DASH Archives - August 2007

Urban Screens Manchester 07

 

It's about content! 

 

Manchester Conference: 11 + 12 October 2007

Public arts + events programme:  11 - 14 October 2007

 

Urban Screens Manchester 07 is a two day international conference taking place at the Cornerhouse, Manchester's international centre for contemporary visual arts and film.  

 

From a multitude of perspectives, Urban Screens Manchester 07 explores the conditions for urban screens and their place in contemporary society, making it relevant across disciplines to media specialists, designers, artists, architects, urban planners, broadcasters and public art funders. 

 

Following on from the first groundbreaking conference on urban screens, Urban Screens 2005, Amsterdam, the conference will feature more than 40 inspirational experts on the global phenomenon set to transform our cities. Urban Screens Manchester 07 looks in to the creation of content, commissioning / funding, curatorship and the architectural possibilities of urban screens in the 21st century.   

 

Keynote speakers

 

Artist Jochen Gerz 

Create a cultural city

 

German born, French based artist and cultural commentator, Jochen Gerz, will talk about the role of art in public space and public space culture. In his keynote, Gerz powerfully advocates for a reconnection with the essence of public and the city space - its people.  Gerz argues that art and public space culture can support democracy and give voice to all in society, and that urban media such as urban screens have - potentially - an important role to play in this process of debate and discussion.   

www.gerz.fr

 

Media archaeologist Erkki Huhtamo 

Urban Gigantology, or Archaeology of the Urban Screen 

The renowned media archaeologist Erkki Huhtamo is asking if urban screens have a longer heritage than we imagine. In his stimulating keynote, he will give a wide ranging overview of historic public media and events.  Running along a timeline that takes in past, present and futures, Huhtamo will take us a journey through son et lumière, magic lanterns, sky signs created by hot air balloons, light cannons and airplanes and the billboard to better understand our 'society of spectacle'. He will explain that we need to see contemporary urban screens in a long history, but also that they are idiosyncratic media platforms that offer a new viewing experience, giving new modes of interaction in the urban environment. 

http://dma.ucla.edu/people/faculty.php?ID=9

 

View the conference timeline and a listing of the international experts attending at: http://www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk/index.php?page=Conference

 

The conference is accompanied by a dynamic programme of public events that show creative content in action in city centre Manchester.  The centre will come alive with an exciting range of international art works on public screens ranging from mobile projection, VJ sets, live streaming, video and animation programmes and audiovisual performances.   

 

Register your interest now at www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk

 

 

Urban Screens Manchester has been curated by Dr Susanne Jaschko .

Urban Screens Manchester has been supported by Cornerhouse and BBC.

It has been funded by Arts Council England, Manchester City Council, Marketing Manchester. With support from MDDA and Manchester Knowledge Capital. 

CHArt TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE – BOOKING NOW OPEN!

 

DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER

Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007, Birkbeck, University of London.

 

PROGRAMME

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 Web 2:0 technologies. 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? The
twenty-third CHArt conference will reflect upon these issues. 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER – TO BE ANNOUNCED 

 

 

THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 

 

SESSION 1 – 

New media and Web 2.0 Challenges for Cultural Organisations.

Eva Moraga, Madrid, Spain.

 

‘Immersion’ An Interactive Archive of Sound Art. 

J Milo Taylor, London College of Communication, London, UK.

 

SESSION 2 – 

Virtually the ‘real thing’? Changing definitions of authenticity in the
display and interpretation of a virtual artefact.

Tara Chittenden, the Law Society, London,UK.

 

A Visual Arts Perspective on Open Access Institutional Repositories.

Jacqueline Cooke and Dafna Ganani-Tomares, Goldsmiths College, University of
London,UK.

 

SESSION 3 – 

ArtPad: A Collection. A Connection.  

Melanie Kjorlien and Quyen Hoang, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

 

Your Paintings: Institutions, Identities and Interactions

Bridget McKenzie, Flow Associates, London, UK; Jon Pratty, 24 Hour Museum,
Brighton. UK.

 

SESSION 4 –  

Transforming the Methods Network: Where’s My Community Dude?

Neil Grindley, JISC, London, UK; Torsten Reimer, AHRC ICT Methods Network,
London, UK

 

Saatchi ‘Your Gallery’ Website’s Problems and Potentials. 

Ana Finel Honigman, University of Oxford, UK. 

 

 

FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER 

 

SESSION 5 –  

Merlin on the Web: the British Museum Collection Database goes public.

Tanya Szrajber, Head of Documentation, The British Museum, UK.

 

Designing the Electronic Archive: Archive Fever and the Archival Economy of
Getty Images Online Operations.

Doireann Wallace, Dublin Institute of Technology, Eire.

 

SESSION 6 – 

Marketing Visual Culture:  Liberty Fabrics’ Digital Archive

Anna Buruma and Peter Taylor, Liberty, London, UK.; Annette Ward, University
of Dundee, UK.  

