Digital meets Culture

Online event, October 6 2020

The ESACH (European Student’s Association for Cultural Heritage) is an international network of European students and young professionals working within cultural heritage.

It was established in 2017, on the occasion of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, to highlight the perspective of the younger generations regarding cultural issues of European and national importance.
ESACH aims to establish enhance interdisciplinary collaboration amongst cultural heritage students, young professionals and cultural institutions through a mutual exchange of knowledge and experience beyond geopolitical boundaries.

ESACH has launched its first ESACH Talk, an interactive, very fast event, each Talk has a length of 45 minutes, and includes presentations by ESACH students and young professionals, as well as some time for discussions and comments.

The first ESACH Talk series will be held online the 6th October and will be inspired by the work of Europa Nostra; the event will explore young perspectives on the themes related to civic involvement and democratic participation in heritage matters: the citizens’ roles in the preservation of heritage, youth participation, participatory management strategies and participative approaches to heritage.
Everybody can participate!

More information about the event here.
More information about ESACH here.
To register for the event here.

Amended to Reflect the Changing Face of 2020 - deadline 20th Nov. 2020

TWA Heritage Digitisation Grant in UK

Following some excellent applications and true success stories from archives and other heritage institutions over the last four years, the TWA Digitisation Grant opened once again for 2020 submissions from UK institutions.

Working directly with the heritage sector Towns Web Archiving is acutely aware of the ongoing issue of funding, and the current climate has only served to exacerbate this, but the grant has helped numerous projects over the years to get off the ground. This year TWA have made some adaptations in an attempt to better meet the industry’s new and Emerging needs: opening early, making changes to the division of funding and to the usual timeline.

The new details are as follows:
● 3 x grants available of £3,000 each
● Deadline for applications extended to 20th November 2020
● Winners announcement 9th December 2020 .
● All shortlisted applicants to receive an optional £500 of match funding

It is hoped that these revisions will help to ensure an equitable and accessible process during a period that has seen great upheaval and uncertainty within the industry.

Applications are welcome from the following UK institutions:
● Public, private & charity Archives
● Business/corporate Archives
● Public & private Libraries
● Museums
● Galleries

The full judging panel is yet to be confirmed but will, again, include ARA chief executive – John Chambers and senior digitisation consultant at TownsWeb Archiving – Paul Sugden.
The Grant can be used to fund the digitisation of bound books, manuscripts, oversized maps and plans, 35mm slides, microfilm/fiche, glass plate negatives, and other two-dimensional cultural heritage media.

For more details and to apply, please visit TWA Digitisation Grant page.

#Mannheim2020: European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns

Cultural Heritage, Resilience and Sustainable Urban Regeneration are the focus of the session “Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration’, which will be held the morning of the third day conference from 9:30 to 11:00 CET. The session will explore how cultural heritage has the potential to enable new forms of collaboration and cultural production, to support cities to cope with future challenges, creating the conditions to carry out sustainable adaptive reuse projects. Participants will also discuss how cultural heritage can contribute to strengthening the resilience of communities. In this contest, ROCK experience with sustainable urban regeneration will be presented by Erica Albarello. The speech will focus on Turin’s views on how heritage, culture and creativity are relevant for the sustainable development of the City, specifically looking at the examples of adaptive heritage reuse initiatives co-developed together with local community groups. Cristina Garzillo, will co-moderate the session.

The 9th edition of the European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns is co-organised by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability together with the City of Mannheim and it brings together local and regional leaders, European and international institutions and some of the brightest minds working on cutting edge research, businesses and the civil society to forge a more sustainable Europe.

Conference website and registration: https://conferences.sustainablecities.eu/mannheim-2020/

Learn more about Rock presentation here

2 October, Register and follow the presentation!

Cultural Heritage, Resilience and Sustainable Urban Regeneration at Mannheim2020

The 9th edition of the European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns, is organised as a virtual event from today 30 September to 2 October 2020. It brings together local and regional leaders, European and international institutions and some of the brightest minds working on cutting edge research, businesses and the civil society to forge a more sustainable Europe.

The third day, from 9:30 till 11:00 CET, the session “Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration’, will offer the opportunity to share first-hand examples of how cultural heritage serves as a driver for the sustainable regeneration of urban areas.

In particular, the session will explore how cultural heritage has the potential to enable new forms of collaboration and cultural production, to support cities to cope with future challenges, creating the conditions to carry out sustainable adaptive reuse projects. Participants will also discuss how cultural heritage can contribute to strengthening the resilience of communities. In this contest, ROCK experience with sustainable urban regeneration will be presented by Erica Albarello (Project Manager). The speech will focus on Turin’s views on how heritage, culture and creativity are relevant for the sustainable development of the City, specifically looking at the examples of adaptive heritage reuse initiatives co-developed together with local community groups. Cristina Garzillo from ICLEI, will co-moderate the session.

