Upcoming events

SXSW Interactive

Sarah Middle — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:02:44 +0000

Start: 12/03/2010

End: 16/03/2010

The SXSW (South by Southwest) Interactive Festival features five days of exciting panel content and amazing parties. [read more...]

An Introduction to Web 2.0 and the Social Web

Valentina Asciutti — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:13:14 +0000

Start: 17/03/2010 - 10:00

End: 17/03/2010 - 16:00

Web 2.0 and the Social Web are terms which are now being used widely. But what do these terms mean? And what, if anything, can Web 2.0 and the Social Web offer to museums, libraries and archives, especially small organisations with limited budgets and technical expertise?

This workshop will attempt to answer these questions. As well as demystifying the terms and the technologies, the workshop will also address the challenges which institutions may face in seeking to make use of Web 2.0 to support the needs of their users.

Learning Objectives [read more...]

Social Software in the Digital Humanities

The Loud Speaker

Ryan Jordan — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:43:57 +0000

Start: 17/03/2010 - 18:30

End: 17/03/2010 - 23:50

Sound and Music, Noise = Noise and Goldsmiths University present:

The Loudspeaker

Bringing together electroacoustic legend Zbigniew Karkowski, extreme computer sound and image artist ILIOS and instrumental and electronic composer Antoine Cheesex, The Loudspeaker is a trio that performs exclusively with tone generators and sub bass frequencies.

This is The Loudspeaker’s first UK performance. You should expect a visceral and powerful physical sound experience. This show is a rare treat for fans of extreme infrasonics.

www.antifrost.gr/loudspeaker.html

Support comes from: [read more...]

Intimacy: Across Digital and Visceral Performance

Collaborations in conserving time-based art

Valentina Asciutti — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:26:57 +0000

Start: 17/03/2010 - 19:00

End: 19/03/2010 - 17:00

A Colloquium co-sponsored by The Hirshhorn Museum and the Lunder Conservation Center, Smithsonian Institution.

• Registration: free

It’s widely understood that the special challenges of conserving film, video, computer-based, and interactive art demand collaborative efforts—shared responsibility among a wide array of disciplines. Over the past decade, best practices and shared principles about the care of this art have been developed…emulation, migration, variability. But how do these practices actually work in the real world? [read more...]

EUROCLIO 17th Annual Professional Training and Development Conference

Euroclio — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 07:34:18 +0000

Start: 22/03/2010

End: 28/03/2010

The 17th EUROCLIO Annual International Professional Development Conference “A Bridge Too Far? Teaching Common European History, Themes, Perspectives and Levels” will take place on March 22-28 2010 in the vicinity of Nijmegen, a rich in historical heritage city, in the Eastern part of the Netherlands. [read more...]

Improving Information Management: Developing an Information Policy

Valentina Asciutti — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:03:07 +0000

Start: 23/03/2010 - 10:00

End: 23/03/2010 - 16:30

A few places are available for the following free workshop on Tuesday 23rd March.

The London Museums Hub Information and Records Management Project is pleased to offer a series of workshops on different aspects of information management. The workshops are designed to take participants
through the stages involved in implementing information polices, and are based on the Information Management Toolkit released in January 2010 (see: http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/Manage_Info)

The training is free to museum staff (paid and unpaid) working in London. [read more...]

The London Digital Humanities Group

London Digital Humanities Group: Textual, Cartographical & Digital Space: The Literary GIS, Ian Gregory and David Cooper

simonqmul — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:39:46 +0000

Start: 23/03/2010 - 17:00

End: 23/03/2010 - 19:00

The second meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group will take place in the Lock-keepers Cottage, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary, University of London on Tuesday 23 March at 5pm. Ian Gregory and David Cooper (Lancaster University) will talk about: [read more...]

‘Textual, Cartographical & Digital Space: The Literary GIS’

The London Digital Humanities Group

TESLA@UCL_SPECIAL] Artist, Curator and Lecturer Barbara Steveni: Beyond the Acid Free

Gordana — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:59:06 +0000

Start: 24/03/2010 - 18:00

Barbara Steveni conceived and co-founded the Artist Placement Group (APG), in London in 1966. Steveni’s innovative concept, based on a more holistic and intuitive view of Art than was current at the time, would take another 20 years to enter the mainstream. APG, later renamed O+I, acted as the precursor to current notions of ‘Artist in Residence’ and Public Art programmes. [read more...]

