Author Archives: valentina.bachi

Sound and effective policy discussion on future standards needs to be founded on solid common understandings, thus you are all invited to take this survey

ViMM Virtual Multimodal Museum launches a survey on Metadata, Terminology and Identifiers Standards

Virtual Multimodal Museum (ViMM) is a high-visibility and participative Coordination and Support Action (CSA), funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme (CULT-COOP-8-2016). ViMM brings together Europe and the world’s leading public and private sector organizations working on Virtual Museums and … Continue reading →

The church was 3D scanned for reference to become an interactive, informal and formal educational space.

Virtual reality re-creation preserves iconic Indianapolis church

A 3D digital re-creation and preservation of Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest African-American church in Indianapolis, was performed by Indiana University and recently presented to the public. Bethel AME Church has historically been the heart of the African … Continue reading →

Brussels (Belgium), 27th March 2018

Promoting Cultural and Creative Industries: Maximising their Economic and Social Contribution in the EU

Europe is the second largest Cultural and Creative industries (CCIs or Cultural and Creative sector, CCS) market in the world after Asia. A study by ‘Cultural Times’ estimates that European Union creates 32% of global CCI revenues and 26% of … Continue reading →

Black Box is an innovative arts and cognition research project, that is changing the way we understand dance and theatrical performance.

BlackBox – Arts & Cognition

BlackBox is an interdisciplinary ERC-funded project hosted by Universidad Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-UNL) since September 2014, under the direction of Prof. Carla Fernandes as its Principal Investigator. With a wide-breadth duration of 5 years, the BlackBox project aims at developing … Continue reading →

Call for Artists open for the next Athens Digital Arts Festival 2018 - EXTENDED deadline 31 December 2017

SINGULARITY NOW – Tales form the Event Horizon

The 14th Athens Digital Arts Festival exploring the unknown future of the upcoming Technological Apocalypse through art, science and technology, invites you to submit your proposals for its next edition, under the theme “SINGULARITY NOW”. Due to high demand by … Continue reading →

special issue 'Perceiving Cultural Heritage Through Digital Technologies' / EXTENDED deadline 28th February

Call for Papers “Studies in Digital Heritage”, Indiana University journal

The aim of this special issue is to solicit interdisciplinary studies about the complex phenomenon that takes place during the aesthetic and synesthetic involvement of a human observer in the perception of Cultural Heritage and art mediated by virtual and … Continue reading →

Beijing (China), 13-14 September 2018

CHCD – International Symposium on Cultural Heritage Conservation and Digitization

Organized by THID Tsinghua Heritage Institution for Digitalization in Beijing, this biannual event had attracted so far foreign experts from over 30 countries and regions promoting a tradition of international collaboration and exchange on the theme of cultural heritage, digital … Continue reading →

The Jury will select 1 winner and 2 honorable mentions for each category, out of which the

ITS LIQUID international contest 2017: application deadline 1st December 2017

ITS LIQUID Group, a communication platform for contemporary art, architecture and design, is proud to present ITS LIQUID International Contest – 5th Edition 2017. The contest is a great opportunity to present your works in galleries and art spaces in the most influential cities … Continue reading →

led by Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne University, this course starting mid-January 2018 provides a wide overview of tourism issues at UNESCO World Heritage Sites

“Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites”, a new online course, free and open

This MOOC “Tourism Management at UNESCO World Heritage Sites”, produced by the UNESCO-UNITWIN Network “Culture, Tourism, and Development”, provides an introduction to tourism at UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Moving from UNESCO’s principles and doctrines, the MOOC covers Communication Technologies, Economy, Management and … Continue reading →

3D laser scanning and other advanced technologies are the tools for fighting Heritage sites' loss

CyArk 500 Challenge: digital preservation of top archaeologic sites

The CyArk 500 Challenge has the ambitious goal to digitally preserve 500 cultural heritage sites within the next five years. Heritage sites are a significant part of our collective memory and we are losing them at an alarming rate, due … Continue reading →