The European Cinema Night, to celebrate the richness of the European film culture

The third edition of  the European Cinema Night was organized by Creative Europe MEDIA in collaboration with Europa Cinemas from 16th to 20th November.


Over 70 Europa Cinemas members across Europe are taking part in this unique outreach event which aims to bring Europe closer to citizens and celebrate together the richness of European film culture.

This year’s edition, due to the current crisis, includes both physical screenings at the cinemas, and virtual screenings via online platforms, if the cinema is currently closed.

The European Cinema Night is part of the European Commission “going local” communication campaign which aims to bringing EU policies closer to citizens’ everyday lives, showing how European policy is linked to their lives and how, by attending a locally-grounded event, they can be part of a globally-connected experience across Europe.
In this case, the ECN aims to strengthen their shared European identity rooted in their cultural diversity and values by involving and connecting cinemagoers in many cities across Europe.

At the same time it is a great opportunity to celebrate the richness and cultural diversity of European cinema and raise public awareness of how MEDIA supports Europe’s film industry and culture.

During the European Cinema Night, each cinema participating will choose and screen a European non national MEDIA-supported film, of course with free admission, and create a debate around the movie and the European Commission’s support for the film.

To have more information and know the European Cinema Night film theatres, here the link.


CIDOC 2020 – Digital Transformation in Cultural Heritage Institutions

The CIDOC Conference 2020 in will address an important societal theme that cannot be ignored nowadays: digital transformation in cultural heritage institutions. The use of digital technology, though marginal at first, has gradually reshaped documentation practices and transformed almost all aspects of museum work, sometimes even pushing institutions to deviate from traditional conceptions of what their roles should be.

The web conference, organized by the Museum of Art and History of the City of Geneva, will take place from December 7 to 10, 2020.

Virtual participation in the conference is free of charge. However, registration is required in order to have access to the online sessions. Registration is now open.

Conference website: https://cidoc.mahgeneve.news/en/home/

The CIDC 2020 is organized by the Museum of Art and History of the City of Geneva

Inaugurated in 1910, the Museum of Art and History of the City of Geneva is one of the three largest museums in Switzerland and the only one with such a wide range of collections. The result of the union of several regional museums and donations from collectors, foundations and philanthropic citizens, the richness of its collections is further enhanced by the presence of some major works and a number of unique series, making it an institution of international standing. Paintings, sculptures, prints and historical objects bear witness to the multiple facets of the evolution of art and daily life over several millennia.

www.mah-geneve.ch
www.ville-geneve.ch/themes/culture/

Contact: CIDOC2020@ville-ge.ch


Art, Museums and Digital Cultures

The International Conference on Art, Museums and Digital Cultures will bring together different scientific and creative perspectives on the crossovers between information technologies and the arts. How are museums, curators and the artists themselves responding to the opportunities, but also the risks, of the so-called “digital transformation”?

Deadline for abstract submission: 21 December 2020

Conference websitehttps://museumdigitalcultures.weebly.com/

Recognising the complexity and plurality of digital cultures, the conference will discuss recent or ongoing research works in different geographies and cultural contexts.
We invite scholars, independent researchers, digital media specialists, curators and artists to submit proposals for a 15-minute in-person or online presentation, focusing on one or more of the following topics:

– Digital Art and Museums: preservation, documentation and exhibition
– Historiography of New Media Art
– Digitisation of contemporary art collections and archives
– The presence of art museums on the web: institutional representations and narratives
– Networked artistic and curatorial practices
– Derivative artworks and digital cultures
– Virtual museums and online exhibitions
– Contemporary art and digital literacy
– Politics of online mediation
– Digital technologies, accessibility and inclusion in art museums
– Algorithms and artificial intelligence in artistic and museological projects
– Architecture for digital art – museums, galleries and alternative spaces
– Hybrid realities: artistic interfaces and spatial overlapping
– Art, science and technology: new objects, new relations and new issues

How to submit a paper
Languages: English (UK spelling) or Portuguese*
First phase – abstracts for 15-minute presentations: title of the paper; abstract (350-500 words); 5 keywords; conference topic(s) to be addressed; presentation format (in-person or online); author’s affiliation; e-mail address and short biography (100-150 words).
File format: PDF, max. 3 pages or 2.00 MB
Second phase – full papers for publication: the detailed instructions will be sent directly to the authors of the proposals selected during the first phase.
All proposals must be submitted by email to: museumdigitalcultures@gmail.com

* The conference will be mostly in English and there will be no simultaneous translation into other languages. The second day’s programme may, however, include some parallel sessions in Portuguese.

Publication
The selected papers will be included in an edited e-book, to be published in 2021 by the Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, in cooperation with maat – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon.

Organisation

maat – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology and Institute of Art History, School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. Partner institution: Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa.