For joining the session, registration is required.

Read more about the Rock project participation here

#Mannheim2020

Conference website

Link to the session page

online exhibition from 1 to 31 October

Remote Latency, Goldsmiths Bsc Digital Arts Computing

Five graduating artists of Goldsmiths Digital Arts Computing Bsc display their work in an unanticipated context. Together with Arebyte Gallery’s AOS they present the online exhibition Remote Latency

Remote Latency deals with the implications and challenges of digital distance and remoteness. It takes approximately X milliseconds for your computer to receive the transfer of data after the click on your mousepad. What is lost along the way? What ghosts are hiding in the latent space? As artists, we incorporate tools that are reinterpreting our environments, offering the content to the viewer behind the screen, over welcoming them into a physical space. We respond to the social shift in interaction that the pandemic has induced, joining the crowd of algorithms that compete for your attention, as an annoying pop-up ad infecting your screen like the virus we’re still dealing with. It exists in the seam, the data crumbling between the lines.

Participating artists:
Jinia Tasnin
Johanna de Verdier
Robert Hall
Megan Benson
Rita Josy Haddoub

Available online at aos.arebyte.com from 01/10/2020.

online, 2nd October 2020 - during Mannheim 2020 event

Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration

Project ROCK – Regeneration and Optimization of Cultural heritage in creative and Knowledge cities invites you to join the session ‘Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration’ taking place on 2 October as part of Mannheim2020.

Mannheim2020, the 9th edition of the European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns, is organised as a virtual event from 30 September to 2 October 2020. It will bring together local and regional leaders, European and international institutions and some of the brightest minds working on cutting edge research, businesses and the civil society to forge a more sustainable Europe. Visit the conference website to know more about the event and register.

As part of Mannheim2020, ROCK actions will be presented at the Solution Session ‘Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration’. The session will take place on 2 October from 9:30 till 11:00 CET.

The session will present first-hand examples of how cultural heritage serves as a driver for the sustainable regeneration of urban areas. The Cities of Hamburg, Rijeka, Sunderland, and Turin will showcase their best practices and reflect on lessons learned focussing on the guiding questions:

How do heritage, culture and creativity contribute to local sustainable development?
What is the role of cultural heritage in promoting social inclusion and cohesion?
What is the link between cultural heritage and resilience – and how can cities benefit from synergies between the two?

The session will explore how cultural heritage has the potential to enable new forms of collaboration and cultural production, to support cities to cope with future challenges, creating the conditions to carry out sustainable adaptive reuse projects. Participants will also discuss how cultural heritage can contribute to strengthening the resilience of communities. The City of Turin, one of ROCK Role Model cities, will present their views on how heritage, culture and creativity are relevant for the sustainable development of the City of Turin, specifically looking at the examples of adaptive heritage reuse initiatives co-developed together with local community groups.

To join ROCK at the session ‘Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration’ and be part of sustainable local transformation, register for Mannheim2020 here.

The 9th European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns is organised by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Mannheim with a much valued support of partners.

online event, 26th October 2020

PAGODE Technical Workshop

Originally planned as a project meeting in Athens focused on dataset enrichment, due to the covid-crisis this event was expanded and transformed in an online gathering, to discuss and share knowledge on metadata curation, vocabularies and thesauri, semantic enrichment, aggregation of data for publication in Europeana portal and the Europeana Publishing Framework, all this with a strong focus on building capacity inside Cultural Heritage Institutions.

Additionally, with the occasion of this event, the PAGODE Annotation Pilot was presented launched, with participants asked to look at images available in Europeana and add more descriptive tags.

The presentations showed during the event will be published soon and made available here

The PAGODE Technical Workshop is organized by the project team at PostScriptum, in collaboration with Photoconsortium and Europeana.

a dense month with 3 engaging screening programs available online

Video art collaborations in October 2020 by Video Art Miden

October 2020 is a month of collaborations for Video Art Miden: 3 online screening programs will be available from 1 to 31 of October on Video Art Miden’s youtube channel, 2 of them curated by invited collaborators, while one more thematic program will be screened in the frame of Balkan Can Kino Film Symposium & Festival, Athens (GR).

