Digital meets Culture

San Francisco (US), 26-30 October 2018

Digital Heritage 2018 – 3rd International Congress & Expo

New Realities: Authenticity & Automation in the Digital Age

In San Francisco, at the epicenter of the digital revolution, DigitalHERITAGE 2018 was organized with an amazing lineup of talks, exhibits, workshops, tutorials, special sessions and more, including:

Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle on the future of net
Prof of Digital Museology Sarah Kenderdine on reframing museums, immersion and more
California State Archivist Nancy Lenoil on Yosemite and digital archives
Prof Lin-Shan Lee on breakthroughs in voice search for heritage
Prof Deirdre Mulligan of the Center for Law & Technology on digital truth
Dr Brian Fisher on the effort to 3D digitize every ant species on earth, and
a special conversation on the future of preservation with father of the internet & Google Vice President Dr. Vint Cerf

5 days, 18 federating events, 100s of talks, 3 amazing venues, 50,000 sqft expo, 10 tours

WHAT: The leading global event on digital technology for documenting, conserving and sharing heritage—from monuments & sites, to museums & collections, libraries & archives, and intangible traditions & languages. Featuring keynotes from cultural leaders & digital pioneers, a tech expo, research demos, scientific papers, policy panels, best practice case studies, hands-on workshops, plus tours of technology and heritage labs.
FOCUS: Culture and technology fields from computer science to cultural preservation, archaeology to art, architecture to archiving, museums to musicology, history to humanities, computer games to computer graphics, digital surveying to social science, libraries to language, and many more.
WHO: Some 750+ leaders from across the 4 heritage domains together with industry to explore, discuss & debate the potentials and pitfalls of digital for culture. Heritage and digital professionals, from educators to technologists, researchers to policy makers, executives to curators, archivists to scientists, and more.
WHERE: In the heart of the digital revolution on the waterfront in San Francisco, USA. For the first time outside Europe following our 1st Congress in Marseille in 2013 and 2nd in Granada in 2015.
WHEN: 26-30 October 2018

Workshop, Tutorials & Special Session Proposals Due online: 15 April 2018
Papers & Expo Proposals Due online: 20 May 2018
Notification: 15 July 2018
Camera Ready Deadline: 1 September 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS, EXPO, EXHIBITIONS >> PDF, 881 Kb

Website: http://www.digitalheritage2018.org

A federated Congress of many leading events, DigitalHERITAGE 2018 included:
2 Conferences:

the Int’l Society on Virtual Systems and Multimedia: VSMM 2018 – 24th International Conference
the Pacific Neighborhood Consortium: PNC 2018 – 25th Conference & Joint Meetings

1 Exposition by ARCHAEOVIRTUAL & Italian National Research Council: DigitalHERITAGE Expo & Livestream from Paestum, Italy

+15 Special Events.

DigitalHERITAGE 2018 run 5 days and explores digital innovation and challenges across 4 heritage domains: Built Heritage, Artifacts & Collections, Libraries & Archives, Intangible Culture & Traditions, and across 3 broad groups of digital technology: Reality Capture (digitization, scanning, remote sensing, …), Reality Computing (databases & repositories, KM, GIS, CAD, 3DCG, authoring, archives, …), Reality Creation (VR, AR, MR, games, visualization, multimedia, 3Dprinting, embodiment, …).

Deadline for submission postponed to 10 April 2018

REACH Opening Conference: Call for Posters

The opening conference of the REACH project will be held the 10th and 11th of May 2018 in Budapest organized by ELTE University, Eötvös Loránd Tudomanyegyetem and kindly hosted by the Hungarian National Museum.

A poster/video session will be opened during the event; it will be dedicated to innovative and creative projects on the theme of resilient communities and social participation, in order to show the results obtained in establishing a participatory and resilient cultural environment.

We are looking for Cultural Heritage projects that involve resilient communities and social participation from Europe and around the world.

