Digital meets Culture

a new project financed by EU will realize 10 pop-up exhibitions of cultural heritage across Europe!

REvivEU is a project financed by the EU in the framework of the European Year of Cultural Heritage. The objective is to realize a series of pop-up exhibitions across 2019 in various European cities, to celebrate the diversity of European cultural heritage and to empower citizens in a more participative approach to cultural heritage. The exhibitions will be co-created joining institutional cultural heritage with crowdsourced stories and personal items. Each exhibition will be mixed physical-digital and highly interactive for the visitors, including a contest for the best cultural items presented in the exhibitions. The most voted crowdsourced item in each city will grant the holder a trip to Brussels for participating in the final event of REvivEU.

10 European cities – Cultural heritage and local history – Co-creation and crowdsourcing

Discover the event in your city, and join in to share the stories from your family and add your bit of family heritage to the bigger picture of European history. And you can win a trip to Brussels to the great final party of REvivEU in February 2020. WeAre#EuropeForCulture

AMSTERDAM / BUDAPEST / SOFIA / HELSINKI / KRAKOW / BASEL / VILNIUS / PISA / GIRONA / CYPRUS / FINAL EVENT

REvivEU team

KU Leuven: Content coordination
Photoconsortium: Networking and exhibition coordination
Noterik: Technical coordination

MORE INFO: http://www.photoconsortium.net/reviveu-home/

Save the date: 17-18 January 2019, Milan

TRACES project Final Conference: Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts

TRACES, Transmitting Contentious Cultural Heritages with the Arts: From Intervention to Co-Production will conclude its three years research programme with a two-day event conference in Milan, next January. The symposium is conceived to provide a critical overview on the main findings and results ensuing from the investigations and the Creative Co-productions developed within the project, as well as to foster the critical debate about the transmission of contentious heritages and the process of Reflexive Europeanisation. The meeting intends to promote an inter-disciplinary and forward-looking discussion aimed at opening new perspectives based on the Project outcomes.
The Simposia will culminate in the opening of TRACES final exhibition,Contentious Objects/Ashamed Subjects, curated by Suzana Milevska at the Politecnico di Milano.

TRACES is funded in 2016 by the European Commission as part of the Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme. The main topic of the project is to investigate the challenges and opportunities raised when transmitting complex pasts and the role of difficult heritage in contemporary Europe.

Venue of the conference:
17 January 2019: MUDEC-Museo delle Culture, Milan
18 January 2019: Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Exhibition:
18 January- 6 February 2019 Galleria del Progetto, Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Get more information about TRACES conference and the exhibition

3-4 December 2018, Huelva (Spain).

REACH at the Faro Convention research-action workshop

The second Faro Convention research-action workshop “Cross-fertilization roads between Heritage and Participatory Citizenship” took place in Huelva (Spain) the 3-4 December.

It focused on the actual organization of “heritage communities” to both manage such enlarged “cultural heritage” and participate effectively in its governance. Involving both civil society (heritage communities) and academia (Universities), it discussed the various governance models and practices most adapted in achieving Faro Convention values and principals, taking into account the various specific contexts.

Dr. Gábor Oláh research assistant at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) presented REACH project at the workshop and hosted the world café table on social cohesion and integration.

Programme and information here.

The Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (2005) has been ratified by 17 member states of the Council of Europe and signed by 6. It is a powerful, innovative and democratic tool for facing complex social and cultural challenges. Likewise, the Faro Convention Action Plan is designed to translate the Faro Convention principles into practice through an active learning platform (the Faro Convention Network) to build on good practices and to generate dynamic dialogue among practitioners, facilitators and heritage stakeholders.

The event took place in Girona and included presentations, keynotes and workshops from Europe and beyond.

I&R conference as one benchmark event for professionals in photography and audiovisual

During the third week of November (from 21 to 24) it was held a new edition of the Image and Research Conference, organized by the Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI) of the Girona City Council with the collaboration of the Association of Archivists of Catalonia and promoted by ICA. In that edition, around 150 people attended representing eighteen different countries. The Image and Research Conference held its fifteenth year, and after 28 years, it has become the one if the benchmark events in Europe for professionals involved in photography and audiovisual mainly in the field of archives, preservation, history and document management.