Digital Historian

Rewired culture

Valentina Asciutti — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:10:39 +0000

Start: 27/03/2010

How do we encourage links between data repositories such as museums, broadcasters and the wider community like data.gov.uk or the "London Datastore"? How do we ensure that the exciting work already underway in
a number of organizations is shared more generally, so even smaller bodies and SMEs can learn from best practice and find workable routes to market? What are the cultural content business models for the 21st
century? How do creators, curators, developers and entrepreneurs work together? [read more...]

e-Science

Digital Preservation Training Programme

Valentina Asciutti — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:54:21 +0000

Start: 29/03/2010

End: 31/03/2010

The next Digital Preservation Training Programme is scheduled for 29th-31st March 2010. It will take place at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London. See
http://www.dptp.org/about/dptp-london-soas-march-2010/ for more information.

The Digital Preservation Training Programme (DPTP) is an intensive 3-day
course designed for all those working in institutional information
management who are grappling with fundamental issues of digital
preservation. It provides the skills and knowledge necessary for [read more...]

e-Science

Open Source GIS for .NET (MapWindow2010)

Valentina Asciutti — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:58:25 +0000

Start: 31/03/2010

End: 02/04/2010

If you are interested in learning about open source GIS for the .NET platform, please consider coming to MapWindow 2010 in Orlando,Florida, 31 March - 2 April, 2010.
(http://www.mapwindow.org/conference/2010/) [read more...]

e-Science

CAA 2010

Valentina Asciutti — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:15:16 +0000

Start: 06/04/2010

End: 09/04/2010

The XXXVIII Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology will be held in the world famous city of Granada, Spain.

Granada is a historic city where visitors can enjoy a large number of diverse experiences from the different cultures that have lived in this city (romans, arabs, jews and christians). [read more...]

Archaeology and 3D technology

22nd International Sculpture Conference, London, UK- April 7-9, 2010

International Sculpture Center — Fri, 08 May 2009 21:28:39 +0000

Start: 07/04/2010 - 00:00

End: 09/04/2010 - 23:50

What is Sculpture in the 21st Century?
The ISC's 22nd International Sculpture Conference will explore and consider the potential of sculpture in the 21st century - to provide an opportunity to both celebrate its vitality and diversity, its capacity to challenge, and to examine its current position, function and production.

Archaeology and 3D technology

International Sculpture Center’s 22nd International Sculpture Conference

International Sculpture Center — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:21:27 +0000

Start: 07/04/2010

End: 09/04/2010

Antony Gormley and Lucy Orta will headline the International Sculpture Center’s 22nd International Sculpture Conference, “What is Sculpture in the 21st Century?”, being held in London, UK, April 7-9. This monumental event will explore topics including: The Languages of Sculpture; Public Perception and Investment; and The State of Education. [read more...]

Renaissance Studies and New Technologies

Lydia Horstman — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:40:37 +0000

Start: 08/04/2010

End: 10/04/2010

For the past eight years, the Renaissance Society of America program has featured a number of sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. [read more...]

5th EGEE User Forum Search

Lydia Horstman — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:24:41 +0000

Start: 12/04/2010

End: 16/04/2010

The User Forum is a key annual event organised by the Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project. The forum provides an important opportunity to scientific communities exploiting distributed infrastructure technologies, to present their work, discuss technology usage with colleagues, and learn about advances in middleware and application services. [read more...]

e-Science

Museums and the Web 2010

jtrant — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:36:52 +0000

Start: 13/04/2010 - 09:30

End: 17/04/2010 - 17:30

Museums and the Web is an annual conference exploring the social, cultural, design, technological, economic, and organizational issues of culture, science and heritage on-line. Taking an international perspective, MW reviews and analyzes the issues and impacts of networked cultural, natural and scientific heritage.

Our community has been meeting since 1997, imagining, tracking, analyzing, and influencing the role museums play on the Web.

Historical GIS at ESSHC conference

Lydia Horstman — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:46:38 +0000

Start: 13/04/2010

End: 16/04/2010

The European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) has added Historical GIS to its History and Computing network to create a new network provisionally called "Historical Computing and GIS." It is hoped that that this new network will become a focus for Historical GIS research in Europe. This new network will be launched at the next ESSHC conference which will take place in Ghent, Belgium. [read more...]

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GIS Research UK (GISRUK)

Valentina Asciutti — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:36:14 +0000

Start: 14/04/2010 - 09:30

End: 16/04/2010 - 15:20

The 18th annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) conference will be held at UCL, from Wednesday 14 April to Friday 16 April 2009. [read more...]

Mapping the Past

Transforming Culture in the Digital Age

Valentina Asciutti — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:12:11 +0000

Start: 14/04/2010 - 10:00

End: 16/04/2010 - 18:00

Increasingly, we see new forms of culture being born in the variety of online environments. Users have become producers taking over production of online content and traditional hierarchies of users and producers are collapsing. At the same time, traditional memory institutions like museums, archives, libraries and acknowledged artists struggle to make sense of the transformations that are coming together with new technologies. [read more...]

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