Digital meets Culture

tradigital, contemporary painting, new media art, digital modernism

Mehran Yazdi, a digital modernist painter in 21’st century

Mehran Yazdi is an international artist from Iran, who is presenting himself as a digital modernist painter in 21’st century. He is active both on the local and international level and already had some exhibitions in Mashhad.

He has been working on abstract digital paintings for more than 10 years and presents a variety of quality artworks of digital art, showing his experiences in making pictures by computer. His works are all untitled, represented in a JPEG file.

His keywords: tradigital, contemporary painting, new media art, digital modernism. The video below shows his recent work.

See more on Artmajeur and Saatchiart.

Amsterdam (The Netherlands), 14 September 2017

workshop “Linked Data quality assessment and improvement – from academia to industry”

There is an unprecedented amount of data on the Web today. However, this data is only as useful as its quality allows it to be. Data Quality is an important topic in companies and organizations that use and/or disseminate large and heterogeneous Linked Datasets. These issues do not only arise in Linked Open Data, but also in Linked Business Data. At the same time, researchers are coping with Linked Data Quality issues as well, and have defined, proposed and evaluated approaches and methodologies for assessing and improving Linked Data quality.

Currently there is not one fool-proof method for dealing with Linked Data Quality issues. This workshop brings together Linked Data experts from different domains, from academia as well as industry, allowing them to share their ideas, approaches, and lessons learnt with one another.
Time: Thursday, September 14, 2017 – 09:00 to 17:30
Place: The Meervaart Theatre in Amsterdam (Room 10)

Linked Data quality assessment and improvement – from academia to industry is a satellite workshop at Semantics 2017 conference in Amsterdam.

Organized by Valentine Charles and Antoine Isaac (Europeana Foundation), Amrapali Zaveri (University of Maastricht), Wouter Beek (VU University Amsterdam), Péter Király (GWDG Göttingen).

Details: https://2017.semantics.cc/satellite-events/linked-data-quality-assessment-and-improvement-academia-industry

Registration (note that registration is possible for workshop only)
https://2017.semantics.cc/prices
Program
09.00-09.15 Welcome and outline of the day
09.15-11.00 Presentations about how Linked Data Quality issues are
encountered and addressed in the following domains:

– Life Science & Health Care, Amrapali Zaveri
– FHIR modeling and standardization, Eric Prud’hommeaux
– Academic Publishing, Elsevier, Véronique Malaisé
– Cultural Heritage, Europeana, Valentine Charles and Antoine Isaac
– Wikidata validation, Andra Waagmeester
– Manufacturing, Semaku, John Walker
– Open Government, Kadaster, Rein van de Veer & Erwin Folmer
– Real Estate, Geo Phy, Dimitris Kontokostas

11.30-12.30 Panel with the presenters
13.30-14.00 The audience will also be invited to share their own experiences with Linked Data Quality in a series of short lightning talks.
14.00-15.00 hands-on activities around a set of existing tools that allow data quality to be analyzed and improved. Tools include LOD Laundromat, Loupe, and Luzzu.
15.30-16.30 Joint session with DBpedia
16.40-17.30 Wrap-up and conclusion of the workshop (recap of the needs
for future work and collaboration.)

Linz (Austria), 7-11 September 2017

ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 2017

September 7-11, 2017, Linz will host an exciting, comprehensive confrontation with the reality and the vision of artificial intelligence. Symposia, exhibitions, performances, workshops and artistic interventions will elaborate in depth on its cultural, psychological, philosophical and spiritual dimensions. Consideration of the essence of a future artificial intelligence created by human beings will also be the point of departure of a process of reflection about ourselves, our weaknesses and strengths—in short, about what makes us human.

The theme of the 2017 Ars Electronica Festival is “Artificial Intelligence – The Other I.” And as the subtitle suggests, we will be focusing our attention beyond the technological and economic horizon to scrutinize cultural, psychological, philosophical and spiritual aspects. From the perspective of a festival dedicated to art, technology and society, Ars Electronica is interested above all in the visions, expectations and fears that we associate with the conception of a future, all-encompassing artificial intelligence.

More info: https://www.aec.at/ai/en/

Dubrovnik, Croatia, 28-30 September 2017

THE BEST IN HERITAGE with IMAGINES

As a result of the long and devoted work of dozens of experts and professional juries, more than 40 major award schemes from around the world announced some 300 prize-winning museum, heritage and conservation projects in 2016. At The Best in Heritage conference, the featured, handpicked selection of the most innovative and inspiring candidates from this accumulation of quality will represent a balanced variety of best practices.

The gathering will consist of two events: IMAGINES, a one day event where multimedia and new technology achievements will be presented; and the core event, with its packed two-day schedule. Over 40 projects from China, the United States, Japan, India, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Russia and Europe will be presented. The conference is a rare international platform where official, private and civil society institutions & actions meet.

The audience, moderators-judges, and the keynote speakers will vote for “The Project of Influence 2017”, for each part of the programme. The two representatives of the winning projects will have the privilege of delivering the key-note speeches at the 2018 conference, and will be invited to present their institutions projects at the EXPONATEC fair in Cologne, in November 2017.

In addition to its global survey of best practices, the conference features rich social and cultural content organised with help of Dubrovnik Museums, Dubrovnik Archives, – all taking place in the Renaissance city centre of Dubrovnik, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The dinner-receptions, all located in the historic palaces, will provide an inspiring and relaxed atmosphere, ideal for networking, discussing potential collaborations and getting to know prize-winning professionals in person.

The conference is organised in partnership with EUROPA NOSTRA & the Endowment Fund of ICOM, with the local partnership of Dubrovnik Museums, the support of the City of Dubrovnik and Ministry of Culture of Croatia, and with sponsorship from Meyvaert Glass Engineering.

Website: https://www.thebestinheritage.com/conference

The Programme

Thursday, 28 September

8.00 – 19.30 Registration for all events in the lobby of Theatre “Marin Držic”

16.00 – 18.00 Guided tour of the Dubrovnik City walls, for all registered participants

Official opening and IMAGINES

Multimedia Hall VISIA – Moderator: Alex Palin

10.00 – 10.10 The Best in Heritage Official Opening

10.10 – 10.30 Keynote address, Joost van der Spek, Tinker Imagineers – IMAGINES Project of Influence winner 2016

10.30 – 10.45 Project i 1: Heritage in Motion / Apps for mobile devices Award

Virtual Architecture Museum: Russia by Vizerra

10.45 – 11.00 Project i 2: 2016 MUSE Awards / Games and Augmented Reality Gold Award

Sydvestjyske Museer: Augmenting the Historic City: Trade and Merchants’ Life in Ribe

11.00 – 11.15 Project i 3: AVICOM 2016 F@IMP Awards / Video Art Prize laureate

Mosman Art Gallery: “SYRIA”

11.15 – 11.30 Project i 4: European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2016

Granaries of Memory

11.30 – 11.45 Project i 5: Museums and the Web GLAMi Awards 2016 / Platinum

AnnoTate

11.45 – 12.00 Project i 6: 2016 MUSE Award for Mobile Application

Brooklyn Museum: ASK Brooklyn Museum

12.00 – 12.15 Project i 7: Heritage in Motion / Best Achievement Award 2016

Provincie Limburg: Limburg 1914-1918, Small Stories From a Great War

12.15 – 12.30 Project i 8: AVICOM / FIAMP 2016 Website and Webart Gold

“The Voyage On Board the Cruiser Dmitrii Donskoi” by Rosphoto

12:30 – 13:30 lunch & coffee

13.30 – 13.45 Project i 9: Heritage in Motion / Websites and Online Content Award 2016

ArchivPortal – D – Building a German Archives Portal by Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg

13.45 – 14.00 Project i 10: Museums and the Web GLAMi Awards 2016 People’s choice

British Art Studies Online Journal

14.00 – 14.15 Project i 11: Museums + Heritage Awards 2016 / Educational Initiative

Historic Royal Palaces, Movie Maker Mission

14.15 – 14.30 Project i 12: 2016 MUSE Award for Video, Film, and Computer Animation

Field Museum: The Switch: A Bill Stanley Story

14.30 – 14.45 Project i 13: MAPDA 2016 / Institution Website Level B Best in Show – Multimedia

Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu Website

14.45 – 15.00 Project i 14: European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2016

