EVA London

Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

If you are interested in the new technologies in the cultural sector – if you are an artist, policy maker, manager, researcher, practitioner, audience evaluator or educator – this conference is for you.

When? 22-24 July 2008
Where? British Computer Society, London WC2E 7HA

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2008

EVA London 2008: 22-24 July



Central London venue:
British Computer Society, Southampton Street, London WD2E 7HA

EVA London 2008 is co-sponsored by the Computer Arts Society,
a Specialist Group of the British Computer Society.

CAS will celebrate its 40th Anniversary in 2008 and will join with EVA
in showcasing how digital technology has revolutionised the arts and interactive media.

Registration open

Catch the Early Bird rates until 31st May. Register now

Who is EVA London for?

If you are interested in the new technologies in the cultural sector – if you are an artist, policy maker, manager, researcher, practitioner, audience evaluator or educator – this conference is for you.
2008 outline programme
Full programme in draft

EVA London 2008 will debate the issues, discuss trends and demonstrate the digitial possibilities in:
• Performing arts
• Visual arts
• New technologies
• Interactive media
• Museums, archives and galleries

Sponsorship and demonstrations

There are also attractive opportunities for organisations to support an aspect of the conference such as the publication or a reception or bursaries for delegates, or to demonstrate services or products. Please email info@eva-conferences.com.

Marketing and promotion

There are attractive cost-effective marketing & promotion opportunities including corporate and government bursary sponsorship.

Conference Co-chairs
Suzanne Keene, Institute of Archaeology, UCL
George Mallen, System Simulation
Lindsay MacDonald, LCC
Jonathan Bowen, Museophile
Stuart Dunn, King's College London papers@eva-conferences.com
James Hemsley, EVA Founding Chair

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Outline programme

Provisional programme, details may change.

Monday 21st July

4.30 - EVENING
Pre-conference welcome reception and Visualisation
SMARTlab, University of East London, will demonstrate their advanced projection lab. Drinks reception.

Conference Day 1: Tuesday 22nd July

MORNING
Visual Arts 1
Keynote Speaker
New Technologies 1

AFTERNOON
Performing Arts 1
Visualisation 1

PARALLEL SESSIONS

am: Research Workshop
pm: Participatory Art Workshop

Conference Day 2: Wednesday 23rd July

MORNING
Cultural Developments 1
Keynote Speaker
Visual Arts 2

AFTERNOON
Interaction 1
New Technologies 2

PARALLEL SESSIONS

am: Planning Social Media for Museums
pm: Participatory Art Workshop

pm: Visualisations and demos

Conference Day 3: Thursday 24th July

MORNING
Visualisation 2
Keynote Speaker
Interaction 2

AFTERNOON
Performing Arts 2
Cultural Developments 2

PARALLEL SESSIONS

am: The British Library Archive of Sound Recordings
pm: Strategies for online impact assessment

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For authors

Instructions for Authors

Thank you for offering a paper for EVA London 2008.

The Proceedings will be published as a hard copy volume that each delegate will receive as part of their conference registration. We are very pleased to say that the proceedings will also be published online.

The deadline for submitting your full paper is 31 May 2008. Papers may not be accepted if submitted after this date.

Please submit your paper via the EasyChair website that you used in submitting your proposal. You need to log in using your registration details. Go to EasyChair

Please also post a signed paper copy of the copyright declaration (instructions on the form). Download copyright declaration

The standard format file that we request you to use in preparing your paper is here (download instructions / stylesheet). Examples of papers from EVA London 2007 can be seen on http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/2007/papers.

Papers will be peer refereed by at least two people. Your paper may not be suitable for publication. You are advised to take account of the reviewers' comments which have been forwarded to you. The peer group reviewers will take account of these when they assess your paper when it is submitted. Papers may be edited for clarity and grammar.

(download instructions)

Don't forget to register now. Up to 31 May 2008 you can combine the special rates for authors with the Early Bird rate - excellent value.

Please note that EVA presentations have a strict time limit of 20 minutes, including any question time. Instructions for presentations will be posted nearer the time.

Meanwhile, thank you for your paper. We look forward to meeting you 22-24th July, at the British Computer Society, at EVA London 2008.

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Register

Register & pay by 15 July 2007. Early Bird rates until 31st May.

Please download the registration form (click here) and fax or post with payment details to:
Gemma Liddiard, BCS, 1st Floor, Block D, North Star House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1FA
Fax: +44(0)1793 417444
Email: gemma.liddiard@hq.bcs.org.uk
Enquiries: Tel: +44(0)1793 417656

Outline programme: see Conference outline. Details may be subject to change.

The registration fee includes attendance and lunch on the conference days chosen and any workshops or demonstrations on those days; Attendance at the opening event and reception on 21st July; One copy of the conference proceedings.

Registration rates

Early Bird rates by 31st May

Delegate:
1 day £90
2 days £162
3 days £198

Speaker / demonstrator / author:
1 day £72
2 days £135
3 days £162

Concession (students with NUS card number, and those with no access to grants for conference attendance)
1 day £45
2 days £72
3 days £90

Full rates by 15th July

Delegate:
1 day £100
2 days £180
3 days £220

Speaker / demonstrator / author:
1 day £80
2 days £150
3 days £180

Concession (students with NUS card number, and those with no access to grants for conference attendance)
1 day £50
2 days £80
3 days £100

Download the registration form (click here)

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About

EVA London is held annually in July. A locally organised EVA conference, it is for people interested in or using the new technologies in the cultural sector, with a particular focus on visualisation.



EVA London -

• has a focus on visualisation for the arts and culture - interpreted broadly to include its impications, effects, and consequent strategies and policies
• covers the burgeoning creative uses of digital media for works of art and creative productions
• is a forum for European projects to disseminate the results of EC investment in technology for culture and the arts, and to publicise and explain funding opportunities
• is a networking event for other groups and projects
• includes a free-of-charge Research Workshop for MA, MSc and PhD students, and others, to share their research in a friendly and informal setting

2008 Chairs

Suzanne Keene (Chair) - University College London
Co-Chairs
George Mallen - System Simulation co.
Lindsay MacDonald - London College of Communication
Jonathan Bowen - Independent academic, Museophile
James Hemsley (Founding Chair)

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2007

9-13 July 2007

REGISTRATION OPEN

Registration is now open for EVA London 2007, to be held in the London College of Communications, University of the Arts London.

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Conference Outline

EVA Programme Outline

Monday 9th July

9.30:Research Workshop
WORKSHOP 1
Organiser: Kate Devlin

2.00: European Research Workshop
WORKSHOP 2
3D Models for Cultural Heritage Applications
Organiser: Francesco Spadoni

Tuesday 10th July

9.30: Museums Workshop
WORKSHOP 3
Planning social media for museums
Organiser: Dr Angelina Russo

2.30: Association of Heritage and Fine Art Photographers Workshop
WORKSHOP 4
Ethical considerations for the digital photography of
cultural heritage objects
Organiser: James Stephenson

2.00: European Digital Library Workshop
WORKSHOP 5
Organiser: David Dawson

Evening, 6.30: Computer Arts Society Meeting
Birkbeck College
Organiser: Nick Lambert

Wednesday 11th July

CONFERENCE DAY 1

9.30: The technological landscape: theory and ideas

pm: Visualisation: the museum & gallery context

2.00: JISC Workshop
WORKSHOP 6
ICT: New directions in e-Science & the Arts
Organisers: Ann Borda, Stuart Dunn

Tour of the Stanley Kubrick Archive

Thursday 12th July

CONFERENCE DAY 2

9.30: Digital arts & technologies

pm: Digital arts & technologies

pm: Panel Session: Archiving of Digital Artefacts

Visualisation Session

Conference Reception and Dinner

Friday 13th July

CONFERENCE DAY 3

9.30: Imaging in 2D and 3D

pm: Imaging in 2D and 3D: EC projects

Screening: Digital arts from SMARTlab

Workshops

Workshops at EVA London 2007

All workshops are free of charge except for Workshop 3. Please register using the downloadable registration form.

Times

Morning workshops start at 9.30: afternoon workshops start at 2.00 except the Wednesday afternoon workshop with JISC that starts at 1.00. All workshops are held at the London College of Communications, except for the evening CAS meeting, at Birkbeck College.

Monday 9th July

9.30: WORKSHOP 1
Research Workshop
Organiser: Kate Devlin
Join in the fourth in the highly successful series of research workshops held as part of EVA London. Meet fellow students, or learn about new research.

2.00: WORKSHOP 2
European Research Workshop
3D Models for Cultural Heritage applications
Organiser: Francesco Spadoni
This workshop will provide an international forum for discussing recent advances in the area of 3D modeling and visualisation technologies for cultural heritage, bringing together international stakeholders from cultural institutions and museums, university and research organisations.

Tuesday 10th July

9.30: WORKSHOP 3
Museums Workshop
Planning social media for museums
Organiser: Angelina Russo
Angelina Russo and the presenters are from Queensland University of Technology and the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia. This half-day workshop will explore the use of social media (blogs, wikis, digital stories etc.) to support museum communication. The workshop will address
• The range of web-based social media available to museums.
• The issues that will arise in planning for such applications.
• How to anticipate/address such issues.

pm: Concurrent workshops

2.00: WORKSHOP 4 (concurrent)
Association of Heritage and Fine Art Photographers (AHFAP)
Ethics of the digital manipulation of images of cultural heritage objects
Organiser: James Stevenson, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
This EVA workshop, supported by AHFAP, the professional association for museum, gallery and photographers of cultural heritage in the UK, will provide a forum to discuss the ethics of the manipulation of images in this sector.

