Digital meets Culture

Deadline for submissions: 19th September 2016

“Satire is riding… the waves of the Mediterranean” – contest for the Internet Festival (Italy)

There’s still time until Monday September 19^th to participate in the online comics and illustration competition “Satire is riding…the waves of the Mediterranean”, dedicated to migration flows and open to professional and non-professional artists from all over Europe and the countries of the Mediterranean. The competition is but one of the initiatives and activities of the coming edition of the Pisa Internet Festival from October 6^th to 9^th. This year, the focus will be on future innovations using the Web as a symbol of the interweaving of data, concepts and relationships but also on the theme of migration and the link between migration and conflict. We have already received dozens of drawings and cartoons from artists from all over the Mediterranean as well as from countries such as Russia and Bulgaria.

In order to take part in the competition that was created by #IF2016 and the cultural association “Brain cult”, all you have to do is log on to the Facebook page La satira naviga and send us a valid identity document. You will then be able to send us your drawings (one or more cartoon(s)/illustration(s)) on the theme of migration in the Mediterranean, within the specific technical requirements (accepted file formats: tiff, jpg, bmp, gif, quality:300 dpi minimum size: A4).

The illustrations will be published on the gallery of our Facebook page: La satira naviga. The two cartoons that receive the most “Likes” before 11.59PM on Monday September 19^th 2016 will receive the “IF Best Cartoon 2016” award and the authors of the cartoons will receive their award in Pisa, during the #IF2016. A third artist, selected by the Festival jury, will receive the special “IF Satire Award 2016” and will be invited back as a member of the jury for the #IF2017.

All that’s left to do now is start drawing and get voting. Perhaps irony and creativity will help untangle the knots of the Mediterranean that are getting tighter each day.

About Internet Festival
The Internet Festival confirms its status as the most important national event on innovation and the Internet. It is a unique opportunity to experiment with new connections, draw out new landscapes and imagine ever complex spaces. It is a journey that begins in Pisa and goes on to explore the world of cutting-edge technologies, new communication tools, digitalization and its effects on various sectors (from food to music to culture to international conflicts, business marketing, big data, Public administrations, theatre and sport), not forgetting the theme of social innovation, the younger generations and the ecosystem of start-ups.

The Internet Festival is supported by the Region of Tuscany, the City of Pisa, Registro.it, the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the Cnr (Italian national research council), the University of Pisa, the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Scuola Normale Superiore, the Chamber of Commerce of Pisa, the Province of Pisa and the Associazione Festival della Scienza. The director of the Festival is Claudio Giua who is the president of Fondazione Sistema Toscana. The festival coordinator is Adriana De Cesare for Fondazione Sistema Toscana. Anna Vaccarelli (IIT-CNR) and Gianluigi Ferrari (University of Pisa) jointly coordinate the executive and scientific committee.

Internet Festival, 6 – 9 October 2016, Pisa

www.internetfestival.it

#IF2016

Vilnius (Lithuania), 4 November 2016

“Unlocking Sound Collections”, Europeana Sounds second international conference

The Europeana Sounds project organises its final international conference – “Unlocking Sound Collections” – on Friday 4th November 2016 in Vilnius, the capital city of Lithuania.

After the success of its first international conference in 2015, which gathered more than 250 participants at the National Library of France, Europeana Sounds invites you to celebrate Europe’s vast sound heritage. The free 2016 conference will showcase the latest innovations to share this common heritage with the widest possible audience.

The conference will start at 9:30am and continue throughout the day until 5pm. The venue for the conference is the stunning historic building of Vilnius University, the oldest such institution in the Baltic states.

During the conference, inspiring keynote talks, interactive presentations and powerful live performances will blow your mind!

Take a look at the programme: http://www.europeanasounds.eu/europeana-sounds-2016-conference-programme

Meet the speakers: http://www.europeanasounds.eu/europeana-sounds-2016-speakers

Online FREE registration will be open until seating capacity has been filled.

Europeana Space organized a panel at the important Euromed 2016 conference in Nicosia (Cyprus)

“Reusing Digital Cultural Heritage: Boosting Education, Audience Engagement, Business Creation”

During Euromed 2016 conference in Nicosia (Cyprus)

Monday 31st October 2016 h. 5 pm

Digitization has been a major objective for most, if not all, cultural content holders in every European country. Museums, Librarie, Galleries, arts organisations and also private archives have completed significant digitization actions, also with the support of EU financing, so that now the amount of digitized cultural heritage in Europe is really impressive.

