Digital meets Culture

9 March 2024, 11 AM - 8.30 PM, arebyte Gallery. Symposium and live play sessions.

Areas Of Effect: Planar Systems, Critical Roles, and Gaming Imaginaries

Curated by artist David Blandy and writer Jamie Sutcliffe in association with Strange Attractor Press, Areas Of Effect: Planar Systems, Critical Roles, and Gaming Imaginaries is a one-day symposium on Tabletop Role Playing Games (TTRPGs) with live game sessions.

The symposium examines how TTRPGs serve as a physical interface between the body and the imaginary, offering immersive experiences, problem-solving, moral dilemmas, and, most importantly, communal storytelling.

The day culminates in live TTRPG play sessions of the games Eco Mofos by artist David Blandy and SUPERZEROES by TTRPG game designer Samuel Mui, amongst others, inviting the audience to play with a deck of uniquely designed TTRPG playing cards.

You can find the full programme at this link. Register and purchase your tickets here.

The contribution of the Department of Management, Society and Communication of CBS to Geopark The South Fyn Archipelago

INCULTUM and geotourism

Associate Professor Carsten Humlebæk of Copenhagen Business School, partner of the INCULTUM project, recently participated in the first ordinary meeting of the Scientific Council of Geopark The South Fyn Archipelago of which he became a member at the inception of the Council in the summer of 2023. The Council’s role is to be a partner for the Geopark’s board and secretariat and provide input for new potential activities and business areas. The council seats biologists, historians, archaeologists, and geologists with responsibility for the six areas of action: Geology and nature, Teaching, Active outdoors living, Culture, and Research.

A collaboration between four municipalities, Geopark The South Fyn Archipelago aims to ‘create a strong common identity as a basis for local development, respecting landscapes, cultural heritage and wild nature’ in the south of Fyn and the adjacent islands and marine area. The Geopark aspires to become a UNESCO Global Geopark and received a visit by the UNESCO evaluators in June 2023 (in which the Scientific Council also participated). The final decision on the application is expected in late March.

Carsten Humlebæk is tasked with special responsibilities in the sixth field of action, focusing on geotourism – not least due to his involvement in the EU research project INCULTUM. Several of the tools and methods that INCULTUM has resulted in can be adapted to and implemented in Geopark contexts.

Find more information about Geopark the South Fyn Archipelago here and about UNESCO Global Geoparks here. Contact Carsten Humlebæk for more information about his work at cjh.msc@cbs.dk

online, 8th April 2024 h. 14 CET

part I – Paradata, Metadata and Data for 3D acquisition in cultural heritage

This webinar in two parts brought together professionals from the spectrum of Digital Cultural Heritage practice to share their experiences of using and working with paradata seeking to lay down a common understanding of paradata as a first step towards a community-built set of standards and expectations for its application to 3D documentation and the creation of knowledge.

Part 1 was held on 8/4/2024 => RECORDING HERE and see also below
Part 2 is held on 17/5/2024 => MORE INFORMATION HERE

Organized by UNESCO Chair on Digital Cultural Heritage at Cyprus University of Technology in collaboration with EUreka3D, this webinar discusses the most advanced requirements and cases of the use of Paradata and Metadata in the digital documentation of the Past in 3D, for enriching 3D assets, creating knowledge and promoting reusability.

The webinar is addressed to the Digital Cultural Heritage community to establish a definitive description and differentiation of what paradata and metadata are, and the benefits they are bringing to the stakeholders, owners, multidisciplinary community and digital scholarship, as well as to the European Commission.

Agenda – Please note times are in CET

13:30-14:00 Join the session using your MS Teams Link
14:00-14:10 Harry Verwayen, Europeana Foundation. NL – Opening remarks
14:10-14:20 Marinos Ioannides, et al UNESCO Chair on DCH at Cyprus University of Technology. CY – Paradata, Metadata & Data for a digital #MemoryTwin
14:20-14:35 Isto Huvila Invited KEYNOTE Uppsala University. SE – Datafication of archaeological archiving and the preservation of what?
14:35-14:50 Luisa Ammirati, et al UNOSAT/UNITAR. CH, UNESCO WHC, FR – Paradata and metadata in an immersive digital heritage experience
14:50-15:05 Erik Champion University of South Australia. AU – Usable, Useful, Reviewable and Reusable Metadata
15:05-15:20 Carla Schroer, et al Cultural Heritage Imaging (CHI). US – Building Reliable and Reusable Complex Digital Representations: The Digital Lab Notebook
15:20-15:35 Daniel Pletinckx Visual Dimension bvba. BE – 3D Heritage is Heritage, we should treat it as such
15.35-15:50 Tony Cassar, et al Heritage Malta. MT – Challenges of 3D Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
15:50-16:05 Shuyi Yin, et al Columbia University. US – Blockchain Technology for Enhanced Documentation and Management of Built Heritage in Historic Cities
16:20-16:35 Jean-Baptiste Barreau Archéologie des Amériques (ArchAm), CNRS. FR – Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of an Egyptian Saqiya: A Computational Approach to Preserving Cultural Heritage and Water Management Systems
16:35-16:50 Antoine Isaac, et al Europeana Foundation. NL – Making the Europeana Data Model a better fit for documentation of 3D objects
16:50-17:05 Raffaella Brumana, et al Politecnico di Milano. IT – HBIM quality information model to manage surveying, stratigraphic units and transformations into paradata. The mausoleum of Cecilia Metella and the Castrum Caetani
17:05-17:30 Discussion Session & Closing Remarks

