Electronic images are ubiquitous and powerful and overlay the view we have of the real world with a surface veneer that variously simulates great depths of perspective, sophisticated aggregations of knowledge, illusions of movement, glimpses of far-off geography, representations of artistic achievement, and much else besides. Most cultural, scholarly and scientific activity now relies on the presence of the electronic image to support representations or manifestations of that activity, and now more than ever, it is critical that the images are robust, sustainable and broadly and easily interpretable, both now and into the future.
It is proposed, therefore, that the focus of this group should be about understanding the particular nature of the electronic image and how it needs to be viewed differently, understood differently, interpreted differently, and preserved and sustained differently to its analogue cousin. Precisely how we go about doing that is anyone's guess! ... Discuss
Please note - this forum was formerly affiliated to the CHArt (Computers and History of Art) Group. CHArt is still alive and well and can be found at:
www.chart.ac.uk
event: Curating, Craft, and New Technologies Symposium
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 02/09/2010 - 12:42 23/09/2010 09:30
24/09/2010 13:30
The Crafts Council’s annual Craft Curators’ Forum is a networking event and an opportunity to discuss key issues relating to work in the sector.
This year this annual event will address the theme of Curating, Craft & New Technologies.
We are seeing exciting and innovative new work being created as an increased number of makers; designers and artists explore digital and new technologies in their practice. New technologies are also permeating the museum environment and influencing the way objects are displayed and interpreted, forming new relationships between object and viewer. [read more...]
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event: JPEG 2000 for the practitioner - a one-day seminar
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 27/08/2010 - 11:05 16/11/2010 09:00
16/11/2010 17:00
A free seminar to explore and examine the use of JPEG 2000 in the cultural heritage industry will be held at the Wellcome Trust. The seminar will include specific case studies of JPEG 2000 use. It will explain technical issues that have an impact on practical implementation of the format, and explore the context of how and why organisations may choose to use JPEG 2000. Although the seminar will have an emphasis on digitisation and digital libraries, the papers will be relevent to a range of research and creative industries. Places are limited to 80 [read more...]
Location
Wellcome Trust
215 Euston Road
LondonUnited Kingdom
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CHArt 2010 Registration Now Open
Booking has opened for this year's CHArt conference. The booking form, draft programme and abstracts are now available online.
*** Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) www.chart.ac.uk ***
TECHNOLOGY AND ‘THE DEATH OF ART HISTORY’
CHArt 26th Annual Conference
Wednesday 10 - Thursday 11 November 2010
London, The British Computer Society, First Floor, Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA [read more...]
Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference - Call for Participation
Closing Date:
30/06/2010
MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)
Call for Participation
Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care
Conference
including the
`Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour`
Digital Media Competition
at Birkbeck, University of London
September 23rd and 24th 2010
Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference: [read more...]
event: Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference
Submitted by cjguest on Sun, 27/06/2010 - 17:17 23/06/2010 09:00
24/06/2010 18:00
MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)
Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care
Conference
including the
`Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour`
Digital Media Competition
at Birkbeck, University of London
September 23rd and 24th 2010
Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference: [read more...]
Location
London
United Kingdom
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biblio: Painting the Digital River:how an artist learned to love the computer
Submitted by JameFW on Thu, 24/06/2010 - 12:35
"Painting the Digital River:how an artist learned to love the computer",
n.a., 1, vol. n.a., no. n.a., (publisher) Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, N.J., U.S.A., pp. 320, 2006.
This book is about art, written from an artist's point of view. It also is about computers, written from the perspective of a painter who uses them. Painting the Digital River is James Faure Walker's personal odyssey from the traditional art scene to fresh horizons, from hand to digital painting--and sometimes back again. It is a literate and witty attempt to make sense of the introduction of computer tools into the creation of art, to understand the issues and the fuss, to appreciate the people involved and the work they produce, to know the promise of the new media, as well as the risks. [read more...]
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event: Free workshop: community collections 27 July Aberystwyth
Submitted by AlunEdwards on Thu, 24/06/2010 - 11:25 27/07/2010 10:10
27/07/2010 17:00
Free RunCoCo/Culturenet Cymru workshop: How to Run a Community Collection Online will take place on Tues 27 July 2010 at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. [read more...]
Location
National Library of Wales
Aberystwyth SY23 3BUUnited Kingdom
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event: IS&T/SPIE 2011: Future of Electronic Imaging
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 02/06/2010 - 10:45 23/01/2011
27/01/2011
23rd annual EI Symposium. [read more...]
Location
San Francisco Airport Hyatt Regency
San Francisco, CaliforniaUnited States
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job: National Galleries of Scotland, Digital Project Manager (12 months)
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Wed, 02/06/2010 - 10:09Application Deadline:
14/06/2010
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Digital Project Manager in our New Media Services Department to be responsible for the specification, procurement and implementation of a new Digital Asset Management system. The role will develop the project from assessment of the overall digital asset management requirement to implementing the system roll-out. By doing so, the Digital Project Manager will be contributing to our wider corporate strategy of improving digital services within National Galleries of Scotland. [read more...]
event: Technology and 'the death of Art History' - The CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2010 Conference
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Thu, 27/05/2010 - 10:46 10/11/2010
11/11/2010
In recent decades the traditional practices of Art History have come increasingly under attack. This has led to changes so extreme that some have talked of the 'death of Art History'.
The CHArt 2010 Conference wishes to explore the role of digital technologies in the disruption of Art History and the profound changes in the way that we display, consume and study art. [read more...]