 

 


UNCHARTED published the first outputs of its investigation: 5 deliverables are now available for consultation and free download

Work package 1 of the UNCHARTED project, leaded by the University of Barcelona, is devoted to the analysis of the configuration of the values of culture.
It carries out a first analysis about how the values of culture in Europe are constructed examining the influence of a series of circumstances and key factors in shaping these values.
The research conducted so far, which involved 7 members of the UNCHARTED Consortium, have produced the following reports:

D1.1 Analysis of the influence of gender and rising diversity in the configuration of the values of culture.
The report has a double purpose. Firstly, it seeks to identify the factors that led the rising diversity and increasing gender equality in European societies in recent times. Secondly, it aims to analyze how these factors impact on the shaping of values of culture in three specific areas: institutionalized culture, cultural administrations and cultural policies, and citizen culture.

D1.2 Analysis of the influence of urbanisation and social and spatial segregation in cities in the configuration of the values of culture.
The report takes into account the major paradigm changes in the recent urban development by focusing on the social processes of gentrification, touristification and segregation, and its consequences on urban heritage preservation.

D1.3 Analysis of the influence of globalization and digitization in the configuration of the values of culture.
The report provides a review of values of culture relating to cultural administration, production and participation. The main strands of identified values are within the categories of access, engagement and identification, production/performance.

D1.4 Analysis of the influence of neo-liberalism in the configuration of the values of culture.
This deliverable reports about the results of the exploration, systematic review and analysis of the research
literature and existing data on the influence of neo-liberalism in the configuration of the values of culture.

D1.5 Analysis of the European historical and political experience in acknowledging and promoting the values of culture
The report questions the configurations in which European cultural policies attribute values to culture. It begins with a reflection on the meaning of value, then goes on to identify the numerous values identifiable in the history of cultural policies. It proposes a classification of the values and it describes the dynamics of emergence and transformation of the values attributed to culture in historical configurations.

Download the full text of each deliverable in the UNCHARTED download area
Link to the WP1 webpage


Cultural Heritage and Impact Assessment: subscribe the newsletter of the SOPHIA project

SOPHIASocial Platform for Holistic Impact Heritage Assessment” aims to promote collective reflection within the cultural and political sector in Europe on the impact assessment and quality of interventions in European historical environment and cultural heritage at urban level.
This first edition of the SOPHIA project Newsletter provides a general overview of the mission and challenges of the social platform. It invites to reflect on the importance to assess and evaluate projects dealing with cultural heritage by adopting an holistic point of view.
It also introduces the first outputs of the projects presenting the outcomes of the first workshop, the first scientific production and new collaborations.
SOPHIA and UNCHARTED projects have recently started an active cooperation that is intended to provide more engagement and participation to both projects.
Subscribe the newsletter and stay up to date on the latest initiatives promoted by the project.
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The SOPHIA Social Platform launched its first Newsletter

This first edition of the SOPHIA project Newsletter “Cultural Heritage and Impact Assessment” provides a general overview of the mission and challenges of the social platform. It invites to reflect on the importance to assess and evaluate projects dealing with cultural heritage by adopting an holistic point of view.
It also introduces the first outputs of the projects presenting the outcomes of the first workshop, the first scientific production and new collaborations.
The full title of SOPHIA is “Social Platform for Holistic Impact Heritage Assessment” and it aims to promote collective reflection within the cultural and political sector in Europe on the impact assessment and quality of interventions in European historical environment and cultural heritage at urban level.
Subscribe the newsletter and stay up to date on the latest initiatives promoted by the project.
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Sophia website: www.sophiaplatform.eu/
Twitter: @sophia_platform
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e-AGE 2020 virtual conference

e-AGE20, the 10th edition of the International Platform on Integrating Arab e-Infrastructure in a Global Environment will be held virtually during 15-16 December 2020. Its focus will be on the role of e-Infrastructures in the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic.

e-AGE 20 will be a forum to share practices and experiences that go beyond teaching online courses and sharing resources in today’s unprecedented isolation. NRENs and e-Infrastructures provide essential means to stay connected and to meet the new challenges of research and education.

e-AGE20 is coming with “Power of e-Infrastructures – Shaping the Future of Online Research and Education” as the main theme of the conference and all activities are centered on it.

Website and registration: https://asrenorg.net/eage20/


Ars Electronica keeps on its Home Delivery programme: online course in English language

In the framework of its Home Delivery initiative, the Ars Electronica Center, organized a series of online classes focused on Artistic Journalism. Starting by the reflection on the dramatic social changes caused by the Covid19 pandemic, the classes present artistic journalism as a new media, place, and system for broadly experiencing and discussing the future and new challenges.
Through its activities, Ars Electronica aims to create a dialogue with new knowledge that cannot be conveyed by books, newspapers and online media alone, and discuss how to apply this dialogue to future life and society.
The second class of this on line course, was held in English language.  Hideaki Ogawa, Futurelab director, gave visitors and viewers an insight into the creative perspective of AI with the exhibition AI x Music where historic music machines and techno robots give unique performances along with the Bösendorfer 290 Imperial piano plays special AI compositions. The lesson was also joined by Ali Nikrang of Ars Electronica Futurelab whose research involves the interaction between human and AI systems with focus on creative applications.

