Digital meets Culture

Gluon invites artists to submit proposals before 18 December 2016

OPEN CALL – RESIDENCY @ BRAIN&EMOTION LAB (NL)

Gluon is an organisation that realizes projects on the crossing borders of visual art, research and industry. For the realisation of its programme Gluon is supported by an extensive network of national and international research institutes, museums, public authorities, businesses and artists. Five partners are currently involved in its operation ab initio: the Research Institute iMinds, Erasmus Hogeschool Brussel, iMAL, BOZAR and ZEBRASTRAAT.

Gluon is a ‘workshop of the future’ that supports multidisciplinary initiatives, in which artists play an important role. By connecting artists, researchers and entrepreneurs, innovative ideas arise that an individual could not think of on his own. This results in artistic, educational and social innovative projects which will lead in the future to a sustainable, more beautiful and prosperous society.

Gluon supports initiatives of companies, artists, designers and researchers based on interdisciplinary collaboration. Gluon is also looking for new projects from public authorities, companies or cultural institutions, and finances these collaboration projects. Gluon offers infrastructure, expertise, production materials and shows the results of the completed projects in prestigious cultural institutions.

An interesting call is now open: OPEN CALL – RESIDENCY @ BRAIN&EMOTION LAB (NL)

Gluon invites artists to submit proposals for the development and production of new work in collaboration with the Brain and Emotion Laboratory, a research group that is part of the department of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht (NL).

Gluon offers a two-month residency at the Brain and Emotion Laboratory lead by Prof. Beatrice De Gelder. The goal of the residency is to create a new artwork which integrates and/or reflects upon the innovative technological and scientific developments researched by the Brain and Emotion Laboratory.

Therefore we invite you – artists – to develop, in collaboration with the researchers from the Brain and Emotion Laboratory, a prototype for a new artwork. The group investigates emotion and cognition in humans. Their projects include investigations of emotion and cognition in neurologically intact participants, but also in patients with focal brain lesions, and prosopagnosia, neuropsychiatric populations such as people with schizophrenia, autism and Williams syndrome. They use behavioral methods, electrophysiology, EMG, as well as functional imaging.

More information and how to apply on: www.gluon.be or via info@gluon.be

DEADLINE: 18 December 2016 (11.00 GMT)

Madrid, 25-26 November 2016

CITIZEN SCIENCE ENCOUNTER IN MEDIALAB-PRADO

Citizen Science is a part of scientific research that involves and encourages citizen participation in scientific projects, where technological tools and digital devices provide multiple possibilities for participation.

The programme of the two-days event (25-26 November 2016) is rich of sessions, with more than 20 talks, 10 workshops, and music performance and foresee the participation of a large community of spanish experts from diffrent sectors: environmental research, DIY biohackers, philosophers, developers, school teachers and many other communities from citizen science in Spain.

This event is co-organized by Ibercivis, Medialab Prado, DITOs, Obra Social “la Caixa” and RRI Tools.

Follow the event with #CienciaCiudadana

Streaming available:
Friday morning (Madrid time zone) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlDK14a9lX8
Friday afternoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK5F-PrmIk4
Also in streaming.medialab-prado.es

Timetable: 25-26.11.2016, from 10:00h to 19:00h

Venue: Medialab-Prado – Madrid

Plaza de las Letras. C/ Alameda, 15 · 28014 Madrid (Spain)

More information and the full programme of the event (in Spanish) here: http://medialab-prado.es/article/encuentro-de-ciencia-ciudadana2

Florence (Italy), 15-16 December 2016

Unlocking the Potential of Digital Archaeological Data – ARIADNE Final Conference

The ARIADNE Research Infrastructure final conference “Unlocking the Potential of Digital Archaeological Data” will be held in the beautiful Sala Luca Giordano in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence, Italy on Thursday 15^th to Friday 16^th December 2016.

The Conference will highlight ARIADNE’s achievements and the benefits of the services and data resources now available to the archaeological community. The project is aimed at researchers, policy makers, managers and developers of archaeological services and data repositories.

The programme will explore how ARIADNE is contributing to the European Archaeological Data Cloud, and will discuss the Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability and Reusability (F-A-I-R) of data resources. We will hear success stories from organisations that have participated in ARIADNE. The project will conclude by taking a look at the future Roadmap for ARIADNE.

For further information and to register for the conference on Eventbrite HERE.

Contact: Paola Ronzino, info@ariadne-insfrastructure.eu

The day before, 14th December in the afternoon, a workshop reserved to partners and invitees from project PARTHENOS will be held in nearby Prato. More info HERE.

Experts from Florence’s Museo Galileo use the artist’s original manuscripts, and new digital reconstructions, to bring this incredible project to life.

Discover the story of Leonardo’s Colossus in the new Europeana virtual exhibition

3D reconstruction of the horse clay model, 2005, by Andrea Bernardoni and Riccardo Braga, Museo Galileo, Florence, CC BY-NC-ND

Europeana, the European digital library, just launched a new online exhibition, focused on the story and project of Leonardo’s monument to celebrate Francesco Sforza, the founder of the Sforza dynasty in Milan. In 7 chapters and enriched with interesting stories, beautiful heritage images and modern 3D reconstructions, this exhibition joins two intriguing themes: the groundbreaking artistic and technical research of Leonardo, and the beauty of Renaissance art.