Further progressing with digitization, which should be extended also to minor collections, archives and private citizens, requires us to understand how digital cultural data can be re-used in novel ways, in order to leverage on this wealth of digital resources to improve citizens’ participation, access and enjoyment of cultural heritage and also to unlock the business potential that lies within it.

Enjoy a collection of photographs, courtesy of the Digital Heritage Research Lab at CUT, from the EuroMed conference. More are available in their Facebook page

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This panel, organized by the Europeana Space project and involving the most notable EU projects and initiatives dealing with digitized cultural heritage, intended to showcase different approaches, examples and best practice of reuse for digital cultural data, and to assess their impact in terms of enlarging citizen participation, developing advanced tools and resources for educational purposes, and for creating new businesses and job opportunities.

Relevant speakers from the key institutions in Europe, which are involved in the scenario of digital cultural heritage, illustrated experiences of content reuse that exploit digital technologies to foster societal progress and also economic rewards. The panel was a great occasion for sharing knowledge and networking with cultural managers, ICT experts, researchers, creative industries, service providers and other EU projects.

Invited projects/organizations:

Europeana Space: Best Practice Network focused on creative reuse of digital cultural content that is currently incubating 7 innovative start-up projects of services and products that utilize digital cultural content. www.europeana-space.eu

Photoconsortium: international association spin-off of Europeana Photography project, a thematic aggregator about early photography that digitized and made accessible online nearly half a million historic photographs. Within the legacy of Europeana Photography, Photoconsortium is also the curator of the travelling exhibition All Our Yesterdays. www.photoconsortium.net

Europeana Fashion: International non-profit organisation established after the conclusion of Europeana Fashion project in order to bring together and engage fashion institutions and creative industries in the valorisation and exploitation of fashion heritage online. http://www.europeanafashion.eu

EU ScreenXL: this project includes organisations and archives who agreed to work together on providing access to their audiovisual materials sharing more than 40.000 videos, photographs and articles representing Europe’s television heritage have been made available online through a freely accessible multilingual portal. http://www.euscreen.eu

ENERGIC OD: European NEtwork for Redistributing Geospatial Information to user Communities Open Data address obstacles for effective uptake and exploitation of geographic information, proposing a broker architectural approach where specific components (the brokers) perform all interoperability actions required to interconnect heterogeneous systems. ENERGIC OD applications and newly developed Virtual Hubs optimize the exploitation of geospatial Open Data for new marketable services of concrete use to the citizens and to stakeholders for more informed decision making. GeoPan Atl@s APP (developed by POLIMI) provides a facilitated access based on metadata to historical cartographic archives and enables the analysis of built environment and built heritage in relationship with the current landscape, archeo-landscapes and changes of ancient river beds. http://www.energic-od.eu/

Europeana Sounds: this a Best Practice Network, focused on opening the gateway to Europe’s sound and music heritage making it accessible online. http://www.europeanasounds.eu/

The Disruptive Media Learning Lab is a hybrid innovation practice and research unit. It instigates and supports open dialogues, promoting collaborative work and exploratory play for all interested in (re)defining the future of learning, and the university, in the age of disruptive media.

PREFORMA PREservation FORMAts for culture information/e-archives, is a Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP) aiming to address the challenge of implementing good quality standardised file formats for preserving data content in the long term. http://www.preforma-project.eu/

Chair of the panel

Sarah Whatley – Coventry University

Professor Sarah Whatley is Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University, UK. Her research interests extend to dance and new technologies, intangible cultural heritage, somatic dance practice and pedagogy, dance documentation, and inclusive dance practice; she has published widely on these themes. Funded by the AHRC, European Commission, Leverhulme Trust and Wellcome Trust, her current funded research projects focus on the creative reuse of digital cultural content, smart learning environments for dancers, reimagining dance archives and dance documentation, the generative potential of error in dance and HCI, dance and disability, and dancer imagery. She is coordinator of the EU-funded Europeana Space project. She is also founding Editor of the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices and sits on the Editorial Boards of several other Journals.

