Digital meets Culture

Athens (Greece), 24-27 May 2018

More than 300 artists from 50 countries presented their artworks through an impressive and manifold program that consists of interactive audiovisual installations, audiovisual performances, web art powered by Cosmote Fiber, digital image, video art and animation screenings, participatory workshops and talks. Moreover, ADAF presented international festival from all over the world, such as Animafest Zagreb (Croatia), Festival Internacional de la Imagen (Colombia), KIKK Festival (Belgium), Osmosis Audiovisual Media Festival (Taiwan), Mirage Festival (France) and more. Each year ADAF forms collaborations with international media and institutions for digital arts and honorary presents the video art compilation “TECH BREAK”, in collaboration with the international digital platform The PhotoPhore. In the framework of its collaboration with artistic community Sedition Art, ADAF this year presented a video art screening, bringing the audience one step closer to digital arts.

From 24 to 27 of May, the Festival presented to the visitors of Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall immersive, interactive installations, taking them to a trip to the mysterious worlds of space and new technologies. With the robotic installation Inferno by Louis-Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn we danced with exoskeletons, and with Arabesque by Peter William Holden we took a taste from the East and we travelled to the magic future. In addition, the VR artwork Fight by Memo Akten, made us challenge reality, a reminder that vision (and perception in general) is an active process guided by our drives, aspirations and intentions.

The program of the audiovisual performances included the new artwork “Τsoclis, Ourselves, 2018″ by the internationally renowned pioneer of contemporary art in “Living Painting” Costas Tsoclis, Dökk in which fuse* took us to digital landscapes where the perception of space and time is amended. Hakanaï from the world-renowned contemporary artists and choreographers Adrien M and Claire B that exceeds the boundaries of art, imagination and the real world, while NONOTAK presented their new audiovisual performance, Shiro. Alexis Langevin-Tétrault created an industrial noise and electronica universe with Interférences. Pandelis Diamantides showed his new project, Go Back to Hiding in the Shadows, and Claudia Robles Angel the interactive brainwave performance, Mindscapes. Finally, the program included Stelios Manoussakis with Hertzian Field # 2, Tardej Drolic with Capillaries Capillaries and the well-known duo Evelina Dormnich-Dmitry Gelfand with Force Field.

Website of the event: http://2018.adaf.gr/

*/ 14^th Athens Digital Arts Festival | 24 – 27 May 2018

Main Venue:

Megaron – The Athens Concert Hall

2018.adaf.gr | #ADAF2018 #SingularityNow

Authors are invited to submit full papers reporting on their original and unpublished research in e-Infrastructures and computational and data-intensive sciences.

call for papers: Capacity for Transformation – The e-AGE18 Conference

The e-AGE conference had established itself as an important venue for networking among experts and scientists. In 2018, e-AGE will be held under the patronage of HE Professor Adel Tweissi, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, in Amman, Jordan during 2-3 December 2018. In e-AGE18, the focus will be on demonstrating successes in using the research and education e-Infrastructures at national, regional and global levels.

Authors are invited to submit full papers reporting on their original and unpublished research in e-Infrastructures and computational and data-intensive sciences. All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the event proceedings.

Posters are also welcomed, an effective poster presentation is not just a standard research paper stuck to a board. It should summarize your work with graphs and images to tell the story and should use text more sparingly. Featuring a poster at e-AGE will serve as an excellent advertisement for your work, and can act as a great conversation starter with e-AGE participants.

SUBMISSION DEADLINES:

Full papers: 1 October
Posters and opresentations: 15 October
Final versions of accepted works: 20 November

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:

Scientific computing and data-intensive e-Science in areas related to energy, environment, health, climate, water, agriculture, biology, economy, medicine, as well as in social sciences and humanities.
Perspectives on NRENs, including challenges, operation, sustainability, funding, governance, business models, security and services.
Problem-solving environments, Virtual Research Environments, Science Gateways and collaborative tools, applications and services.
Education and e-Learning Technologies, access to educational resources, repositories, libraries and contents, clouds, grids, parallel and distributed computing, and high performance computing.
Internet technologies and trends, Internet of Things, Security, SDN and AAIs.

For more details, please visit the conference website at: http://asrenorg.net/eage18/?q=Page/call-participation

img . “Family vacation at the Baltic Sea, Germany 1930s”, Wilhelm Zwez © United Achives, In Copyright, via Europeana

10-11 May 2018 Budapest

Upcoming Europeana Collection Day at #ReachYourCulture Conference: let’s share your own story!

img . “Family vacation at the Baltic Sea, Germany 1930s”, Wilhelm Zwez © United Achives, In Copyright, via Europeana

In the framework of the REACH Opening Conference “Resilient Cultural Heritage and Communities in Europe“, Europeana will hold a parallel event in which all attendees and citizens are invited to contribute by sharing their family’s stories on travels, migrations, origins and help to tell the story of Europe and the people who live here. The Collection Day in Budapest is organised by the Hungarian National Archives in partnership with the REACH project, as part of the Europeana Migration events series.
Everyone is encouraged to bring an object: from photographs to letters, postcards, recipes etc.
These objects and their stories will be digitized and published online in the dedicated website Europeana Migration, helping to paint a bigger picture of European migration movements over the last few centuries and enriching the Cultural Heritage of Europe. They will be recorded for posterity and made available for all to discover and use for education, research, inspiration and pleasure.

The Europeana Collection Day is perfectly aligned with the main target of REACH Project, which is the promotion and support of any kind of participatory approach in culture and cultural heritage; therefore, this initiative is more than welcome to enrich the opening conference and a prominent participation is hoped by all those interested to share on line the European cultural Heritage.

Find out more about:
Europeana Collection Days at https://pro.europeana.eu/post/europeana-migration-collection-days-launched
REACH Opening conference: http://reach-culture.eu/budapestconference2018

Vienna (Austria), 12-15 November 2018

The 16th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (EG GCH)

Visual Heritage 2018, the 16th EUROGRAPHICS Workshop on Graphics and Cultural Heritage (EG GCH), is organized in cooperation and conjunction with CHNT Cultural Heritage and New Technologies conference. Since 2018 is a key year for the Cultural Heritage community, two established communities working on the domain of ICT & CH have decided to join forces and to organize a federated event. The aims of this federated event are: to bring two slightly different communities together in the same venue (one more oriented to research in visual technology, the other one focusing more on the application of those technologies to CH); to share experiences and discuss methodologies concerning digital visual media and their use in the context of cultural heritage applications; to enable an increased cross-fertilization among those communities and foster collaboration.

CALL FOR PAPERS Visual Heritage 2018 – DEADLINE 20th June 2018

GCH 2018 aims to foster an international dialogue between ICT experts and CH scientists to advance the understanding of critical requirements for processing, managing, and delivering cultural heritage information to a broad audience. The objective of the workshop is to introduce and showcase new techniques and applications for supporting Cultural Heritage information ranging from data acquisition, analysis and synthesis, 3D documentation, and data management, to new forms of interactive presentation and 3D printing solutions. Interdisciplinary approaches for analysis, classification and interpretation of cultural artefacts are particularly relevant to the event. GCH 2018 as part of Visual Heritage 2018 provides a scientific forum to exchange novel ideas and techniques in research, education and dissemination of Cultural Heritage information, to transfer them into practice, and identify future research and application opportunities.

We seek original, innovative and previously unpublished contributions in the visual computing area applied to digital cultural heritage, challenging the state-of-the-art solutions, presenting experiences and projects in this domain and leveraging new ideas for future developments. Equally, original contributions in the cultural heritage field of relevance to visual computing are welcome. Contributions are solicited in (but not limited to) the following areas:

2/3/4D data acquisition and processing in Cultural Heritage
Multispectral imaging and data fusion
Digital acquisition, representation and communication of intangible heritage
Material acquisition analysis
Heterogeneous data collection, integration and management
3D printing of cultural assets
Shape analysis and interpretation
Similarity search of digital artefacts
Visualization and Virtual Museums including storytelling and design of heritage communications
Multi-modal and interactive environments and applications for Cultural Heritage
Spatial and mobile augmentation of physical collections with digital presentations
Semantic-aware representation of digital artefacts (metadata, classification schemes, annotation)
Digital libraries, archiving and long-term preservation of 3D documents
Standards and documentation
Serious games in Cultural Heritage
Organizational aspects of cooperation between ICT and CH experts for project development
Best practices for deployment of novel ICT solution in the CH domain, including budgeting and maintenance
User demand and reception of ICT solutions in CH institutions

In cooperation with CHNT, GCH is also planning for a half-day tutorial program, addressing practices and challenges in the important areas of acquisition and presentation of CH content.