2.00: WORKSHOP 5 (concurrent)
European Digital Library
Museums and the European Digital Library: a call to action
Organiser: David Dawson
This free workshop is a call to action for museums across Europe, from the largest national museums to the smallest local museum. Museums are an essential part of the European Digital Library. The workshop will present some of the latest developments at both political and technical levels

Evening:
- 6:30 pm
Computer Arts Society meeting at the Cinema on the Square, No.43 Gordon Sq, Birkbeck, University of London
'Ecology, Performance and Collaboration - Embodying Intimate Transactions' by Keith Armstrong.
Keith is an Australian/English interdisciplinary media artist from Queensland University of Technology and recently Calpoly State University, California.
This evening event is in association with the Computer Arts Society
Organiser: Nick Lambert

Wednesday 11th July

(concurrent with conference afternoon session)
1.00: WORKSHOP 6:
JISC ICT Workshop
New directions in e-Science & the Arts
Organisers: Ann Borda, Stuart Dunn
The half day workshop will be comprised of several thematic areas which will focus on how the take-up of e-Science is developing new areas of research in the Arts & Humanities community, including the performing arts and humanities research.

Evening: Reception and tour of the Kubrick Archive
The Stanley Kubrick Archive is held in the University Archives and Special Collections Centre at the Elephant and Castle. It is made up of an astounding range of material including papers, props and scripts, Kubrick's personal research into films made, as well as those that were conceived but never visualised. By maintaining a high degree of control in the film making process, Kubrick was able to retain material generated by his pioneering techniques, research, and production work which renders this collection one of the most complete examples of film making practice world-wide. The Archive is integral to the history of
the cinema and film, but perhaps more poignantly demonstrates articulately the process of artistic creation, through a portrait of an individual who had a rigorous attention to detail in all aspects of his work.

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CAS Event at Birkbeck

At the Screen on Gordon Square

Ecology, Performance and Collaboration - Embodying Intimate Transactions.

6.30 Tuesday 10th July

Intimate Transactions is a dual site, telematic installation currently been shown in the US. It allows two people located in separate spaces to interact simultaneously using only their bodies (predominantly their backs and feet), using two identical interfaces called 'Bodyshelves'. During a 30-minute, one-on-one session their physical actions allow them to individually and collaboratively explore immersive environments. Each participant's own way of interacting results in quite different, but interrelated animated and generative imagery, real time generated audio (seven channels), and three channels of haptic feedback (felt in the stomach and back). This experience allows each participant to begin to sense their place in a complex web of relations that connect them and everything else within the work.

Intimate Transactions is an investigation in creating embodied experiences that are both performative and improvisational by harnessing individual, performative languages of 'untrained' bodies as a means to engender understandings of 'ecological' relationship. It arose from a deep collaboration between media artists, performance practitioners, sound artists, hardware and software engineers, a furniture maker and a scientific ecologist. Our entire process was informed by a praxis-led approach to art making that stressed embodied connectivity and inseparability. This allowed us to understand how participants might move within the constraints of a particular interface, allowing us to shape and form the overall phrasing and sensibilities of their experiences, whilst maintaining the unique nature of their collaborative experiences. In this presentation Keith will discuss his practice-led research approach and illustrate the presentation with videos, images and sound. (www.intimatetransactions.com).

Keith Armstrong is an Australian/English interdisciplinary media artist, Australia Council New Media Arts Fellow, Queensland University of Technology Faculty of Creative Industries Research Fellow and has just finished a Visiting Professorship at Calpoly State University, California, working in collaboration with their Liberal Arts and Architecture Faculties.

His recent work Intimate Transactions, created with the Transmute Collective, received an Honorary Mention in the 2005 Prix Ars Electronica and featured in the 2005 Ars Electronica Festival in Austria. His latest interactive installation, Shifting Intimacies, was presented at the ICA London in March 2006.

Email: keith@embodiedmedia.com Web: www.embodiedmedia.com

Workshop 1

Workshop 1: The EVA Research Workshop 2007

Monday 9th July: 9.00

FREE OF CHARGE

Organiser: Kate Devlin research-workshop@eva-conferences.com

Invitation to Research Students and Researchers

Join in the fourth in the highly successful series of research workshops held as part of EVA London. Meet fellow students, or learn about new research.

The Research Workshops bring together Masters and PhD students and individual researchers. They are friendly, informal occasions for sharing current work and future dreams and plans.

Topics for this Workshop include:

The Evolution of Online Discussions in Images
Niki Lambropoulos
London South Bank University

A Computational Investigation Into Sketching.
Patrick Tresset
Goldsmiths, University of London

Collaborative artistic / curatorial practice
Giles Askham

On line cultural anthropology magazine
Nataly Lapkina

Web 2.0 social software as a tool for art museums
Pilar Gonzalo

Baltic Sea cultural database network
Mario Zetsche

Contact Kate Devlin research-workshop@eva-conferences.com

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Workshop 2

Workshop 2: 3D Models for Cultural Heritage applications

Monday 9th July: 2.00

FREE OF CHARGE

Organiser: Francesco Spadoni spadoni@rigel.li.it





Scope and rationale

Because it appeals to a wide audience, the cultural sector can supply several compelling forms of digital content suited for a diverse spectrum of uses, ranging from learning and entertainment to study of art history and cultural documentation. For this reason, the development of culture-related IT products and services has been the focus of a large number of efforts worldwide, originating both from companies and Government agencies. This is particularly true in Europe because of its immense repository of artistic treasures. One of the most effective media for visual representation of complex cultural artefacts is that of high-quality 3D graphical models.

3D models for cultural heritage applications constitute a new and exciting way for the general public to experience and appreciate culture and art. Apart from new means of presentation and access, such 3D models enable the development of novel paradigms in cultural heritage exploration and preservation. This workshop will provide an international forum for discussing recent advances in the area of 3D modeling and visualisation technologies for Cultural Heritage, aiming at bringing together international stakeholders from cultural institutions and museums, university and research organisations. We also welcome project coordinators and partners of recent and current EC co-funded project active in relevant sectors and invite them to disseminate the results achieved as well as to describe on-going research activities. The workshop is organised in conjunction with EVA London 2007 and the EC co-funded project RECOVER. This workshop is the latest in the series of exciting workshops on 3D technologies for Cultural Heritage organised for many years by EVA.

Objectives

* To present high level research in the areas of 3D digitisation, modeling, visualization, etc
* To share practical experiences concerning the acquisition and use of 3D models,
* To show results of past and currently active projects which demonstrate the benefits of 3D modeling and visualization for Cultural Heritage applications,
* To attract managers and directors of cultural institutions and museums to demonstrate the potential of innovative techniques for 3D visualization in Cultural Heritage applications.

Organization

Francesco Spadoni (chair )

Rigel Engineering S.r.l.
Research and Development Unit
Via Spagna, 10 - 57017 Livorno – Italy

e-mail: spadoni@rigel.li.it
phone: +39 0586 983000
Skype: spadaman-71

Programme Committe

Manolis Lourakis (FORTH, Greece) (co-chair)
Francesco Spadoni (Rigel Engineering, Italy)
Paolo Alongi (Space, Italy)
Filippo Lippi (Unicity, Italy)
Dominique Delouis (CHOL, France)
Piero Alcamo (Rigel Engineering, Italy)

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Workshop 3

Workshop 3: Planning social media for museums

Tuesday 10th July: 9.30

Organisers: Angelina Russo, Jerry Watkins: Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Sebastian Chan: Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

Charge: £40

This half-day workshop will explore the use of social media (blogs, wikis, digital stories etc.) to support museum communication. The workshop will address:
• The range of web-based social media available to museums.
• The issues that will arise in planning for such applications.
• How to anticipate/address such issues.

Structure

The workshop will be structured around four key topics:
• Changing communication models in the museum.
• Connecting youth audiences to museum content.
• Navigating internal resistance to implementing social media
• Strategies for engaging communities in the sharing of knowledge.

Workshop participants will work in small groups to explore each of the topics and work towards an understanding of how social media can be used effectively in museums.

Through small group activities, participants will address these questions:

• How far is the museum willing to relax its own authority in these areas of
knowledge?
• To what extent is the museum willing to promote community knowledge over its
own?
• How do social media effect museum communication?
• How will social media in museums contend with notions of authenticity and quality?

By examining these questions, the workshop aims to explore:

• The affect that accessible social media will have on the “voice and authority” of the museum.
• How social media will engender online, networked user interactions.
• Changing notions of sharing and presenting cultural identity in museums.

Why should you consider this workshop?

Major museums worldwide are starting to use social media to engage online users with new interactive experiences. While a few museums have begun to adopt social media in a significant fashion, there remains a lack of research into the design and communication processes by which museums can create and sustain user interaction with social media. This workshop will explore the use of social media in a manner which encourages user participation.

Why social media?

Social media enable cultural participants to both explore images of themselves and distribute those images across niche online social networks. This represents a shift in the ways in which museums:

• act as trusted cultural online networks;
• distribute community knowledge; and
• view their role as custodians of cultural content.

It is this broader distribution of community knowledge which sets social media apart from more traditional outreach models in which museums work with audiences. As the products of social media are readily available online, their existence within museum communication programs presents debate around an institution’s investment in its own continuing cultural authority.

What will you learn?

This workshop will provide you with an opportunity to brainstorm solutions to issues surrounding the use of social media in museums.

Who should attend?

Content Creators, Exhibition/IT managers, Website Producers, public Programmers, curators.

The workshop is open to those interested in exploring the use of social media to extend user communication with museum programs.
No prior experience or technical expertise is required.

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Workshop 4

WORKSHOP 4: THE ASSOCIATION FOR HISTORICAL AND FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY (AHFAP)

2.30 - 5.00 pm: Tuesday 10th July
FREE OF CHARGE

Organiser: James Stevenson, Victoria & Albert Museum, Chair of the Association j.stevenson@vam.ac.uk

Ethics of the digital manipulation of images of cultural heritage objects

The production of digital images of cultural objects contained in museums and galleries has meant that post-production alteration of the image is both easier and a more attractive option for photographers than in tradional film. Although the opportunity to change photographic images has always been possible, now with digital image creation and Photoshop it has become democratised so that it is possible for anyone, not just skilled creative technicians.

The purpose of this EVA workshop, supported by AHFAP, the professional association for museum, gallery and photographers of cultural heritage in the UK, is designed to provide a forum to discuss the ethics of the manipulation of images in this sector. Short presentations will be followed by an open and free discussion on the issues raised. Anyone wishing to make a short illustrated presentation, of no more that ten minutes, on any aspect of this topic is asked to contact the EVA organising committee or the Chairman of the AHFAP.