Confirmed speakers (in alphabetical order):

Raffaella Brumana – Politecnico di Milano

MsArch (honour), Ph.D. in Geodetic and Topographic Sciences. Since 2016, Polimi Full Professor at Polimi DABC, (Geomatic Sector of Surveying-Photogrammetry-Modelling/GIS/BIM). Main Research topics: GI, SDI, Architectural and Built Environment surveying, Virtual Museum, n-Dmulti-scale-modelling-monitoring in complex scenarios, Open Source Geoportal implementation, OGC compliant in the domain of Cultural Heritage, Landscape, Architectural Heritage, Archaeological sites, Historical Site, Heritage documentation, Digital data collections and Open Data access. 2001-15 Associated Professor. Since 2012 Member of the Scientific Board of the DABC School of Doctoral Studies. She leads the GIcarus lab (4DBIM-GIS-SDI), Geospatial Information & Content modeling: Architectural heritage & built environment, eUrbanAtl@s, Surveying & Monitoring, http://gicarus.polimi.it.

Antonella Fresa – Promoter srl

Director at Promoter S.r.l., small engineering company in Pisa (Italy). Since 2002, Technical Coordinator and Communication Manager of numerous European projects in the domain of digital cultural heritage, digital preservation and digital humanities, smart cities, creative re-use of digital cultural content, citizen science, crowdsourcing, and e-Infrastructures. Previously, Project Officer at the European Commission, multimedia development manager at Tower Tech S.r.l. in Pisa, video controller development manager at Olivetti Advanced Technology Centre in Cupertino (CA), engineer at Olivetti Pisa and Ivrea.

Sergiu Gordea – AIT Austrian Institute of Technology

He joined the Digital Insight Lab at AIT-Austrian Institute of Technology in 2010, working on Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries projects. Within the scope of ASSETS for Europeana Project he served as technical coordinator. Afterwards he contributed to the realization of the Europeana Creative and Europeana Sounds projects, taking the role of project manager and lead developer. As member of Austrian Standardization Institute, Sergiu contributed to the development of ISO/IEC 23000-15 Multimedia Preservation Application Format standard. In 2016 he contributed as collaborator to development of W3C Web Annotations standard. Current research interests include semantic enrichments, text and content based information retrieval, recommender systems and artificial intelligence.

Stefan Rohde-Enslin – Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (SPK)

He is a member of staff of the Institute for Museum Research, State Museums in Berlin responsible to support museums in questions of digitisation and long term preservation of digital data. He is involved in digital preservation since 2004 when he joint the German competence network “nestor” as a representative of German museums. Inside the “nestor”-network he is heading a working group for “non-textual media”.

Jonathan Shaw – Director of the Disruptive Media Learning Lab, Coventry University

Adobe Education Leader, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth University, Academic Board Member for Photography Studies College, Melbourne, Australia and Trustee for The Photographers’ Gallery, London. As a photographer he has been described as being part of an early generation of artists responsible for the emergence of a new school of photography which blurs the boundaries between the still and moving image. He has four publications: NEWFOTOSCAPES (2014), Crash (2009), (re)collect (2006) and Time|Motion (2003). He was awarded a Direct Fellowship of Royal Photographic Society (RPS), and a Fellowship of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), in recognition for his achievements in Photography and innovative educational practices.

Antwerp, 5-7 October 2016

ESTS 2016 / DiXiT 3: Digital Scholarly Editing: Theory, Practice, Methods

This thirteenth annual conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), is organized in conjunction with the Digital Scholarly Editing Initial Training Network (DiXiT) and hosted by the Centre for Manuscript Genetics at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

5-7 October 2016

Keynote speakers:

Kathryn Sutherland and Paul Eggert

Guests of honour:

Hans Walter Gabler and Peter Shillingsburg

As digital publications are reaching a stage of maturity and scholarly editors are becoming increasingly aware of the seemingly endless possibilities of hybrid or fully Digital Scholarly Editions, the impact of the digital medium on the field of Textual Criticism has become undeniable. As a result of this ‘digital turn’, textual scholars are now faced with new challenges and opportunities that have called for a re-evaluation of the field’s established theoretical and practical framework. For the thirteenth annual conference of the European Society for Textual Scholarship (ESTS), organized in association with the Digital Scholarly Editing Initial Training Network ‘DiXiT’, we intend to face this new direction in textual scholarship head-on, by focussing on the recent developments in textual scholarship that are instigated by this reassessment of the theories, practices, and methods of scholarly editing in general, and of the Digital Scholarly Edition (DSE) in particular.

The event will be hosted by the Centre for Manuscript Genetics (CMG) and takes place from 5 – 7 October 2016 at the city campus of the University of Antwerp.

