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The SECreTour Network is growing! Studio Macaco has joined the SECreTour Network of Common Interest. Studio MACACO (Ludens Sagl) is a Swiss-based creative software company focused on developing interactive digital experiences for the tourism and cultural sectors. Through the use … Continue reading
The SECreTour Network is growing! The SECreTour Network of Common Interest is enriched by the participation of the Municipality of Morcote. As historic monumental medieval capital of the lake of Lugano, Morcote is part of the Amphitheatre of the San … Continue reading
Erwin Verbruggen from the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision presented PREFORMA at the EBU Open Source Meetup at IBC 2015 in Amsterdam.
The presentation, which is available for download here, focused on the media conformance checking of AV files.
MediaConch, the conformance checker for AV files that is developed by MediaArea in the framework of PREFORMA, was also presented at the Conference. The presentation is available here.
Just like last year, the Open Source Meetup at IBC featured a series of 5 minutes lightning talks on open source projects and use cases from the broadcast domain, covering topics on production, contribution and distribution, such as: graphics and video play-out, audio & video encoding, transcoding in the cloud, DAB+ radio broadcasting, …. for further information visit the Conference website.
Internet Festival 2015 took place on 8-11 October, as every year in Pisa. One of the most important European events dedicated to the digital world, IF is an unmissable date to understand what the technological innovation can represent for the future of Italy and the Italians.
The meeting provideed a programme packed with appointments and hundreds of guests. Space is the topic of this edition 2015: how it, and the perception of it, has changed in time.
The Web changes the space. Which becomes multidimensional due to cultural, economic, social and political dynamics, upset by digitisation and constantly mutating.
The web’s geographies help “designing/imagining the world” and “governing” the world’s complexity through innovation, which balances two different needs: understanding and planning.
If geography means “drawing the world”, then its coordinates are routes using new reference points to move within the digital ecosystem. Modern explorers follow routes that run along inclines and directions driving the development of the relations and information flow.
#IF2015 was held in friendship with the conference “Cloud Forward 2015 – From Distributed to Complete Computing“.
Hacking the [Dancing] Body is the great hack event of the Europeana Space Dance pilot, taking place in Prague on 20-21 November 2015 and preceded by the pre-event on 24th October.
The Europeana Space project is organising an exciting event about the use and re-use of cultural digital content, in particular dance. Participants will form teams and during two days of focused and intensive collaboration, with assistance from the hackathon ambassadors (experts in programming, BCI technologies, motion-tracking, and cultural heritage), explore new creative ideas, design and develop prototypes.
The Prague Dance Hackathon focuses on the re-use of cultural heritage materials in live performance, cross-media storytelling, motion tracking and transformation of data, brain/computer interfaces in performance. We encourage participants to combine different aspects of these elements to create something truly new and unique that will shake up the market!
Hackathon topics:
- Dance (patterns in body movements)
- State of mind (patterns in brain signals)
- Cultural Heritage Content (patterns in history of art)
- Light and sound (patterns and rhythms)
- Interactive art, dance, body/mind, digital art
Moreover they can transform data from motion capture device into visual; prepare multi-media project, as a presentation of their own stage-design or choreography; remix, implement, transpose digital data from Europeana cultural repositories to inspire and create new performances; transform the data from EEG of dancer during the performance into the visual design (brain-computer interface application).
An international jury will reward the three best teams with a trip to London for an intensive a Business Model Workshop, where the team with the strongest concept and business model after the Workshop will win a 3-month intensive incubation package to deliver their ideas on the real market.
All the information and registration tool is available in the official miniwebsite of the event.
“Before the Tempest” imagines what life was like on the island for Miranda and Prospero as a prequel to Shakespeare’s classic tale of love, magic and bad weather.
The play is the result of this year’s Hidden Spire, which brings together a team of professional artists to make a show from scratch alongside people who are homeless. They have been writing, devising, designing and building over 14 months to create what promises to be an extraordinary moment of live theatre with a striking set. A work of art in itself.
It’s about isolation and belonging, despair and forgiveness. It’s about wanting to fit in and being different. It’s about growing up. And it’s about birds.
There will be a Q & A after the performance on Thursday 17 Sept.
What is Hidden Spire?
A partnership between Arts at the Old Fire Station and Crisis Skylight Oxford, Hidden Spire brings professional artists and Crisis clients together to create a performance using music, dance, theatre, visual arts and more.