15es Jornades Imatge i Recerca al Palau de Congresso de Girona. Acte d’obertura de les jornades. D’esquerra a dreta, Joan Soler, president de l’Associació d’Arxivers – Gestors de Documents de Catalunya, Narcís Sastre, regidor de Paisatge i Hàbitat Urbà de l’Ajuntament de Girona, Elsa Ibar, directora general de Patrimoni Cultural de la Generalitat de Catalunya i Joan Boadas, director del Centre de Recerca i Difusió de la Imatge.

The Conference started on the 21st with a workshop devoted to photography conservation titled “When the alarms fire, 5 critical aspects for conservation of photography”. The teacher was Fernando Osorio, a well-known conservator of photography of the international scene. Three days later, on the 24th, another workshop took place. In this case, it was devoted to the digitissation of color photography, by Bea Martínez, Chief of Studies at the Center for Image and Multimedia Technology (CITM) of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC).. 45 people attended the workshops.

On the 22nd and 23rd it took place the sessions for papers and presentations that make up the main event of the Conference in the Girona Conference Centre. To highlight the speakers we quote Frederik Temmermans, from Vrije Universiteit (Brussels) and Research Manager at IMEC (Interuniversity Microlectronics Center), who gave a talk about technology and methods for the integrity of digital images. Tomislav Ivanjko, assistant professor at the Department of Information and Communication Sciences (University of Zagreb), dedicated his talk to the gamification of photographic archives, as a way for users engagement. Bea Martínez, the workshop teacher, made a theoretical approach to the digitisation of colour photography. Last, Joan Boadas, Director of CRDI – Girona City Council, explained how to manage a photographic archive and he focused in how to project it towards the future.

15es Jornades Imatge i Recerca. Taller “Quan es disparen les alarmes. 5 aspectes crítics per la conservació de la fotografia” a càrrec del conservador de fotografia Fernando Osorio.

The experiences session was mainly focused on institutions and companies in Latin America in order to better understand the reality of these countries and learn from their experience. Sergio Burgui, from Moreira Salles Institute in Brasil, Daniel Sosa, from Photography Center in Montevideo (Uruguai), and again Fermando Osorio, representing the company Televisa in Mexico, were the representatives of this territory. They made evident the important works that are going on in all these countries. Last, a completely different experience, by Alain Dubois, archivist of canton of Valais, who explained a pilot project at the regional television, using a speech recognition tool.

The program gives also special importance to the debate and participation. On the 23rd it took place a debate about how to engage new audiences in which people talked about the possibilities that the digital media offer to archives, the interactivity with users, the social media and mainly Instagram, the professional creativity, the use of technologies, etc. It was a dialogue between David Iglésias, from CRDI, and Irina González, Master’s in Business Innovation, who provided an innovative and creative point of view.

15es Jornades Imatge i Recerca al Palau de Congressos de Girona. Pausa.

In the section of Conservation, dedicated to the Ángel Fuentes Memorial, CRDI made a presentation of Ángel Fuentes Collection of daguerrotypes, ambrotypes and ferrotypes. It was acquired this year and is one of the most important collections in the country. The conservator of Photography, Josep Pérez, made an assessment of this collection. Fernando Osorio, a colleague of Angel Fuentes in Latin American, gave a more personal approach to this man.

Last, we should mention the session of 23rd afternoon dedicated to papers. 30 papers were presented, from 10 different countries. This makes evident the need to count on this kind of forums to share knowledge and experiences. Once again, the four-days meeting and workshops in Girona was for all of us a good opportunity to be in contact with colleagues with different backgrounds, but with a shared interest: the photographic and audiovisual heritage.

Link to the papers and the photographic reportage:

https://www.girona.cat/sgdap/cat/jornades_properes-ENG.php

Blog and Photos courtesy Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI). Girona City Council

14-16 November 2018, Prague

Outcomes of the International workshop “Resilience of Heritage in Resilient Cities”

In the framework of the Small Towns Heritage Pilot of REACH project, the brainstorming workshop was focused on the definition, conceptualization and application of the term resilience in humanities and social sciences.

The meeting took place at Charles University, Faculty of Arts in mid November. The workshop was very well attended by scholars working in Archeology, Social and Urban History, Literature, Architecture and Urban Planning, Anthropology and Public History. They also represented a variety of linguistic milieux – Italian, English, Finnish, Polish, Slovak and Czech, which influence the usage of the term resilience in scholarly and public discourse. The presentations explored the context of resilience in small towns with rich cultural heritage, contribution of museums, the effect of educational programs carried by community workers trained in anthropology, the chances of activists struggling with extremism through instrumental use of cultural heritage. Participants wish to publish the summary of the discussion and the variety of contributions. Organizers believe that this meeting creates basis for the planned REACH workshop on resilience in April 2020.