Registration now open: payment can be made by bank transfer or alternatively on the day at the registration desk. A one year-membership of the European Society for Textual Scholarship is by default included in the registration fee (no extra charge).

Bursaries
The University of Antwerp will be awarding five competitive bursaries to assist early career scholars speaking at the conference. Criteria and regulations apply, please check the conference website for more information and guidelines of application: http://uahost.uantwerpen.be/estsdixit2016/index.php/bursaries/

Workshops
The day before the conference, Tuesday 4th October, the CMG will host three parallel workshops on digital scholarly editing:

‘Digital Scholarly Editing and Textual Criticism’. Full day (11h00 – 16h30). Organizers: Franz Fischer and Marjorie Burghart.
‘Project Logistics’. Morning (9h30 – 13h00). Organizer: Peter Boot.
‘Born Digital Record of the Writing Process.’ Afternoon (14h00 – 17h30). Organizer: Torsten Ries).

Participation in the workshops is free of charge, but places are limited. Participants can apply for a workshop together with their conference registration.

Social events
A number of social events have also been arranged to provide participants with plenty of opportunity for networking and for exploring the beautiful city of Antwerp. This includes a reception at the historic Stadhuis (City Hall) open to all participants, as well as a conference dinner at the University Club.

Full programme here

Registration here

More information here

MediaConch Newsletter #7 – Sept. 2016

What’s new in MediaConch 16.08

Local GUI

New policy editor
minor fixes
Policy Editor: closes messages when user changes the policy/rule
Checker: remove a node is not saved
Checker: fixed hadling of files with special characters
Added ctrl-q shortcut to quit
Better handling of user path

Online GUI

Policy Editor: closes message when user changes policy/rule

CLI

Checker: fixed handling of files with special characters
Better handling of user path

Latest Downloads

Download MediaConch’s latest release or a daily build.

MediaConch now supports plugins including VeraPDF and DPFManager!

Updates

Sign up for our upcoming MediaConch webinar on Thursday, September 15th at 3pm CET / 9am EST / 6am PST (for the early risers!).

MediaArea folks and PREFORMA at large will be hosting a workshop and giving talks at iPRES in Bern, Switzerland on Wednesday, October 5th! Check out the Workshop 3: Quality Standards for Preserving Digital Cultural Heritage as well as Ashley Blewer’s talk on CELLAR and the standardization of digital preservation.

In case you missed it, here is a great synopsis and a review by Erwin Verbruggen of our pre-IETF Berlin Symposium: No Time to Wait!: Standardizing FFV1 & Matroska for Preservation held July 18th – 20th. You can also check out ample documentation and links to videos of the talks.

The MediaConch project and this symposium has received funding from PREFORMA, co-funded by the European Commission under it’s FP7-ICT Programme.

Feedback

MediaArea is eager to build a community of collaborators and testers to integrate the software in their workflows and participate in usability testing. Please contact us if you’d like to be involved!

Just released: recommendation from W3C on 'Data on the Web'

W3C Data on the Web – Best Practices

The Data on the Web Best Practices Working Group has published its primary document which is now a Candidate Recommendation. The document provides Best Practices related to the publication and usage of data on the Web designed to help support a self-sustaining ecosystem. Data should be discoverable and understandable by humans and machines. Where data is used in some way, whether by the originator of the data or by an external party, such usage should also be discoverable and the efforts of the data publisher recognized. In short, following these Best Practices will facilitate interaction between publishers and consumers.

As a further aid, the Working Group has also published stable versions of its Data Quality and Dataset Usage vocabularies. Taken together, the three documents address the group’s mission as stated in its charter:

to develop the open data ecosystem, facilitating better communication between developers and publishers;
to provide guidance to publishers that will improve consistency in the way data is managed, thus promoting the re-use of data;
to foster trust in the data among developers, whatever technology they choose to use, increasing the potential for genuine innovation.

Finally, it’s worth noting that the closely related Share-PSI project, co-funded by the European Commission, has concluded its work recently with the publication of a set of high level policy-related Best Practices and guides for the sharing of public sector information online. Although targeted at Europe, the advice, which is available in many languages and contexts, is likely to be applicable world wide.