Prehistoric Picture Project. Pitoti: Digital Rock-Art in Cambridge

15.00 – 15.10 Vote on the “IMAGINES Project of Influence 2017″

15.10 – 15.30 Closing Remarks

19.30 – 21.00 The Best in Heritage Welcome ceremony in the Theatre “Marin Držić”

With Keynote address by Dr Roberto Nardi, Centro di Conservazione Archeologica Roma – winner of Project of Influence award 2016

21.00 – 23.00 Welcome party in Sponza Palace, Venue courtesy of the Dubrovnik Archives

Friday, 29 September

“Marin Držić” Theatre: Presentations of projects

Morning session moderator: David Fleming

9.30 – 9:55 Project 1: European Museum Forum / Council of Europe Museum Prize 2016

European Solidarity Centre, Gdańsk, Poland

9:55 – 10.20 Project 2: European Museum Academy Micheletti Award 2016

Den Gamle By, Aarhus, Denmark

10.20 – 10.45 Project 3: Chinese Museums Association / Most Innovative Museums of China 2016

Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou, China

10.45- 11.10 Project 4: Estonian Museum Awards 2016 / Best Permanent Exhibition

Estonian National Museum, Tartu, Estonia

11.10 – 11.40 coffee

11.40 – 12.05 Project 5: UNESCO/Jikji Memory of the World Prize 2016

Iberarchivos Programme for the Development of Ibero-American Archives, Madrid , Spain

12.05 – 12.30 Project 6: American Alliance of Museums / Excellence in Exhibition Awards 2016

San Diego Natural History Museum: “Coast to Cactus in Southern California”, San Diego, United States

12.30 – 12.55 Project 7: Portuguese Museum Award 2016

Museu da Misericórdia, Porto, Portugal

13.00 – 15.00 lunch break

Afternoon session moderator: Suay Aksoy

15.00 – 15.25 Project 8: European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2016

Conservation Study of The Village Gostuša, Niš, Serbia

15.25 – 15.50 Project 9: Intermuseum 2016 festival Grand-prix / ICOM Russia Award

State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia

15.50 – 16.15 Project 10: Swedish Museum of the Year 2016 Award

National Museum of Science and Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

16.15 – 16.40 Project 11: Telegraph Family Friendly Museum Award 2016

York Art Gallery, York, United Kingdom

16.40 – 17.10 coffee

17.10 – 17.35 Project 12: European Museum Forum / European Museum of the Year Award 2016

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw, Poland

17.35 – 18.00 Project 13: ServiceIQ 2016 New Zealand Museum Awards / Best Museum Project

Pearson & Associates: Kaiapoi Museum, Kaiapoi, New Zealand

18.00 – 18.25 Project 14: European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2016

Employees and activists of the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

18.25 – 18.45 SPOTLIGHT: Dr An Laishun, Vice President and Secretary General, Chinese Museum Association

“The Development and Innovation in Museums in China”

18.45 – 21.00 free time

21.00 – 23.00 Ethno dinner-party offered by Dubrovnik museums in Rupe Museum

With guided tour of the Rupe Museum 20.00 – 21.00

Saturday, 30 September

“Marin Držić” theatre: Presentations of projects

Morning session moderator: Carl Depauw

9.30 – 9.55 Project 15: European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Awards 2016

Adopt-A-Monument, Tampere, Finland

9.55 – 10.20 Project 16: European Museum Forum / Silletto Prize 2016

Vukovar Municipal Museum, Vukovar, Croatia

10.20 – 10.45 Project 17: Japan Institute of Architects Grand Prix 2016

Oita Prefectural Art Museum, Oita, Japan

10.45 – 11.10 Project 18: Norwegian Museum Of The Year 2016

Vest-Agder Museum, Kristiansand, Norway

11.10 – 11.40 coffee

11.40 – 12.05 Project 19: European Museum Forum / Kenneth Hudson Award 2016

Micropia, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

12.05 – 12.30 Project 20: EU Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2016

Preserving and Promoting Dance Heritage, Berlin, Germany

12.30 – 12.55 Project 21: National Lottery Best Heritage Project 2016

Lion Salt Works, Cheshire, United Kingdom

13.00 – 15.00 lunch break

Afternoon session moderator: Viv Golding

15.00 – 15.25 Project 22: European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award 2016

Wimpole Hall’s Gothic Tower in Wimpole, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom

15.25 – 15.50 Project 23: Museums + Heritage Permanent Exhibition Award 2016

Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh: The Lister Project, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

15.50 – 16.15 Project 24: International Association for Children in Museums / Children in Museums Award 2016

GeoFort, Herwijnen, The Netherlands

16.15 – 16.40 Project 25: Chinese Museums Association / Most Innovative Museums of China 2016

Changzhou Museum, Changzhou, China

16.40 – 17.10 coffee

17.10 – 17.35 Project 26: Museums + Heritage International Award 2016

Horsens Museum and Kvorning Design & Communication, Horsens Prison Museum, Denmark

17.35 – 18.00 Project 27: MAGNA Awards 2016 / Interpretation, Learning & Audience Engagement

Museum Victoria and Princes Hill Primary School: Building Our School Museum, Melbourne, Australia

18.00 – 18.25 Project 28: Soft Power Destination Awards 2016 / Soft Power Organization

Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Canada

18.25 – 18.30 Vote on the “Project of Influence 2017” by the audience and moderators

18.30 – 21.00 free time

21.00 – 23.00 Closing ceremony, Dinner and farewell party in Rector’s palace

With guided tour of the Cultural History Museum 20.00 – 21.00

Sunday, 1 October

The Post Conference Excursion by bus (only upon reservation)

THE CITY OF KOTOR (UNESCO World Heritage Site) and THE BAY OF KOTOR (MONTENEGRO)

Facet Publishing have announced the release of Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage by Gill Hamilton and Fred Saunderson.

new book: Making the case for open licensing in cultural heritage institutions

In the digital era, libraries, archives, museums and galleries are no longer constrained by the physical limitations of their buildings, analogue books, manuscripts, maps, paintings and artefacts. Cultural collections now can be safely distributed and shared globally. To ensure that the benefits of this ability to share are realised, cultural institutions must endeavour to provide free and open access to their digital collections. The tool for achieving this is open licensing.

Featuring real-world case studies from diverse education and heritage organizations, Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage digs into the concept of ‘open’ in relation to intellectual property. It explores the organizational benefits of open licensing and the open movement, including the importance of content discoverability, arguments for wider collections impact and access, the practical benefits of simplicity and scalability, and more ethical and principled arguments related to the protection of public content and the public domain.

The authors said, “Openly sharing our knowledge, experience, content and culture for free is not a new concept. Sharing is an innate and natural part of our human character. Forward looking, inclusive, modern, relevant cultural heritage organizations must play a central role in supporting free, open access to culture at a global level. This is possible, practical and achievable with considered and informed application of an open licensing framework. Our book will provide readers with the insight, knowledge, and confidence to make a case for and implement an open licensing approach.”

Open Licensing for Cultural Heritage, Aug 2017, 240pp.

paperback: 9781783301850 | £64.95 |

hardback: 9781783301867 | £129.95 |

eBook: 9781783302505

Gill Hamilton is Digital Access Manager at the National Library of Scotland where she leads on access to the Library’s extensive digital collections, and oversees its resource discovery and library management systems.

Fred Saunderson is the National Library of Scotland’s Intellectual Property Specialist where he has responsibility for providing copyright and intellectual property advice and guidance, as well as coordinating licensing and re-use procedures.

The book is published by Facet Publishing and is available from Bookpoint Ltd | Tel: +44 (0)1235 827702 | Fax: +44 (0)1235 827703 | Email: facet@bookpoint.co.uk | Web: www.facetpublishing.co.uk. | Mailing Address: Mail Order Dept, 39 Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4TD. It is available in North America from the American Library Association.

Contributions are encouraged in media studies, digital humanities, television and media history. Deadline for proposals 2 October 2017.

Call for papers VIEW Journal: Audiovisual Data in Digital Humanities

Considering the relevance of audiovisual material as perhaps the biggest wave of data to come in the near future (Smith, 2013, IBM prospective study) its relatively modest position within the realm of Digital Humanities conferences is remarkable. The objective of this special issue for VIEW is to present current research in that field on a variety of epistemological, historiographical and technological issues that are specific for digital methods applied to audiovisual data. We strive to cover a great range of media and data types and of applications representing the various stages of the research process.

