digital creative artists from Sardinia and immigrants as well, during the residence we present on the stage several contemporary issues and subjects. The residence focuses in particulary on the concept of ubiquity “real” and virtual: the conquest of the right for ubiquity as a new human right, a hot topic in these times marked by inalienable physical and human boundaries. Different artistic languages and digital tools are connected, for a greater audience involvement.

On Friday 15 and Saturday 16 of June at 9.00 pm in Cagliari, SPAZIO OSC Via Newton 12, the final performance outcome of the residency opens to the public: “UBIQUE”, a theatre and new technologies play producted by Kyber Teatro and Minwal Company.

More info: info@kyberteatro.it

Barcelona, 12 June 2018: PHOTOCONSORTIUM annual event

Digital Cultural Heritage as a lab for fostering win-win collaboration between the public and the private sector

PHOTOCONSORTIUM, the international consortium for photographic heritage, organized its annual event 2018 in Barcelona, hosted by Generalitat de Catalunia – GENCAT in the beautiful locations of the Department of Culture.

While the Association’s general assembly took place on 11th June, a public conference is organized the day after.

“Digital Cultural Heritage as a lab for fostering win-win collaboration between the public and the private sector” – half day conference

Santa Mònica Art Centre, La Rambla 7 Barcelona

12 June 2018

10.00 Welcome message / Anna Busom, GENCAT

10.10 The road from object to story: metadata as a gateway to unlocking digital heritage / Fred Truyen, Photoconsortium president

10.30 Photoconsortium collections in Europeana: Europeana Photography and Migration / Sofie Taes, curator

10.50 break

11.20 EU funding digital cultural heritage: how to succeed in a European project / Antonella Fresa, Photoconsortium vicepresident

11.40 Connecting Culture with Europeana / Douglas McCarthy, Europeana

12.00 Panel discussion: Experiences of collaboration, sustainability and best practices around photographic heritage and new technologies

Chair: David I. Frank, CRDI
Confirmed Participants: András Török, Fortepan; Frank Golomb, United Archives; Ismo Malinen, National Board of Antiquities; Allison Kupietzky, the Israel Museum; Erik Buelinkx, KIK-IRPA; Douglas Mc Carthy, Europeana.

13.00 Closing of the event

Attendance was free. Contact: info@photoconsortium.net.

20-21 June 2018 Berlin (Germany)

REACH Project at the European Cultural Heritage Summit

In the framework of the European Cultural Heritage Summit, the REACH Project was presented at two conferences:

20 June, ROCK session “Cultural Heritage connects!”. An event dedicated to ROCK (Regeneration and Optimisation of Cultural Heritage in creative and Knowledge cities), an European-funded project led by the city of Bologna, involving 10 large European cities, universities, cities’ network and private partners. Themes explored included:

– From tangible to intangible heritage;

– Cultural heritage communities;

– Relations between cultural heritage and sustainability.

REACH Project was introduced by Dr. Antonella Fresa, Network Coordinator.

21 June,”Visions for Cultural Heritage and Digital Platforms”Conference.

In the awareness that digital applications play a more and more important role in cultural and scientific scopes, the event introduced factual data and cooperation platforms: one for 3-D, AV, AR and one for participatory approaches to cultural heritage. The theme was tackled at European, national and regional levels.

The conference involved a wide range of experts in digitization and cultural heritage, coming from Universities, public and private Organizations throughout Europe: the final debate and outcomes were included in a Manifesto, together with guidelines for the future.

In this context, Prof. Neil Forbes, from Coventry University and REACH project Coordinator left a contribute on the theme of “ Resilient cultural heritage and communities: the REACH platform”.

Both conferences were part of the week-long programme of the European Cultural Heritage Summit titled “Sharing Heritage – Sharing Values”, held in Berlin from 18- 24 June 2018. The event was co-hosted by Europa Nostra, the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, SPK) and the German Cultural Heritage Committee (DNK).

All events included in the rich agenda were focused on conservation and digitization of the European cultural heritage: they took place at different venues in Berlin and Potsdam and they were all public.

More information about “ROCK Session “Cultural Heritage Connects!”

http://european-cultural-heritage-summit.eu/events/rock-poster-session-cultural-heritage-connects?card=8603

More information about “Visions for Cultural Heritage and Digital Platforms” Conference:

http://european-cultural-heritage-summit.eu/events/conference-visions-for-cultural-heritage-and-digital-platforms?card=9762

European Cultural Heritage Summit wepage:

http://european-cultural-heritage-summit.eu/

San Francisco (US), 14-15 March 2019

Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2019

FICC 2019 aims to provide a forum for researchers from both academia and industry to share their latest research contributions, future vision in the field and potential impact across industries, with the common goal of shaping the future of Information and Communication.

We’d like to invite you to submit your papers/posters/demo proposals for the Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2019 to be held from 14-15 March 2019 in San Francisco. The conference is technically co-sponsored by IEEE.

FICC 2019 aims to provide a forum for researchers from both academia and industry to share their latest research contributions and exchange knowledge with the common goal of shaping the future of Information and Communication.

The conference programme will include paper presentations, poster sessions and project demonstrations, along with prominent keynote speakers and industrial workshops.

Important Dates
Paper Submission Due : 15 June 2018
Acceptance Notification : 15 July 2018
Author Registration : 15 August 2018
Camera Ready Submission : 15 September 2018
Conference Dates : 14-15 March 2019

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

All FICC 2019 presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted for indexing to IEEE Xplore, Scopus, Inspec, Google Scholar and more.