Projects and Proposals will be selected by REACH’s Conference Committee. Special consideration will be given to ensure that a variety of topics, geographical and cultural ranges will be represented.
Visit the Call for Posters page for submission guidelines and selection criteria and complete the application form by ~~15 March~~ 10 April 2018.
ATTENTION: deadline Call for Posters/video postponed through April 10 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
For the REACH project: www.reach-culture.eu
For the REACH Opening Conference: reach-culture.eu/budapestconference2018

Budapest (Hungary), 10-11 May 2018

REACH Opening Conference

The opening conference of the REACH project will be organized by ELTE University, Eötvös Loránd Tudomanyegyetem on the 10th and 11th of May 2018 in Budapest, kindly hosted by the Hungarian National Museum.

REACH, Re-designing Access to Cultural Heritage for a wider participation in preservation, (re)use and management of European culture, is a three-year project, started on the 1st of November 2017, to establish a Social Platform for participatory approaches and social innovation in culture.
The project is supported by the European Commission in the frame of the
Horizon2020 programme, and coordinated by Coventry University.
The REACH Social Platform aims to offer a sustainable space for meeting, discussion and collaboration by all those with a stake in the field of culture and Cultural Heritage.
By showcasing concrete, participatory experiences and identifying good practice by means of the project’s pilots, a robust framework will be developed for building and sustaining a resilient European Cultural Heritage

The REACH international conference in Budapest will introduce the scope of the project, offering a great opportunity to discuss and compare successful examples of participatory processes and researches. Interesting speeches, excellent occasions for networking and discussion, and participatory activities will be part of the event. Moreover, a dedicated poster/video sessions complements the conference, where the participants will present projects of interest around the conference topics.

Event website: www.reach-culture.eu/budapestconference2018
About REACH project: http://reach-culture.eu/

About 80 persons involved in a captivating showcase of rural heritage preservation good practice

Annual cleaning of the medieval irrigation channel of Barjas

On Saturday 17th of February, the University of Granada, together with the local irrigators community, organised the annual cleaning of the medieval irrigation channel of Barjas and of the branch La Hijuela, surrounding Cáñar. In this fieldwork activity took part 80 people, 64 volunteers and 16 irrigators.

The volunteers involved were university students from different disciplines, cultural and environmental associations members, and people interested in the conservation of this particular rural heritage and its corresponding cultural landscape. They came from Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Chile, and for some of them was the first time visiting Sierra Nevada and discovering historical irrigation channels.This annual cleaning is intended to help local farmers to put in use 3 km of irrigation channel, recovered in 2014 as part of the FP7 MEMOLA project (http://memolaproject.eu/node/927), and to start the irrigation period. This irrigation channel helps having water during summer period and increase the water availability in the village springs.

Volunteers participating in this one-day action came in contact with the local population, working side-by-side and learning from their practices the values of this hydraulic rural system.The cleaning was carried on throughout the morning, then, when the water could flow through the channel, the traditional water celebration started and the local community invited all participants to have lunch together, tasting local products and traditional kitchen recipes. After lunch, a local group of musicians entertained the public with traditional music.
The University of Granada took the opportunity to hand over the Hispania Nostra good practices award(http://memolaproject.eu/node/2316) to the local irrigators community, for the recovery of Barjas channel in 2014. Similar events will take place next month in collaboration with others local irrigators communities in Sierra Nevada, in the framework of REACH project pilot case on rural heritage.

Outcomes of the first workshop on small towns heritage pilot headed by Charles University with Czech Republic associated partners, 15th February 2018, Prague.