The workshop is free to applicants and everyone interested in heritage photography is encouraged to come to discuss this important topic.

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Workshop 5

WORKSHOP 5: MUSEUMS IN THE EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY: A CALL TO ACTION

2.00: Tuesday 10th July (concurrent with Workshop 4)

FREE OF CHARGE

Organisers:
David Dawson, Senior Policy Advisor (Digital Futures), Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Jill Cousins, TEL

The European digital library aims at making Europe's cultural and scientific heritage easier and more interesting to use online. It builds on Europe's rich heritage, combining multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models to achieve a multilingual access point to cultural collections from all Member States. By 2010 the European digital library will expand to include collections from archives, museums, libraries, and possibly publishers.

European digital library project http://www.edlproject.eu/

This free workshop is a call to action for museums across Europe, from the largest national museums to the smallest local museum. Museums are an essential part of the European Digital Library, and this workshop will present some of the latest developments at both political and technical levels, including:-

• the outcomes of the first meeting of the Member State Experts Group. This has been established by the European Commission to ensure collaboration between Member States and the European Commission in the development of the European digital library

• the recommendations of the Interoperability Group

• the latest news about the creation of a cross-domain foundation for the European digital library

The creation of the European digital library is being supported by the eContentplus programme, with approximately €20m allocated in 2007. The programme will aim to achieve interoperability between national digital collections and services (e.g. through common standards) and ensure that these will be accessible through the multilingual European digital library service.

The workshop will include presentations from

• Jill Cousins, Director of The European Library, The European Library is an Internet portal which offers access to the combined resources of national libraries in Europe, and is one of the foundations of the European digital library.

• David Dawson, Senior Policy Adviser for Digital Futures at the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. David is UK representative on the European digital library Member State Experts group and is a member of the European digital library Interoperability Group.

• Guus Schreiber, Professor of Intelligent Information Systems, Free University of Amsterdam. Guus is working on the MultimediaN eculture project which is using semantic web technologies to cross-search a number of Netherlands museum collections

The presentations will be followed by a discussion

chaired by David Fuegi, independent consultant, aimed to formulate recommendations as to how museum and galleries can actively engage in the European digital library initiative.

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Workshop 6

WORKSHOP 6: JISC WORKSHOP: New directions in e-Science and visual perceptions

1.00: Wednesday 11th July (concurrent with Conference afternoon session) followed by a presentation to the Conference at 4.50

FREE OF CHARGE BUT REQUIRES REGISTRATION

Organisers:
Dr. Ann Borda (JISC) a.borda@jisc.ac.uk)
Dr. Stuart Dunn (AHeSSC – Kings College London) stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk
Dr. Tobias Blanke (AHeSSC – Kings College London) tobias.blanke@kcl.ac.uk

Summary:

This workshop, led by JISC (www.jisc.ac.uk) and the Arts & Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC – www.ahessc.ac.uk ), aims to stimulate discussion around the creative and research uses of e-Science tools and methods (so-called grid technologies, and technologies integrated with them such as data-mining, simulation and visualization) in the Arts & Humanities within the UK.

The half-day workshop will focus on how the take-up of e-Science is developing new areas of research in the Arts & Humanities community, including the performing arts and humanities research.

There will be three plenary sessions to introduce key topics and provide contextual background information to a variety of work being undertaken. A set of presentations will further offer demonstrative examples of activity by projects funded by JISC, AHRC and EPSRC under the e-Science ‘umbrella’.

The outcomes of the workshop will contribute directly to a special issue in the Digital Humanities Quarterly, and a THES themed article.

AGENDA

Chair: Ann Borda (JISC)

1pm: Introduction: Overview– e-Science and the Arts (Tobias Blanke (AHESSC)

Performing Arts

e-Science and Creativity (Gregory Sporton -Birmingham)

AMUC project (Sally Jane Norman –Culture Lab, Newcastle)

CSAGE Project (Martin Turner/Anja LeBlanc – Manchester)

2.30-2.45 - Coffee Break

2.45 - Intersections between Arts and the Humanities – (Stuart Dunn – AHESSC)

Introduction: Intersections between Arts and the Humanities – (Stuart Dunn – AHESSC)

Frustration vs Adoption: Artists and ICT Tools (Mike Pringle – VADS)

Real-Time Expansion: the potentials of e-Science technologies within Contemporary Arts practice. (Michael Takeo Magruder – King’s College
London)

London Charter (Graeme Earl - Southampton)

4.00-4.30 - Panel Discussion: Adopting e-Science tools in the Arts

PRESENTATION SYNOPSES

SHORT DESCRIPTIONS of PROPOSED PRESENTATIONS/DEMONSTRATORS:

Gregory Sporton (University of Birmingham)

e-Science and Creativity

Presentation on the issues and value of e-Science processes in the Visual Arts based on a series of workshops which both explored and broke new ground in these areas, including a demonstrator of a dancer used as an HCI device.

Sally-Jane Norman (University of Newcastle)

AMUC project

Use of motion capture tools in the performing arts underpins activities ranging from staged productions to screen-bound works, choreographic notation and archiving, pooling artistic skills with competence from sectors including biomechanics, sensor development, information processing and display. Today's affordances opened up by Grid developments make motion capture a valuable area for interdisciplinary investigation twenty years after the animation industry first teamed up with biomechanics experts. In this project, users of motion capture resources from different disciplines are collectively devising novel annotation and retrieval methods for grid-enabled data; we thus hope to enrich the broader scientific debate with concepts and potential services enriched by Arts & Humanities perspectives.

Anja leBlanc /Martin Turner (University of Manchester)

CSAGE: Collaborative Stereoscopic Access Grid Environment

This paper discusses research undertaken by an interdisciplinary team of academic researchers from the fields of dance and e-Science. The ‘Stereo-bodies’ project focused on exploring the ways in which choreographic practice and in particular live dance performance could engage with a stereoscopic Access Grid environment.

Graeme Earl (University of Southampton)

London Charter: principles for the use of 3D visualisation by researchers, educators and cultural heritage organizations

Mike Pringle (Visual Arts Data Service, Kings College London)

Frustration vs. Adoption

While healthy numbers of art practitioners and researchers are exploring revolutionary ideas through the use of new, computer-based, technologies, the larger majority of artists and art researchers are often frustrated with the difficulties that such advances can bring.
Frustration can be because of the seemingly steep learning curves that can be involved; due to the perceived lack of responsiveness of machines; or simply because of limited access to the necessary tools or to the funds required to make the most of them. How can the latest generation of advanced ICT tools, for example, grid technologies, help more artists to exploit, and even enjoy, technology rather than be frustrated by it?

Michael Takeo Magruder (King’s College London)

Real-Time Expansion: the potentials of e-Science technologies within Contemporary Arts practice.

Although Contemporary Arts practice has embraced the utilisation of computer and communication frameworks for the creation of artistic products and outputs, work in this field is often limited by the potentials of mainstream technologies. This talk considers how the utilisation of HPC (high performance computing) can facilitate the progression towards complex, real-time artworks by providing an infrastructure that vastly exceeds the current computational facilities of consumer-level systems.

Bio:

Michael Takeo Magruder is an American artist based in the UK working with New and Technological Media within Contemporary Arts practice. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1996 receiving a BA (Hons) in Biological Science. He is a long-standing member of King's Visualisation Lab in the Centre for Computing in Humanities, King's College London. Through this organisation he undertakes research, development and implementation of emerging technologies; including motion capture, immersive space and virtual environments, for use in contemporary creative and academic practice. His artworks have been showcased in over 160 exhibitions and 30 countries, including venues such as the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, EAST International 2005, Georges Pompidou Center, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and Trans-Media-Akademie Hellerau. His works are regular inclusions in international New Media festivals, such as Cybersonica, CYNETart, FILE, Filmwinter, SeNef, Siggraph, Split, VAD and WRO. His artistic practice has been funded directly by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Arts Council England, The National Endowment for the Arts, USA and numerous public galleries both within the UK and abroad. He is also recognised for his on-line arts practice and has been commissioned by leading portals for Internet Art such as Turbulence.org and Soundtoys.net.

His current interests concern the simultaneous utilisation and dissection of new technology as a means to explore the formal structures and conceptual paradigms of the digital realm. He seeks to create artworks in which there are no divisions between technologies, aesthetics, and concepts.

Web: www.takeo.org

REGISTER

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Conf Day 1

Wednesday 11th July

9.30 Conference DAY 1 opens

Welcomes, introductions

Session Chairs: Suzanne Keene, UCL, and Ann Borda, JISC

George Mallen, System Simulation Ltd, London
- Keynote: Digital Culture - whence and where to?

1.1: DIGITAL CULTURE: VISUALISING IDEAS

Michael Goldberg, University of Sydney, Australia
- Digital and Democratized Visuality

Nat Goodden, University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham
-The Digital Sledgehammer and Other Handy Implements

Ruby Sircar, Graz University of Technology, Austria
- Misplacing Myths and Unraveling Fictions

Graeme Earl, University of Southampton
- New techniques in archaeological computing

2.00 afternoon session

1.2: VISUALISATION IN THE MUSEUM AND GALLERY CONTEXT
CONCURRENT WITH 1.3: JISC WORKSHOP - ICT Methods Network

Session chair: James Hemsley, EVA Conferences International

Wolfgang Meisinger, Bogner-CC, Vienna, Austria
- The Sound of the Prince Bishop

Chao Yu Lin, De Montfort University, Leicester
- "Exhibit content and learning-related behaviours in 3D on-line museum environments"

Silvia Filippini-Fantoni, Antenna Audio Ltd, London
- Evaluating the Use of Mobile Phones for an Exhibition Tour at the Tate Modern: Dead End or the Way Forward?