Find part 1 of this lecture series here: Artistic Journalism 1/3: Understanding AI
Find part 2 of this lecture series here: Artistic Journalism 2/3: AI x Music
Find part 3 of this lecture series here: Artistic Journalism 3/3: Deep Issues

Ars Electronica Center is based in Linz, Austria and it promotes interactive experiences combining art and technology. Due to the covid 19 pandemic it was obliged to suspend visits to the center.
Nevertheless it didn’t stop its initiatives and actively reacted by proposing a rich programme of cultural performances to be listened directed by home. The weekly programme includes guided tours to exhibitions, excursions to Center’s labs, concerts with real-time visualizations, Deep Space LIVE sessions, workshops with engineers and talks with artists and scientists from all over the world. None of this session is pre-recorded, most are interactive and all are LIVE!
Contact for requests, suggestions and feedback: home.delivery@ars.electronica.art
Link to the Ars Electronica website


#OHDialogues: the 2nd workshop on adaptive heritage reuse is on streaming!

OpenHeritage launched a series of online interactive workshops focusing on key aspects of adaptive heritage reuse. The project, which full title is “OpenHeritage: Organizing, Promoting and ENabling HEritage Reuse through Inclusion, Technology, Access, Governance and Empowerment”, focuses on the creation of sustainable models of heritage asset management and aims to empower the community in the processes of its adaptive reuse.
The first meeting took place on September. It was titled “Adaptive heritage reuse: Policy contexts across Europe” and aimed at exploring good practices and measures to support and facilitate  adaptive heritage reuse.
The second workshop “Sharing and Caring: Partnerships for Adaptive Heritage Reuse” is scheduled for today. Participants are invited to face and share experiences on the following questions:

  • How can municipalities work together with civic initiatives in supporting the community-led reuse of heritage spaces?
  • How can built heritage be an asset for the cities
  • How can public-private-people partnerships benefit heritage?
  • What is the potential of historical buildings to be more than just monuments to preserve?

The discussion will explore these questions in various policy environments across Europe, in small towns as well as in big cities, focusing on good practices of establishing partnerships, and strategies to overcome challenges.
This second OpenHeritage Dialogue is co-produced by OpenHeritage and Cooperative City. The workshop is organised by ICLEI and co-organised by CEU, Eutropian, and MRI.
REACH, as syster project of openheritage, has been invited together with ILUCIDARE to share its reflection and experience on the topic.
A live stream of the Dialogue’s opening session is available from on the OpenHeritage and Cooperative City facebook pages.
The third workshop, “Adaptive heritage reuse: Financing and business models (tbc)” is planned for Spring 2021 in Berlin
Contacts: dialogues@openheritage.eu
OpenHeritaje dialogues webpage


Successful results and high participation for EuroMed 2020 on line conference

During the 4 days conference a rich and varied agenda of project’s presentations and workshops have shown new ways to conceived and manage cultural heritage, new challenges for digitization to foster engagement and social participation as well as new horizons to support the resilience of culture in its intangible and tangible dimensions.  The richness of the proposals had literally stuck participants to their videos during all day long. The event gathered 1063 participants from 77 different countries from all the continents of the world.
All conference was recorded and videos are progressively becoming available on the Digital Heritage Research Lab You Tube channel.
The 8th biannual European-Mediterranean (EUROMED) conference was co-organised by the UNESCO and the EU ERA Chairs on Digital Cultural Heritage. It brought together multidisciplinary researchers, policy makers, professionals, fellows, practitioners and stakeholders to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning Cultural Heritage today. In particular, the main goal of the conference was to focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, using cutting edge technologies for the protection, restoration, preservation, massive digitisation, documentation and presentation of the Cultural Heritage contents. At the same time, the event intended to cover topics of research ready for exploitation, demonstrating the acceptability of new sustainable approaches and new technologies by the user community, owners, managers and conservators of our cultural patrimony.

In the framework of the storytelling session of EuroMed 2020 conference, the REACH social platform presented a project paper title “The Reach Project Contribution to Protecting, Preserving and Valuing Tangible and Intangible Heritage through Participation”.
The involvement  in such alive event provided to REACH a unique occasion to create new liaisons and to widen the perspectives of participation in cultural heritage.

Video on REACH project presentation available here
Link to the Digital Heritage Research Lab You Tube channel
Euromed2020 conference webpage
Link to the REACH blog
Link to the REACH website