Small towns in promotion of their cultural heritage: possibilities and experiences

The project team in Prague has organized the first meeting of the REACH network of associate partners. The event took place on February 15th and was arranged in the format of a one-day workshop that was intended to prepare ground for collaboration in the upcoming pilot on small-town heritage. It was visited by a significant number of twenty partners from the pilot regions in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Belarus and a new potential member from Poland, a doctoral student of cultural studies from Wroclaw University. The program was organized into four panels. The first one was devoted to presentation of the project’s major objectives and to explanation of the method of critical mapping, SWOT analysis and composition of the database of best practices in cultural heritage protection, its re/use and management. The second panel focused on possible forms of collaboration with associate partners. What can they offer, and what they expect to achieve from the partnership. The third panel opened discussion about the ways in which the actors operating in national scale approach local actors and motivate their activities related to heritage use and re-use. The fourth panel was devoted to the heritage activities carried out by towns, places and associations.

The debate was fueled by interesting cases of participatory activities in relation to cultural heritage that were presented on one hand by experts from official institutions such as National Heritage Institute and CzechTourism, and on the other hand by architects operating as volunteers in European Council for the Village and Small Town (ECOVAST) in Slovakia and in Petr Parler Association on one side and local actors from towns represented by partners from Slovak town Svidník, a large factory operating in the town Česká Třebová, and a microregional project for participatory activities created by a group of citizens based mainly in small town Stařeč on the other. The experts operating in NGOs Institute for monuments and culture/ Institut pro památky a kulturu o.p.s. and Anthropictures, Studio antropologického výzkumu /Anthropology research studio represented those who register, survey, motivate and support the participatory activities.
The discussion indicated several themes for further reflection, such as: the persisting tendency to limit the idea of heritage in small-town setting to old and tangible monuments; the discrepancies between the values of local residents and the perspectives of protection agencies; the double-edged relations between tourism and local sustainability; or the impact of participation by the local citizenries in all phases of the heritage practices on their success or failure. Very informal and friendly atmosphere, lively discussion and a desire to meet soon again was the feeling generally shared by all participants as well as organizers. It was intellectually very rewarding and pleasant event.

Further information:
Poster of the workshop, programme of the workshop, presentation .

Berlin (Germany), 3 - 5 October 2018

Languages & The Media – 12th International Conference on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media

A “fourth industrial revolution” is going to transform the way we use languages in the media, according to the organisers of a leading European conference of experts.

Rebecca Stromeyer, Chief Executive of ICWE GmbH, the Berlin-based company, which is organising ‘Languages and the Media’, set to take place in the German capital in October, says that new technologies are already having “a huge impact” on the way consumers use languages in audiovisual media.
“The fourth industrial revolution is a new age in which the physical, digital and biological industries are becoming ever more closely linked by new technologies. It is going to have a huge impact on almost every industry and economy but the audiovisual media industry will be particularly affected. The revolution, in which we are all about to be swept up, will transform the way we produce and access media.“

“It will change how we can use languages, opening up new means of communication and comprehension. It will mean that audiovisual media can be both globalised and deeply personalised too. The change that is coming is going to be really empowering. It will result in more choice and more accessibility. It will bring the rapid development of a whole range of new services for those with specific or special needs. It is not just about entertainment but about education too. This is a very exciting time for the audiovisual media industry and, at ‘Languages and the Media,’ we’ll be examining the scale of the change and the opportunities it will create.”

Ms Stromeyer said that the sheer variety of applicable new technologies has already begun to inspire innovative crowd responses to meet the needs of specific audiences and to exploit the potential for new forms of interaction.

“This is a huge issue,” she says. “Human and machine interplay within the audiovisual media industry will be a critical factor in the future. The possibilities are enormous. We’ll be looking at this subject, among many others, at ‘Languages and the Media’ and considering how exactly it is likely to affect work processes, training and research.”

‘Languages and the Media’, the twelfth international conference on language transfer in the audiovisual media, will take place in Berlin from the 3^rd to the 5^th October 2018. The conference and its accompanying exhibition will be attended by participants from all over the world, including broadcasters, language experts, technology players, investors, analysts and entrepreneurs. Subjects likely to be discussed at the event will include the future of work, new distribution models, language tools, interlingual transfer, quality standards, accessibility, crowd-sourcing and new media. A full list of subjects to be discussed is available on the conference website.