Source: https://twitter.com/w3c/status/770724613026295808

Tallinn (Estonia), 29-30 September 2016

Culture 4D: Digitization, Data, Disruptions, Diversity / 3rd Council of Europe Platform Exchange on Culture and Digitisation

The high-level international digital culture conference “Culture 4D: Digitization, Data, Disruptions, Diversity” is taking place on 29-30 September in Tallinn, Estonia. The event is organised in the framework of the Estonian Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, in collaboration with Tallinn University Centre of Excellence in Media Innovation and Digital Culture (MEDIT), Estonian Ministry of Culture and Council of Europe.

The conference is also the third in a series of platform meetings “Council of Europe Platform Exchange on Culture and Digitisation” which are designed to inform the policy guidance work of the Council of Europe. A unique aspect of the Tallinn conference is the focus on the future of Big Data management in cultural industries and the new opportunities and challenges for the private and public sectors, concerning digitisation of culture. The meeting features internationally acknowledged experts in the field – scholars, activists, entrepreneurs and policy makers – from more than a dozen European countries.

The conference will take place on 29-30 September, 2016, at Tallinn University. The official languages of conference are English and French.

Partner organisations: the Estonian Ministry of Culture, National Library of Estonia.

Additional information and registration is here.

For further information on the Conference and travel information, please visit the event website at: www.culture4d.net.

A Pop-Up Museum transforms a small of space into an island of art and culture, where passers-by may dwell a while, using their mobile phones to bring the screens to life.

E-Space is developing a new pilot: the Pop-Up Museum

Europeana Space project accomplished its task of creating 6 thematic pilots to showcase creative reuse of digital cultural heritage in various areas (TV, Dance, Photography, Games, Museums and Open & Hybrid Publishing).

Now we want to do more and remix the Pilots’ ideas and outcomes in an innovative product, using multiscreen technology, which can be used to create interactive and integrated virtual exhibitions: the Pop-Up Museum.

As explained by partner Noterik , that is leading the development of this concept together with NTUA and other project partners: “The product will make it easy to build an interactive exhibition, that can be placed anywhere, designed to offer engaging digital cultural experiences to visitors at museums and art galleries, but also at locations such as waiting rooms, entrance halls, offices and classrooms. A Pop Up Museum transforms a small portion of space into an island dedicated to art and culture, where visitors or passers-by may dwell a while, using their mobile phones or tablets to bring the screen or screens to life. The application is very low-cost, uses web-standards and requires hardware (a smart screen) that is often already at hand or can be easily adapted.”

Partners at work. Photo courtesy of Noterik.

Work is progressing with partners and across the summer two workshops were held to finetune ideas and technology development.

“These different types of exhibitions will be demonstrated at the Europeana Space November conference in Berlin, with at least two installations scheduled to be available to the general public, in Hilversum at Sound and Vision and at a museum in Antwerp. Noterik is all set to spend the rest of the summer and beginning of the fall to make these real-life exhibitions a success, and digital cultural exhibitions pop-up in waiting rooms a reality. This technology is not limited to art and cultural heritage alone, but can be applied to a wide range of commercial scenarios as well, including DOOH (Digital Out of Home Advertising) and small or large scale events, using billboards and other public screens”

Read the whole article on Noterik’s website: http://www.noterik.nl/pop-up-museum/

Learn more on Pop-Up Museum:

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

https://www.mupop.net/

8, 15 and 22 September 2015

Learn more about the conformance checkers

The PREFORMA project is running a webinar series throughout September. The webinars will:

introduce the PREFORMA project
update participants on the current status of the conformance checkers
demonstrate the software
outline future plans
give examples of how the community can contribute, or provide feedback

Dates and times:

Thursday 8 September 15:00 CET: DPF Manager
Thursday 15 September 15:00 CET: MediaConch
Thursday 22 September 15:00 CET: veraPDF

Registration:

For more information about the PREFORMA project visit: http://www.preforma-project.eu/.

PREFORMA webinar: DPF Manager

Sep 8 : 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Programme:

DPF Manager introduction
DPF Manager Demo
How to contribute
Future of DPF Manager
Q&A

Outline:

DPF Manager is a multi-platform application and a framework designed to empower end users and developers to gain full control over the technical properties and structure of TIFF images intended for Long Term Preservation. In considering the suitability of particular Data object for the purposes of preserving digital information as an authentic resource for future generations, relies on the use of a stable, open and well documented file format as well as some data object properties acceptance criteria.

