The Foremost European Electronic Imaging Events in the Visual Arts since 1990
11th EVA London conference: Culture x Technology across Europe & Internationally
A key international forum for users, suppliers, researchers & government
University College London and British Computer Society
Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th July
British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London
Wednesday 27, Thursday 28 & Friday 29 July
UCL, University College London, the new Malet Place Engineering Building
Programme includes:
* Museums, Libraries & Archives
* Archaeology, Architecture & History [ARCH-IT]
* Music, Dance & Opera
* Theatre, Film & TV
* Advanced 3D & VR
* R&D Projects for Culture x Technology
* Strategic Issues & New Directions
Discussions on the remaining stages of the EC's sixth Programme and the Seventh Framework Programme (2006 - ) as well as results and progress reports on the initial wave of projects such as BRICKS and MINERVA.
Conference Co-chairs: Suzanne Keene, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, and James Hemsley, EVA
Event manager: Monica Kaayk, EVA
Marketing & promotion opportunities including corporate & government sponsorship:
Demonstrations, Product/Service presentations and Exhibition
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Strategies & New Directions
Session Leaders: Suzanne Keene, Institute of Archaeology, UCL
The New Italian Heritage Portal
Stella Montanari, Consorzio Forma, Scuola Normale Supperiore, Pisa
E-Learning Chess Through the Internet
V Shishkin, Ulyanovsk State University
The Uigarden Project, Two Languages, Two Forums and a Cultural Exchange (Chinese & English)
Christine Li, Eleanor Lisney, Sean Liu, Infinitive Interactive Ltd
SizeUK: Imaging the Body for Fashion
Jennifer Bougourd, London College of Fashion
Museums, Libraries & Archives
Session Leaders: Alan Seal, Victoria & Albert Museum
Catherine Draycott, the Wellcome Institute
How do PDAs work at the Royal Institution of Great Britain?
Will Pearson, NESTA, Benedetta Tiana, Event Communication, Susie Fisher The Susie Fisher Group, London
The Study of High-tech and Low-tech Interactives in three London Museums
Francesca Monti, Institute of Archaeology, UCL
Digital Library of Russian Books of the XVIII Century
Valery Solovyev Kazan State University
Where now for museum RSS – really simple syndication
Jon Pratty, 24Hour Museum
Can Small Museums Develop Compelling, Educational and Accessible Web Resources? The case of Accademia Carrara
Silvia Filippini-Fantoni, University of Paris, Jonathan Bowen, LSBU
Simulacra & the Public Sector
Patrick Towell, Simulacra, England
The New Business Matrix - Digital Content Strategies/e-learning/e-commerce
Anthony Hamber, Learning Markets Analysis
Archaeology, Architecture, History & Technology ‘ARCH-IT’
Session Leaders: Jonathan Bowen LSBU and David Dawson, MLA
Museal & Monument Settings
Stella Montanari, Consorzio Forma, Scuola Normale Supperiore, Pisa
Computer Reconstruction of the Architectural and Historical Heritage
D Kordonchik, J Matushanskaya, Kazan State Academy of Architecture & Civil Engineering
Digitization of Cultural content, The Greek Strategy: Digitising Content, Preserving Collective Memory
Dimitrios Tsoli, University of Patras, Greece
Virtual Model Development of the Underground City, Zmeinogorsk
Sergey Pomoro, Polzunov Altai State Technical Univesity, Russia
Fortuna Visiva of Pompeii
Maria Emilia Masci, Scula Normale Superiore, Pisa
SVM, Siberian Virtual Museum of Informatics History
V Kasyanov, AP Ershov, Institute of Informatics Systems Russia
Rights Management
Session Leader: Vito Cappellini, University of Florence
Copyright and Promotion: Oxymoron or Opportunity
Jonathan Bowen, Teresa Numerico, London South Bank University
Reproduction Charging Models & Rights Policy for Digital Images in American Art Museums
Simon Tanner, Kings College London
The Key to Digital Certainty
Martin Warner, Codel Ltd
Special pre-Event to Friday’s Performing Arts I
Session Leader James Swinson, The SMARTlab Centre, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London University of the Arts
Towards Intelligent Responsive Sound
M d’Inverno, University of Westminster
Tate Online: Making Sense of Complexity
Jemima Rellie, Tate
Distribution, Aggregation and Added Value - Setting the Data Free!
