EVA Scotland

24th - 28th July 2001

The Foremost European Electronic Imaging Events in the Visual Arts since 1990

Theme: Co-operation across Northern Europe, North Atlantic & with other regions: Integration between diverse cultural institutions
Venue: Hunterian Museum. University of Glasgow

Conference information

Conference

The Foremost European Electronic Imaging Events in the Visual Arts since 1990

The most recent EVA Scotland was held in 2001

Theme: Co-operation across Northern Europe, North Atlantic & with other regions: Integration between diverse cultural institutions
Venue: Hunterian Museum. University of Glasgow



25 - 28 July 2001

EVA 2001 Scotland provided a forum for the user, supplier and scientific research communities to meet and exchange experiences, plans and ideas, Participants received up to date international news on new EC & international cultural initiatives & projects.


The Scottish Arts Council (SAC) generously supported EVA 2001 Scotland, Glasgow including the provision of 15 bursaries for artists and representatives of relevant arts organisations within Scotland.

Attendance

•The Cultural Sector: Museums, Galleries & Libraries
•University & Research Organisations in Technology & the Visual Arts
•Technology, Media & Telecomms (TMT) especially Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs)
•The Government Sector: Local, National & European
•Technology & Visual Arts Researchers
•Tourism & Travel Sector

Main Conference Topics

•User Case Studies of culture x Technology'
•Strategic Issues
•Metadata Repositories
•New Technology Developments from North Europe
•Technology & Visual Arts Research
•New Cultural Technology Business Initiatives

Further Information

Programme summary

Key Working Issue: North America Europe co-operative relationships

Tuesday 24th July

TUTORIALS / WORKSHOPS / ROUNDTABLE

Digital Imaging & Metadata
DIGICULT Roundtable (by Invitation only)

Wednesday 25th July

WORKSHOPS

Contemporary Art Documentation
Building a Project Plan: a Hands-on Workshop
SCRAN – Past & Future

Thursday 26th July

CONFERENCE

Co-Chairs: Jim Devine, Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow & Bruce Royan, SCRAN

Tools for Networking Cultural Heritage: The NINCH Guide to Good Practice
David Green, The National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), USA

Mapping the Technological Landscapes for Tomorrow's Cultural Economy: The EU's DIGICULT Project
Sandy Buchanan, Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network (SCRAN), Scotland

The European Public Sector Information Network: PSI Net
Mary Rowlatt, Essex County Council & Robert Davies, MDR Partners, London

The Dutch Culturenet as a Gateway to the Dutch Cultural Heritage on the Internet
Marcel Ras, Dutch Digital Heritage Association The Netherlands

The Nordic Project:n2art

New Directions: 'From Archives to Aura'

Archives & The Role of New Technologies
Patrick Cadell, International Council of Archives, Scotland

The Place is the Brain
Leonard Steinbach, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA

The Virtual Aura - Is There Space For Enchantment in a Technological World?
Susan Hazan, The Israel Museum, Israel

Leading Edge Case Studies

Virtual Heritage from Glasgow & Lanark
Gareth Ennis, University of Strathclyde, Scotland

Playing to Strengths: New Media At the Cleveland Museum of Art
Holly Witchey, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA

COMPASS: The British Museum's Collections Multimedia Public Access System
Matthew Cock, The British Museum, London

The Harvard Judaica Imaging Project
Violet Gilboa, Harvard University, USA

Education

Multimedia - Transforming Learning and Teaching in the Arts
Seamus Ross, Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, Scotland

Virtual Reality Applications for the Didactics of Daily Life History
Maria Chiara Liguori, Department of Historical Disciplines of the Bologna University, Italy

Film & Performing Arts (Session 1)

Performing Arts in the Digital Age: Preserving the Moment?
Catherine Owen, Performing Arts Data Service, University of Glasgow

To Speak its Pride - John Grierson and the Films of Scotland Committee
Janet McBain, Scottish Screen Archive, Scotland

Friday 27th July

Advanced Technology including New European Projects

Co-Chairs: James Hemsley, National Museums of Scotland & VASARI; Ray Welland, University of Glasgow

Film & Performing Arts (Session 2)

New Media Art & the Contemporary Museum Environment
Malcolm Ferris, Center for Research in Electronic Art & Communication, University of Hertfordshire

Shot-Level Indexing of Moving Images: N. American Research Results & European Perspectives
James M. Turner, University of Montreal, Canada

Innovative Pilot Technology Applications

SHADE: Smithsonian - Hunterian Digitisation Experiments
Carl C Hansen, Center for Scientific Imaging & Photography, Smithsonian Institution, USA

New Hardware - New Multimedia: Experiments Across Europe
Neil Shaw, The Multimedia Team, National Museums of Scotland, Scotland

Granular Collections Access: Extending the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) with Making Of America II (MOAII) Objects
Guenter Waibel, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, USA

New Approaches & Tools for Copyright Management
Claude Rollin, SACD, Paris, France

Towards Cultural Multimedia & E-Commerce - the European - Japanese TRADEX project
Vito Cappellini, University of Florence, Italy

Advanced Technology Developments

The Impact of HAPTIC 'Touching' Technology on Cultural Applications
Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow, Scotland

3D Acquisition & Modelling of Deformable, Non-rigid Objects Under Movement Using Spectral Coded Lighting
Lothar Paul & Gerd Stanke, GFaI, Berlin, Germany

Pandora: A Box Full of Data Within A JPEG2000 Image File
Greg Colyer, Elysium, UK

From the EC's Fifth Framework Programme (1998 - 2002)
Towards the 6th (2003 - 2006) - The Florence Agenda
The European Commission, Luxembourg

Saturday 28th July

WORKSHOPS

Cultural and Educational Games Workshop

Business Opportunities & Winning Financial Support & the Sixth Framework Programme