>>> AGENDA IN PDF (196 KB)

Due to overwhelming response at the Call for Papers, with 52 abstracts submitted and over 552 colleagues registered (from 77 countries, highlighted in the chart below), the Organizing Committee has decided to extend this event into a series. Our initial event will still take place on April 8th, 2024, followed by a second event on Friday, May 17th (one day prior to the dedicated ICOM International Museum Day on May 18th, 2024, which is devoted this year to Education and Research to foster Knowledge in Museums).

Paradata, Metadata and Data webinar – registrations, geographic provenance

the final event of the H2020 project dedicated to enhance tourism in lesser known areas will take place in Spain on 12 April

EUreka3D at INCULTUM International conference

The INCULTUM project is approaching the conclusion of the EU funding period. A final event is planned to take place on 12 April, 2024 in Guadix, Andalusia, organised by the project’s coordinator UGR hosted by ENTURNA Escuela Internacional de Turismo Rural y Naturaleza (Internation School of Rural Tourism). The conference will be an occasion to present results and outcomes of INCULTUM, to prepare for further exploitation by the partners, and to trigger the next implementation and replication phases in new areas across the European Union.

INCULTUM is an associated partner of EUreka3D, with a stake in exploring how digitization, and particularly digitization in 3D of monuments and sites, can support territory promotion and heritage diffusion. EUreka3D will be represented in the conference with participation of the project coordinator Antonella Fresa and with a poster.

Uppsala, 13 February 2024

INCULTUM – Methods for collecting and analyzing tourists and visitors

On February 13th, the INCULTUM pilot coordinated by Uppsala University held a training session on methods for collecting and analyzing tourists and visitors. The session was held in Uppsala with 15 participants ranging from employees within three different municipalities, place developers, outdoor recreation strategists, and interest organization.

During four hours the participants learned about the method that was co-developed by the INCULTUM pilot and Öregrund to understand visitor engagement and behavior. The session was an interactive learning session where the participants also had the opportunity to test the GPS loggers and what the results can look like and how they can be analyzed.

The training session was intended to develop the participants’ competencies to facilitate their capabilities to interact and to know what kind of information and data they need that can be delivered. Both place and destination developers (DMOs) and those who are working with GIS data participated in the interactive activities.

The presentation delivered in the session is available in Swedish (PDF).

A new resource available on the INCULTUM Training Portal

INCULTUM marketing and social branding in tourism destinations

The new academic course on marketing and social branding in tourism destinations is available in the INCULTUM Training Portal. for free access.

The contents have been developed under the scientific coordination of the University of Pisa, partner of the INCULTUM project.

The course is made of three thematic subsections each composed by several subsection which cover both general marketing and branding issues and many specifics of tourism and place branding, with a special focus on peripheral destinations and local’s involvement. It is all based on tutorial videos supplemented by additional material and quizzes for self-assessment.

Lloret de Mar, 24th May 2024

Seminar on Archives and Tourism

The City Council of Lloret de Mar, the Diputació de Girona and the Generalitat de Catalunya are promoting the realization in Lloret de Mar of a biennial seminar on “Archives and Tourism”, which should facilitate bringing the history of tourism closer to the society from multiple perspectives and in this way make known the importance of preserving and making this documentation accessible in both public and private entities around the world.

The objective of the “Archives and Tourism” Seminar is to publicize the public and private documentary funds generated around tourism and encourage their recovery, conservation and organization among the tourism sector as part of the documentary heritage of contemporary society.

The “Archives and Tourism” seminar, which will include presentations, round tables and several communications sessions, will be held in Lloret de Mar on Friday, May 24. Complementary academic activities have also been planned for Thursday 23, in the afternoon and Saturday 25, in the morning. This seminar also includes a social program with different touristic-cultural proposals.

MAIN TOPICS

Preservation of documentary heritage, and the diffusion of documentation related to tourism.
Research and study of data, documents and archives linked to tourism.
Current data and information management in tourism activities and future challenges.

