Digital meets Culture

Barcelona (Catalunia, Spain), 8 – 10 November 2018

An innovative and forward thinking event in the digital arts and music spheres, MIRA Digital Arts Festival have curated it’s most impressive bill for it’s 8th edition, with a fresh set of names this week. From Thursday 8th – Saturday 10th November, MIRA returns to Fabra i Coats (a refurbished factory turned cultural space) for three days of performances, exhibitions, conferences and more from industry leaders and breakout acts. Just announced, Thursday 8th will play host to the opening concert with WARP records’ GAIKA making his Spanish debut with a live A/V show, and seminal label/ agency PAN hosting a showcase with Amnesia Scanner As Oracle Live A/V, M.E.S.H. feat. Michael Guidetti Live A/V, Eartheater Live + more. In addition to a whole host of talks, workshops and Q&A’s from Claire Tolan, Filip Custic and Keiken with more TBA. On top of this, MIRA will be holding an official afters at Razzmatazz with Objekt, Mr TC (Live), Tutu, Omega III and Djohnston. All this adding to an already existing line-up with live A/V sets Tangerine Dream, Venetian Snares x Daniel Lanois, Yves Tumor feat. Ezra Miller and DJ sets from Avalon Emerson, Call Super, DJ Stingray and many more.

Two day passes are available from €55 and three day passes are €70, do not sleep on this. TICKETS: http://www.mirafestival.com/en/tickets/

THURSDAY CONCERTS – Thursday 8th November

MIRA’s opening concert brings together a futuristic line-up of well established and upcoming artists. Curating the first half of the evening is PAN, celebrating 10 years of the label; bringing along an eclectic selection of artists to demonstrate why the collective is so special, including Amnesia Scanner making her Spanish premiere presenting As Oracle Live A/V. Also on board is breakout name M.E.S.H. with Michael Guidetti on visual duties, Eartheater performing a live set around new release IRISIRI. Fresh from his Basic Volume album launch and Somerset House collaboration with Boiler Room, multi-disciplinary WARP signee GAIKA brings a high-energy, immersive A/V show to MIRA’s opening event – a guaranteed must see.

Website: https://www.mirafestival.com/en/

Save the date: 9 October 2018, Hodász Roma Country House, Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg, Hungary

Preservation, re-use and management of Roma cultural heritage: REACH Local Encounter

The REACH project (H2020 CULT-COOP-06-2017) contributes to unlock the potential of people to engage in culture and cultural heritage in order to foster creativity and innovation and, thereby, to empower citizens to face the immense and rapid changes taking place in Europe and Beyond. The pilot project in Hungary is focusing on the largest transnational minority group in Europe, the Roma communities. The aim of the minority heritage pilot is to show how the institutionalisation of their (re)appropriated Cultural Heritage can result in their economic and social revival and it is organized on the basis of a close cooperation between the researchers of Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest and the representatives of various cultural institutions who are working on different aspects of Roma culture and art.
The aim of this local encounter is to discover together what participatory tools and methods are available to preserve, re-interpret and manage the Hungarian Roma cultural heritage, also in order to sustain it for the younger generations. The already existing best practices may help us to understand what advantages and difficulties arise in the practice of making a democratic and accessible heritage.

The host of the event is the Roma Country House in Hodász, founded in 2001, which is the first similar institution in Hungary. The country house, located in an extremely deprived sub-region in North-Eastern Hungary is not only undertaking an eminent role in preserving the Roma traditions but also in local community-building and in ensuring diverse artistic and professional activities to the children and teenagers of the village.
The representatives of Roma cultural institutions, together with local and national actors of tourism and cultural economy are aiming to tackle the question of long-term economic sustainability of those initiatives that are concerned with the preservation of the mostly invisible Roma heritage.

When: 9 October 2018, 12.00 AM-5.00 PM

Where: Hodász Roma Country House, 4334 Hodász, Ady Endre Street 26

Host: Melinda Rézműves, director of the Roma Country House in Hodász

Participants of the REACH project, organizers: Eszter György and Gábor Oláh (Eötvös Loránd University, Atelier Department for European Historiography and Social Sciences)

Participants:
István Gábor Molnár, president of Roma Minority Self-Government, Újpest; founder and director of Roma Local History Collection, Újpest
Fanny Hajdú, production manager, Pro Progressione
Balázs Váradi, architect
Rita Szerencsés, project manager, MOME EcoLab
Natália Oszkó-Jakab, director, Valley of Arts Festival