More specifically, in October, video art friends around the world will have the opportunity to watch online:

-a selection of video works that approach with sensitivity, in a poetic but also critical way, issues related to the environment and life in a holistic view, through a palimpsest of life forms on our planet (EARTHLINGS: Snapshots from the End), curated by 2 invited collaborators, Evi Stamou and Pietro Radin,

-a program with 9 student works from the Photography & Video Laboratory of the Department of Fine & Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), curated by professors Georgios Katsagelos and Stelios Dexis,

-a program that investigates the barriers and walls that rise dividing countries and populations in our era and their socio/psychological impact on humans today (Borders), curated by Olga & Gioula Papadopoulou.

In addition, Video Art Miden collaborates once more with Balkan Can Kino Film Symposium & Festival, which will take place in Athens from 9 to 18 of October 2020, presenting the video art program Past Present Continuous. The selection was curated by Olga & Gioula Papadopoulou especially for this year’s edition of the symposium, which focuses on the Balkan area, under the theme Balkans Today. The present of a wounded landscape.

The programs will remain open on Video Art Miden’s youtube channel from 1 to 31 of October 2020: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ly7FIRWx2-fXyrAulY-DQ

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More analytically:

EARTHLINGS: Snapshots from the End // Curated by Evi Stamou & Pietro Radin

An elegiac portrait of an ailing planet, a reluctant home for countless hopeful inhabitants (trees and spiders, crows and mollusk, goats and humans).

Kristian Xipolias, Ruina, Italy 2019, 3.13

Dante Albanesi, Sabbia fine estate, Italy 2019, 4.30

Isabelle Nouzha, Dystopian Patterns, Belgium/Lebanon 2019, 6.43

Shelly Silver, Score for Joanna Kotze, Italy/USA 2019, 4.16

Alina Vasilchenko, The Crows (Urban Birds), Russia 2018, 3.25

Gabriele Rossi, Oneira Glyka, France/Greece 2018, 5.27

Maya Connors, Diary of an organism (newly translated), Germany 2019, 11.20

Przemek Węgrzyn, Scarcity, Poland 2019, 14.45

Shelly Silver, This Film, Germany/USA 2018, 6.52

Eleni Magklara, Stelios Papiemidoglou & Efi Roufagala, Imprint, Greece 2019, 3.11

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Student works – Photography & Video Laboratory

Department of Fine & Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

Curated by Georgios Katsagelos & Stelios Dexis

A group of nine young artists, students of the Photography and Video Laboratory of the Department of Fine and Applied Arts, School of Fine Arts – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, under the guidance of their two professors Georgios Katsagelos and Stelios Dexis, present their project “Travel”. Through an academic process, an “artistic osmosis” is taking place, almost automatically, when artists and teachers discuss, work and create for a long period together, in a shared space, in the same laboratory. Apart from the obvious differences between the individual works, the search for common places, common reflections and interactions is an interesting challenge.

The selection includes video projects and video installations of various plastic approaches. The works are fruits of the artistic research during an Academic year, while the common presentation of the works serves as a trigger for young artists to coordinate creatively with their teachers. The works deal with the concept of “travel”, sometimes as a sketch diary and sometimes as a unified autonomous project, through contemporary approaches both at the technical level and the forms of narration.

Participant students: Fani Arapi, Vasiliki Lolidou, Orestis Papaconstantinou, Costas Doulmantzis, Alexandros Tsakonas, Thomas Kaliaras, Charalambos Swartz, Fotis Kilelelis, Stefania Patrikiou

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Borders // Curated by Olga & Gioula Papadopoulou

Have you ever felt displaced? Videoworks seeking to find a global understanding through topics of war, division, discrimination, immigration, identity, Home.

Cesare Saldicco, Autumn of the Nations, Italy 2019, 3.00

Alex Mendez Giner, Displaced, Venezuela-USA 2019, 13.40

Adriana Lopez Garibay, Soldier’s life, Mexico 2019, 5.07

Felice Hapetzeder, Image of a traitor, Sweden 2017, 8.52

Fran Orallo, Border, UK 2019, 3.47

Lisi Prada, Almost Invisible [Two Poems to Syria], Spain 2018, 10.00

Kim Collmer, Too big to see, Germany/Croatia 2019, 4.04

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Lastly, Video Art Miden participates in this year’s edition of Balkan Can Kino Film Symposium & Festival (http://balkan-can-kino.com/), which will take place in Athens from 9 to 18 of October 2020, with a selection curated especially for this year’s thematic of the symposium: Balkans Today. The present of a wounded landscape.

Past present continuous // Curated by Olga & Gioula Papadopoulou

The Balkans. A world that has suffered and endured consecutive wars and crises, a world constantly struggling to express its personality in adversity. How is the current landscape of the Balkans characterized by the specific (economic-social-political) conditions that occurred in the previous years? And how much do memories still influence, mark and even “scar” the way we think about the present?