More blog on the workshop

Link to the workshop webpage.

An experiment of augmented theatre reality performing in Cagliari (Italy), 14, 15 and 16 December

The Fear devours the Soul

Friday 14th and Saturday 15th h 21:00; Sunday 16th of December 2018 h 18:00

SPAZIO OSC, CAGLIARI – “THE FEAR DEVOURS THE SOUL”

Theatre and New Technologies Performance

outcome of the technological creative residence A.R.T.E – AUGMENTED REALITY EXPERIENCE – international exchange and project by and with KYBER TEATRO (Italy), MINWAL THEATRE COMPANY (Libanon) theatre companies, V.E.I.A Multimedia Association (France), and other artists and performers from Sardinia under 35.

“The Fear devours the Soul” is a reflection about the themes that distinguish these times dictated by the ubiquity of fear as a universal feeling that unites humanity.

An experiment of augmented theatre reality, based on an artistic and technological research that develops through the spectator’s presence and the choices he makes within the performance.

A “bio game”, a theatrical experience on life, in which stage writing and digital imaginary evolve through the use of new technologies, increasing the participation of those who attends at the same time.

After the show of Sunday evening, it will be presented also a conference open to the whole audience and addressed in particular to the small and medium cultural and artistical companies or show business enterprises, about the results of the project called A.R.T.E and the experience of augmented theatre reality we have done in this artistical technological residence.

FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/295596347741850/

Website: http://www.kyberteatro.it/residenze-art-tech.asp

Almaty (Khazakstan), 19-23 August 2019

15th International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies / PaCT-2019

Sponsored by Russian Ministry of Education and Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Foundation for Basic Research

We are glad to announce the 15th International Conference on Parallel Computing Technologies (PaCT-2019). The Conference is to be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, August 19-23, 2019.

The Conference is jointly organized by the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics (Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia), Novosibirsk State National Research University, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (Almaty, Kazakhstan), and University of International Business (Almaty).

The aim of the PaCT-2019 is to give an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel computing technologies. We sincerely hope that the conference will help our community to deepen understanding of parallel computing technologies by providing a forum for an exchange of views between scientists and specialists from all over the world. We welcome your active participation.

WEBSITE: http://ssd.sscc.ru/conference/pact2019/

MAIN TOPICS

All technological aspects of the applications of parallel computer systems
High level parallel programming languages and systems
Methods and tools for parallel solution of large-scale problems
Languages, environments and software tools supporting parallel processing
Operating systems, scheduling, mapping, load balancing
General architectural concepts
Cellular automata
Performance measurement and analysis tools
Active knowledge and program construction
Software for grid and cloud computing
Scalable computing
Fragmentation and aggregation of algorithms and programs
Programs assembling and reuse
Distributed algorithms

CALL FOR PAPERS – extended deadline 31 March 2019

Original papers are solicited for the conference. All contributions will be reviewed by the international Program Committee. Authors will be notified of acceptance by April 15, 2019. We will require camera-ready full papers by May 26, 2019.

In order to submit a paper or just indicate your interest in the PaCT-2019, please register at the site of the conference http://ssd.sscc.ru/conference/pact2019and follow the instructions which you will find there. A paper submission system will be activated on the 10th of December, 2018. If you face any difficulties using this site, please contact the Secretary (pact2019@ssd.sscc.ru). Only electronic submission of manuscripts is possible.

The first page should include (but not be limited to) the following information: title, authors’ full names, affiliation, addresses, telephone numbers, e-mail addresses. To gain the better understanding of your abstract, we also request to include the following information: short review of related papers, formulation of the problem, objectives, description of results, main ideas, and list of references.

The organizers expect that the authors of selected papers will present their work at the Conference. Proposals for workshops and 1/2 and full day tutorials will be considered.

The Conference Proceedings are planned to be published as the volume of the Springer Verlag LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series and distributed at the Conference. We plan also to publish selected papers in a special issue of an indexed international journal. The official language of the Conference is English.