Enjoy the exhibition on Europeana: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/exhibitions/the-colossus-of-leonardo-da-vinci

Study for the Francesco Sforza equestrian monument by Leonardo da Vinci, Royal Library, Windsor, Public Domain.

Leonardo da Vinci’s project to cast an equestrian monument of Francesco Sforza (1401-1466) was one of the most audacious artistic and technological challenges of the Italian Renaissance. This enormous statue was never realised but, thanks to original Leonardo notes and drawings preserved in the National Library of Spain, a virtual reconstruction of his casting process is possible. In this special exhibition recently launched on Europeana, experts from Florence’s Museo Galileo use the artist’s original manuscripts, and new digital reconstructions, to bring Leonardo’s incredible project to life.

CREDITS:

Museo Galileo, Florence

Concept and realisation:
Andrea Bernardoni: Exhibition Curator, Museo Galileo
Marco Berni: European Projects Coordinator, Museo Galileo
Marketing: Antonella Fresa, Promoter SRL

Europeana

Douglas McCarthy, Exhibition Editor
Małgorzata Szynkielewska, Exhibition Producer

a presentation and a panel were organized in this event about dance scholarship and research

Dance Pilot and E-Space colleagues at DanceHE event “Sustaining the Discipline”

DanceHE (Dance in Higher Education) represents the interests of its members from Dance higher education to organisations such as the funding councils, HEFCE and HEA in areas concerning funding, policy and processes. Acting as a mediating body DanceHE facilitates collaboration and debate across institutions – drawing together teachers, practitioners and researchers to share information and best practice.

“DanceHE Sustaining the Discipline” took place on 28-29 October 2016 at the University of Leeds, debating dance scholarship and research at a time when arts knowledge and engagement face precarious economic futures. Taking Sustainability as central theme and exploring the value and further progress of dance as a social, cultural asset and route to individual identity.

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A team from Coventry University participated to the event with a presentation of the Dance Pilot as part of C-DaRE Intangible Cultural Heritage Panel.

DanceHE website: http://dancehe.org.uk/

The E-Space group: Coordinator Sarah Whatley, IPR expert Charlotte Waelde and representatives from the Dance Pilot.

In CREA, students come in with an idea and go out with a concrete project with business model.

CREA Summer Academies and Europeana Space: collaboration!

CREA is an European Network of Summer Academies with the aim to strengthen entrepreneurship in innovative sectors by using ICT and Creativity as levers. Objective is to select and support talented students, who have a real interest in becoming entrepreneurs. In CREA, students come in with an idea and go out with a concrete project with business model.

The Academic and business prospective converge in CREA through a partnership among European Universities, Incubators, Regional Development Agencies and Business Support initiatives. Students from all Europe can apply for the CREA Summer Academy program at leading Universities in UK, Italy, Estonia, Slovenia, Holland and Germany and learn about entrepreneurship while concretely developing their business idea.

Of course, evident synergies with Europeana Space incubation activity are present and for this reason a cooperation agreement was just signed between the two projects!

http://www.europeana-space.eu/network/cooperation-agreements/crea-summer-academy/

Newport (UK),15-16 February 2017

Digital Past 2017

Digital Past is a two day conference which showcases innovative digital technologies and techniques for data capture, interpretation and dissemination of the heritage of Wales, the UK and beyond. The conference aims to promote learning, discussion and debate around a range of digital technologies in current use, or in development, to record and understand the historic environment by bringing together individuals from the commercial, public, academic, third sector and voluntary sectors.

The event has been running for eight years, regularly attracting delegate numbers of up to 175, largely from the UK but including those from as far away as the USA and Israel. The ethos of the conference is to promote contact and cross-working between the diverse organisations within, or associated with, the heritage sector, from those involved within the development of digital technologies within industry and academia to those involved in engagement and dissemination in a more traditional heritage background.

The 2017 event, to be held at The Riverfront, Newport on the 15th and 16th February 2017, will focus on two session themes: ‘Digital Technologies’ and ‘Digital Heritage’.

Delegates will be offered a combination of presentations and hands-on workshops and demonstrations in a friendly and informal atmosphere that aims to promote networking and exchange of ideas. Unconference sessions will be provided on the first afternoon, giving the opportunity for delegates not on the formal timetable to present on projects, research, ideas or issues within or outside the themes of this year’s event. Exhibition and Poster stands will also give the opportunity for display and demonstration of projects or products, and the chance to talk to heritage organisations, societies, universities, product developers and retailers.

Digital Past is organised by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.

More information and registration: http://rcahmw.gov.uk/digital-past-conference/

Berlin, (Germany), 21-22 November 2016

Cultural Heritage: Reuse, Remake, Reimagine

After the nice success of previous events in Venice and in Tallinn, E-Space Third International Conference took place in November 2016 in Berlin, hosted by partner SPK at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum of Contemporary Art.