Programme

12.00 AM-1.00 PM: introduction and visit of the Country House and the Community Building

1.00 PM-2.00 PM: lunch

2.00 PM-4.00 PM: round-table about the questions of sustainability of the Roma cultural heritage. Introduction of the present best practices (what is the profile of the cultural initiative, what are the difficulties that arise in practice; aspects of economic sustainability, the possibilities of touristic involvement)

Toronto (Canada), 15-20 March 2019

Digital Arts Services Symposium 2019

The question of how the arts will thrive in an increasingly digital world transcends conventional borders. ArtsPond is pleased to announce the vision of the second Digital Arts Services Symposium 2019 (DASSAN19) in Toronto, Canada. With a theme of “All digits on deck”, global communities of arts and technology enthusiasts are invited to Toronto to activate and manifest a shared digital future from March 15-20, 2019.

The goals for DASSAN19 are to promote cross-sectoral alliances while bolstering digital literacy and delving deeper into the design of collective solutions that reflect the diverse realities of artists and professionals working across disciplinary silos. Through a wide array of activities, DASSAN19 provides opportunities to learn from inspirational stories, engage in critical reflection, and strive for practical transformation for the locally and globally-minded.

Whether you are you a functioning technophobe, a budding digital innovator, or a grey-haired geek, DASSAN19 is made for you. Save the date for featured events including a bootcamp for fledgling digital devotees (March 15-17, 2019), plus spirited international dialogues and industry exchanges during the main Symposium (March 18-20, 2019). Delegates can anticipate compelling discussions on topics such as applications of open source, open data, and machine learning platforms, the evolution of collective governance alternatives for digital arts services such as platform coops, new directions in funding the digital transformation of the arts, uprooting gaps in digital literacy, and much more.

Eager to engage? Early-bird discounts are available for a limited time. Have some digital knowledge to share? Calls for proposals are open now. More detailed programming announcements will be released throughout Fall 2018. Keep up with the latest news via the hashtag #DASSAN19, visit DigitalASO.ca for more information, or get in touch at hello@DigitalASO.ca or +1 (647) 479 4260 (24-hour voicemail).

DASSAN19 is proudly presented by ArtsPond in association with Agilo Arts and BeMused Network, with generous funding from Canada Council for the Arts’ Digital Strategy Fund.

See you in Toronto in 2019!

Save the date: 26th-28th November 2018, Bonn, Germany

Let’s talk about Open Data! SWIB Conference 2018

Registration’s opened for joining the SWIB conference (Semantic Web in Libraries): the annual meeting, being held for the 10th time, focusing on Linked Open Data (LOD) in libraries and related organizations. It is well established as an event where IT staff, developers, librarians, and researchers from all over the world meet and mingle and learn from each other. The topics of talks and workshops at SWIB revolve around opening data, linking data and creating tools and software for LOD production scenarios. These areas of focus are supplemented by presentations of research projects in Applied Sciences, Industry Applications, Semantically Enhanced Data Publication, Searching Information Retrieval.
As usual, SWIB18 is organized by the ZBW – German National Library of Economics / Leibniz Information Centre for Economics and the North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Centre (hbz). The conference language is English.

Website: http://swib.org/swib18
Hashtag: #swib18
Twitter: @swibcon

Beijing (China), 5-24 September 2018

Beijing Media Art Biennale (BMAB) 2019: “Post Life”

The 2nd Beijing Media Art Biennale (BMAB) in 2018 is running September 5 to 24 at CAFA Art Museum. BMAB is funded by China National Art Fund, organized by China Academy of Fine Arts and co-sponsored by the CAFA School of Design ,the CAFA School of Experimental Art, and CAFA Art Museum. As an international academic platform aimed at promoting the intersection of art and technology, the 2018 BMAB is centered on the theme of “Post Life” and comprises six parts: the main exhibition, Lab Space, Hyperlinks Exhibition, live performances, thematic forums, and workshops. The event will also include interdisciplinary experiments in the art and technology fields, with an aim to facilitate in-depth discussions between artists, designers, scientists, and theorists.

If the topic Ethics of Technology last year discussed what we should contemplate and introspect at the epistemological level under the pressing and disturbing mystery of New Theology of Technology, the theme of Post-Life covered in the Biennial this year will explore not only at the epistemological level but also discuss whether we, as post-life, when prompted by new technology to revalue the relationship between ourselves and other species. Do we have the courage to decentralize ourselves?