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission of the full paper: February 17, 2019
Deadline for extended abstracts: March 3, 2019
Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2019
Camera-ready version of the accepted paper: May 26, 2019

CONTACT INFORMATION

NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA

Prof. Victor Malyshkin

PaCT-2019 Organizing Committee

Phone: +7 (383) 330-89-94

Supercomputer Software Department

ICM&MG, Russian Academy of Sciences

Pr. Lavrentieva, 6

630090, Novosibirsk, RUSSIA

E-mail: pact2019@ssd.sscc.ru

PaCT-2019 Web pages: http://ssd.sscc.ru/conference/pact2019

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Victor Malyshkin, professor, head of the Supercomputer Software Department, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman

Darkhan Akhmed-Zaki, president of the University of International Business, professor at al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Sergey Abramov, head of the Program Systems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Farhad Arbab, head of Foundations of Software Technology Cluster, Leids University Foundation professor, Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science & Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science, Netherlands

Jan Baetens, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bioinformatics, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium

Stefania Bandini, director of Complex Systems & Artificial Intelligence Research Center, director of the PhD School in Computer Science, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Olga Bandman, professor, Supercomputer Software Department, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Thomas Casavant, director of the UI Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, director of the ECE Parallel Processing Laboratory, professor, University of Iowa, USA

Pierpaolo Degano, professor of the Department of Computer Science, director of the PhD program in Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy

Dominique Deserable, head of the research group “Cellular Automata in Hydrogeomechanics”, Laboratory of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (LGCGM), National Institute for Applied Sciences, Rennes, France

Victor Gergel, professor, dean of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics department, Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod

Bernard Goossens, professor, University of Perpignan, France

Sergei Gorlatch, professor of Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science, University of Muenster, Germany

Yuri G. Karpov, head of Department of Distributed Computing and Computer Networks, St.Petersburg State Polytechnical University, Russia

Alexey Lastovetsky, founding director of the Heterogeneous Computing Laboratory, senior lecturer, School of Computer Science and Informatics, University College Dublin, Ireland

Jie Li, professor, Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Thomas Ludwig, director of German Climate Computing Center, professor, University of Hamburg, Germany

Giancarlo Mauri, director of Department of Computer Science, Systems and Communications, professor, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Igor Menshov, Keldysh Institute for Applied Mathematics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Nikolay Mirenkov, special honorary professor, University of Aizu, Japan

Marcin Paprzycki, associate professor, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

Dana Petcu, director of Institute e-Austria Timisoara, professor at Computer Science Department, West University of Timisoara, Romania

Viktor Prasanna, director of the Center for Energy Informatics, executive director of USC-Infosys Center for Advanced Sogftware Technologies, professor, University of Southern California, USA

Michel Raynal, professor of Computer Science, Research Institute in Computer Science and Random Systems, Rennes, France

Bernard Roux, director of Research at CNRS, professor, Laboratoire de Mecanique, Modelisation & Procedes Propres, National Center for Scientific Research, France

Waleed W. Smari, Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Ohio, USA

Uwe Schwiegelshohn, professor of computer engineering, TU Dortmund University, Germany

Victor Toporkov, professor, head of the Department of Computer Engineering, National Research University “Moscow Power Engineering Institute”, Russia

Carsten Trinitis, professor, head of the research group “Parallel and Distributed Architectures”, head of system administration, Technical University of Munich, Germany, professor for Distributed Computing, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Roman Wyrzykowski, head of the Institute of Computer and Information Sciences, director of Metropolitan Area Network, professor of Computer Science, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland

The World is a Hologram - Deadline for submissions is on 15 of January 2019

*/ 15th Athens Digital Arts Festival | Open Call for Entries

The */ 15th Athens Digital Arts Festival invites you to submit your proposals for its next edition that takes place in spring 2019 in Athens, under the theme “The World is a Hologram”. Deadline for submissions is on 15 of January 2019.

Dating back to antiquity, theories which want us living in a hologram, apart from science fiction can also be endorsed by scientific data. Those who believe in the holographic theory of the universe, support that everything we know in our world is three-dimensional depictions of data, stored in a two-dimensional form somewhere at the edge of our universe. This automatically means that we are all closely bonded with everything around us, as part of one large unity where the present, past, and future coexist simultaneously.

Anything that ever existed, anything that exists, and all that will exist, merged in one unity…

The hologram is often described as a three-dimensional depiction, consisted of two light rays (e.g.laser) while in order to properly work it must be also lighted by a third one. A fundamental feature of holograms is that all data are circulated through the whole, meaning that even if cut in two, still each piece will maintain all information intact. In this case, we will get two identical but complete smaller holograms, proving that this segregation is only fictive.