More on VISUAL HERITAGE 2018, and call for papers: http://2018.visualheritage.org/

More on CHNT 2018, venue and registration for the two events: http://www.chnt.at/form_registration/

Weimar (Germany), 10-12 August 2018

Genius Loci Weimar festival – Make the Walls Talk!

Genius Loci Weimar is an annual audiovisual art festival, video mapping and façade projections held in August. It is preceded by a competition, and the winner works will be showcased at the festival. In addition to videomappers, videographers and motion designers, the competition is also specifically aimed at architects, urban developers, preservationists, lighting designers, exhibition designers, media artists, scenographers, communication designers, as well as visionaries from any and all genres.

Genius Loci Weimar 2017 Documentary Film from MXWendler on Vimeo.

The 2018 edition takes place on 10-12 August, with a symposium on the 12th. Action artists, video designers, media designers, architects and musicians will gather in Weimar to participate in their work at the festival. During the festival weekend, three building facades in Weimar will be screened with selected video projects. Between 9:30 pm and midnight, international artists project their fifteen-minute contributions in the city center.

Genius Loci Weimar is expanding the festival repertoire to include the themes that surround media architecture. The performance format – a video show projected on the facade and repeated every half-hour – is broadly unchanged, but the questions being posed are of a different nature. While for previous video performances it has been sufficient to take the form of one-time production within the framework of a festival for projection art, the work that will be beamed onto the building of the University Library will be developed as a simulation of a permanent media architecture installation.

The concept for this innovative competition format emerged from the discourse on videomapping and media architecture that was pursued during Genius Loci Talk 2017.

12.08.2017 / Genius Loci Weimar / Stadtkirche St. Peter und Paul (Herderkirche) / “MIRROR” Visuals: Kento Tomiyoshi, Musik: Makoto Shozu / Foto: Henry Sowinski

The format is intended to address the potentials and limitations of media architecture, and to reflect issues without fixed expectations: which content, which narration genuinely enhances the value, or is any communicative surplus value required at all, or is it sufficient to present a purely (re-)aestheticising work? Where is the threshold between augmentation and nuisance, which visual worlds succeed in reaching which target groups, how does media architecture function in the historical context, and where are the functional and aesthetic potentials?

While previous video performances could take the form of one-time performances within the framework of a projection art festival, the projection onto the building of the university library must also serve as a concept for and visualisation of a permanent media architecture installation.

More info about the festival: http://www.genius-loci-weimar.org/en/

Cover image: 12.08.2017 / Genius Loci Weimar / Cranachhaus am Markt / »CHIAROSCURO«, Desilence, Visuals: Tatiana Halbach & Søren Christensen / Foto: Henry Sowinski

The National Historical Museum hosted the latest transcription marathon for handwritten documents of WWI

Europeana 1914-1918 Transcribathon in Athens

The National Historical Museum in Athens, in collaboration with Europeana 1914-1918, the Facts & Files International Initiative and PostScriptum, organized a manuscript transcript competition from the period of the First World War in the framework of the international campaign “Transcribathon Europeana 1914-1918” which organizes similar Marathon transcriptions of war documents throughout Europe.

The event is organized on the occasion of the International Museum Day (18/5) of ICOM – Hellenic National Committee, whose theme is “Museums and (networks) this year. New Approaches, New Audience”, and took place in the Old Parliament Hall, supported by the General Archives of the State, the Great Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” and the Center for the History of Thessaloniki.

Participants performed real work of transcription from digitized documents that contain handwritten information, often difficult to deciphrate, and they learned the techniques used by experts to access information sources, as well as details of the era of World War I. The trascriptions will be then published on Europeana.eu portal, and will be a permanent resource for further historical research and education.

The winners are teams: Athens2, Athens1 and Athens5 in the categories Transcription, Enrichments and Presentation. All participants of the Athens Transcribathon 2018 jointly transcribed over 1100000 characters of 769 documents. Such collective and participative work supports the dissemination of our cultural heritage and the enhancement of the accessibility of knowledge.