Jordan Klineman, Virtual Gallerie, San Francisco, USA
- Visualising exhibits in 3D

Session chair: George Mallen, System Simulation Ltd

Felicity Allen, Tate
- New tools for interpretation of Art from Tate

Mark Carnall, Grant Museum, UCL
- 3D scanning for museum collections

Stuart Dunn, JISC
- Plenary session from JISC workshop: New directions in e-Science & the Arts

Sarah Mahurter, London College of Communication
- The Stanley Kubrick Archive at LCC

6.00 DRINKS RECEPTION AND TOUR OF KUBRICK ARCHIVE

Conf Day 2

Thursday 12th July

9.30 Conference Day 2 Opens

Welcomes, introductions

Session chair: Michael Lesk, Rutgers University

Prof. Haim Bresheeth, University of East London
- Keynote: Cyberculture and Digital Arts

2.1: DIGITAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Kia Ng & Bee Ong, University of Leeds
- Components of Interactive Multimedia: Performance and Preservations

Marilene Oliver, Royal College of Art, London
- Resurrecting the Digitised Body: The Use of the "Scanned in" Body for making Artworks

Kasia Molga Delija, London
- Wireless Art: What are the Possibilities of Application of Mobile Communication Media to a Modern, Visual Art Practice and as a Medium of Expression?

Simon Hollington & Kyp Kyprianou, London
- Technology and the Uncanny

Stuart Jones, Central St Martins College, London
- Why just Visualisation?

Alan Chalmers, Eva Zanyi et al
- Light and Byzantine Glass Tessera

2.00 Afternoon session

Session chair: Catherine Draycott, Director, Wellcome Trust Picture Library

2.2: DIGITAL ARTS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Jeff Rees, Wales
- Making the Spheres Sing: exploring the technological terrain of a new digital art work

Kia Ng, University of Leeds
- 3D Motion Data Analysis and Visualisation for String Practice Training

Helen Bailey, University of Bedfordshire, Luton
- A practice led choreographic investigation using collaborative stereoscopic access

2.3: PANEL SESSION: ARCHIVING DIGITAL ARTEFACTS

Chair: Roger Hargreaves, London College of Communication

4.30 2.4: Visualisation session

EVA's poster session is a Visualisation Session, of course! Expect screen based and dynamic presentations as well as hard copy visualisations to complement the formal papers.

Larisa Urnysheva, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
- The Novgorod Letters with Seals

Jodie Walz, University of Minnesota, USA
- Crossing Collections and Creating Access via a Union Catalog

Jonathan Bowen, South Bank University, London
- An Experimental Wiki for Museums

Kyp Kyprianou & Simon Hollington, London
- The Invisible Force Field Experiments

Nicola Schiavottiello, University of Southampton
- Archaeological practice, dissemination and education through VR and AR

Charalampos Chaitas, Municipality Gallery of Athens, Greece
- The Necessity to Change the Collection Management Models of the Contemporary Art Museum

Chao Yu Lin, De Montfort University, Leicester
- Exhibit content and learning-related behaviours in 3D on-line museum environments

Silvia Filippini-Fantoni, Antenna Audio Ltd, London
- Evaluating the Use of Mobile Phones for an Exhibition Tour at the Tate Modern: Dead End or the Way Forward?

Marilene Oliver, Royal College of Art
- Resurrecting the Digitised Body: The Use of the ëScanned iní Body for making Artworks

Graham Diprose, London College of Communication
- Escape from Flatland

Steve DiPaola, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
- Knowledge Based Approach to Modeling Portrait Painting Methodology

6.00 Conference Reception and Dinner

Harp music from Geraldine McMahon http://www.geraldinemcmahon.com/

Conf Day 3

Friday 13th July

9.30 Conference DAY 3 opens

Welcomes, introductions

Session chair: Lindsay MacDonald, London College of Communications

Prof. William Latham, Goldsmith's College, London
- Keynote: Evolutionary Art

3.1: IMAGING IN 3D AND 2D

Graham Diprose, London College of Communication
- Escape from Flatland

Session chair: Nick Lambert, Birkbeck College / University of Westminster

Tony Harris, UK Government Art Collection, London
- Digital Hindsight

Manolis Lourakis, FORTH-ICS, Greece; Paolo Alongi, SPACE SpA, Italy; Dominique Delouis, Cultural Heritage on Line SA, France; Filippo Lippi, Unicity SpA, Italy; Francesco Spadoni, Rigel Engineering Srl, Italy
- Photorealistic 3D Reconstruction of Perspective Paintings and Pictures

Don McIntyre & Thomas Gierlinger, The Lighthouse, Glasgow
- Augmented Reality for Visualisation of Architectural Design

2.00 Afternoon session

Session chair: Jonathan Bowen, Museophile

3.2: IMAGING AND CONNECTING

Piero Bertacchini & Giuseppe Conti, University of Calabria, Italy
- NET Connect – Connecting European Culture through new technology

Steve DiPaola, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
- A Knowledge Based Approach to Modeling Portrait Painting Methodology

Sarah McDaid, South Bank University, London
- Visualisation of communication for Human-Computer Interaction Design

Michael Lesk, Rutgers University, USA
- Easy 3D

4.10 3.3: DIGITAL ARTS FROM SMARTlab, UEL: SCREENINGS

Film, moving image, animation and vr work by the SMARTlab team including new works by Haim Bresheeth, Taey Kim, Jana Riedel,Kasia Molga, Leslie Hill, and others

5.00 CONFERENCE ENDS

Presentation instructions

For speakers and visualisation presenters

Very important: please REGISTER if you haven't already.

Equally important: if you are bringing a Mac laptop, don't forget to bring the ADAPTER to connect it to the projector cable, as there are too many varieties for us to provide them.

Speaking slots

A conference schedule with times is now available. Please email suzanne.keene@ucl.ac.uk at once if there is a problem with the time we have allocated to you, as it may be possible to adjust the speaking order slightly. We do need to freeze the programme very soon so as to get it printed.

Speaking times

As you see, the programme is very tightly timetabled, and chairs will be keeping speakers strictly to time. Please make sure your presentation fits into 20 minutes maximum, including any time for questions.

Facilities and technology

More information will be provided about this shortly on this website page. There will be a data projector, audio connection and internet connection. In general,

• If your presentation is straightforward, and created on a Windows machine it will be OK to bring it on a USB memory stick or CD-ROM and load it onto the conference machine. See detailed technical specifications below.
• Wherever possible we would prefer to transfer your presentation file onto the host computer. However, if your presentation uses or includes anything other than straightforward PowerPoint, i.e. special media, such as video, Flash, Quicktime, audio, etc, or a Keynote presentation, it is best to bring your own laptop with the presentation set up.
• Mac users are welcome - if you plan to run your presentation on the college Windows machine, do check it on a PC to make sure the images are in a Windows readable format (ie, not tiff). And, don't forget to bring the ADAPTER!

We ask all speakers please to check in with the a/v support person, Danny Hollowell, before the session to ensure that everything works correctly, so that we don't have any embarrassing delays during the conference.

Visualisation presentations

This is an opportunity to show off something interactive and exciting and to have a dialogue with EVA delegates.

We will provide each presenter with a display board of dimensions 1830(h) by 1210(w) mm - i.e. approx 6 by 4 ft. It is a free-standing pin-board with a textile covering, onto which anything can be attached by pins or velcro. In addition you may have, if you wish, a 1800x900 table for display of any artefacts or equipment. Power and wireless internet connections are provided. Projection facilities might also be available in the large atrium space at LCC where the event will be held. It may be possible to provide other equipment, such as audio or video, if you require it - please let us know!

Please email Lindsay MacDonald, L.MacDonald@lcc.arts.ac.uk, with your requirements, subject: EVA London Visualisation Presentation.

We have a very exciting programme for EVA London 2007. Thank you very much for your contribution, and we very much look forward to meeting you and enjoying your presentation.

Technical specifications for LCC Lecture Theatres

The main EVA Conference will be held in the Podium Lecture Theatre.
The Workshops will be held in the Street Lecture Theatre.

Both rooms have raked seating with the same technical facilities:

- Networked Viglen PC – P4 processor, 512 Mbyte RAM, CD/DVD, USB
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Operating System
- Direct Internet connection via cable at 100 Mbit/sec
- Novell Network Client
- Microsoft Office 2000
- Internet Explorer browser
- Quicktime player software
- Adobe Acrobat reader
- Xnview image viewing software

- Three-channel LCD projector, XGA resolution (1024x768 pixels), 3100 ANSI lumens
- Region-free DVD player and video player (VCR)
- Sound system with mixer desk for inputs from DVD, VCR, PC and portable
- 35mm carousel slide projector with remote control
- Overhead projector (OHP)
- Lapel radio microphone
- White board, flip chart, etc.
- Dimmable room lights

Connections for portable computer include:

- PC-compatible projector cable, internet cable, and audio stereo mini-jack.
Switching between the resident PC and portable is automatic in the
Podium Theatre, and there is a manual switch in the Street Theatre.

Additionally there will be available for the EVA conference both a PC portable and Macintosh portable which can be used as host computers for presentations:

(1) HP tablet PC with Centrino duo processor, 2 Gb RAM, and Windows XP;
(2) Titanium G4 Powerbook (wide-screen) with OSX.

Contacts

About the schedule: suzanne.keene@ucl.ac.uk

About facilities: L.MacDonald@lcc.arts.ac.uk

or, our a/v support technician Danny Hollowell, d.hollowell@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Register

EVA London 2007 registration

Registration file as a PDF

Registration file as a Word doc

Please download the registration form and fax or post back with payment details:

Send Registration and Payment to: EVA London 2007 Conference, Prof. Lindsay MacDonald, School of Printing & Publishing, London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB, UK
All enquires:
t: + 44 [0] 207-514-6707
f: + 44 [0] 207-514-6772
e: register@eva-conferences.com

For programme see Conference outline. Papers may be subject to change.

Registration rates

Conference: Wednesday 11th - Friday 13th July

Delegate:
1 day £100
2 days £180
3 days £220

Speaker:
1 day £80
2 days £150
3 days £180

Student: (NUS number required)
1 day £50
2 days £80
3 days £100
Workshop 3 £40

Workshops and meetings

All free of charge except for Workshop 3, but please use the registration form.