The scientific community, have found itself in front of a predicament while discovering that whatever gets past the event horizon of a black hole, as it can never leave, gets lost forever when the hole gets disembodied by Hawking Radiation. As a solution, mathematics were able to prove that when data gets pass an event horizon, they also get imprinted on its very surface, allowing them to escape and thus be maintained. This theory was named holographic principle and was considered eligible to be deducted on a universal level, arguing that the whole universe is the hologram reflection of two-dimensional data stored in its very borders.

Later experiments have proven that some subatomic particles under specific circumstances have the ability to communicate with each other instantaneously despite their distance, thus have given to the universe another credence of a hologram. Extending this research, scientists extracted that even the brain works in similar mechanics as memory is not stored in a sole neuron but through the schemes and patterns that the neural stimuli follow while extending throughout the whole brain.

Within the neurons of cosmic memory time does not exist, only ideas…

READ MORE

Detailed information about the submission process and the call for entries is available at the following link: www.adaf.gr

Vienna 6-7 December 2018

REACH project at the Closing Conference of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018

The closing conference of the European Year of Cultural Heritage took place in Vienna, hosted by the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and the European Commission. It started in the morning of the 6th and lasted till the evening of the 7th.

The conference goal was to showcase projects of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 and provide a platform to discuss and take stock of the legacy of the year.
The agenda of the 6th included a showcasing of European projects in the form of a “Walking Conference” in the City Centre of Vienna and for the 7th was planned a cultural policy discussion in the Austria Center Vienna.

REACH joined the event represented by the project coordinator Prof. Neil Forbes, from Coventry University and Dr. Antonella Fresa, network manager.

Follow the progress on social media with #EuropeForCulture and get more information about the event webpage.

SAVE THE DATE - the event takes place in Turin on 21-25 October 2019

VIEW 2019 – call for works is open

#viewconference is glad to announce the official opening of the “VIEW Award 2019”! The short needs to have been made between 1st January 2016 and 15 September 2019. The deadline to submit is the 15th of September. Send it here https://festivals.festhome.com/f/776

SUBMIT YOUR WORK FOR THE VIEW AWARDS 2019 – Our VIEW AWARD CONTEST is now open, with two competitions running:

1) VIEW AWARD: First Prize is 2000 Euros
2) ITALIANMIX: First Prize is a Wacom Tablet

1) VIEW AWARD 2019

VIEW AWARD is open both to professionals and students. If you have made an innovative short using 2D/3D Animation between 1 Jan 2016 to15 September 2019, we want to see it! Submit it to our VIEW AWARD competition. The best short will be evaluated on these categories: best design, best environments and best character.

First Prize: 2.000 Euros.
Maximum Duration: 30 minutes
Deadline to submit: 15 September 2019

We accept both individual and group projects. Each submission should come with a press kit, description of the project, high res images of the work and director(s).

2) ITALIANMIX

Best short by Italian creatives.

Italianmix is dedicated to the work of Italian artists made between 1 Jan 2016 and 15 September 2019. The work can be animated, experimental or documentary. Maximum length is 30 minutes.

First Prize: Wacom Tablet.

We accept both individual and group projects. Each submission should come with a press kit, description of the project, high res images of the work and director(s).

How to participate:

Send us your work via Festhome: https://festivals.festhome.com/f/776

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VIEW AWARD CONTEST 2018 INTERNATIONAL JURY:

Danielle Feinberg, Pixar Animation Studios
Barbara Robertson
Celia Bullwinkel
Glen McIntosh
Max Giovagnoli
Riccardo Russiano, student University of Turin
Bill Watral, Pixar Animation Studios
Carolyn Giardina, Hollywood Reporter
Professor Maria Elena Gutierrez, CEO & Director VIEW Conference/VIEWFEST, President of the Jury

WINNER VIEW AWARD CONTEST 2018 for BEST SHORT

Title: La Noria;
Director: Carlos Baena
Producer: Sasha Korelis: Country of Production: Spain;
Category: Animation; Genre: Horror
Description: “La Noria” film tells of the struggle when finding yourselfin a dark place, that darkness isn’t always what it seems, and that with courage, you can turn something dark into something beautiful.

JURY AWARD FOR BEST STUDENT FILM 2018

Title: “Best Friend,”
Director: David Feliu, Varun Nair, Juliana de Lucca, Nicholas Olivieri, and YI Shen.
Category: Animation
Producer: Gobelins, l’École de l’Image

SPECIAL JURY AWARD 2018: