Digital meets Culture

Save the date: 24-25 May 2018, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague

Upcoming workshop: “Diversity and Local Contexts: Adaptation and Heritage”

The Faculty of Social Sciences (Institute of Sociological Studies) and the Faculty of Arts (Institute of World History) of Charles University in cooperation with the Czech division of the UNESCO–MOST Program, organized a 2 days workshop on”Diversity and Local Contexts: Adaptation and Heritage”
The workshop and publication are supported by KREAS (Creativity and Adaptability as Conditions for the Success of Europe in an Interrelated World) and REACH (RE-designing Access to Cultural Heritage for a wider participation in preservation, (re-)use and management of European culture) Projects.
Experts from Poland, Czech Republic, United Kindom and United States will explore “the relationship between urban heritage and cultural identities in their historical, geopolitical and socio-cultural dimensions” facing topics as interethnic relations, identity, homogeneity, memory and migration.
Prof. Luda Klusáková and Prof. Zdeněk Uherek from Charles University and part of the REACH team, will contribute to the meeting each holding a speech about
“The “New” roles for public places in small towns: Bastides in South West of France viewed from Central Europe” and “Discourse on public spaces in Prague and selected little towns of the Czech Republic”.
When
May 24, 2018, 9:00 – 13: 00; 14:30 – 18:00
May 25, 2018, 9:00 – 13:30
Where
Faculty of Arts of Charles University, nám. Jana Palacha 1/2, 116 38 Prague, Czech Republic, Room 217 (2nd Floor)
Poster of the workshop
Full Programme

Next dates: 17-27 May 2018,Granada,Spain.

MEMOLab: May initiatives for the recovery of historical irrigation systems in Sierra Nevada

MEMOLab laboratory of the University of Granada continues the planning and implementation of events dedicated to the recovery and use of historical irrigation systems in the territory of Sierra Nevada.
The 5th of May in cooperation with the Town Hall of Lugros (Granada) and the National and Natural Park of Sierra Nevada, organized a cleaning day of the high mountain historical irrigation channels. The initiative took place in the small municipality of Lugros and in the neighbouring irrigation communities of Guadix and Graena.This system begins in the high peaks: its fundamental goal is to filter water soaking the mountain and producing an artificial recharge of the aquifer.
The event was joined by 30 volunteers coming from Spain, France, Slovenia, Chile and Turkey. These works have been carried out with traditional techniques.
The 27th of May, the MEMOLab laboratory of the University of Granada will run the cleaning and the put in use of the historical irrigation channel of Romayla.
The initiative is organized in collaboration with the Museum of Cuevas Del Sacromonte, the Municipality of Granada,The Council of Alhambra and Generalife and it is part of the rich programme of round tables and events that will be held from 17th to 27th of May, focus on the promotion and enhance of the valley of Darro, one of the most original landscape of the town and province.
The 25th of May, Prof. José María Martin Civantos, from the University of Granada will attend the round table about “Historical Irrigation channels and environment of “Darro river valley”.
The reinstatement and conservation of this autochthonous irrigation systems started with the MEMOLA project and it is one of the most interesting model of good practice for the rural heritage pilot of REACH Project as it promote the direct participation of civil society and public administration in the preservation and promotion of local landscape and cultural heritage.

more information about:
the Darro river valley programme
the Darro river valley initiative:
the cleaning day in Lugros
Contact:
Dr. Lara Delgado Anés: ldelgadoanes@gmail.com
@MEMOLabUGR
www.memolabproject.eu

London, 25-26 October 2018

No Time to Wait! 3

MediaArea and the British Film Institute are pleased to announce the third No Time to Wait conference, a free two-day symposium focused on open media, open standards, and digital audiovisual preservation hosted by the British Film Institute, who are about to begin a 5 year digitisation of obsolete videotape formats, preserving to open formats.

Those working with audiovisual archiving, digital preservation, open media, and open standards as well as curious onlookers are welcome to attend, discuss, and present on subjects pertaining to our theme: the intersection of open media, standardization, and audiovisual preservation. With generous support from our host (thx BFI) and our sponsors, the registration is free.

When: Thursday, October 25 and Friday, October 26, 2018

Where: BFI Southbank, London, UK

Free Registration: https://bit.ly/nttw3signup

Call for Proposals: https://bit.ly/nttw3proposals

Please watch the website for No Time to Wait 3 or follow @nttwconf for updates. The source code of the website is available at GitHub. Feel welcome to send any questions, comments, or inquiries to MediaArea.