 

Does Information Really Want to be Free? Archival Access and Accountability
in Aboriginal Australia.

Kimberly Christen, Washington State University, USA.

 

SESSION 7 – 

From Information to Knowledge: An Unfinished Canadian Case Study.

Sarah Parsons, York University, Toronto, Canada.

 

Understanding Value and new space:  The Key to Effective Provision of and
Engagement with Digitised Cultural Resources.

Heather Robson, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University,
UK.

 

SESSION 8 – 

Curation in the Digital Age. 

Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Goldsmiths, University of
London, London, UK.

 

Computer Art Then and Now: Evaluating the V&A’s Collections in the Digital
Age.

Douglas Dodds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.

 

DEMONSTRATIONS:  To be announced

 

The booking form is available online on www.chart.ac.uk.  Bookings made
before 12 October 2007 will be entitled to a discount.  Conference fees
(pounds sterling) - include coffee/tea breaks and lunch.  Send bookings to:
Francesca Franco, CHArt, c/o CCH, Kings College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel
Street, WC2R 3DX,  fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980,
francesca.franco@courtauld.ac.uk (please use the subject heading CHArt
Conference 2007 in any email queries).          

                                      

BOOKING 

CHArt Member: TWO DAYS £110 (£90 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Member: ONE DAY £70 (£60 before 12 Oct 2007)

Non-member: TWO DAYS £140 (£120 before 12 Oct 2007)

Non-member: ONE DAY £90 (£80 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Student Member: TWO DAYS £65 £45 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Student Member: ONE DAY £45(£35 before 12 Oct 2007)

Student Non-member: TWO DAYS £85 (£65 before 12 Oct 2007)

Student Non-member: ONE DAY £55 (£45 before 12 Oct 2007)

 

 

........................................................ 

Hazel Gardiner

Senior Project Officer

AHRC ICT Methods Network

Centre for Computing in the Humanities

Kings College

Kay House, 7 Arundel Street

WC2R 3DX

 

+44 (0)20 7848 2013

hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk

  www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk

 

STUDENT BURSARIES FOR CHART 2007 - DEADLINE 19 OCTOBER 2007

 

The AHRC ICT Methods Network (www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk), which exists to
promote and support the use of advanced ICT methods in arts and humanities
research, is generously offering a limited number of bursaries to
post-graduate students who wish to attend the 2007 CHArt conference, DIGITAL
ARCHIVE FEVER  (programme below) The conference takes place on Thursday 8 -
Friday 9 November 2007 at Birkbeck, University of London,  Gordon Square,
London, WC1H 0PD.

 

Applications for bursaries are sought from post-graduate students registered
at UK Universities whose research interests are grounded in areas covered by
CHArt.  These include: the application of ICT to the study of art and the
history of art; new media theory and new art practice; creation and curation
of digital scholarly and  image resources including those in museums,
galleries or libraries, and other areas which may be considered to be within
CHArt's sphere of interest. 

 

The bursaries are intended to help towards conference expenses.  Successful
applicants will be able to claim funds up to a total of £200 toward the cost
of conference fees, accommodation and travel.  

 

If you wish to apply for a bursary please register for the CHArt conference
in the first instance. The CHArt conference programme, abstracts and booking
form are available on the CHArt website (www.chart.ac.uk). 

 

Following your registration for CHArt, please complete the bursary
application form, available on the AHRC ICT Methods Network website:

http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/community/postgraduates.html

 

If you have any queries about completing the form please contact Hazel
Gardiner (hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk) using the heading -   CHArt Bursary
Applications – in the subject bar.

 

Bursary winners will be asked to submit a short report to the AHRC ICT
Methods Network following the conference.

 

CHArt conference costs are as follows: 

CHArt Student Member: TWO DAYS £65 (£45 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Student Member: ONE DAY £45(£35 before 12 Oct 2007)

Student Non-member: TWO DAYS £85 (£65 before 12 Oct 2007)

Student Non-member: ONE DAY £55 (£45 before 12 Oct 2007)

 

Please address any enquiries about bursaries to Hazel Gardiner, CHArt,
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Kings College, Kay House, 7 Arundel
Street, WC2R 3DX. 020 7848 2013, hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk

 

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CHArt TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE – PROGRAMME

 

DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER

Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007, Birkbeck, University of London.

 

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 Web 2:0 technologies. 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? The
twenty-third CHArt conference will reflect upon these issues. 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER – TO BE ANNOUNCED 

 

 

THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 

 

SESSION 1 – 

New media and Web 2.0 Challenges for Cultural Organisations.

Eva Moraga, Madrid, Spain.

 

‘Immersion’ An Interactive Archive of Sound Art. 

J Milo Taylor, London College of Communication, London, UK.