The selection investigates the connections between the past and the present though works that make references to 7 Balkan countries: Slovenia, North Macedonia, Kosovo, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria.

Ana Čigon, Phoney Sights, Slovenia 2019, 21.49

Sophie Atkins, This Is Not Our Horse, North Macedonia 2019, 2.37

Alex Faoro & Helena Deda, Ditët e Luftës (Days of War), USA 2019, 3.18

Alexandra Bouge, The Trial, France 2019, 6.33

Wild Pear Arts, I Have a Song to Sing You (Imam pesmu da vam pevam), Serbia/UK, 2018, 5.40

Melina Peña, Ha Llegao la Hora (The Time has Come), Bosnia & Herzegovina 2018, 7.36

Silvia De Gennaro, Travel Notebooks: Kardzhali Bulgaria, Italy 2016, 2.12

Lea Jazbec, Self – portrait – Behind the reflection 01, Slovenia 2016, 8.13

More info on Video Art Miden’s website: www.festivalmiden.gr

Video Art Miden is an independent organization for the exploration and promotion of video art. Founded by an independent group of Greek artists in 2005, it has been one of the earliest specialized video-art festivals in Greece, setting as basic aims to stimulate the creation of original video art, to help spread it and develop relevant research.

Through collaborations and exchanges with major international festivals and organizations, it has been recognized as one of the most successful and interesting video art platforms internationally and as an important cultural exchange point for Greek and international video art. Miden screening programs have traveled in many cities of Greece and all over the world, and they are hosted by significant festivals, museums and institutions globally.

(*Miden means “zero” in Greek)

Art direction: Gioula Papadopoulou – Margarita Stavraki

Info: www.festivalmiden.gr || www.facebook.com/videoartmiden || https://www.instagram.com/videoart_miden/

The European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns - Session ‘Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration’

What is the link between cultural heritage and resilience?

The 9th edition of the European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns will take place from 30th September to 2nd October, to carry on a debate on how to shape a more sustainable Europe.
It is organised by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Mannheim with a much valued support of partners.

The conference will be organised as a virtual event and will bring together local and regional leaders, European and international institutions and some of the brightest minds working on cutting edge research, businesses and the civil society.

As part of Mannheim2020, the Solution Session ‘Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration’ is co-organised with ARCH Project.
In this session the cities of Hamburg, Rijeka, Sunderland, and Turin will showcase their best practices and reflect on lessons learned.
A key discussion will be how cultural heritage can contribute to strengthening the resilience of communities.
Specifically will be presentend the experience of Hamburg, one of four ARCH pilot cities, focusing on the UNESCO World Heritage sites Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel: their views on how heritage, culture and creativity are relevant for the sustainable development of the City and its residents.

Some guiding questions will help to conduct the debate:

How do heritage, culture and creativity contribute to local sustainable development?
What is the role of cultural heritage in promoting social inclusion and cohesion?
What is the link between cultural heritage and resilience – and how can cities benefit from synergies between the two?

The session will take place on 2 October from 9:30 till 11:00 CET.

Visit the conference website to know more about the event and register.

The 2020 European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns

Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration

The 9th edition of the European Conference on Sustainable Cities & Towns, is organised as a virtual event from 30 September to 2 October 2020 by ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability and the City of Mannheim .
Held every three years, the conference is the multi-level interface between the European Union and sustainability action at local level.

The aim of the conference is to bring together local and regional leaders, European and international institutions the brightest minds working on cutting edge research, businesses and the civil society to forge a more sustainable Europe.

The conference will offer the opportunity for participants to gain concrete tools to help face sustainability challenges in their cities throught “Solution and Toolbox Sessions”.

Among the eight Sessions, led by research teams, on October 2nd the EU project ARCH will lead the Session ‘Re-Inventing Heritage for Sustainable Urban Regeneration’ .
The session will explore how cultural heritage has the potential to enable new forms of collaboration and cultural production, to support cities to cope with future challenges, creating the conditions to carry out sustainable adaptive reuse projects.

It will also present examples of how heritage, culture and creativity are relevant for the sustainable development of the City and its residents and how cultural heritage can contribute to strengthening the resilience of communities.
The ARCH Cities of Hamburg, Rijeka, Sunderland, and Turin will showcase their best practices and reflect on lessons; specifically, the experience of Hamburg will be presentend focusing on the UNESCO World Heritage sites Speicherstadt and Kontorhausviertel.

Further information are available on the Conference website.