Dubrovnik (Croatia), 26-28 September 2018

Best in Heritage with IMAGINES

As the award-giving programmes around the world announced their laureates category by category in 2017, the Best in Heritage diligently collected all the information and generated the annual list of the best practices in the field of museums, heritage and conservation. Out of some 300 prize-winners from 45 award schemes, the Best in Heritage Advisory Board approved a selection of the most innovative and advanced candidates, which were then invited to the 2018 conference in Dubrovnik.

Featuring altogether 42 presentations of a wide scope of laureates coming from 4 continents, the conference will, for the 17th time, bring authors of most exceptional achievements together with the professional audience and the public. The gathering will start with the IMAGINES event, which focuses on the use of New Technologies and Multimedia, and will feature Q&A sessions, 2 keynotes and a “Spotlight” lecture following the theme of 2018 as the European Year of Cultural Heritage.

In addition to having an ideal setting for networking with colleagues from all over the globe, the conference will have an abundance of cultural, social and gastronomic events accompanying the programme. The moderators, last year’s winners and the audience will act as a Jury and vote for a project with a truly change-making potential for each of the two events: “The Project of Influence” for the year 2018.

The conference is organised in partnership with Europa Nostra (with support of Creative Europe programme) and ICOM (International Council of Museums), is under patronage of The City of Dubrovnik, Ministry of culture of Republic of Croatia, supported by the United States Embassy in Croatia and sponsored by Meyvaert Glass Engineering. Local partner is Dubrovnik Museums.

Links:

Programme and registration: https://www.thebestinheritage.com/conference

Featured laureates: https://www.thebestinheritage.com/featuring

Past presentations archive: http://presentations.thebestinheritage.com/

Eötvös Loránd University, REACH Partner, in visit to eight universities promoting future cooperations

Cultural Heritage Mission in Japan

Between 7 and 15 April 2018, Gábor Sonkoly, the academic coordinator of Minority Heritage Pilot of REACH project, visited eight Japanese universities (Buddhist Postgraduate College, Josai University, Meiji University, Nishogakusha University in Tokyo, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Otani University, Ristumeikan University in Kyoto and Kobe University in Kobe) in order to establish research and educational cooperation in the field of participative cultural heritage scholarship. He was the member of the official delegation of the Eötvös Loránd University including the rector and the vice-rector for international affairs. The perspectives of future cooperation in cultural heritage studies proved to be particularly promising with Kobe University and the Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.

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REACH Conference in GUIDE@HAND Budapest smartphone application!

The e-Learning department of the institute for computer science and control, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, MTA SZTAKI has contributed to get closer to REACH opening conference by charging the upcoming event on its new software for smart phones, tablets,iOS and android platforms.
The App, that can be used offline, it is available in English, German and Hungarian languages.
– Download GUIDE@HAND from http://www.guideathand.com
– Install the App to your mobile device
– Click on the “events” button to get any type of information regarding the REACH interesting programme of the conference: data sheets, venue, map and reminder service.
The eLearning department of MTA SZTAKI is a REACH Project partner and its main activities are focused on:
– Applied research, professional consultancy
– Web and mobile application development, innovation
– Courseware development, training
– Co-ordination and participation in complex domestic and EU projects
For more details:
http://www.guideathand.com

Brixen (Italy), 5-6 July 2018

EARTH2018: Digital Environments for Education, Arts and Heritage

The meanings that are defined in relation to the concept of heritage as well as the methods and tools for exploring cultural heritage have changed and expanded. In this context, information technologies offer new semantic spaces and action boundaries to experiment with different approaches to heritage education. This determines an increasingly complex intertwining of media and environments with the consequence that any artifact can be configured as a digital ecosystem. In this sense, virtual museums, multimedia installations, interactive technological platforms, as well as apps, serious games and immersive realities, are some of the possible variations of the digital environment in which to place innovative modes of education to tangible and intangible heritage. Collective and connective intelligences enter into a relationship to build new experiences with art and heritage towards an awareness of the protection of the creative expressions of civilizations.

CALL FOR PAPERS – submission deadline 12 May

In relation to what is described, we expect contributions that present case studies in the field of heritage education in digital environments, innovative experiments in the field of digital representation and methodological reflections on the use of IT tools in various educational contexts.