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.
EVA London 2008 papers online:
http://www.bcs.org/ewic/eva2008
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
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
There are attractive cost-effective marketing and promotion opportunities including bursary sponsorship.
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The Research Workshop will take place this year from 9.30 in the offices of System Simulation, http://www.ssl.co.uk/.
This is close to the main conference venue:
Bedford Chambers,
The Piazza,
Covent Garden,
LONDON, UK
WC2E 8HA
Organisers: James Hemsley and Francesca Monti
Welcomes, introductions
10.00: Rachel Hann, University of Leeds
- Visual arguments: three-dimensional visualisation for theatre research
10.20: Alicia Bastos, University of Leeds
- The electronic music industry, underground culture and the trend of creative arts interaction
10.40: Frederick Lesage, London School of Economics
- Artistic Experimentation with ICTs: The case of the MARCEL Network
11.00-11.20 BREAK
11.20: Patrick Tressetm Goldsmiths Digital Studios
- A multidisciplinary investigation into sketching faces
11.40: Megan Smith, Leeds Metropolitan University
- Claiming the portable home: research into intimate space, methods of contact, and orientation.
12.00: Ashley Harper, University of Manchester
- Photography, community and the evolving museum
12.20: Elaine Speight, Birkbeck College
- The potential of the Internet as a placemaking tool for artists who work with(in) physical places, spaces and communities.
12:40 Closing Remarks
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BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY, 5 SOUTHAMPTON STREET, LONDON WC2E 7HA
http://www.bcs.org/ewic/eva2008
Programme at a glance - click here
4.30 - EVENING
Pre-conference welcome reception and Visualisation
SMARTlab, University of East London, will demonstrate their advanced projection lab. Drinks reception.
8.30 Registration opens
9.30 Conference opens
MORNING
Visual Arts 1
Keynote Speaker: Patrick Towell
New Technologies 1
AFTERNOON
Performing Arts 1
Visualisation 1
PARALLEL SESSIONS
am: Research Workshop
5.30 Reception sponsored by BCS
8.30 Registration opens
9.30 Conference opens
MORNING
Cultural Developments 1
Keynote Speaker: Angelina Russo
Visual Arts 2
AFTERNOON
Interaction 1
New Technologies 2
PARALLEL SESSIONS
am: Planning Social Media for Museums
pm: Visualisations and demos
7.00 Conference dinner at Carluccio's Covent Garden Cafe
8.30 Registration opens
9.30 Conference opensMORNING
Visualisation 2
Keynote Speaker: Chris Batt
Interaction 2
AFTERNOON
Performing Arts 2
Cultural Developments 2
5.30 Conference closes
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This year we have the honour to welcome three distinguished keynote speakers
Patrick Towell
DATA TECHNOLOGIES, CULTURE AND PEACE
Patrick is the Chair of the Information Society Working Group for the UNESCO UK National Commission. He uses design thinking to solve policy, strategy and communications challenges across the private, third and public sectors. He is currently advising the government on a 10-year e-services strategy for parents; developing a new service to market and distribute Latin American films in the UK; supporting the creation of a new online public service publisher for informal learning; and exec producing a documentary about young people in South London performing the Tempest. He formerly led the development of the digital publishing model for the Local Heritage Initiative; and was behind the team that architected and built the UN World Summit Award- and multi-BAFTA-winning Stagework project with the National Theatre and Culture Online.
Angelina Russo
Associate Professor Angelina Russo, PhD
Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
THE 'NEXT' WAVE: COMMUNICATION AT THE HEART OF THE FUTURE MUSEUM
Angelina Russo researches the connections between museum communication processes, multimedia design and digital content creation. She is Chief Investigator on the research project Engaging with Social Media in Museums at Swinburne University, which brings together three Australian museums and the Smithsonian Institution to explore the impact of social media on museum learning and communication. She also leads the research project New Literacy, New Audiences which examines the development of user-generated content in collaboration with six major Australian cultural institutions.
Angelina holds a Bachelor of Design in Human Environment Design from University of South Australia and a PhD in Architecture and Design from University of South Australia. Her PhD explored the impact of new media on museum communication.
Chris Batt
Chris Batt Consulting
BUIILDING BRIDGES TO KNOWLEDGE
Chris Batt has more than 30 years experience in the development and implementation of ICT systems in support of universal public access, increasing access to cultural heritage resources and a programme to create a national e-content framework, working with seven major UK content providers. He has wide-ranging experience of managing complex projects and development programmes at local and national level and also of research and development.