Paul Miller, Common Information Environment, JISC
EC funding from 2005-2010 Sixth to Seventh Framework Programmes:
Panel Discussion
New Technology Developments I
Session Leaders
Vito Cappellini, UoF, Lindsay MacDonald, LCC, the London University of the Arts
Application Framework for CANVAS
Hank Kaczmarski, University of Illinois, USA
The Big Picture
Graham Diprose, University of the Arts, London
Framework of a Real-time Interactive Audio-video Registration & Recognition system
Mooath Al-Rajab, ICSRiM, University of Leeds
Virtual Touch of a Sculpture
Halina Gotleib, H Simonsson & H Öjmyr, Visions for Museums, Interactive Institute, Sweden
SITE Project
Petra Reiter, Austrian Research Promotion Agency
A Gesture Control Framework for 3D Augmented Character Animation
Basmah Daham Jassem, ICSRiM, University of Leeds
EDINA, JISC and Getty Images - now it gets personal
Andrew Bevan, EDINA
New Technology Trends
Panel Discussion
Performing Arts II
Session Leaders: James Swinson, The SMARTlab Centre, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London University of the Arts, Kia Ng, ISCRiM, University of Leeds
Opendrama, Pro-Active Archiving & Operaindex+
G Howard, SSL, S Beecham, Art of Memory, London
Interactive Multimedia Technologies for Music
Bee Ong, ICSRiM University Leeds
Education & Learning
Session Leaders: Rowena Loverance, British Museum, James Hemsley, EVA
Situated and Adaptive e-Learning for Cultural Heritage
Stefano de Luca, Enterprise Digital Architects spa. Rome
The Bigger Digital Picture – A Method for Identifying Community Needs
Mike Pringle, AHDS Visual Arts, Surrey Institute of Art & Design, University College
E-Learning: Adaptive Technology for Quality Control in a Value Education Course
A Usachev, E Medvedeva, Krasnoyarsk State Technical University, Russia
Adding a New Dimension to Learning
Elizabeth Henson, Ian Crowther, Robin MacTaggart, Kestrel 3D Visualisation
New Technology Development II
Session Leaders: Anna Clark, UCL Business Development Manager,
Kia Ng, ICSRiM, University of Leeds
Automated Multi-Channel Cross-Media Production and Distribution
Bee Ong, ICSRiM, University of Leeds
Evolving Ceative Picture Painter Pograms Using Darwinian Techniques with an Automated Fitness Function
Steve DiPaola, Simon Fraser Univesity, Canada
Digital Media & Film:
Panel Discussion
‘Putting it all Together’ Future Trends & Funding
Session Leaders: George Mallen, System Simulation
Vito Cappellini, University of Florence
Panel Session: To 2010 & Beyond + Framework 6 & Framework 7
Mon 1.
Bricks (EC Project) Masterclass in European Cultural Heritage Systems
Benedetto Benedetti, Irene Bounazia, Maria, Emelia Masci, Stella Montani
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Venue: The British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London
European-wide efforts in heritage systems are moving increasingly to state of the art technologies in a maturation phase into cross-European systems. This is the approach in BRICKS, the largest EC project in the area, across Europe and Russia of heritage. It is led by the major Italian company, Engineering and includes partners from Framework VII.
Professor Benedetti has been among the pioneers in the area and has played a key role in the swift development of culture x technology in Tuscany, Italy and the rest of Europe for some 20 years. This masterclass is an excellent opportunity for archive, library, museum and academia professionals to improve their capabilities in advanced heritage applications.
Mon 2 and Mon 3 (double session).
Navigation and Interaction with 2D and 3D Photographic Environments
Moshe Caine
Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design, Jerusalem
http://www.bezalel.ac.il/
Venue: The British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London
Museums, Architectural and Archaeological sites are (amongst others) prime users of photography and 3D technologies to represent environments and objects. The workshop will outline a variety of low to medium end technologies, designed to enable user navigation in and interaction with these environments.
Moshe Caine is one of Israel’s leading specialists in the area of multimedia for art and culture and has also developed visitor systems for one of London’s leading specialist museums.
Tues 4.
Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Research Workshop Advanced on Advanced R&D in 'Culture x Technology'
Chaired by: Suzanne Keene UCL & James Hemsley EVA
Venue: UCL, Malet Place Engineering Building
The workshop brings together Masters & PhD students as well as individual academic researchersfrom an eclectic range of perspectives to share current work & future plans and dreams.
Speakers include:
-Melina Giannakis - PhD on VR of historic London
-Mark Carnall - museums could use gaming and chat rooms etc
-Pip Laurensen - conservation of works of art in time based media
Tues 5.
3D Intelligent Heritage Research Workshop
Organised by the Intelligent Media Institute, IMI
Venue: UCL, Malet Place Engineering Building, Torrington Place
IMI has been established by a consortium of London universities and colleges, led by UCL, Imperial, Kings and London University for the Arts with government and industrial support.
The topic of 3D for the heritage has been chosen because of its rapidly emerging importance. In addition there will be the London 3D Imaging Conference & Application Workshops which are taking place from 14 – 17 February 2006.
Welcome & Introduction: Professor Treleaven, Pro-Provost UCL & James Hemsley, EVA
Research projects
* 3D Art Representation, Nick Lambert, Birkbeck College
* 3D Object Authenticity Analysis Research: Anna Clarke & Stuart Robson, UCL
* London's Shakespearian Theatre Heritage
* '3D Puzzeling' of Archaeologial Objects
* Building a 3D Image Library of London's Most Valuable Objects: Panel
* Building a Research Roadmap
* General Discussion, including of funding opportunities