The two groups work together every step of the way: everything from set design, script-writing and front-of-house is done as a collaboration between the artists and Crisis clients. Hidden Spire isn’t just a production, it’s a process: it demonstrates the value and potential of having a public arts centre and resources for homeless people in the same building. Most importantly, it shows that excellent art and inclusive art can be the same thing.
Hidden Spire features as part of the Art In Crisis festival, a national programme of events and workshops aimed at foregrounding homelessness and the arts.
The arts are for everyone. Everyone has potential. Come and join Hidden Spire for “Before The Tempest” to see a truly unique and extraordinary moment of live theatre.
Hidden Spire was case study of EU project Civic Epistemologies, committed to examining how community groups of citizens engage with cultural heritage and participate in the generation and reuse of cultural heritage by using digital technologies. Homeless or vulnerably housed people tend not to identify as “citizens”, but the activities subject of Civic Epistemologies’ case study demonstrate the value of the work carried out by the Hidden Spire partners in transitioning the participants to citizenship, through gaining skills that enhance these people’s employability and contribution to society.
The Civic Epistemologies case study on “Hidden cultural heritage: inclusion, access, citizenship” was led by Coventry University.
Hidden Spire is supported by Highcroft PLC and Norbar.
For further info visit www.hiddenspire.co.uk
Digital Meets Culture, official media partner of the event, presents the E-Space creative marketing workshop “Digital Culture, Social Media and Innovation for the Cultural Heritage”
The cultural sector has always been facing the great challenge of building its audience, but the digital shift changed radically how cultural heritage is made, disseminated, distributed, accessed, consumed and monetised. One of the most important revolutions is that the visitors’ role changed dramatically, shifting from passive observers to active participants and contents producers.
This workshop, taking place in Pisa’s Scuola Normale Superiore on 9 October 2015, will explore different ways of communicating cultural contents with the use of new media and will show how a greater audience can be reached by combining the power of social media and storytelling.
Piazza dei Cavalieri, Pisa
The event, hosted by Fondazione Sistema Toscana in cooperation with Invasioni Digitali, is being held in the framework of the Internet Festival.
Participation is free of charge but subject to online registration. For registering click here.
Participants shall have at least one active social media profile. After the plenary presentations, they will be divided in groups. Each group will be assigned a tutor and a specific theme to develop. Groups will leave the building and collect materials (pictures, videos…) with their smartphones around the city. Groups will then have time to elaborate their contents before they present them to the audience.
B.Y.O.D.! – You’ll be using mainly your smartphones and computer (for post production). We’ll provide tables, chairs and plugs.
During the hands on and co-creation session there will be a free refreshment corner available for participants with coffee, drinks and sandwiches.
There’s only one week left to submit your idea for a workshop, ignite talk, chef’s table, poster or improvisation session for DISH2015.
DISH is the biennial conference about digital strategies for heritage. This year’s theme is Money and Power.
Call for Proposals
Are you an expert in user engagement with digital heritage? Do you care about the role of digital heritage in the public domain? Are you convinced that “open” means “more impact”? Do you have a cunning business plan with digital heritage? Then submit a proposal for a table session, a workshop, a poster session or an ignite talk!
You can read more about the Call for Proposals at http://www.dish2015.nl/call-for-proposals/. Proposals can be submitted until the 14th of September 2015.
More information
- Read more about the theme Money and Power
- Take a look at www.dish2015.nl.
The Guggenheim Museum, the Foundation of the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (FAIC) and the Electronic Media Group of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC) are proud to announce the two-day symposium and workshop.
TECHFOCUS III: CARING FOR SOFTWARE-BASED ART
September 25 and 26, 2015
Day 1: Friday, September 25, 9:30 am–5:30 pm
Day 2: Saturday, September 26, 9:30 am–5:45 pm
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street
New York City
Join conservators, artists, computer scientists, curators, art historians, registrars and archivists to explore challenges and emerging practices in the collection and preservation of software-based art. Twelve lectures and four panels will focus on: the history of software–based art and its underlying technology; case studies from major art collections; methods of artwork analysis, description and documentation; strategies for preservation, display and long-term accessibility. Four guided practical exercises, conducted by participants on their own laptops, will introduce the audience to the concepts of coding and basic preservation tools, such as version control, disk imaging and emulation. See full programme and register on the symposium site.
Registration fee: $180 AIC members; $250 non-AIC members; students $80.
After August 20: $200 AIC members; $300 non-AIC members; students $100.
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