More information and definitive program in Archives and Tourism.cat

Guadix, Andalusia - 12 April 2024

INCULTUM International conference

The conference represents a valuable occasion to present results and outcomes of INCULTUM, to prepare for further exploitation by the partners, and to trigger the next implementation and replication phases in new areas across the European Union.

Experts from the INCULTUM Consortium and from other cultural tourism initiatives will contribute to the event with their experiences, exchanging their know-how and innovation experiences in the domain of cultural and creative tourism.

Lisbon, 24th May 2024. Call for Papers is open unitl 22/3/2024

Towards an Automated Art? Learning Machines, Human Creativity and Uncertainty

“Towards an Automated Art” International Conference and Call for Papers

International Conference “Towards an Automated Art? Learning Machines, Human Creativity and Uncertainty” is announced.

The conference will take place in Lisbon (Portugal) on 24 May, 2024.

The event aims to provide a space for interdisciplinary discussion, bringing together different perspectives on the interaction between creative practices and digital technologies, with a particular emphasis on the still uncertain impact of AI on contemporary arts.

While images abound and never-ending streams of data are becoming unachievable for humans, the need for reflection is more urgent than ever. The predominant discourse has naturalised technology as neutral and unstoppable, favourable to all. Nevertheless, art might feature there not as a blind ally of technology, but as a necessary counterpart, a means of reflecting on the need and direction of its benefits through its use. The widespread use of software tools and apps makes us dependent on our trust in technology while interacting with the real physical world. The search engines guide us in our navigation of the Internet, its platforms and databases, making things visible in the virtual digital world. How are they programmed? By whom? To see what? Are we finally entering a new art ecosystem where artists are as replaceable as images? Are we becoming immersed in a new mechanized and financialized art system where artworks can be rapidly produced, consumed and wasted?

Can human creativity survive in this context? Can machines really learn how to make art?

Scholars, independent researchers, digital media experts, curators and artists are invited to submit proposals for a 15-minute in-person presentation, focusing on one or more of the following topics:

Automation of Creative Practices
Machine Learning and AI in Art, Design and Architecture
Generative and Algorithmic Art & Design
Computational Creative Practices
Web-based Art
Extended Reality in Art and Exhibition Spaces
Virtual Museums and Galleries
Digital Aesthetics
Art Interfaces
New Media Art History
New Media Art Preservation
Media Archaeology

Proposals can be submitted until 22 March, 2024.

More information about the call for papers here.

The event is a collaboration between Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Universidad de León (Spain): Instituto de Humanismo y Tradición Clásica and Grupo de Investigación de Estudios Literarios y Comparados. Insólito, Género y Humanidades Digitales; Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa; and Museu Zer0, Tavira.

INCULTUM and Geotourim

First meeting of the Scientific Council of The South Fyn Archipelago

Friday 19 January 2024, the first meeting of the Scientific Council of The South Fyn Archipelago took place. It was actually a very exciting encounter.

Carsten Humlebæk from CBS participated to represent the field of action that deals with Geotourism, bringing in the discussion references to the results of INCULTUM.

The South Fyn Archipelago is aspiring at becoming a UNESCO Global Geopark and it is expected that the official designation will come soon, hopefully at the next UNESCO Global Geopark Executive Committee meeting (spring 2024).

In the Council biologists, historians, archaeologists, and geologists meet and several of the tools and methods that INCULTUM has resulted in can be used in the Geopark context. There is a lot of overlap between the interests that INCULTUM’s pilot projects in peripheral and remote areas have in ensuring sustainable development and the interests of the Geopark’s smaller communities have in their own areas.

Officially, the focus changes from ‘cultural tourism’ to ‘geo-tourism’, but in the Geopark context it is still about ensuring sustainable development with tourism as a tool, and that is 100% the same thing that is experimented in INCULTUM.

Examples could be the alternative/innovative business models that are being implemented in the INCULTUM pilot project in the province of Granada in Spain. Similar models could be used to regulate and incentivize development along the Øhavsstien, a 230 km hiking trail around the Southern part of Funen and the larger islands. Also, the use of the tools and methods developed in INCULTIM pilot in Sweden can be experimented in relation to investigating the behavior and movement patterns of tourists at a location in collaboration with with the locals, for example on some of the islands of archipielago as Drejø, Lyø, Avernakø or Strynø.

Pictures of the wonderful places can be explored on the website of Geopark: have a look and be fascinated!

The Archipelago Trail, one of the longest hiking routes in Denmark, is accessible online: 220 km of hiking trails set against the backdrop of the South Fyn Archipelago.

Further information about the meeting are available here, in Danish language.