So Kanno, Takahiro Yamaguchi – Senseless Drawing Bot

The main exhibition comprises three parts: “Data Life”, “Mechanical Life”, and “Synthesized Life”; all focused on trying to determine what life is as seen from the different points of view of: virtual life brought into existence by computer algorithms, bionic life brought into existence by machinery, and hard-to-define synthetic life. The exhibits will belong to categories such as videos, interactive installations, immersive art, biological art, mechanical installations, audiovisual art, Internet art, sound art, mixed media, and others.

As another section in BMAB2018—the “Art and Technology” Lab Space, which aims to build a platform where artistic creation and cutting-edge Science and Technology Studies can exchange ideas and cooperate. It is also set to introduce research topics and practices by interdisciplinary research laboratories across the world that related to the theme of “Post Life” and present the accomplishments on future life realized on the basis of interdisciplinary cooperation.

Website: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/sEnXUfEanEMAocyEOBqNGw

Rome, 29th August-1st September 2018

14^ edition of the EAUH Conference: Urban Renewal and Resilience. Cities in Comparative Perspective

From August 29th to September 1st, took place in Rome the 14th International Conference on Urban History organized by the European Association for Urban History.
The event, titled “Urban Renewal and Resilience. Cities in Comparative Perspective”, was introduced by the President of the EAUH Association, Prof. Carlo Travaglini and represented a great occasion for reflect on international dynamic systems and face the theme of the history of European cities. Particulary attention was dedicated to the Mediterranean,”considered a political and cultural issue, requiring serious efforts and commitment in the scientific and cultural domain”.
As the past EAUH conferences, also the last one held in Rome was characterized by the longue durée, the multidisciplinarity and the presence of not only European cities.
The event was planned in several and variegated sections which provided the occasion for the scientific community to debate and compare experiences in a multidisciplinary forum: historians, geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, art and architectural historians, planners and other scholars working on various aspects of urban history discussed new directions in the field, conducting and stimulating comparative researches, setting the bases for future collaborative projects and publications.

Stirling (Scotland), 8-20 October 2018

DigiFest, a festival highlighting the use of technology to preserve and explore the past

ENGINE SHED announces festival showcasing digital innovation in the heritage sector: Scotland’s dedicated building conservation centre will host programme highlighting the use of ground-breaking technology to preserve and explore the past. DigiFest will also incorporate two-day international conference featuring high-profile industry experts from across the globe.

Robbie Coombes (14) and James Hoskins (15) with Dorothy Hoskins (Technical Outreach and Education Manager at the Engine Shed) for the announcement of Historic Environment Scotland’s DigiFest, a festival to showcase digital innovation in the heritage sector taking place at The Engine Shed, Stirling 8 to 20 October 2018. More info from Fergus.Reid@smartscommunicate.com, 0141 222 2040

STIRLING – 29 August 2018: Historic Environment Scotland (HES) today unveiled the programme for a digital heritage festival, a first for Scotland.

Taking place from Monday 8 to Saturday 20 October 2018 at The Engine Shed, Scotland’s dedicated building conservation centre in Stirling, DigiFest will highlight Scotland as a global leader in digital innovation in the heritage sector. Aimed at schools, professionals, families and young people, it will feature a range of free events and activities allowing visitors to explore the latest technologies in areas including 3D modelling and printing, augmented reality, virtual reality, gaming, animation, robotics and coding.

The festival will also incorporate DigiDoc, a two-day international conference running from 11-12 October, and the DigiDoc Research and Innovation Day which takes place on Wednesday 10 October.

Showcasing ground-breaking technology, DigiDoc features an impressive speaker line-up of academics and high-profile industry experts from organisations such as Google, the Smithsonian Institution and gaming giant Ubisoft, and is expected to attract professionals in the technology and heritage sectors from across the globe. A selection of speakers will also participate in the DigiFest programme, along with the Engine Shed’s own team of experts.

Dorothy Hoskins, Technical Outreach and Education Manager at the Engine Shed, said: “While advances in technology are allowing us to conserve, monitor and care for our historic sites and buildings with ever-increasing efficiency and effectiveness, these same innovations are also making Scotland’s heritage more accessible than ever. New online platforms and developments in digital technologies are enabling people to inspect historic sites and artefacts from anywhere in the world, while a combination of digital documentation and animation allows for accurate recreation of historic environments which can be explored through gaming. Virtual reality can further bring such environments to life, creating immersive and illuminating experiences that transport the user into the past. We are very excited to be launching our first ever DigiFest, which aims to encourage the people of Scotland and beyond to embrace this opportunity to explore the historic environment in new and innovative ways, and look forward to welcoming some of the top pioneers in the fields of technology and heritage to share their knowledge and insight.”