The following key topics / problems / questions are of special interest:

Do computational approaches to sound and (moving) images extend or/and change our conceptual and epistemological understanding of these media? What are the leading machine learning approaches to the study of audio and visual culture and particularly time-based media? How do these approaches, models, and methods of learning relate to acquiring and producing knowledge by the conventional means of reading and analyzing text? Do we understand the 20th century differently through listening to sounds and voices and viewing images than through reading texts? How does massive digitization and online access relate to the concept of authenticity and provenance?
What tools in the sequence of the research process – search, annotation, vocabulary, analysis, presentation – are best suited to work with audio-visual data? The ways in which we structure and process information are primarily determined by the convention of attributing meaning to visual content through text. Does searching audio-visual archives, annotating photos or film clips, analyzing a corpus of city sounds, or presenting research output through a virtual exhibition, require special dedicated tools? What is the diversity in requirements within the communities of humanities scholars? How can, for example, existing commercial tools or software be repurposed for scholarly use?
What are the main hurdles for the further expansion of AV in DH? Compared to text, audiovisual data as carriers of knowledge are a relatively young phenomenon. Consequently the question of ‘ownership’ and the commercial value of many audiovisual sources result in considerable constraints for use due to issues of copyright. A constraint of a completely different order, is the intensive investment in time needed when listening to or watching an audiovisual corpus, compared to reading a text. Does the law or do technologies for speech and image retrieval offer solutions to overcome these obstacles?

Practicals:
Contributions are encouraged from authors with different kinds of expertise and interests in media studies, digital humanities, television and media history.
Paper proposals (max. 500 words) are due on October 2nd, 2017.
Submissions should be sent to the managing editor of the journal, Dana Mustata.
A notice of acceptance will be sent to authors in the 1st week of November 2017.
Articles (3 – 6,000 words) will be due on 15th of February 2018. Longer articles are welcome, given that they comply with the journal’s author guidelines.
For further information or questions about the issue, please contact the co-editors: Mark Williams (Associate Professor Film and Media Studies, Dartmouth College U.S.), Pelle Snickars (Prof. of Media Studies Umea Univesity, Sweden) or Andreas Fickers (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History).

About VIEW Journal
See http://www.viewjournal.eu/ for the current and back issues. VIEW is supported by the EUscreen Network and published by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in collaboration with Utrecht University, Royal Holloway University of London, and University of Luxembourg. VIEW is proud to be an open access journal. All articles are indexed through the Directory of Open Access Journals, the EBSCO Film and Television Index, Paperity and NARCIS.

Manchester (UK); 27-29 November 2017

DCDC17 Conference: The cultural value of collections and the creative economy

Join the #DCDC17 in November for three days of discussions and workshops on how we gather, measure and present evidence of the cultural value and impact of our collections.

DCDC17 keynotes

Geoffrey Crossick, Distinguished Professor of Humanities, School of Advanced Study
Shân Maclennan, Deputy Artistic Director, Southbank Centre
Mike Jackson, Chief Executive, North Somerset Council
Nancy E. Gwinn, Director, Smithsonian Libraries

In today’s uncertain political and economic climate the ability to demonstrate why heritage and culture matter – and to whom – has never been more important or relevant. The ways in which we gather, measure and present evidence of cultural value and impact has attracted increasing attention in recent years, as emphasis has led to a stronger focus on the experience of individuals and of communities.

Archives, libraries, museums and heritage organisations across the UK and further afield have played a leading role in this movement. They have actively looked to examine, capture and measure the wider social, cultural and economic impact of their collections, and to engage more effectively with a wider variety of audiences. Work in this area continues to evolve, as does the need for new and better ways of evidencing value and impact through continuing research and the effective sharing of experiences within and between sectors.

DCDC17 will consider how, by working collaboratively through networks of inter and cross-disciplinary initiatives, we can continue to improve and develop methodologies in order to build a strong evidence base to demonstrate the cultural value of collections and their contribution to the creative economy.

Programme and info: http://dcdcconference.com/

Pre-conference workshops :: 27 November 2017

This year we will be holding three pre-conference workshops, taking place around Manchester. These interactive workshops are an excellent opportunity to explore and discuss practical issues, and to get to know fellow delegates before the main conference. Places are limited for these workshops so we advise that you register early to avoid disappointment.

Successful partnerships: A practical guide
Manchester Libraries and Archives services (Archives+)

This will be an interactive session featuring workshops, discussions and practical exercises… Learn from our experience, with a chance to discuss successful approaches to partnership working, strategic management and achieving outcomes for customers.

