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CHArt (COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART) TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE

 

DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER

 

Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007 

London Venue to be confirmed

 

Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organisations such as
publishers and film and broadcast companies, have traditionally mediated and
controlled access to cultural resources and knowledge. What is the future of
such 'top-down' institutions in the age of 'bottom-up' access to knowledge
and cultural artifacts through what is generally known as Web 2:0 -
encompassing YouTube, Bittorrent, Napster, Wikipedia, Google, MySpace and
more. Will such institutions respond to this threat to their cultural
hegemony by resistance or adaptation? How can a museum or a gallery or, for
that matter, a broadcasting company, appeal to an audience which has
unprecedented access to cultural resources? How can institutions predicated
on a cultural economy of scarcity compete in an emerging state of cultural
abundance? 

 

For the twenty-second CHArt conference we are looking for papers that
reflect upon these issues, particularly in relation to visual culture. We
particularly welcome contributions from those working in either
'traditional' cultural organisations or those involved in new forms of
cultural access and distribution. 

 

Please email submissions (a three hundred word synopsis of the proposed
paper with CV of presenter/s and other key figures) by 31 May 2007 to Hazel
Gardiner (hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk).

 

 

 

Dr Charlie Gere

Chair, CHArt

 

CHArt

c/o Centre for Computing in the Humanities

Kings College, University of London

Kay House

7 Arundel Street

WC2R 3DX

 

 

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 Future Histories of the Moving Image


An international conference to be held at University of Sunderland
16-18 November 2007




Keynote Speaker:  Professor Patricia Zimmermann (Ithaca College, New York), with other keynotes to be confirmed

As is now widely acknowledged, with the advent of digital technology the nature of moving image production, distribution and exhibition has changed dramatically.  In particular, a rapidly increasing number of people are now accessing an increasing volume and range of moving image material online.  This technology is also changing the way in which we analyse and document current and historical moving image practices, as there has been a recent proliferation of digital archive and database projects relating to film, video and television practices.  It is timely therefore to examine the changing ways in which we are circulating and interrogating moving image culture.

We would particularly welcome papers that address the following areas:

–    What impact does the increasing reliance on database resources have on the nature of the histories we produce and write?
–    History as database vs history as narrative.
–    Implications of the proliferation of online critical writing (from refereed academic journals through to personal blogs) and its dissemination, with the blurring of the traditional distinction between professional and amateur writer.
–    The role and implication of immediate online distribution/exhibition of works
–    What impact is digital distribution having on theatrical exhibition?
–    Issues arising from the perceived need on the part of major producers/broadcasters to develop content for multiple platforms.
–    The implications of multiple producers being able to disseminate a wide range of material to multiple niche audiences (giving the idea of ‘narrowcasting’ a new meaning).
–    Revival/development of found footage production practices with the availability of digital archives such as Library of Congress Internet Archive (including the Prelinger Archive) and BBC Open Archive initiative.
–    Questions relating to the increasing accessibility online of moving image material in relation to intellectual property and the development of the Creative Commons copyright licence.
–    The creative influence of database logic on film structure.

The conference will also host an open workshop – with participation by the Arts Council England, the Tate and the British Film Institute – which will address the issues of securing the sustainability and maximising the use/visibility of the growing number of film and video database/online research resources.  The workshop is funded by the AHRC Networks and Workshops Scheme.

Please send proposals of 200-300 words for papers of approx. 20 minutes, together with a brief biographical note by 30 May 2007 to the conference organisers (Steven Ball, Julia Knight and Stephen Partridge) at futurehistories@sunderland.ac.uk

Future Histories of the Moving Image is a joint conference organised by the Univeresity of Sunderland, the British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection (University of the Arts, London) and the Visual Research Centre REWIND project DJCAD at the University of Dundee, in collaboration with Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies.  All papers delivered at the conference will be considered for publication in the journal.






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Organdi Quarterly (www.organdi.net) is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary
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We welcome submissions for Issue #9: archives / filing (Summer 2007):
deadline 15/06/2007

In the context of the constantly accelerating pace of our lives, progress in
terms of storage capacity, editing, and publishing has expanded the
possibilities for filing and the constitution of archives. A tool to explore
and understand the past, archives have also become an essential element of
self-definition for people. Citizens and communities build their own
archives consumers store personal memories (emails, photos etc); and
contemporary art, in a search for intelligibility and history, uses the
archive as a material and a site of inquiry.



This special issue seeks to investigate the contemporary need for archives.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to: archives as sites of
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