Brussels (Belgium), 19 June 2018

Digital4Her – the role and participation of women in the digital transformation

Digital4Her is a full day event, seeking to generate thought-provoking talks on the various roles assumed by women and girls in the digital field. Representatives of the public, private and non-profit sectors, hailing from numerous different EU countries, will come together to engage in dialogues on the promotion of digital skills and STEM studies among girls, the fostering of women-driven entrepreneurship, as well as the ways of combating gender stereotypes in the media.

Moderated by the Director of the Digital Leadership Institute, Cheryl Miller and in the presence of Commissioner Gabriel, members of the European Parliament and high level representatives of Member States, the discussion will unfold as following:

09:00 – 09:30 Registration & Welcome coffee
09:30 – 10:00 Opening ceremony
10:00 – 11:30 Seeing it is being it
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee break
11:45 – 13:00 #DigitalSkills4Her – The future is now
11:45 – 13:00 Fighting stereotypes in audiovisual media
13:00 – 14:00 Networking Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Let’s talk about Start-ups
15:30 – 15:45 Coffee break
15:45 – 17:00 Startups worth growing
17:00 – 17:30 Closing ceremony and Start-up Awards

Pitch your project – Applications from 15 to 29 May
We are looking for 10 women led tech startups, that are currently on a growing phase, to pitch in front of a jury formed by investors and startup programme representatives.

More information: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/digital4her

Athens (Greece), 24-27 May 2018

14th Athens Digital Arts Festival

More than 300 artists from 50 countries presented their artworks through an impressive and manifold program that consists of interactive audiovisual installations, audiovisual performances, web art powered by Cosmote Fiber, digital image, video art and animation screenings, participatory workshops and talks. Moreover, ADAF presented international festival from all over the world, such as Animafest Zagreb (Croatia), Festival Internacional de la Imagen (Colombia), KIKK Festival (Belgium), Osmosis Audiovisual Media Festival (Taiwan), Mirage Festival (France) and more. Each year ADAF forms collaborations with international media and institutions for digital arts and honorary presents the video art compilation “TECH BREAK”, in collaboration with the international digital platform The PhotoPhore. In the framework of its collaboration with artistic community Sedition Art, ADAF this year presented a video art screening, bringing the audience one step closer to digital arts.

From 24 to 27 of May, the Festival presented to the visitors of Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall immersive, interactive installations, taking them to a trip to the mysterious worlds of space and new technologies. With the robotic installation Inferno by Louis-Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn we danced with exoskeletons, and with Arabesque by Peter William Holden we took a taste from the East and we travelled to the magic future. In addition, the VR artwork Fight by Memo Akten, made us challenge reality, a reminder that vision (and perception in general) is an active process guided by our drives, aspirations and intentions.

The program of the audiovisual performances included the new artwork “Τsoclis, Ourselves, 2018″ by the internationally renowned pioneer of contemporary art in “Living Painting” Costas Tsoclis, Dökk in which fuse* took us to digital landscapes where the perception of space and time is amended. Hakanaï from the world-renowned contemporary artists and choreographers Adrien M and Claire B that exceeds the boundaries of art, imagination and the real world, while NONOTAK presented their new audiovisual performance, Shiro. Alexis Langevin-Tétrault created an industrial noise and electronica universe with Interférences. Pandelis Diamantides showed his new project, Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows, and Claudia Robles Angel the interactive brainwave performance, Mindscapes. Finally, the program included Stelios Manoussakis with Hertzian Field # 2, Tardej Drolic with Capillaries Capillaries and the well-known duo Evelina Dormnich-Dmitry Gelfand with Force Field.

Website of the event: http://2018.adaf.gr/

*/ 14^th Athens Digital Arts Festival | 24 – 27 May 2018

Main Venue:

Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall

2018.adaf.gr | #ADAF2018 #SingularityNow

Authors are invited to submit full papers reporting on their original and unpublished research in e-Infrastructures and computational and data-intensive sciences.

call for papers: Capacity for Transformation – The e-AGE18 Conference

The e-AGE conference had established itself as an important venue for networking among experts and scientists. In 2018, e-AGE will be held under the patronage of HE Professor Adel Tweissi, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, in Amman, Jordan during 2-3 December 2018. In e-AGE18, the focus will be on demonstrating successes in using the research and education e-Infrastructures at national, regional and global levels.

Authors are invited to submit full papers reporting on their original and unpublished research in e-Infrastructures and computational and data-intensive sciences. All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the event proceedings.

Posters are also welcomed, an effective poster presentation is not just a standard research paper stuck to a board. It should summarize your work with graphs and images to tell the story and should use text more sparingly. Featuring a poster at e-AGE will serve as an excellent advertisement for your work, and can act as a great conversation starter with e-AGE participants.

SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

Full papers: 1 October
Posters and opresentations: 15 October
Final versions of accepted works: 20 November

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

Scientific computing and data-intensive e-Science in areas related to energy, environment, health, climate, water, agriculture, biology, economy, medicine, as well as in social sciences and humanities.
Perspectives on NRENs, including challenges, operation, sustainability, funding, governance, business models, security and services.
Problem-solving environments, Virtual Research Environments, Science Gateways and collaborative tools, applications and services.
Education and e-Learning Technologies, access to educational resources, repositories, libraries and contents, clouds, grids, parallel and distributed computing, and high performance computing.
Internet technologies and trends, Internet of Things, Security, SDN and AAIs.

For more details, please visit the conference website at: http://asrenorg.net/eage18/?q=Page/call-participation

img . “Family vacation at the Baltic Sea, Germany 1930s”, Wilhelm Zwez © United Achives, In Copyright, via Europeana

10-11 May 2018 Budapest

Upcoming Europeana Collection Day at #ReachYourCulture Conference: let’s share your own story!

img . “Family vacation at the Baltic Sea, Germany 1930s”, Wilhelm Zwez © United Achives, In Copyright, via Europeana

In the framework of the REACH Opening Conference “Resilient Cultural Heritage and Communities in Europe“, Europeana will hold a parallel event in which all attendees and citizens are invited to contribute by sharing their family’s stories on travels, migrations, origins and help to tell the story of Europe and the people who live here. The Collection Day in Budapest is organised by the Hungarian National Archives in partnership with the REACH project, as part of the Europeana Migration events series.
Everyone is encouraged to bring an object: from photographs to letters, postcards, recipes etc.
These objects and their stories will be digitized and published online in the dedicated website Europeana Migration, helping to paint a bigger picture of European migration movements over the last few centuries and enriching the Cultural Heritage of Europe. They will be recorded for posterity and made available for all to discover and use for education, research, inspiration and pleasure.

The Europeana Collection Day is perfectly aligned with the main target of REACH Project, which is the promotion and support of any kind of participatory approach in culture and cultural heritage; therefore, this initiative is more than welcome to enrich the opening conference and a prominent participation is hoped by all those interested to share on line the European cultural Heritage.

Find out more about:
Europeana Collection Days at https://pro.europeana.eu/post/europeana-migration-collection-days-launched
REACH Opening conference: http://reach-culture.eu/budapestconference2018

Vienna (Austria), 12-15 November 2018

The 16th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (EG GCH)

Visual Heritage 2018, the 16th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (EG GCH), is organized in cooperation and conjunction with CHNT Cultural Heritage and New Technologies conference. Since 2018 is a key year for the Cultural Heritage community, two established communities working on the domain of ICT & CH have decided to join forces and to organize a federated event. The aims of this federated event are: to bring two slightly different communities together in the same venue (one more oriented to research in visual technology, the other one focusing more on the application of those technologies to CH); to share experiences and discuss methodologies concerning digital visual media and their use in the context of cultural heritage applications; to enable an increased cross-fertilization among those communities and foster collaboration.

CALL FOR PAPERS Visual Heritage 2018 – DEADLINE 20th June 2018

GCH 2018 aims to foster an international dialogue between ICT experts and CH scientists to advance the understanding of critical requirements for processing, managing, and delivering cultural heritage information to a broad audience. The objective of the workshop is to introduce and showcase new techniques and applications for supporting Cultural Heritage information ranging from data acquisition, analysis and synthesis, 3D documentation, and data management, to new forms of interactive presentation and 3D printing solutions. Interdisciplinary approaches for analysis, classification and interpretation of cultural artefacts are particularly relevant to the event. GCH 2018 as part of Visual Heritage 2018 provides a scientific forum to exchange novel ideas and techniques in research, education and dissemination of Cultural Heritage information, to transfer them into practice, and identify future research and application opportunities.

We seek original, innovative and previously unpublished contributions in the visual computing area applied to digital cultural heritage, challenging the state-of-the-art solutions, presenting experiences and projects in this domain and leveraging new ideas for future developments. Equally, original contributions in the cultural heritage field of relevance to visual computing are welcome. Contributions are solicited in (but not limited to) the following areas:

2/3/4D data acquisition and processing in Cultural Heritage
Multispectral imaging and data fusion
Digital acquisition, representation and communication of intangible heritage
Material acquisition analysis
Heterogeneous data collection, integration and management
3D printing of cultural assets
Shape analysis and interpretation
Similarity search of digital artefacts
Visualization and Virtual Museums including storytelling and design of heritage communications
Multi-modal and interactive environments and applications for Cultural Heritage
Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
Semantic-aware representation of digital artefacts (metadata, classification schemes, annotation)
Digital libraries, archiving and long-term preservation of 3D documents
Standards and documentation
Serious games in Cultural Heritage
Organizational aspects of cooperation between ICT and CH experts for project development
Best practices for deployment of novel ICT solution in the CH domain, including budgeting and maintenance
User demand and reception of ICT solutions in CH institutions

In cooperation with CHNT, GCH is also planning for a half-day tutorial program, addressing practices and challenges in the important areas of acquisition and presentation of CH content.