Keynote speakers at the conference will include David Padmore, the UK-based SVP of Content Services at TVT. With 25 years’ experience in the TV and media industries, he started out as a subtitler with the BBC before going on to lead Red Bee and Ericsson Access Service teams delivering subtitling, audio description and sign language translation for broadcasters in the UK, Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, USA, Canada and Australia. At ‘Languages and the Media’, he will set out the scope and scale of new opportunities for content localisation and accessibility.

For more information about ‘Languages and the Media’, please contact info@languages-media.com.

Website: www.languages-media.com

Languages & The Media
12th International Conference on Language Transfer in Audiovisual Media
3. – 5. Oktober 2017, Hotel Radisson Blu, Berlin

Registration fees:
Standard EUR 400 (early bird: EUR 370); supporting organisations EUR 350; students EUR 200
Organiser: ICWE GmbH, Leibnizstrasse 32, 10625 Berlin, Germany
Contact: Rebecca Stromeyer
Tel.: +49 (0)30 310 18 18-0
Email: info@languages-media.com

Vancouver, BC (Canada) 13-14 November 2018

Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018

The Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2018 is to be held from 13-14 November’18 in Vancouver, Canada. FTC is the world’s pre-eminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of Computing, Electronics, AI, Robotics, Security & Communications.

FTC attracts researchers, scientists and technologists from some of the top companies, universities, research firms and government agencies from around the world. Each paper will be reviewed by at least three regular PC members or two senior PC members. The acceptance decisions will take into account paper novelty, technical depth, elegance, practical or theoretic impact, and presentation.

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

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

2017 Keynote speakers were: John Martinis (Google), James Hendler (RPI), Peter Mueller (IBM Zurich Research Laboratory), Ann Cavoukian (ex-Privacy Commissioner, Ontairo) and Kevin Leyton-Brown (UBC).

FTC 2018 papers will be will be published in Springer series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” and submitted for indexing to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink.

International Conference 27-29 September 2018, Burgas (Bulgaria)

Call for papers: Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage

The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at Bulgarian Academy of Sciences has the pleasure to introduce the Eighth International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage-DiPP2018 which aims at presenting innovative results, research projects and applications in the field of digitisation, documentation, archiving, representation and preservation of global and national tangible and intangible cultural and scientific heritage.

The main focus is to provide open access to digitised cultural heritage and to set up sustainable policies for its continuous digital preservation and conservation.
The priority area is the digital presentation and preservation of cultural and historical objects under conditions of risk, including those from the Burgas region.
The forum will demonstrate innovative technologies and prototypes, including digital repositories, digital archives, virtual museums and digital libraries, which result from established practices and achievements in the field.

Representatives of public and specialised libraries, museums, galleries, archives, centres, both national and foreign research institutions and universities are invited to participate and exchange experiences, ideas, knowledge and best practices of the field.

The DiPP2018 is organized under the patronage of: UNESCO and Burgas District Administration.

Co-organisers: Regional Academic Center – Burgas, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Regional Historical Museum – Burgas, Burgas Free University, Index Ltd.

Location of the Event: Cultural center “Sea casino” (Морско казино), Burgas, Bulgaria

Deadline for papers submission: June 5, 2018
Submission of proposals for workshops and discussions: June 16, 2018
Notification of acceptance: July 25, 2018
Submission of final versions of papers: July 30, 2018

More information about the Conference here

Call for papers

Award given to Local Finalist for New App that Turns the Museum into a Puzzle Room

Minneapolis Institute of Art Announces 2018 Winners of Innovative 3M Art and Technology Award

The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 3M Art and Technology Award: “Riddle Mia This”, a mobile app proposed by technology architect Colin McFadden and digital preservation specialist Samantha Porter of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. McFadden and Porter will receive $50,000 toward the development of the project, which is an app that turns the museum into a puzzle room, providing a new, interactive way to deepen visitor engagement with Mia’s collection.