Monday 9th July
am: Workshop 1: Research Workshop
pm: Workshop 2: RECOVER and other European projects

Tuesday 10th July
am: Workshop 3: Planning social media for museums
pm: concurrent workshops -
Workshop 4 / meeting (all welcome): Association of fine art photographers
Workshop 5 : European Digital Library: museums and heritage
Evening: Computer Arts Society meeting (all welcome) Birkbeck College

Wednesday 11th July
CONFERENCE
pm: Workshop 6 (concurrent with conference session)
JISC ICT: New directions in e-Science & the Arts
Evening: Reception and visit to Kubrick Archive

Thursday 12th July
CONFERENCE
pm: Visualisation Session
Evening: Conference dinner

Friday 13th July
CONFERENCE

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Papers

EVA London 2007 Conference Proceedings.

Principle Editor: Jonathan P. Bowen

Co-Editors: Suzanne Keene & Lindsay MacDonald

Accommodation

It is possible that London College of Communications accommodation may become available. If so this will be announced on the website and via the EVA mail list.

Transport to the London College of Communications is excellent, so hotels north of the river will be as convenient as those on the south bank.

An excellent streetmap service is http://www.streetmap.co.uk

Google Maps misses out occasional streets and even some rail stations.

www.london-se1.co.uk/areas/southbank.html - information about the area, but the
hotels link is not very helpful

http://www.openroads.com/?id=south_bank_hotels
Many hotels listed, mostly to the east, Bermondsey etc, but buses to the Elephant & Castle should be plentiful

For useful hotel reviews, go to http://www.tripadvisor.com/

Hotels quite close by are:

The Bridge Hotel, London
30 Borough Road, Waterloo, London, SE1 0AJ, England, GB

and the

Wellington
81-83 Waterloo Road, Waterloo, London , London SE1 8UD

Also the Mad Hatter, 3-7 Stamford Street | South Bank, London SE1 9NY, England
has reasonable reviews.

Location

This year's EVA London will be at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London

http://www.lcc.arts.ac.uk/

How to get to LCC?

By Train: The Elephant and Castle site is connected by Thameslink trains from Blackfriars.  Download PDF (208kb) rail connection map provided by Transport for London.

By Underground: Both the Bakerloo and Northern Lines stop at Elephant and Castle.  Follow the signs on the underpass to London College of Printing (our former name). The College is opposite the shopping centre on the same side of the road as the Metropolitan Tabernacle, just three minutes walk away.  Download PDF (266 kb) underground map provided by Transport for London.
By Bus: Elephant and Castle is extremely well provided for with buses including: 1, 12, 35, 40, 45, 53, 63, 68, 100, 133, 148, 155, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 322, 188, 322, 333, 343, 344, 360, 363, 453, 468, C10, P5.  Download PDF (90kb) bus connection map provided by Transport for London.

Maps: Download PDF (64kb) map of LCC's location.  See an area map of LCC's location provided by Google maps.

A streetmap of the area from www.streetmap.co.uk

Address: London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle, London. SE1 6SB

Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7514 6500

Marketing Opportunities

Please contact Nick Lambert n.lambert@bbk.ac.uk

About

EVA conferences have been held since 1994 in over 25 cities and countries. They are cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary, global events for people interested in new technologies in the cultural sector. The four principal EVA conferences are held annually in Florence (March), London (July), Berlin (November), and Moscow (December).

EVA London:

• has a clear focus on visualisation for the arts and culture - interpreted broadly to include its impications, effects, and consequent strategies and policies
• covers the burgeoning creative uses of digital media for works of art and creative productions
• is a forum for European projects to disseminate the results of EC investment in technology for culture and the arts, and to publicise and explain funding opportunities
• is a networking event for other groups and projects
• includes a free-of-charge Research Workshop for MA, MSc and PhD students in this area to share their research

2007 Organising Committee

Suzanne Keene (Chair) - University College London
Co-Chairs
Lindsay MacDonald - London College of Communication
Jonathan Bowen - Independent academic, Museophile
James Hemsley (Founding Chair)
Committee Members
Nick Lambert - Birkbeck College, University of London
Ann Borda - JISC, the Joint Information Systems Committee
Kate Devlin - Goldsmiths College, University of London
George Mallen - System Simulation

Programme Committee

Vito Cappellini - University of Florence
Anna Clark – University College London
David Dawson – Museum Documentation Association
Catherine Draycott – Wellcome Picture Library
Stuart Dunn – Kings College London
Lizbeth Goodman – UEL / SmartLab
Peter Hassell – Royal College of Art
Michael Lesk - School of Communication, Information & Library Studies, Rutgers University, USA
Frederic Leymarie - Goldsmiths
Eleanor Lisney - Coventry University
George Mallen – System Simulation, Computer Society
Kia Ng – Leeds Unversity
Nick Poole - Museum Documentation Association
Nancy Proctor – Discovery.com
Jemima Rellie – Tate, Head of Web / information
James Stevenson - Society of Museum Photographers
Holley Witchey - Cleveland Museum of Art, USA

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Contacts

Conference Organisation Chair
Dr Suzanne Keene

suzanne.keene@ucl.ac.uk

Organisation Co-chair
Prof Lindsay MacDonald

L.MacDonald@lcc.arts.ac.uk

Publication Co-chair
Prof Jonathan Bowen

papers@eva-conferences.com

Website and Links
Dr Nick Lambert

info@eva-conferences.com

Registration
Tina Stennett

register@eva-conferences.com

Research Workshop (Workshop 1)
Dr Kate Devlin

research-workshop@eva-conferences.com

2006

EVA London 2006 is now over

EVA London 2007:CALL FOR PAPERS

EVA 2006 London

26 - 28 July
Culture x Technology across Europe & Internationally

Venue

University College London, Institute of Archaeology. 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY

Co-Chairs
* Suzanne Keene, UCL
* Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University
* Lindsay MacDonald, London University of the Arts
* James Hemsley, Birkbeck & EVA, Honorary Chair

Conference Manager: Monica Kaayk, acinom@cix.co.uk

PROGRAMME

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Research workshop

Wednesday 26th July, 10.00 - 12.00

Invitation to Research Students and Researchers

FREE Interdisciplinary research workshop

Join in on Wednesday 26th July at:
The Institute of Archaeology, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY

The Research Workshops bring together Masters and PhD students and individual researchers. They are friendly, informal occasions for sharing current work and future dreams and plans. We can guarantee an extraordinary range of topics.

Give a presentation! 10-15 minutes to share your ideas. Please contact Monica Kaayk acinom@cix.co.uk, Conference Organiser, or suzanne.keene@ucl.ac.uk or Lindsay MacDonald lm@MacColour.co.uk

Registration from 9.30. Free of charge.

This is the third in the series of research workshops held as part of EVA London.

Participants

Why not join in?

· An interactive genetic algorithm for the production of collaborative multi-authored OuLiPien literature
Michelle Hammond - London South Bank University

· Quality in Online Education: Tools and Evaluation Techniques for Online Learning Communities
Niki Lambropoulos - London South Bank University

· A model of natural human-human communication to support human-computer interaction
Sarah McDaid - London South Bank University

· Joe Brock - Goldsmiths College
Novel techniques for developing narratives for medical and scientific illustration

· E-Source West Midlands Repository Community: a perspective from an activity theory
Eleanor Lisney - e-source Coventry University

· Instructional engineering for online education
Niki Lambropoulos - London South Bank University

· Angela Rogers
Drawing as Conversation: Can drawing activity be experienced as meaningful dialogue and interaction?

Free of charge for presenters and audience.

Students, special conference rates for you £15 per day >>> GO

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Day 1

Wednesday 26th July

INDICATIVE PROGRAMME

Registration from 13.00

13.30 Welcome Address and Introductions
James Hemsley, Honorary Chair, EVA Conferences

· Key Note Speaker: Patrick Towell, Golant Films/Patrick Towell Consulting
The Business of Culture in Internet 2.0

Strategies & New Directions

Session Leader: Suzanne Keene, UCL, The Institute of Archaeology

· Big Fish Eat Little Fish
Holly Witchey, New Media Initiatives, Cleveland Museum of Art

· Mapping Cultural Connectivity: Who Knew Whom
Nat Goodden, Department of Art & Design, University of Gloucestershire

· The Effects of Museums' Online Catalogues
Barbara Lejeune, Belgium

· A Comparison of Gender Bias in Art & Science Museum Websites
Rod Gunn, Gloria Moss, University of Glamorgan
Jonathan P. Bowen, Museophile Limited
Isabel Bernal, Eleanor Lisney and Sarah McDaid

Digital Assets

Session Leader: Catherine Draycott, The Wellcome Trust

· Copyright Protection and Culture Heritage:
Steering Digitization between Public Archives and Search Engines
Teresa Numerico, University of Salerno, Italy
Jonathan P. Bowen, Museophile Limited

· Audiovisual Preservation for Collections of All Sizes
Richard Wright, BBC Archive

· Digital Asset Management System
James Stevenson, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

· Harvard Judaica Image Databases
Violet Gilboa, Harvard College Library

Panel session - Open Access & Business Models
Catherine Draycott, Holly Witchey, Jonathan Bowen , led by James Hemsley

18.00 Close
After Conference Activities: Harp Recital, Geraldine McMahon

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Day 2

Thursday 27th July

INDICATIVE PROGRAMME

Registration from 09.30

10.00 Welcome Address and Introductions
Jonathan Bowen, Museophile Limited

· Key Note Speaker
David Dawson, MLA, Head of Digital Futures, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council
Culture and Education: making the links

Museums, Libraries & Archives

Session Leader: Alan Seal, Victoria & Albert Museum

· Collections Documentation Practices: a critical perspective
Sophia Bakogianni, Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, University of the Aegean, Greece

· An Exploratory Study of Museum Cell Phone Audio Tour Program in Taiwan
Wan-Chen Liu, Graduate Institute of Museum Studies, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taiwan