Audience development at the John Rylands Library:Working hard to establish relevance with special collections
University of Manchester

Over the past two years our audience-focussed approach to everything we do has helped us to establish our relevance. At this workshop we will share with you the tools we’ve used to answer ‘Who are our ‘core’ and ‘keep warm’ audiences and how can we shape our programme to make us relevant to them?’

Difficult Conversations – Creating relevant and responsive public engagement opportunities about past conflict and the contemporary world
Imperial War Museums

Considering case studies from our recent programmes, we will lead discussion of how public engagement and learning programmes can be responsive to current events, shifting media, and new technologies while contributing to, and driving, public debate grounded in research, sites, collections, and stories from 100 years of conflict.

Cultural sites are highly emotional places and Emotive will research, design, develop and evaluate methods and tools to support the creation of narratives which draw on ’emotive storytelling’.

Presenting EMOTIVE project

Emotive is an EU-funded heritage project that aims to use emotional storytelling to dramatically change how we experience heritage sites.

For heritage professionals, the Emotive application will provide a powerful storytelling engine and a set of rich digital media assets that can be used to create detailed characters and narratives featuring archaeological sites or collections of artefacts.

For visitors, Emotive will offer dramatic, emotionally engaging stories that can be experienced while at a cultural site or remotely. Wherever visitors are, they can follow characters, look for clues and explore environments alone or with family and friends.

the Emotive team at the kick off in November 2016

From 2016-2019, the Emotive consortium will research, design, develop and evaluate methods and tools that can support the cultural and creative industries in creating narratives which draw on this power of ’emotive storytelling’. The output of this process will be a number of prototype tools and applications for heritage professionals and visitors that produce interactive, personalized, emotionally resonant digital stories for museums and cultural sites.

EMOTIVE has received funding from the Horizon 2020 EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation under grant agreement n° 727188.

Project Website: http://www.emotiveproject.eu/

Webinar, 19 September | 15:00 CEST

Life after PREFORMA: the future of veraPDF

The PREFORMA project that commissioned and funded the development of veraPDF draws to an end this year. Recent activity has been focused on PREFORMA acceptance testing, formalising the decisions of the PDF Association’s Technical Working Group and fixing issues reported by the community. In this webinar, the veraPDF Consortium will present the results of recent development and the plans for life after PREFORMA. Specifically, the webinar will cover:

Improvements to the veraPDF policy checker aimed to make it easier for users to create custom policies.
Real world policies produced by the veraPDF consortium for PREFORMA acceptance testing.
Common validation issues, particularly around PDF/A’s Unicode requirements.
Our plans for the future, including feature reporting for PDF 2.0 and support arrangements for the veraPDF project.

Session leads

Carl Wilson, Open Preservation Foundation

Boris Doubrov, Dual Lab

Registration

Registration is now open at: https://openpreservation.clickmeeting.com/life-after-preforma-the-future-of-verapdf. There are 50 places available, allocated on a first come, first served basis. The webinar will also be recorded for OPF members who cannot attend at this time.

Time

The webinar takes place at 14:00 BST / 15:00 CEST and will last approximately one hour.

Singapore, 5-6 April 2018

Future of Information and Communication Conference (FICC) 2018

FICC 2018 provided a forum for researchers from both academia and industry to share their latest research contributions, future vision in the field and potential impact across industries. FICC2018 allowed attendees to exchange knowledge with the common goal of shaping the future of Information and Communication.

The conference programme included paper presentations, poster sessions and project demonstrations, along with prominent keynote speakers and industrial workshops. Accepted papers were published in IEEE Xplore and indexed in Scopus, IET Inspec and many more.

Information and Communication is playing an increasing role in society and within our lives. The conference provided its attendees an uncommon opportunity to expand their network beyond their immediate professional environment. It is a unique chance to work with other accomplished individuals from diverse areas towards the common goal of shaping the future of the communication, computing and society.

FICC is part of the SAI Conferences, a group of annual conferences produced by The Science and Information (SAI) Organization, based in the United Kingdom. Previous conferences include Future Technologies Conference (FTC) in San Francisco, Intelligent Systems Conference (IntelliSys) in London and Computing Conference in London.

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