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The Festival will take place from 6 to 10 September 2023
Ars Electronica Festival 2023: “Who Owns The Truth?”

Ars Electronica Festival 2023 / Photo: Created with the AI-System DALL·E2

From 6 to 1o September 2023, the Ars Electronica Festival for art, technology and society once again invites artists, scientists, developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and activists from all over the world to Linz, Austria, to attend the festival.

Ars Electronica has accompanied the ongoing digitalization of our lives since 1979. It poses questions about the political, social, ecological, and economic consequences, and speculates on the future forms that technological progress will take. Embedded in a worldwide network of artists, scientists, developers, designers, entrepreneurs, and activists, Ars Electronica constantly advances this research – both within and together with the widest possible public. Whether with exhibitions, conferences, concerts, performances, or interventions – the goal has always been to push forward a discourse and promote inclusive and sustainable visions of the future.

This year’s theme by Europe’s largest festival for art, technology and society will focus on the following question: “Who Owns the Truth?”. This theme aims directly at key disputed topics of our time: truth and ownership, interpretive authority and sovereignty, specifically focusing on Artificial Intelligence performances: Ars Electronica 2023 is about demonstrating how artists from all over the world, through collaboration as well as confrontation with technology and society, are working on this topic.

This year, the festival has secured numerous partnerships with leading names in the arts and culture industry, such as the Museo Nacional del Prado and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Grand Palais Immersif in Paris, the Salzburg Festival, and the Biennale Musica 2023 Venezia. Additionally, renowned organizations like MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan, WRO Media Art Biennale in Wrocław, Leonardo – The International Society of Arts, Sciences, and Technology, and Arizona State University will also be participating. Notably, two European Capitals of Culture, Bad Ischl 2024 and Oulu (Finland) 2026, will also be involved in the festival this autumn.

Discover more about the festival at this link.

the third project meeting took place 27-29 April 2023
INCULTUM meeting, impressions from Uppsala

Hosted by partner Uppsala University, also leading the INCULTUM Pilot 10 Escape into the Archipelago Landscape, a friendly project meeting was organized to mark the conclusion of INCULTUM’s second year of work, and to review the progress and challenges. All the partners gathered on the occasion, to present the achievements in the various tasks and to discuss about innovation in cultural tourism, participatory approaches to local promotion and impact of the actions on the various stakeholders.

In specific, the 10 Pilots were illustrated in detail, focusing on the activities deployed to foster participation and training of the local communities in managing the territories and enhancing their tourism potential.

 

 

CitizenHeritage workshop - Rotterdam, 24th May 2023
Food and Culture

In this Food and Culture workshop, students from Erasmus University Rotterdam get to cook, eat, and discuss the role of food in shaping and expressing identity – also talking about the environmental effect of the food chain. The event takes place at the Erasmus Food Lab, an organization aiming to promote and raise awareness about sustainable and healthy food. It is an experimental playground for research, teaching and marketing related to plant-based foods.

arebyte Gallery organises a new masterclass on climate change, hosted by artist and researcher Angela YT Chan.
Upcoming masterclass event at arebyte Gallery

Image credit: Angela YT Chan, Tidal Workshop

arebyte Gallery is pleased to announce a new masterclass “Digital Practices – Masterclass with climate change expert Angela YT Chan”, that will take place on May 20 and will focus on developing a socially and environmentally responsible digital practice with climate change specialist, researcher, curator and artist Angela YT Chan.

Participants will learn about the historical roots of the climate crisis, gain tools for applying climate literacy in your digital projects, and develop frameworks for building a sustainable future in the digital sector.

The masterclass will be divided in three sessions:

  • Session 1 (11:30-13:30): this session will cover how the colonial histories of exploitative extractions from peoples and the planet have led to the climate crisis, and continue to sustain it through uneven global developments.
  • Session 2 (14:00-16:00): this session presents some of the tools available to digital practitioners to gain climate literacy and apply while developing your creative projects, focusing on a climate justice approach – one that forefronts the people at the heart of the climate struggle.
  • Session 3 (16:30-17:30): this session discusses the long-term infrastructures and resources that digital practitioners want to see in the sector and explores what already exists at the grassroots level or within other digital practices, allowing to develop intentions towards a sustainable practice that goes beyond climate literacy, towards a compassionate understanding of the dynamics of the climate crisis.

The masterclass will take place at arebyte Gallery, 7 Botanic Sq, Leamouth Peninsula, London E14 0LG. For more information, check this link. Get your ticket here.