Robbie Coombes (14) testing Assasins Creed video game for the announcement of Historic Environment Scotland’s DigiFest, a festival to showcase digital innovation in the heritage sector taking place at The Engine Shed, Stirling 8 to 20 October 2018. More info from Fergus.Reid@smartscommunicate.com, 0141 222 2040

DigiFest will offer a range of activities for visitors to get involved in, including demos of action-adventure video game Assassin’s Creed and the chance to hear more about the technologies behind it from the game’s historical researcher, and robot races with Sphero SPRK, a robot toy which teaches children how to code.

There will also be a masterclass on the history of animation, from Stop Motion to the latest Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI), with leading animation and visual effects company Tippett Studio, whose credentials include sequences in the Star Wars, Harry Potter and Twilight franchises. Visitors inspired by the talk can make their own Stop Motion animation films.

In addition to the diverse programme of talks and workshops, DigiFest will see the creation of a “Digital Village” outside the Engine Shed. This will include an immersive reality walk-in dome pioneered by digital content producer Soluis, which facilitates highly immersive VR experiences by enveloping the users’ full field of vision and utilising surround sound.

Ben Mitchell (10) and Ellie Mitchell (6) inspecting a 3D printed model of the Duppland Cross for the announcement of Historic Environment Scotland’s DigiFest, a festival to showcase digital innovation in the heritage sector taking place at The Engine Shed, Stirling 8 to 20 October 2018. More info from Fergus.Reid@smartscommunicate.com, 0141 222 2040

Launched by Historic Environment Scotland in July 2017 as a central hub for building and conservation professionals and the general public, The Engine Shed has seen a highly successful opening year, welcoming over 15,000 visitors and winning a number of awards. The establishment of a public-facing facility, which includes a large scale interactive map allowing visitors to explore over 2000 years of Scotland’s history through the power of augmented reality, aims to engage the next generation with our historic environment and the value of protecting and preserving it.

Delivered by Historic Environment Scotland and supported by Stirling Council, DigiDoc is sponsored by Leica Geosystems, a leading provider of premium 3D laser scanning equipment and services, and DigiFest is sponsored by Creative Scotland.

The full programme for DigiFest and DigiDoc, along with pricing information for the conference and research and innovation day can be viewed at the website: https://www.engineshed.scot/digifest-2018/

DigiFest programme available here.

DigiDoc programme available here.

registration is still open for the event to take place in Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts, 24-27 September

Going to iPRES2018, the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation

We are excited to share the detailed schedule – with information about every session – for iPRES2018, the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation. We are using the Open Science Framework (OSF) platform to make the full conference proceedings available – including slides, papers, poster images, workshop materials, panel questions, session notes, and supplementary materials.

We are pleased to see many people registering for iPRES 2018. There is still time to register if you haven’t: https://ipres2018.org/registration. If a full registration doesn’t work for you, you can select a workshop-only registration for Monday or register for select days or activities. If you have any questions, please contact our Registration Team.

Some tuition support is still available for underrepresented students and first-time attendees – see the registration page for details.

There are rolling submissions and acceptances for ad hoc programming, including the first digital preservation game room, original digital preservation graphics, lightning sessions, and other programming – spots are filling up and additional information is available here.

Our iPRES 2018 Code of Conduct with our response framework is posted and we welcome your feedback.

Looking forward to seeing you in September,

With warm regards,

the iPRES 2018 Organizing Team

email: ipres2018contributions@gmail.com

Las Vegas, Nevada (US), 2-3 May 2019

Computer Vision Conference (CVC) 2019

The Computer Vision Conference builds on previous SAI conferences and aims to become a major point of contact between researchers, academic faculty, students, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Machine Vision, Image Processing, Data Science and Pattern Recognition, both from theoretical and application perspectives.

Join us, May 2-3, to explore discovery, progress, and achievements related to Machine Vision, Image Processing, Data Science and Pattern Recognition. The participants will benefit from direct interaction and discussions with world leaders in Computer Vision.

Call for papers was open until 15 August: participants will have the opportunity to present the results of their research, and benefit from direct interaction with their scientific peers, in a friendly and constructive environment. The conference will feature keynote speakers, paper presentations, technical interviews, and posters from industry and academia.