“The 3M Art and Technology Award was created to encourage innovative thinkers like Colin and Samantha to push boundaries and change the way visitors experience the museum,” said Douglas Hegley, chief digital officer at Mia. “We believe that digital technology can enable people to develop a powerful relationship with art, by inspiring the imagination and fostering curiosity.”

Founders of the Advanced Imaging Service for Objects and Spaces at the University of Minnesota, McFadden and Porter combined their expertise in 3D scanning, object creation, and virtual reality with their love of Twin Cities gaming communities to come up with their idea. The app will turn Mia’s permanent collection and digital assets—including X-rays of paintings and 3D scans of objects—into a game in which players solve a series of riddles using clues, hints, and strategy.

To develop the app, McFadden and Porter are partnering with GLITCH, a community-driven arts and education center for emerging game makers. GLITCH specializes in a collaborative design process that brings organizations together with like-minded communities and game makers to create meaningful interactive experiences.

McFadden and Porter hope “Riddle Mia This” will resonate with younger museum visitors.

“We immediately saw a chance to combine all this cool technology with the really exciting social interaction, problem solving, and exploration that comes with puzzle rooms,” said McFadden. “We knew we couldn’t go knocking holes in the museum to build hidden passageways and plant clues, but augmented reality technology will let us create a whole new universe within the museum. We’re incredibly honored to receive this award, and we can’t wait for everyone to be able to come unlock the mysteries of the museum.”

McFadden and Porter’s project was chosen by an expert panel of technology industry leaders that included Kate Boeckman, director of TR Labs Engineering at Thomas Reuters; Tim Brunelle, vice president creative director at BBDO; Peter de Sibour, brand design manager at 3M; Jenny Holman, vice president of strategy and solutions development at Clockwork; Jasmine Kar Tang, Ph.D., co-director of the center for writing at the University of Minnesota; and Patrick Kennedy, media & entertainment digital transformation lead of Accenture. 3M is the title sponsor of the award, with additional generous support provided by Accenture. More than 60 people applied for the 3M Art and Technology Award, and finalists included Sasha Kramer and Susan Wei with the project “Journeys Through Song” and Adeel Ahmad with “Loci Device.”

Founded in 2015, the 3M Art and Technology Award is now in its third and final year.

“We want to thank 3M, Accenture, our judges, and everyone who participated in this program and submitted proposals for the award,” said Kaywin Feldman, Nivin and Duncan MacMillan Director and President of Mia. “These projects embrace the idea that anything is possible and creativity is limitless.”

Mia website: https://new.artsmia.org/

3M Art and Technology award: https://new.artsmia.org/art-tech-award/

Art can be anything you want it to be, and with the rise of contemporary art, art is just that anything you want it to be

Discovering GG Barrett of Urban Fraggle Art.

As we enter a new digital age, more and more artists are redefining their craft and taking the plunge to enter the digital age. One no exception to this is GG Barrett of Urban Fraggle Art. GG (formerly Joanne) Barrett studied Fine Art at edge Hill University, but never entered the possibility of making her passion of horses and art her career. Until now.

Having never even entered the world of digital, a thought came about her 13years ago to download Photoshop. She had never used the medium before and can’t recall where the inspiration came from to design some wall art for her own walls . But she did, and what she did create, caused a buzz and she was urged to start a business.

Fast forwards to now, she has decided to take her discovery seriously and embark on the journey of digital media being used to create stunning masterpieces. Having exhibited at Waterstones, she received some beautiful comments such as ‘your art gave me escape from my mind’ and ‘a very spiritualism art’.

GG endeavours to depict the horse in a state of freedom, expressing the true nature and spirit of the horse. Being a horse lover and owner of a beautiful grey warmblood, she understands horses at a deep level, and understands their need for expression.

This is visible within her work, their titles and the stories which accompany them.

To create her work she uses still media to transform what was once a boring photograph into a stunning visual piece of art, capturing the true spirit of equine.

To see more visit urbanfraggle.com

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