Location
London
United Kingdom
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Technology and 'the death of Art History' - The CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2010 Conference
Closing Date:
08/06/2010
In recent decades the traditional practices of Art History have come increasingly under attack. This has led to changes so extreme that some have talked of the 'death of Art History'.
The CHArt 2010 Conference wishes to explore the role of digital technologies in the disruption of Art History and the profound changes in the way that we display, consume and study art. [read more...]
event: International Seminar in Media Art - Ekaterinburg
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 20/05/2010 - 12:27 21/05/2010 14:00
Theory and Practice of Media Art:
Aesthetic Paragons and Perspectives
Ekaterinburg, May 21, 2010
14:00, Ural State University, room 314 (Lenina 51)
As new media art becomes more ubiquitous, it is crucial to see through
its trendiness to its epistemological and aesthetic implications.
Operating in the convergence between the arts, science and technology,
media art instigates a new set of cognitive phenomena and mandates new
practical and discursive agendas. With its strong multisensorial
effects, captivating and enthralling, it challenges the world of [read more...]
Location
Ekaterinburg
Russia
event: University of Sussex Motion Capture Methodologies Workshop
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 14/05/2010 - 14:54 25/06/2010 09:30
26/06/2010 16:00
The University of Sussex is delighted to host an interdisciplinary workshop on motion capture, as part of the methodologies workshop series organised by UK higher education bodies AHESSC (Arts & Humanities e-Science Support Centre, www.ahessc.ac.uk) and JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee, www.jisc.ac.uk), in collaboration with the Motion in Place Platform Projec(www.motioninplace.org). These events share experience and interests across specific digital development sectors that are nurturing research in the arts and humanities. [read more...]
Location
Lighthouse
BrightonUnited Kingdom
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Win £150 `Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour` Digital Media Competition
MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)
`Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour` Digital Media Competition
As part of the Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference, MaMSIE (http://mamsie.wikispaces.com/ ) are delighted to launch a Digital Media Competition. [read more...]
event: Free workshop: community collections 26 May Oxford
Submitted by AlunEdwards on Thu, 29/04/2010 - 11:34 26/05/2010 10:00
26/05/2010 17:00
Community collections, (like The Great War Archive www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa), help to harness the collective resources of a wider community and spread the costs of creating and contributing to a collection across the education and public sectors. A community can also be harnessed to enrich an existing collection with tags or comments (like Galaxy Zoo, www.galaxyzoo.org). Oxford University would like to invite those interested in such projects to take part in a free RunCoCo workshop on 26 May (http://projects.oucs.ox.ac.uk/runcoco/events/index.html). [read more...]
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OUCS 13 Banbury Road
Oxford OX26NNUnited Kingdom
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Launch of Ashmolean Museum's Eastern Art Online: The Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art
Recent launch of Eastern Art Online: The Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art
http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/
This is a major online resource from the recently expanded and refurbished Ashmolean, to open up the University of Oxford's Islamic and Asian Art collections held at the Museum to a wider audience.
The site showcases collections from the Islamic Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea. Currently there are around 1,400 objects on the site, but this figure will be [read more...]
CfP: IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems
Closing Date:
29/03/2010
IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER GRAPHICS, VISUALIZATION, COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE PROCESSING 2010
* Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks and oral presentations. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM with ISBN, and will be available also in the IADIS Digital Library (accessible on-line).
* Best Papers [read more...]
job: Visual Resources Digitisation Officer
Submitted by garethknight on Wed, 24/02/2010 - 11:36Application Deadline:
25/02/2010
Visual Resources Digitisation Officer (FIXED TERM CONTRACT)
5 months (1.0 FTE) or 10 months (0.5 FTE)
Salary: £27,318to £30,748 pa based on 1.0 FTE
Location: Farnham
Ref: 10-LIBR143-02
The University for the Creative Arts has campuses at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham, Maidstone and Rochester and is home to 6,500 students from over 70 countries studying on courses in fashion, graphics, design, media, fine art and architecture.
The Imagio project is a Library and Learning Services project funded by the University to support teaching and learning. [read more...]
event: Scientist Dr. Dolores Steinman - Investigating the body: Current Medical Visual Culture
Submitted by Gordana on Mon, 22/02/2010 - 15:27 09/03/2010 18:00
09/03/2010 19:00
[TESLA@UCL] Scientist Dr. Dolores Steinman:: Investigating the body: Current Medical Visual Culture:: Tuesday, 09 March, 18:00 – 19:00
http://tesla-ucl.blogspot.com/
Tuesday, 09 March; 18:00 – 19:00
University College London
Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
Garwood Lecture Theatre, South Wing
(Details how to get there at the bottom of the page)
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Location
Gower Street University College London (UCL), Garwood Lecture Theatre
Lodon WC1E 6BTUnited Kingdom
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event: Digital imaging of ancient textual heritage: technological challenges and solutions
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 17/02/2010 - 12:18 28/10/2010 08:00
29/10/2010 17:00
The Academy of Finland research unit ‘Ancient Greek written sources’ (CoE) is organizing a symposium "Digital Imaging of Ancient Textual Heritage: Technological Challenges and Solutions".
The programme comprises of two plenary sessions that are open for public, two workshops that are intended for the speakers only, and one open session on end-user perspective.
Participation in the symposium is free of charge (however, registration is compulsory). For the accepted speakers the CoE will be covering the travel and accommodation costs. [read more...]
Location
National Library of Finland
HelsinkiUnited Kingdom
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