Photoconsortium vicepresident Antonella Fresa presented EUreka3D at the important conference of Europeana on 18/4/2023
EUreka3D presented at “Why 3D Matters”

The Europeana conference “Why 3D Matters: accelerating 3D in the common European data space for cultural heritage” took place on 18th April 2023, under the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU, in collaboration with the Swedish Ministry of Culture and the Swedish National Heritage Board.

The event saw the participation of important guests such as Rehana Schwinninger-Ladak (DG CONNECT), Harry Verwayen (Deputy director of Europeana Foundation), Sophia Laurin (Swedish Ministry of Culture), Eva Stengård (Ministry of Culture, Government Offices of Sweden), Joakim Malmström (National Antiquarian and Director General, Swedish National Heritage Board), Ann Follin (Director of Etnografiska Musee), who opened the conference.

A programme of interesting talks and panels discussed various aspects and international projects focusing on 3D and cultural heritage. The conference was a great success, with 60 people who joined in-person and more than 200 online attendees.

 

EUreka3D, being dedicated to supporting Cultural Heritage Institutions with capacity building, training, and new services for 3D collections management storage and sharing, was presented by project coordinator Antonella Fresa, vicepresident of Photoconsortium, in the Final Plenary part “Building capacity, sharing, training, learning“.

The presentation focused on how e-infrastructures can support the implementation of 3D in Cultural Heritage, and what are the challenges and needs of CHIs in the 3D digitization effort.

View and download EUreka3D presentation at this link (PDF, 1MB)

 

Antonella also participated in the panel discussion moderated by Valentine Charles (Europeana Foundation), where selected speakers discussed the challenges and possible solutions for CHIs in the digital transformation and 3D digitization management.

Furthermore, one of the key partners of EUreka3D Dr. Marinos Ioannides (Cyprus University of Technology), presented the pioneerig project of digitization and enhancement that created an advanced 3D model of The Asinou Church, one of the national monuments in Cyprus.

EUreka3D website: https://eureka3d.eu/

Find EUreka3D also on Twitter.

eu emblemEUreka3D project is co-financed by the Digital Europe Programme of the European Union.

Pilot 10 Escape into the archipelago landscape offered opportunities for students to analyse and work on visitors' behaviour data
INCULTUM Pilot: training to students at Uppsala University

text and images courtesy of dr. Sabine Gebert Persson, Associate professor Uppsala University

In the context of INCULTUM Pilot 10 Escape into the archipelago landscape, students of Uppsala University were involved in training actions that follow the work done in the Pilot to collect data relating to visitors behaviour in the area of Swedish Archipelago.

In the university course called GIS2, offered by Marina Toger at the Department of Human Geography of Uppsala University students are examined, among others, through project work, by reusing for various assignements the data collected by the researchers in the Pilot. As a result, one student team analysed data collected in Roslagen, and identified both challenges and opportunities that relate to both the destination and its sustainable development, also suggesting a new tourist route. On April 4th, 2023, the students presented their results at a workshop with different stakeholders in Öregrund.

 

 

Earlier in the Spring/Fall semester 2022 Uppsala University jointly with researchers at CBS Copenhagen Business School arranged a Ph.D. course called ”Advanced Spatio-temporal analysis: Methods in understanding tourists’ behavior”. Students used data collected in Gotland, Torsö, Roslagen, and Copenhagen, during the course in the practical exercises.

As a result, 3 papers academic weresubmitted to the Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. Additionally, the PhD course developed one collaboration among students from University of Palermo, Italy, and Uppsala University, Sweden. Their analysis has also been submitted to Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism.

 

 

The recovery work, in which more than 500 volunteers from various interests and more than 1000 schoolchildren have participated, has made it possible to put into use one of the last stretches of irrigation ditch, which had been abandoned for more than 40 years
Inauguration of Aynadamar irrigation channel in Granada

text and images courtesy of Elena Correa Jiménez (University of Granada).

In the context of project INCULTUM, the Biocultural Archaeology Laboratory (MEMOLab) of the University of Granada, directed by Dr. José María Martín Civantos, has launched the participatory project “Recovering the Aynadamar irrigation channel”. This irrigation channel had been abandoned for 50 years, and thanks to a big particpatory effort it was recovered in all its sections, and was inaugurated on 15 April 2023.