· There's Madness in our Methods: collections management, asset management, data management
Holly Witchey, New Media Initiatives, The Cleveland Museum of Art

· Disruptive Technologies: Are Museums Immune?
Suzanne Keene, UCL, The Institute of Archaeology

· Confessions of Computer Scientists working in the Arts: a Tale of Two Techies
Mark d'Inverno, Goldsmiths, University of London
Jonathan P. Bowen, Museophile Limited

Architecture, Archaeology, History & Information Technology, ARCH-IT

Session Leader: Mike Spearman, CMC Associates

· Concept for an Application-Oriented Automated Classification System for Bronze Age Vessels
David Brunner, G. Brunnett, J. Oexle, Chemnitz University of Technology & Archaeology Office of Saxony, Germany

· Virtual Museography for an Archaeological Site
Rocio Ruiz-Rodarte, Architecture Department, Tecnológico de Monterrey, México
Jesús Savage-Carmona, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ramón Carrasco, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, México

· On-Site ICT Applications in Archaeology: the Calakmul Case
Franco Niccolucci, University of Florence, Director of the Italo-Mexican Calakmul Project, Italy

Christine Schöne & Steffen Schreiber, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chair of Engineering Design and CAD
University of Technology Dresden, Germany
Christiane Rehm, Academy of Architecture & Wood, Biel, Switzerland

- The New Premises of the Alinari National Museum of Photography and AIM
Andrea de Polo, Alinari

New Technical Developments

Session Leaders: Jonathan Bowen, Museophile and Lindsay McDonald, University of the Arts

- Innovation in Distributed Computing Technologies in Arts & Humanities eResearch
Ann Borda & James Farnhill, JISC

· Rendering High Dynamic Range Images
Min Kim & Lindsay MacDonald, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London

· RUTOPIA 2
Daria Tsoupikova, School of Art and Design, Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL), University or Illinois at Chicago

· Reproduction of Stained Glass Window on Transparent Material Using Wide Format Ink Jet Printer
Kiran Deshpande & Lindsay MacDonald, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London

18.00 Close
After Conference Activities: Conference Dinner [please book early]

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Day 3

Friday 28th July

INDICATIVE PROGRAMME

Registration from 09.30

10.00 Welcome Address and Introductions
Lindsay MacDonald, University of the Arts

Sound & Performing Arts, from Education to Participation

Session Leaders: Lizbeth Goodman, SmartLab, Kia Ng, ICSRiM - University of Leeds
Rowena Loverance, the British Museum

· Online Education as Stage and Narrative Acts: Criteria for a successful online education
Petra Nietzky, Lüneburg, Germany

· Music of the Spheres
Nick Lambert, Birkbeck College & Jeff Rees, artist

· An advanced Theatrical Environment with 'Talking Heads' ... regretfully now withdrawn
Pier Auguston Bertacchini, Eleanora Bilotta, Pietro Pantano, Adolfo Adamo, Adrianotacarico, Assunta Tavernise, University of Calabria, Italy

- OperaXchange: Collabration for Connectivity
Sarah Beecham, Memory of Art

· Collaborative Technology Enhanced Environment and Interactive Multimedia Technologies for Music Playing & Learning
Kia Ng, Bee Ong, Ali Khan, ICSRiM - University of Leeds and Nicola Mitolo, Paolo Nesi, DSI, University of Florence, Italy

· Biomapping and emotion mapping
Christian Nold, Biomapping.net

- tba
Fiddan Warman, SODAplay
Sol Haring of SMARTlab
Lizbeth Goodman, SMARTLab,
MAGIC Multimedia & Games Innovation Centre, The Knowledge Dock, University of East London

Putting It All Together

Session Leaders: George Mallen, System Simulation
Anna Clark, Business Development Manager Arts & Humanities, University College London

- Sarah Beecham

- Plus other speakers to be announced

15.00 Conference Close

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Register

EVA London registration

Please download the appropriate registration form and fax or post back

Registration rates

Wednesday 26 July: Research Workshop - free, all welcome. Registration on the day but please email suzanne.keene@ucl.ac.uk with your name and the title of your informal presentation.

Conference delegates
Wednesday 26 July pm £90
Thursday 27 July £120
Friday 28 July £120
Whole event £300

Special rates for speakers - see speaker's Registration Form

Special conference rates for students
Wednesday 26 July pm £10
Thursday 27 July £15
Friday 28 July £15
Whole event £40

2005

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

25-29 July 2005

University College London and British Computer Society

Workshops

Monday 25th and Tuesday 26th July
British Computer Society, Covent Garden, London

Main conference

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

Further Information

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Conference programme

Wednesday 27 July

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

Thursday 28 July

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

Friday 29 July

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

Workshops

Monday 25 July

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.

Tuesday 26 July

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

2004

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

10th EVA London conference: Culture x Technology across Europe & Internationally
A key international forum for users, suppliers, researchers & government

26-30 July 2004

Venue: University College London Institute of Archaeology

Workshops and tutorials

Monday 26th and Tuesday 27th July
Making cultural websites accessible
Digital photo libraries
Interdisciplinary research workshop

Main conference

Wednesday 28, Thursday 29 & Friday 30 July
University College London Institute of Archaeology

* ArchIT symposium - Archaeology, architecture & history
* Strategies & new directions
* Case studies
* Performing arts
* 3D & VR
* EC 6th Framework Programme
* Advanced 3D & VR
* R&D projects for culture x technology
* Strategic issues & new directions

Conference co-chairs:
James Hemsley, EVA
Suzanne Keene, UCL Institute of Archaeology
Anthony Hamber

Event manager: Monica Kaayk, EVA

Marketing & promotion opportunities including corporate & government sponsorship:
Demonstrations, Product/Service presentations and Exhibition

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Conference programme

Wednesday 28th July

ARCH-IT Symposium

Welcome and introduction, James Hemsley, EVA Conferences & Kestrel 3D

Morning session
Chair: Rowena Loverance, British Museum

• The ARCO Project: Results & Future Plans, Martin White, University of Sussex

• The SCULPTEUR Project: Results & Future Plans, Matthew Addis, IT Innovation Centre, Southampton

• Other FP5 Arch-IT projects
THEATRON, 3D-MURALE, ORION, ACOHIR, ARCHEOGUIDE et al,

Special presentation

• Fast cinematic browsing & image mining without metadata: demonstration of world access to 500 films from 25 countries
Anthony Roland, The Roland Collection of Films (including Art and Architecture

Afternoon session
Chair: Vito Cappellini, University of Florence

• New 3D technology developments & applications for exhibitions

• New 3D display systems
Phil Lavery, Grey Thorn Associates

• High quality 3D scanning and exhibition display: British Museum case study
Mike Spearman, Kestrel 3D
Tim Badley, Leica Geosystems

University/research institute R&D Projects

• Gallery Application
Michael Schnaider, ZGDV, Germany

• Historical Architecture, White City, Tel Aviv
Moshe Caine, Bezalel, Israel

EC Sixth Framework Programme, FP6: new projects
BRICKS, EPOCH, MINERVA++

• New Calls - 2004/05

• FP7 perspectives 2007/11

Discussion: the future of Arch-IT

Panel chair: Professor Vito Cappellini, University of Florence

Thursday 29 July

Strategies & new directions

Chair: Cathrine Draycott, Wellcome Trust

• Educational delivery channels for cultural content
Grant Cocks, Simulacra Media, England

• The building of online communities: An approach for learning organizations, with a particular focus on the museum sector
Alpay Beler & Ann Borda, The Science Museum London
Jonathan P Bowen, London South Bank University
Silvia Filippini-Fantoni, Univesité Paris I-Sorbonne, France

• Disabled people & the web - Web accessibility in the cultural sector
Helen Petrie, City University London, Marcus Weisen MLA

• What museums, archives, galleries and libraries can teach us about digital asset management
Nic Sheen, iBase, England
Annette Ward, University of New Mexico, USA

• VeGame: Combining mobile gaming with cultural heritage
Francesco Bellotti, D.I.B.E., Genoa, Italy

• Shooting Gallery
Steve Manthorp, Bradford Arts, Heritage & Leisure, England

• ADMIRE-P project: a tool for EU-Russian collaboration under IST FP6
Olga Pekushkina & Paul Drath, Singleimage England

• International access to the world's museums, Museumland
Mario Bucolo, ABIS MultiCom & Museumsland, Italy

Case studies

Session Chair: Alan Seal, Victoria & Albert Museum

• Putting audiences first - Commissioning projects that audiences want: the Culture Online experience
Jonathan Drori, Culture-On-Line, London

• Historical background & innovation: the role of communication & new technologies for the Dissemination of the University of Sienna's Cultural Heritage
Maurizio Caporali, Italy

• The Museum's news site or on the way from information bulletin to information portal
Igor Proletkin, Saratov State University, Russia

• Art on demand - GAOD
Andrea de Polo, Alinari Italy

• Old Slavic manuscript heritage
Victor Baranov, Udmurtia State University, Russia

• How to get the bones into a computer
Elke Möllmann University of Bielefeld, Germany

• Digitally couture
Krishma, KUGA Couture

EC 6th Framework Programme 2003 - 2006
Panel discussion

Session Co-chairs: Vito Cappellini, University of Florence, Italy
David Dawson, The Museums & Libraries Archives Council, MLA, England

Friday 30th July

Performing arts

Chairs:
Kia Ng ICSRiM, University of Leeds
James Swinson, SMARTlab Centre, Cental St Martins College of Art

• A Virtual Reality Tour in an Italian Drama Theatre A journey between architecture and history during the 19th century
S. Valtolina, University of Milan, Italy

• The TOURBOT project: On the use of museum robots in theatre plays
Alexandra Reitelmann, University of Bonn,

• 3D Opera Presentation
Paolo Micciche, Italy

• Wearable Graphical Music Interface
Kia Ng, Rich Sage, ISCRiM, University of Leeds, England

• Affective Communication Remapping in MusicFace System
Steve diPaola, Simon Fraser University, Canada