More on VISUAL HERITAGE 2018, and call for papers: http://2018.visualheritage.org/

More on CHNT 2018, venue and registration for the two events: http://www.chnt.at/form_registration/

Weimar (Germany), 10-12 August 2018

Genius Loci Weimar festival – Make the Walls Talk!

Genius Loci Weimar is an annual audiovisual art festival, video mapping and façade projections held in August. It is preceded by a competition, and the winner works will be showcased at the festival. In addition to videomappers, videographers and motion designers, the competition is also specifically aimed at architects, urban developers, preservationists, lighting designers, exhibition designers, media artists, scenographers, communication designers, as well as visionaries from any and all genres.

Genius Loci Weimar 2017 Documentary Film from MXWendler on Vimeo.

The 2018 edition takes place on 10-12 August, with a symposium on the 12th. Action artists, video designers, media designers, architects and musicians will gather in Weimar to participate in their work at the festival. During the festival weekend, three building facades in Weimar will be screened with selected video projects. Between 9:30 pm and midnight, international artists project their fifteen-minute contributions in the city center.

Genius Loci Weimar is expanding the festival repertoire to include the themes that surround media architecture. The performance format – a video show projected on the facade and repeated every half-hour – is broadly unchanged, but the questions being posed are of a different nature. While for previous video performances it has been sufficient to take the form of one-time production within the framework of a festival for projection art, the work that will be beamed onto the building of the University Library will be developed as a simulation of a permanent media architecture installation.

The concept for this innovative competition format emerged from the discourse on videomapping and media architecture that was pursued during Genius Loci Talk 2017.

12.08.2017 / Genius Loci Weimar / Stadtkirche St. Peter und Paul (Herderkirche) / “MIRROR” Visuals: Kento Tomiyoshi, Musik: Makoto Shozu / Foto: Henry Sowinski

The format is intended to address the potentials and limitations of media architecture, and to reflect issues without fixed expectations: which content, which narration genuinely enhances the value, or is any communicative surplus value required at all, or is it sufficient to present a purely (re-)aestheticising work? Where is the threshold between augmentation and nuisance, which visual worlds succeed in reaching which target groups, how does media architecture function in the historical context, and where are the functional and aesthetic potentials?

While previous video performances could take the form of one-time performances within the framework of a projection art festival, the projection onto the building of the university library must also serve as a concept for and visualisation of a permanent media architecture installation.

More info about the festival: http://www.genius-loci-weimar.org/en/

Cover image: 12.08.2017 / Genius Loci Weimar / Cranachhaus am Markt / »CHIAROSCURO«, Desilence, Visuals: Tatiana Halbach & Søren Christensen / Foto: Henry Sowinski

The National Historical Museum hosted the latest transcription marathon for handwritten documents of WWI

Europeana 1914-1918 Transcribathon in Athens

The National Historical Museum in Athens, in collaboration with Europeana 1914-1918, the Facts & Files International Initiative and PostScriptum, organized a manuscript transcript competition from the period of the First World War in the framework of the international campaign “Transcribathon Europeana 1914-1918” which organizes similar Marathon transcriptions of war documents throughout Europe.

The event is organized on the occasion of the International Museum Day (18/5) of ICOM – Hellenic National Committee, whose theme is “Museums and (networks) this year. New Approaches, New Audience”, and took place in the Old Parliament Hall, supported by the General Archives of the State, the Great Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” and the Center for the History of Thessaloniki.

Participants performed real work of transcription from digitized documents that contain handwritten information, often difficult to deciphrate, and they learned the techniques used by experts to access information sources, as well as details of the era of World War I. The trascriptions will be then published on Europeana.eu portal, and will be a permanent resource for further historical research and education.

The winners are teams: Athens2, Athens1 and Athens5 in the categories Transcription, Enrichments and Presentation. All participants of the Athens Transcribathon 2018 jointly transcribed over 1100000 characters of 769 documents. Such collective and participative work supports the dissemination of our cultural heritage and the enhancement of the accessibility of knowledge.

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