The restoration project has been promoted by the University of Granada itself as one of the INCULTUM Pilots, through the Vice-Rectorate for University Extension and Heritage, with the co-financing of the Granada Water Foundation, the Hidralia Chair, EMASAGRA and the collaboration of the Community of Irrigators and Users of the Aynadamar irrigation channel and the Association of Historical and Traditional Communities of Andalusia.

The Aynadamar irrigation channel has been documented at least since the 11th century to supply water to the ancient Alcazaba of Granada (Qasabat Garnata), the seat of the Zirid dynasty, and to the present-day Albayzín. This canal has been one of the axes that have shaped the city of Granada and its surroundings since the Middle Ages. In the 80s of the 20th century, the final section was definitively abandoned and destroyed on its arrival in the city, with the consequent loss of heritage, landscape and environment.

The aim of this project, in addition to the heritage and environmental aspects, has been the recovery for irrigation of the Cartuja Campus, thus avoiding the use of drinking water and the consequent regeneration of the landscape, taking advantage of the environmental functions of the traditional irrigation ditches.

The recovery work, in which more than 500 volunteers from various interests and more than 1000 schoolchildren have participated, has made it possible to put into use one of the last stretches of irrigation ditch, which had been abandoned for more than 40 years. From now on, the water from Fuente Grande (Alfacar), which used to run to the end of the Fargue, will begin to flow towards the Cartuja Campus. However, the scarcity of water due to the overexploitation of the aquifer and the drought, now confront the irrigation community and the irrigation channel with a new challenge

Learn more about INCULTUM Pilot 1 – Altiplano de Granada

 

 

the presentation illustrated various participatory activities carried out in the Altiplano de Granada
Presenting INCULTUM in a meeting of Granada University Community Volunteers and Solidarity Associations

images courtesy of Elena Correa Jiménez.

On 12 April 2023, Elena Correa of the MEMOLab team at University of Granada, the INCULTUM coordinator, provided a presentation of the work done in the project and on the Altiplano de Granada Pilot at the “VI Encuentro Voluntariado Comunidad Universitaria y Asociaciones Solidarias” (VI Meeting of University Community Volunteers and Solidarity Associations).

The presentation specifically focused on the recovery of historic irrigation ditches and cultural trails. This meeting was organised by UGR Solidaria and recording is available

 

 

 

24 May 2023 – Brussels (Belgium)
SmartCulTour Final Conference

SmartCulTour (Smart Cultural Tourism as a Driver of Sustainable Development of European Regions) is a four-year project, funded by the European Union in the frame of Horizon 2020. The goal of SmartCulTour is to support regional development in all European regions with important tangible and intangible cultural assets, including those located in rural peripheries and the urban fringe, through sustainable cultural tourism.

The final Conference on sustainable cultural tourism under the HSmartCulTour project is called “Culture as Catalyst: Redefining Cultural Tourism for Sustainable Destinations”, and it aims to explore emerging trends in cultural tourism and identify priorities for destinations to harness the power of culture and local values to redefine the visitor experience by introducing the project tools and sharing the different experiences of the Living Labs with key target audiences.

The conference will take place on Wednesday 24th of May 2023 from 9:15 to 18:30 at the Herman Teirlinckgebouw building (Havenlaan 88, 1000 – Brussels, Belgium).

Registration in the final conference is free but is highly recommended in order to prepare for the event and make sure to have enough seating capacity for everyone attending.

You can download the programme of the event here (PDF, 217 KB).

For further information, follow this link.

The Hague, the Netherlands, 10 -12 October 2023
EuropeanaTech Conference 2023

EuropeanaTech is the community of experts, developers, and researchers from the R&D sector within the greater Europeana Network Association, that coordinates research and development endeavors that seek to improve the standing of European digital cultural heritage and facilitate knowledge across the sector at large.

EuropeanaTech Conference 2023 will take place in The Hague, the Netherlands, from 10 to 12 October 2023, and is aimed to all tech-minded professionals, developers, researchers and students working in and around digital cultural heritage across the globe. It will be a fantastic opportunity to meet with, learn from and work with your collegues, as well as to become part of a community dedicated to Tech in culture, and explore the challenges and opportunities that topics such as AI and 3D bring to the sector.

The Conference is organised in collaboration with the EuropeanaTech community, the Europeana Network Association’s community of experts from the R&D sector. It will be the fourth EuropeanaTech conference, reviving and continuing the series after successful previous editions in Vienna, Paris and Rotterdam. It will be a predominantly onsite event, with some options for online participation.

Here you can find the programme of the event

To get updates on the call for proposals, ticket sales and more, register through the following link.

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