Complete details are available on the conference website : http://saiconference.com/CVC

CVC 2019 proceedings will be published in Springer series “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” and submitted for indexing to ISI Proceedings, EI-Compendex, DBLP, SCOPUS, Google Scholar and Springerlink. The publications within “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing” are primarily proceedings of important conferences, symposia and congresses. They cover significant recent developments in the field, both of a foundational and applicable character.

Cyprus, 29 October – 3 November 2018

7th EUROMED 2018 conference – Progress in Cultural Heritage e-Documentation, Preservation and Protection

The 7th biannual European-Mediterranean (EUROMED) conference brings together researchers, policy makers, professionals, fellows and practitioners to explore some of the more pressing issues concerning Cultural Heritage today. In particular, the main goal of the conference is to focus on interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research on tangible and intangible Cultural Heritage, using cutting edge technologies for the protection, restoration, preservation, massive digitalization, documentation and presentation of the Cultural Heritage contents. At the same time, the event is 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 cooperation with the European Commission, the EU Parliament, the EU Member States Expert Group on Digital Heritage & Europeana, ICOMOS, the EU Digital Library Europeana and the EU Projects DARIAH-EU Research Infrastructure on e-Humanities and Art, ViMM: Virtual Museums, INCEPTION, the COST Action Innovation in Intelligent Management of Heritage Buildings and others more…

http://www.euromed2018.eu

Panel Discussion on Looting and Destruction of CH with prominent professionals from UNESCO, ICOM, ICOMOS, Interpol, Google Institute, etc

Workshops – Open to all participants:

The European Commission’s Workshop on how digital technologies can contribute to the preservation and restoration of Europe’s most important and endangered cultural heritage sites:
– Which technologies need to be developed to allow the creation a digital replica which must be of such definition and detail enabling their use for research and future preservation and reconstruction of damaged artefacts or sites?
– Which standards needs to be agreed upon so that the digitised material will be accessible (long term) to all through a single access point, also providing access to complementary material (images, books, descriptions, drawings) illustrating the cultural and historic significance of the sites.
The 4th International Workshop on 3D Research Challenges in Cultural Heritage, focusing on novel technologies in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality as well as in the holistic documentation of the past (such as monuments in HBIM, etc).
H2020 – COST Joint Session: How to overcome the fragmentation in Cultural Heritage research and funding in the context of Horizon Europe?
https://goo.gl/XTdUTL
H2020 – VIMM: Investing in the future of our Digital Cultural Heritage: The EU Horizon 2020 CSA ViMM Roadmap
https://goo.gl/HfWc84
H2020 – INCEPTION Workshop: the latest developments in the area of 3D holistic documentation in cultural heritage.
https://goo.gl/iJbZJX
H2020 – CrossCult: Cultural informatics research and applications: State of the art and open challenges
https://goo.gl/PTQ83q
Europeana Transcribathon 1914-1918 in Cyprus: one-of-a-kind competition where participants come together to transcribe and annotate as many letters, diaries and other digitised documents as possible from the online archive, Europeana 1914-1918.
https://goo.gl/axf7gE

Topics and themes:

Researchers and practitioners willing to participate to the EUROMED 2018 conference were invited to submit papers on original works addressing the following subjects and research themes:

i) DIGITAL HERITAGE DOCUMENTATION and PRESERVATION

ii) PROTECTION, RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION OF TANGIBLE AND INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

A total of 537 papers have been submitted and reviewed for the EuroMed2018 conference, of which ca. 25% have been accepted.

The conference registration are now open with preliminary agenda: http://www.digitalmeetsculture.net/article/euromed-2018-registrations-are-now-open/

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Some important information for travelling to Cyprus:

1. Venue of the conference: Filoxenia International Conference Center in Nicosia, Cyprus http://www.fcc.com.cy/ (Google Maps: https://goo.gl/p9tqcP)

2. Traveling to Cyprus and from the airports to Nicosia: https://www.euromed2018.eu/index.php/travelling-cyprus

3. Travelling in Nicosia by BUS:
a) https://itunes.apple.com/cy/app/cyprus-bus/id1384885081?mt=8 (App store)
b) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.gmv.cyprusbus2 (Android)

4. Hotel accommodation in Nicosia: https://www.euromed2018.eu/index.php/accommodation

5. About Cyprus: http://www.aspectsofcyprus.com/ and Cyprus Tourism Organization: http://www.visitcyprus.com/index.php/en/