The conference themes spread from the fact that digitization is progressing at Cultural Institutions, and thus previously hidden treasures of Cultural Heritage are becoming visible. However, in today’s digital society existing on the web is not enough. Audiences want to engage with culture, they want to create their own stories not just read the ones that exist, they want to integrate the information in their teaching, their creative projects, they want to play with the material, not only look at it: they want to reuse, they want to remake, they want to reimagine.

The Programme (PDF, 359 Kb) included as keynote speakers renowned experts: Cornelia Sollfrank, well-known new media artist and independent researcher; Joyce Ray, digital curation and preservation expert and teacher at the Johns Hopkins University; Thomas Bremer, professor of Game Design and Head of VR-Studio at HTW Berlin. Other relevant speakers are Marcel Waletet from European Commission and Michael Freundt from Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

Together with Harry Verwayen and Nicole McNeill from Europeana and the various E-Space project leaders who explored, within Europeana Space, the multifaceted experience of reusing digital cultural heritage, the third conference from the Europeana Space project showcased the myriad ways that cultural heritage can be used and enriched through new technologies, innovation and the ingenuity of the creative industries. As a real example of this, the 7 incubated projects supported by E-Space were protagonists of the event with individual pitches, a round table and desks to present and discuss their experience and ideas.

The integrated new outcome from Europeana Space project, the Pop-Up Museum, was presented at the conference, and visitors could interact with 3 stations and different virtual exhibitions.

Finally, the conference was enriched with the lovely exhibition of Photomediations, an outcome of the Open and Hybrid Publishing pilot of E-Space.

Event website with more photos and speakers presentations: http://berlinconference2016.europeana-space.eu

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Download the conference flyer (PDF, 306 Kb)

the integrated outcome of the E-Space Pilots is nearly ready to showcase in various events in the coming months.

Pop-Up Museum: ready, steady, go!

A strong group of E-Space partners from different Pilots is at work for developing an integrated outcome for creative reuse of digital cultural heritage: the Pop-Up Museum. Most of the action at the moment is in the hands of partners Noterik, NTUA, Sound & Vision (NISV) and KU Leuven, who are preparing the exhibition to be presented at E-Space international conference in Berlin at the end of Novemebr.

A blog recently appeared on Sound & Vision website, to tell more about the installation and the plans for showcasing to the public.

The Pop-Up Museum, which is a hybrid of both a digital and physical museum exhibition, is a way to showcase many of the prototypical ideas that have resulted from E-Space pilots. The exhibition can be controlled and interacted with by the visitors through a smartphone: answer questions, swipe through content, explore the storyline, select languages, and more interactive applications will be available.

The Pop-Up Museum serves as an ideal extension to the main museum: use the mobile installation at events and festivals where you would like to target a specific audience with your collection.

Currently, Sound and Vision is testing the Pop-Up Museum concept with an installation covering the closing of the Dutch State Mines fifty years ago, while the other E-Space partner KU Leuven is developing 3 exhibitions using digitized vintage photography.

Next to the premiere at the E-Space Reuse, Remake, Reimagine conference in Berlin in November, the Pop-Up Museum will be on show during the Cultuur in Beeld conference in Rotterdam in December.

Another event at Sound and Vision will be in January, with a special installation that will tie in with the current main exhibition at the museum, ‘Let’s YouTube’, which focuses on fashion and beauty themed videos specifically that month and is developed in collaboration with Europeana and Europeana Fashion.

KU Leuven is also planning an event in the beginning of 2017.

Read the full article by Kelly Mostert on Sound & Vision blog

Read more on the Pop-Up Museum development

images courtesy of Noterik BV

Learn more on Pop-Up Museum:

http://www.europeana-space.eu/pop-up-museum

https://www.mupop.net/

Brussels, 30 November 2016

FORWARD final conference: Digitisation of heritage and orphan works

The Orphan Works Directive, adopted in 2012, set out to foster digitisation and unlock Europe’s cultural heritage for education, research and other cultural purposes, but how does it work in practice?

The conference « Digitisation of heritage and orphan works » was a joint event of the Royal Library of Belgium and the FORWARD project, coordinated by CINEMATEK. It aims at presenting new tools to identify Orphan Works as well as digitisation projects carried out at national and European level.

During the morning session, the Commission’s Media Policy Directorate introduced into the scope of the Directive. Nicola Mazzanti (President of the Association of European Cinematheques) gave an insight into the challenges and prospects of the OWD for audiovisual works, while N. Lenaerts (Federal Public Service Economy) spoke about its transposition into Belgian law. Orphan works uses cases and new tools for printed as well as audiovisual material were presented by the Royal Library and the FORWARD project. The Commission’s Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) presented the EU Online Database for Orphan Works.

In the afternoon, a more hands-on workshop demonstrated how the FORWARD system supports the assessment of the copyright status and the diligent search for audiovisual works. It’s the first public presentation of the FORWARD system, which will be finally released in January 2017.

You can access the conference programme here

Venue: Royal Library of Belgium, Mont des Arts, 1000 Brussels (Royal Sky Room, 6th floor)
Date: 30th of November 2016, 9.30 – 16.30h