• Staging & Citing Gendered Meanings in Live and Mediated Performances - A practice based research project
Anna Birch, SMARTlab Centre, Cental St Martins College of Art

3D & VR

Chair: Suzanne Keene, UCL, The Institute of Archaeology

• Implementing 3D Videos on Digitally Reconstructed Artistic Sites
F Bellotti, University of Genoa, Italy

• Interactive Museum Exhibit
Michael Schnaider & Cornelius Malerczyk ZGDV Computer Graphics, Germany

• Greek New Comedy Masks in 3D
Richard Williams, University of Glasgow, Scotland

• Documenting the Unique Characteristics of Objects Using
Non-contact Colour & 3D Laser Scanning
Samantha Cichero & R Michael Spearman, Kestrel 3D, Scotland

• 3D Rendering of Luca Cambiaso's Cubist Figures (1527-1585)
Fransesco Bellotti, University of Genoa, Italy

R&D Projects I

Chair: Vito Cappellini, University of Florence

• Serendipitous Interactive Browsing of Online Catalogues
Richard Tateson Intelligent Systems Lab BT England

• A Systematic Approach Towards Museum Web Site Quality
Luisa Marucci, Oreste Signore ISTI/CNR Italy

• Evaluating a Robotic System for Capture of Heritage Images
Lindsay MacDonald & Keith Findalter, University of Derby

• Querying XML Document Collections
Oreste Signore, CNR Italy

R&D projects II

Chair: George Mallen, System Simulation

• The CACHe Art History Project - Computing & the Visual Arts 1965-1980
Nick Lambert, Birkbeck College, University of London

• TNT and Effective Business Model for Digital Rights Management in Cultural Heritage
Massimo Bertoncini R&D Lab, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Rome, Italy

• Text Processing System for Cultural Heritage & Multimedia Applications
Ramil Valitov, Kazan State University, Russia

• 'Intelligent' cultural heritage & archival applications: a aase study of usefulness of semantic indexing in a collection level description
Triantafillia Kourtoumi, Historical Archives of Macedonia, Greece

Closing panel discussion

Bringing It All Together – What does it all mean?!
Leader: George Mallen, System Simulation, England

Workshops

Monday 26

Tutorial 1

Making Cultural Websites Accessible
Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University
Time: 10.00 - 13.00

Tutorial 2

Digital Photo Libraries Into the 21st Century
Andrea de Polo, Alinari, Florence, Italy
Time: 14.00 - 18.00

Tuesday 27

Interdisciplinary Research Workshop on
Advanced R&D in Culture x Technology
Time: 10.00 - 18.00

Gallery

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2003

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

10th EVA London conference: Culture x Technology across Europe & Internationally
A key international forum for users, suppliers, researchers & government.

University College London Institute of Archaeology
31-34 Gordon Square, London

21st - 26th & 29th July

Who should attend?
... people interested in 'Culture x Technology', especially those from the cultural sector, researchers, high tech industry, education, government. Media & publishing consultants, cultural tourism & cultural foundations. Local to National and European.

Main Conference

Thursday 24th & Friday 25th July
• Strategies & New Directions
• Case Studies - Leading Applications
• Performing Arts
• Research & Development Projects
• The 6th Framework Programme 2003 – 2006, Preparatory Actions

e-Learning & the Visual Arts

Monday 28th July
Chair: Anthony Hamber

Symposia & Workshops

21st - 23rd, 26th & 29th July

Conference Co-chairs
Suzanne Keene, UCL Institute of Archaeology
James Hemsley, EVA
Anthony Hamber, Consultant

Event manager: Monica Kaayk, EVA

Marketing & promotion opportunities including corporate & government sponsorship:
Demonstrations, Product/Service presentations and Exhibition

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Programme

Thursday 24th July

Strategies & New Directions

Chairs Nadia Brakker & David Dawson

• Where Next? Future Directions for Research in Intelligent Cultural Heritage
David ARNOLD, University of Brighton

• Size Matters: Web And Book Archiving
Michael LESK Internet Archive USA

• Virtual Worlds & an Inhabited Virtual Worlds Movement
Jan de BRUIN Tilburg University NL

• SIMCITY(tm) Models & Panoramas from Glasgow
Mic STARBUCK Clyde Heritage Trust Scotland

• The Interaction of Cultural & Technological Processes: Lessons of Mobile Media, Patrick ALLEN, Bradford University

• Online Access to Cultural & Educational Resources For Disabled People: An International Challenge, Marcus WEISEN, Resource

• The Eye of the Beholder, D CROMBIE & R LENOIR FNB NL

• Russian Network of Cultural Heritage& Multimedia Education: Current Trends
Olga SHLYKOVA, Moscow State University

Afternoon: Case Studies

Chairs Suzanne Keene & Alan Seal

• Defining the Question: Approaches to Providing Online Collections Information at The Fitzwilliam Museum
David SCRUTON , The Fitzwilliam Museum England

• Pictura Paedagogica Online Stephanie KOLLMAN Bibliothek
für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung, Berlin

• The Certosa Museum, City of Memory Antonella GUIDAZZOLI, Maria Chiara LIGUORI, Bologna University

• Large-scale Art Exhibitions in the Web EUROMUSE Monika HAGEDORN-SAUPE SMB Berlin

• The Impact of 3D Reconstructions, Impetus or Obstacle to Learning? Wolfram GRAJETZKI, UCL

• Protection of Intellectual Property: a Must in Digital Content Exploitation, Jean BARDA, NETIMAGE, France

• The Visible Museum Ebelien PONDAAG, Museon & Justin Savage, The Council of Museums in Wales

Keynote Speaker: Jonathan BOWEN
Professor of Computing, London, South Bank University
• Web Access to Cultural Heritage for the Disabled

Friday 25th July

Performing Arts

Chairs Lizbeth Goodman & Kia Ng

• Exhibiting Performance
Andrew MORRISON & Synnne SKJULSTAD, InterMedia, Norway

• Virtual Olympians from Ancient China
Ling CHEN Tsinghua University, China

• The Use of Technology to Extend Performance Experiences of Comparative Organ Tonalities
Lucy & Peter COMERFORD Bradford University

• Hitting the Right Note: Enhancing Access to Music
David Crombie & R Lenoir FNB NL

• Audiovisual Mega-Preservation Richard Wright, BBC UK

• Machine-Representation & Visualisation of a Dance Notation
Royce J. Neagle and Kia NG, ICSRiM, University of Leeds, England

Research & Development Projects

Chairs Vito Cappellini & Leonid Kubyshev

• Veridical Imaging of Transmissive & Reflective Artefacts
L MacDONALD & A Giani Derby University, England

• Memorial Project - a Complex Approach to Digitisation of Personal Records
A GESCHKE & E FISCHER, ZFB Germany

Afternoon

• Museums With a Personal Touch
Silvia Filippini FANTONI, European Centre for Digital Communication NL

• Colour Encoded Stereoscopy as a Low-Cost Virtual Exhibition Medium
Per HANSEN, Consultant, Denmark

• Content and Concept-Based Retrieval and Navigation Tools In SCULPTEUR
Fabrizio GIORGINI Giunti Italy

• COST ConGAS: Gesture Controlled Audio System
Nicola Bernardini and Kia NG, ICSRiM, University of Leeds

• Virtual Museum Technology: Human's Specifics & Organization of Discourse David SHAPIRO Institute of Computer Tech, Russia

The 6th Framework Programme, Preparatory Actions

Chairs James Hemsley & Gerd Stanke

• MusicNetwork: Music Industry With Interactive Multimedia Technology Kia NG, ICSRiM, University of Leeds, England

• A Deer for Europe: A Distributed European Electronic Resource Suzanne KEENE, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, London

• The ORION Network and Research Roadmap David CLARKE, National Museums of Scotland et al

Panel Discussion on FP6

Monday 28th July

e-Learning & the Visual Arts

• Generating Digital Content for Education - some perspectives of UK public sector activities
David Dawson, Senior ICT Advisor, Re:source

• Re-inventing the Wheel; the British Pathe Film Archive in the 21st Century
Peter Fydler, Director of Marketing, ITN Archive

• IPR - Bridge or Barrier?
Peter Wienand, Head of Intellectual Property team, Farrer & Co

• Driving learning outcomes – the contributions of Virtual & Managed Learning Environments
Peter O’Sullivan, IBM Learning Solutions

• Learning about e-Learning: Technology and the Disturbance of Academics' Cultures at UCL
Dr. Martin Oliver, Department of Education & Professional Development
University College London

• Curriculum Online and the Cultural Sector
Patrick Towel, Chief Executive, Simulacra Media, (on behalf of the DfES)

• Out of the lab - E-learning and theatre history
Martin Blazeby and Drew Bake, e-Lab 3D Visualisation Group, University of Warwick

• The European Commission 6th Framework Programme; Research Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage and Education
Wim Jansen, Research Infrastructures, Directorate General Information Society
European Commission

Workshops and symposia

Monday 21st July

EC R&D Funding Overview

Institute of Archaeology, UCL, 31-34 Gordon Square, London

An overview of different options including: FP6 Programme 2003 – 2006; e-Content; Culture 2000; Ten Telecom; Regional Funds. For those new to EC funding as well as those who have so far concentrated on one or two areas. Which to choose and also ‘to bid or not to bid?’

Wednesday 23rd July


ARCH – IT Symposium

This special EVA Symposium aims to disseminate and share the results of five EC supported projects in the Archaeological and related fields with a total budget of over 15 million euro and to discuss ways of making further progress over the next 5-10 years.

Aimed at people from cultural institutions such as museums and academia interested in advanced applications of IT in archaeology and related fields and computer scientists, engineers & other researchers.