The DPF Manager objective is to give memory institutions full control over TIFF images. The DPF Manager main features are:

TIFF file identification based on the TIFF Baseline specifications Revision 6.
Validating the conformance to a specific normative. These normative can be defined by some ISO standard like TIFF/EP or TIFF/IT or specific acceptance criteria based on a locally-defined policy rules
Fixing the TIFF file while preserving the Image Representation, in order to make it more suitable for long term preservation.
User and machine readable report in different formats, including the data object structure and metadata as well as the validation result.

Some Long Term Preservation activities may conflict with goal of raid production and dissemination of digital information. DPF Manager aims to reduce the time and effort required to revise file structure, metadata and the institution acceptance criteria as well as giving advice about image preservability.

For more information about DPF Manager project visit: http://www.dpfmanager.org/.

Time:

Please note the start time is 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET

Registration:

http://preforma-webinars.eventbrite.co.uk

PREFORMA webinar: MediaConch

Sep 15 : 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Programme:

Background and context of MediaConch project, Dave Rice (5 minutes)
Functionality and usage of MediaConch software, Dinah Handel (10 minutes)
Demonstration of software, Dave Rice and Dinah Handel (10 minutes)
Future directions of the project, Dave Rice (5 minutes)

Outline:

MediaConch is an extensible, open source software project consisting of an implementation checker, policy checker, reporter, and fixer that targets preservation-level audiovisual files (specifically Matroska, Linear Pulse Code Modulation (LPCM) and FF Video Codec 1 (FFV1)) for use in memory institutions, providing detailed and batch-level conformance checking via an adaptable and flexible application program interface accessible by the command line, a graphical user interface, or a web-based shell. The webinar will discuss the background and context of the creation of the software, provide demonstrations of the software’s graphical user interface and command line functionality, and inform participants of the future directions of the project.

MediaConch is currently being developed by the MediaArea team, notable for the creation of open source media checker software, MediaInfo. Furthermore, the MediaArea team is dedicated to the further development of the standardization of the Matroska and FFV1 formats to ensure their longevity as a recommended digital preservation file format.

For more information about MediaConch visit: https://mediaarea.net/MediaConch/

Time:

Please note the start time is 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET

Registration:

http://preforma-webinars.eventbrite.co.uk

PREFORMA webinar: veraPDF

Sep 22 : 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Overview:

The PREFORMA project’s prototyping phase finishes at the end of 2016. The veraPDF consortium will be producing a v1.0 release candidate of the software library and applications in December 2016.

This webinar demonstrates the current state of veraPDF development and presents the consortium’s plans for 2017. Webinar attendees will be shown:

the consortium’s current development priorities, i.e. what we’re working on;
the veraPDF software development plan for the 2016 v1.0 release;
how they help to improve veraPDF software through testing;
a demonstration of the software used in some simple, but typical testing scenarios; and
an outline of the consortium’s plans for 2017.

The presentations will be aimed at non-technical veraPDF users and will benefit anyone wishing to make veraPDF validation part of their digital preservation processes.

For more information about veraPDF visit: http://verapdf.org/

Time:

Please note the start time is 14:00 BST / 15:00 CET

Registration:

http://preforma-webinars.eventbrite.co.uk

Beijing (China), 25 September - 9 October 2016

Beijing Media Art Biennale 2016 is opening in September

From our correspondent Elisa Debernardi

The “Beijing Media Art Biennale” aims through an interdisciplinary, cross-cutting artistic and theoretical practice to generate a dialogue and interface between the public and industry. It will be held at the World Art Museum and CAFA Art Museum on September 25 going through to October 9, during the Beijing Design Week 2016. In addition to the show held in the World Art Museum, it will present a “Lab Space” at the CAFA Art Museum, through related activities including forums, workshops, master classes, to combine the resources of the biennale and the teaching of the school, to offer the students and the related communities the opportunities to exchange with artists, thinkers, technological pioneers.

photo form the press conference introducing the event

photo from the press conference introducing the event

During the exhibition, it will also hold some public projects, such as an urban public screen show and audiovisual performances, etc., and the public can learn the related information of the exhibition through the public screens in the elevators of the office buildings, residential buildings and shopping malls, as well as the outdoor public screens, so that the exhibition can be involved in daily life, offering Beijing new urban public cultural landscapes, highlighting its public property and the value of the city. In the exhibition mode, Beijing Media Art Biennale is also innovative, through the form of hyperlinking exhibitions to connect the online and offline exhibitions, extending the display content to a large extent, connecting the artists, philosophers and scientists who are associated to “ethics of technology” around the world, to create a huge data base, or a think-tank.

Learn more about the event HERE