 

SESSION 2 – 

Virtually the ‘real thing’? Changing definitions of authenticity in the
display and interpretation of a virtual artefact.

Tara Chittenden, the Law Society, London,UK.

 

A Visual Arts Perspective on Open Access Institutional Repositories.

Jacqueline Cooke and Dafna Ganani-Tomares, Goldsmiths College, University of
London,UK.

 

SESSION 3 – 

ArtPad: A Collection. A Connection.  

Melanie Kjorlien and Quyen Hoang, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

 

Your Paintings: Institutions, Identities and Interactions

Bridget McKenzie, Flow Associates, London, UK; Jon Pratty, 24 Hour Museum,
Brighton. UK.

 

SESSION 4 –  

Transforming the Methods Network: Where’s My Community Dude?

Neil Grindley, JISC, London, UK; Torsten Reimer, AHRC ICT Methods Network,
London, UK

 

Saatchi ‘Your Gallery’ Website’s Problems and Potentials. 

Ana Finel Honigman, University of Oxford, UK. 

 

 

FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER 

 

SESSION 5 –  

Merlin on the Web: the British Museum Collection Database goes public.

Tanya Szrajber, Head of Documentation, The British Museum, UK.

 

Designing the Electronic Archive: Archive Fever and the Archival Economy of
Getty Images Online Operations.

Doireann Wallace, Dublin Institute of Technology, Eire.

 

SESSION 6 – 

Marketing Visual Culture:  Liberty Fabrics’ Digital Archive

Anna Buruma and Peter Taylor, Liberty, London, UK.; Annette Ward, University
of Dundee, UK.  

 

Does Information Really Want to be Free? Archival Access and Accountability
in Aboriginal Australia.

Kimberly Christen, Washington State University, USA.

 

SESSION 7 – 

From Information to Knowledge: An Unfinished Canadian Case Study.

Sarah Parsons, York University, Toronto, Canada.

 

Understanding Value and new space:  The Key to Effective Provision of and
Engagement with Digitised Cultural Resources.

Heather Robson, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University,
UK.

 

SESSION 8 – 

Curation in the Digital Age. 

Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Goldsmiths, University of
London, London, UK.

 

Computer Art Then and Now: Evaluating the V&A’s Collections in the Digital
Age.

Douglas Dodds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.

 

DEMONSTRATIONS:  To be announced

 

The booking form is available online on www.chart.ac.uk.  Bookings made
before 12 October 2007 will be entitled to a discount.  Conference fees
(pounds sterling) - include coffee/tea breaks and lunch.  Send bookings to:
Francesca Franco, CHArt, c/o CCH, Kings College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel
Street, WC2R 3DX,  fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980,
francesca.franco@courtauld.ac.uk (please use the subject heading CHArt
Conference 2007 in any email queries).          

                                      

BOOKING 

CHArt Member: TWO DAYS £110 (£90 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Member: ONE DAY £70 (£60 before 12 Oct 2007)

Non-member: TWO DAYS £140 (£120 before 12 Oct 2007)

Non-member: ONE DAY £90 (£80 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Student Member: TWO DAYS £65 £45 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Student Member: ONE DAY £45(£35 before 12 Oct 2007)

Student Non-member: TWO DAYS £85 (£65 before 12 Oct 2007)

Student Non-member: ONE DAY £55 (£45 before 12 Oct 2007)

 

 

........................................................ 

Hazel Gardiner

Senior Project Officer

AHRC ICT Methods Network

Centre for Computing in the Humanities

Kings College

Kay House, 7 Arundel Street

WC2R 3DX

 

+44 (0)20 7848 2013

hazel.gardiner@kcl.ac.uk

  www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk

 

Hi all,

1.
I thought you might be interested to read the, "2007 BUILDING CAPACITY REPORT
Literacy and creative workforce development through International 
Digital Arts Projects' (IDAprojects) exhibition programs and 
partnerships"  by Dr David Sudmalis, Manager - Youth Arts, Education 
and Policy Community Partnerships Australia Council for the Arts.

2.
I have also added a little clip of video "digital" history - Laurence 
Gartel working at the Experimental Television Centre New York circa 
1978 using the Jones Keyer, Jones Colorizer, Paik-Abe Colorizer and 
Wobulator. This is a video clip is from a much larger document (20gb 
file) depicting early animations made on a Commodore amiga computer. 
I have recently donated a copy of this video the Australian Centre 
for the Moving Image. If anyone is interested in receiving a copy of 
this important document please contact me on giznad@ozemail.com.au,

3.
Also a new essay by Mattwew Perkins (Monash University), "The 
Vernacular Terrain" is also available on the website.

IDAproejcts website: http://www.internationaldigitalart.com/

Cheers
Stephen Danzig
Director

-- 
http://www.internationaldigitalart.com/
http://www.stephendanzig.com/

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