• 3D-MURALE - 3D Measurement and Virtual Reconstruction of Ancient Lost Worlds, led by Brunel University, London

• ARCHEOGUIDE - Augmented Reality-Based Cultural Heritage on-Site Guide, led by The Hellenic Telecommunications and Electronics Industry, INTRACOM

• ARCO - Augmented Representation of Cultural Objects: led by the University of Sussex, Brighton

• ORION - Object Rich Information Network, (on 3D Objects & Archaeology Museums) led by the National Museums of Scotland

• SCULPTEUR - Semantic & Content-Based Multimedia Exploitation for European Benefit led by Giunti Interactive Labs, Florence

Opportunities in the 6th Framework Programme [FP6] 2003 - 2006

Tuesday 22th July

Workshop A

Saturday 26th July

Workshop B

Proposals for the first FP6 Call [including Cultural Heritage] are currently being evaluated.

The second call includes several topics of interest to the Cultural Sector e.g. Technology Enhanced Learning inclusion is being launched in June. In this workshops we shall discuss issues such as:
• What are the opportunities of joining the emerging FP6 Integrated Projects & Networks of Excellence
• What are the prospects for the Cultural Sector in the 2nd Call ?

Tuesday July 29

Research Workshop - From Multilingual Systems to Multilingual Learning Using Electronic Cultural Heritage Resources

This workshop aims to explore the possibilities of improving the learning of multiple languages-a vital necessity for the expanded European Union. The workshop will attempt to identify possible ways forward to improve the situation, including the needs for research on various aspects including for example:
• The special needs of ‘poor language learners’
• Lifelong multiple language learning and retention issues—from children to senior citizens’
• Building Language Learning opportunities into multilingual cultural systems

Tuesday July 29

Interdisciplinary Workshop on Advanced R&D in Culture X Technology

To bring together individuals & research groups from an eclectic range of perspectives to share current work & future plans and dreams. The core of the group is expected to be from UCL, but we hope that other academic, cultural institutions & local government will also participate.

2002

Conference & Exhibition at Imperial College - Venue of the first EVA Event in 1990
25th & 26th July

Seminars, Symposia, Tutorials & Workshops at the Victoria & Albert Museum
22nd, 23rd, 24th and 27th, 28th & 29th July

A Forum for Users, Suppliers, Researchers & Government

The 50th Anniversary Conference, EVA 2002 London, will provide a forum for the user, suppliers and scientific research communities to meet and exchange experiences, plans and ideas. Participants will receive up to date news on the new EC Sixth Framework Programme & international initiatives and projects

Who should attend?
... people interested in 'Culture x Technology', especially those from the cultural sector, researchers, high tech industry, education, government. Media & publishing consultants, cultural tourism & cultural foundations. Local to National and European.

Thursday, 25th July

* Strategies
* Bringing in the New European Associated & Independent States (NAS)
* New Directions
* Case Studies

Friday, 26th July

* Special European Session 'Serving the Citizen' & TRIS Trials
* Achievements of the Fifth Framework Programme & Update on Framework 6
* Experimental Applications
* Advanced R&D
* Closing the Loop: Advanced Methods in Practice

22-24 & 27-29 July

Symposia

* Performing Arts, Film, Video & Broadcasting and New Technologies
* Contemporary Art - Documentation: the [re]Construction of Creativity
Tutorials:
* 3D Imaging Basics
* Building a Project Plan
* Overview of 2D Digital Input Technologies
* Designing a Web-Based Digital Access System
* Virtual Restoration & Copyright - Technical Protection

Workshops

* Multilingual Systems in 'Culture x Technology'
* Imaging Special Historical & Literary Documents
* Foreign Language Learning with 'Culture x Technology'
* Shockwave versus Flash – an Introduction for Non-Specialists
* Student Projects in Digital Film Theatre & Video Workshop
* Local Government's Role in 'Culture, Tourism & Technology'
* Cultural Science & Military Science - A New Area for Cooperation?
* Brain, Perception, Creativity Discourse, Analysis & Related Issues
* Digital Photo Libraries – Operational & Business Issues Including E-Commerce
* EC 'Networks of Excellence' in the 6th Framework Programme & Alternative Financing
* 3D Image Applications in Archaeology & History and Creation of a Networked Community of Interest

Further Information

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Conference programme

Thursday, 25th July

Introduction & Welcoming Address

A. G. Constantinides, Imperial College & James Hemsley, NMS & VASARI UK

Opening Address

Mark Jones, Director, Victoria & Albert Museum

Keynote Address

History of Art in the Digital Age - Problems & Possibilities Will Vaughan, Birkbeck College

Strategies

Chair: Catherine Grout, JISC

• Creating Content Together: Combining National & European Initiatives
David Dawson, Resource UK

• Engaging with Science and Culture: Major Missions Across Cyberspace to Share Good History
Robert Bud & Ann Borda, Science Museum, London

• Culture as a Driving Force for Research & Technology Development - A Decade's Experience of Canada's NRC 3D Technology
John Taylor, NRC, Canada

Bringing in the New European Associated & Independent States (NAS)

Chair: James Hemsley, National Museums of Scotland (NMS) & VASARI UK

• Memory of Poland – Memory of the World
Bogdan Smolka, Silesian University of Technology, Poland

• IST in Russian Culture: Strategic Review & New Initiatives
Nadia Brakker, Leonid Kujbyshev, Center PIC, Russia

• CULTIVATE Russia
David Fuegi, MDR Partners, UK

• The Ukraine – A Key Future Partner
Gerd Stanke, GFaI, Germany & James Hemsley, National Museums of Scotland (NMS) & VASARI UK

New Directions

Chair: James Hemsley, National Museums of Scotland (NMS) & VASARI UK

• Music via Motion (MvM)
Kia Ng, Music Imaging Ltd, ICSRiM, University of Leeds, UK

• Audio Conservation and Restoration
Colin Gateley, NMS [The Multimedia Team]

• Information to Knowledge – Contributions to the Software Infrastructure
George Mallen & Mike Stapleton, System Simulation Ltd, London

Case Studies

Co-chairs: Alan Seal, V & A Museum & Anthony Hamber, Consultant

• The Cleveland Special Exhibitions Tool - An Elegant Solution to Common Requirements
Ben Rubenstein, Cognitive Applications, UK & Holly Witchey, Cleveland Museum of Art, USA

• The Use and Application of Virtual Reality in the Ceramic Industry
Sebastien Danneels, Hothouse Ceramic Design Centre, UK

• Whitby Headland – Integrating 3D Visualisation & Public Presentation
Jeffrey Maytom, Mind Wave Media, UK

• Norfolk On-Line Access to Heritage (NOAH) - Interoperability between Museums, Libraries & Archives
Sheila Bullard, Norfolk County Council, UK

• Historical Buildings in 3D
Edgar Brück & Falk Krebs, Fachochschule Wiesbaden, Germany

• Conservation Facsimiles – The Production of High Resolution Facsimiles of the Tombs of SETI and TUTMOSIS III
Adam Lowe, Factum Arte Dessarrollos Digitales S.L.

Friday, 26th July

Special European Session: 'Serving the Citizen'

European projects aimed at providing better tools and services for ordinary people interested in cultural heritage
Chair: Ian Pigott, DG Information Society, European Commission

• CHIMER: Children’s Heritage Interactive Models for Evolving Repositories
Romana Krizova, Cross Czech, CZ

• PULMAN: Europe's Thematic Network for Public Libraries & Cultural Institutions Operating at Local Level
Rob Davies, MDR Partners, UK

• TRIS: Cultural Heritage Take-up Trials: Solutions & Potential in a Special Project Bouquet
Flavio Tariffi, Space, IT

• CHOSA: Cultural Heritage of St Albans
Alison Cole, St Albans Museums – Verulamium Museum, UK

• KIST: Designing Treasures: A New Approach to Exploring Museum Objects
Neil Shaw & Sharyn Emslie, The Multimedia Team Ltd, National Museums of Scotland, UK

• CTIC: Common Threads – a Tailored Solution
Mary Durose, DataVista Ltd, UK

• ESTAGE: Experiencing Puppetry in a Context-Sensitive Information Space
Kurt Englmeier, Lemonlabs Gmbh, DE

• HITITE: The Heritage Illustrated Thesaurus - An On-Line Resource for Monument Identification
Phil Carlisle, National Monuments Record Centre, UK

• VALHALLA: An Approach to Adding Value While Recording Historic Gardens and Landscapes
John Counsell, University of the West of England, UK

• VIRTUAL: A Prototype for Virtual Archive and Library for Cathedrals
Nada Bates-Brkljac, University of the West of England, UK

• VRCHIP: Virtual Reality Cultural Heritage Information Portal
Nicholas J Webb & John P Brotherhood, National Nuclear Corporation Ltd, UK

• BEASTS: 'Cobwebs & World Wide Webs'
Elen Rhys, Acen Cyfyngedig – Wales Digital College, UK

Achievements of the Fifth Framework Programme & Update on Framework 6

Experimental Applications

Chair: Gerd Stanke, GfaI, Germany

• Through Early Paper Digitally
Ian Christie-Miller, Visiting Research Fellow, University of London

• Supporting Evolution in a Web Engineering Process
Andrew McDonald & Ray Welland, University of Glasgow, Scotland

• PROMETHEUS: The Distributed Digital Image Archive for Research & Tuition
Ute Verstegen, Kunsthistorisches Institut, University of Cologne, and Sigrid Ruby, University of Giessen, Germany

Advanced R&D

Chair: Vito Cappellini, University of Florence, Italy

• New Technical Approaches in Watermarking and Image Quality Improvement
Rastislav Lukac, Technical University of Kosice, Slovak Republic

• International Standards: A Key Issue for Exchanging Cultural Heritage Content
Jean Barda, NetImage, France

• Application of the System to Generate General Picture Research: ARTISTE Project
James Stevenson, Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Closing the Loop: Advanced Methods in Practice

• A Model of Innovative Communication for Art Galleries in the Project RETE PUGLA
Mario de Blasi, Anna Gentile, S. Impedo, L Rudd, CINI-Bari, Italy

• Looking at Buildings Website
Charles O'Brien, Pevsner Book Trust & Chris Meaney, Harvard Consultancy Services

The EVA Conferences: Past & Future and the EVA Networking (EVAN) Project

James Hemsley, National Museums of Scotland & VASARI UK, Gerd Stanke, GFaI & Vito Cappellini, University of Florence