Until September 2007 Chris Batt was Chief Executive of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA), the Government’s development agency for the sector where a wide range of research and development programmes were delivered successfully. After its creation in 2000 the MLA had a pivotal role in many aspects of cultural heritage ICT strategy. Chris originally joined national government to lead the implementation of the highly successful £170m People’s Network project and while in the role of MLA CEO he continued to lead involvement in digital futures strategy. As a director of Chris Batt Consultant Ltd Chris undertook the SCA audience scoping study and has worked in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore and is currently an expert assessor for the EU in Luxembourg.
Matrix East Research Centre/ SMARTlab Presents
University of East London
http://www.smartlab.uk.com/
Download Smart programme http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrnske/files/EVA2008/SmartLab.pdf
SMARTlab, The Knowledge Dock Building
University of East London
4-6 University Way
London E16 2RD
travel: DLR East from Bank station to the Cyprus stop
Map: input postcode to http://www.multimap.com/
Welcome by Professor Lizbeth Goodman (SMARTlab Director).
With an introduction to a range of interactive projects in the MAGIC Playroom
welcome by MERL Director Professor Haim Bresheeth.
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Programme may be revised
Full draft programme at a glance - click here
8.30 Registration opens
Welcomes, introductions
Peter Maloney, Chelsea College of Art & Design
-Film as database: A visual analysis of 2001: A Space Odyssey
Tim O'Riley, Chelsea College of Art & Design
- The other world
Colin Price, University of Worcester
- UnrealArt: a new medium for artistic expression using a commercial game engine, galleries and installations
VENUE: offsite: offices of System Simulation, Bedford Chambers, The Piazza, Covent Garden, LONDON, WC2E 8HA. Bedford Chambers is the building on the north side of the Piazza, on the left as you face north.
Map
Organisers: James Hemsley, Francesca Monti
10.50 COFFEE / TEA
11.15 Keynote speaker: Patrick Towell, Golant Films.
Data technologies, culture and peace.
Lynne Minett and Carl Gavin, English Heritage and Lateral Visions Software Company
- “The Middleton Mystery - An Adventure at Belsay Hall” Interpreting heritage through the design and development of a computer game
Douglas Dodds, Victoria and Albert Museum
- Computer Art and Technocultures: evaluating the V&A's collections in the digital age
Maggie Parker, University of Teesside
- 'Haute Couture', 'Haute Cuisine', 'Haute Games'
Irene Buonazia, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
- Emotional interfaces in performing arts: the CALLAS project
Martin Naef and Cathie Boyd, Glasgow School of Art and Cryptic
- Testing the Living Canvas on Stage
Stephen Deutsch, Bournemouth University
- The Soundtrack: Hearing and Seeing Images
Helen Bailey, James Hewison and Martin Turner, University of Bedfordshire and Manchester University
- Choreographic Morphologies: Digital visualisation of spatio-temporal compositional structure in dance and the implications for performance and documentation
Rebecca Gamble, University College Falmouth
- Online encounters: a new method of creating participatory art
3.40 TEA / COFFEE
Lindsay MacDonald and Stuart Robson, University of the Arts London and University College London
- Colour Capture of Cultural Objects
Murat Germen, Sabanci University
- Redesigning Architecture Through Photography
Michael Hohl, University of Hertfordshire
- Sensual displays: From cognitive visualisation on the screen to a sensual display in physical space.
5.10 Conference day closes
with
COMPUTER ARTS SOCIETY EXHIBITION to launch CAS40
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Programme may be revised
Full draft programme at a glance - click here
8.30 Registration opens
Welcomes, introductions
Janet Tatlock, Samantha Lackey, University of Manchester and Carl Smith, London Metropolitan University
- Learning and Enquiry via Collections in Real and Virtual Worlds
Kia Ng, ICSRiM - University of Leeds
- Technology-Enhanced Learning for Music with i-Maestro Framework and Tools
Maria Emilia Masci, Andrea Vecchi and Rony Cesana, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and Sistemi Informativi Srl – Liberologico
- A new Information System for the Superintendence of Pompeii. Integration, management and preservation of archaeological digital resources in the perspective of interoperability with European Digital Libraries
10.50 COFFEE / TEA
EXHIBITION, VISUALISATIONS AND DEMOS
11.15 Keynote speaker
Angelina Russo: Swinburn University, Melbourne:
The ‘next’ wave: communication at the heart of the future museum
Ian Grant, Thames Valley University
- The Cinematic Interface in Public Space
Yvonne Desmond, John McAuley and Evin McCarthy, Dublin Institute of Technology
- Archiving the Artistic Process
Lisa Diekmann, University of Cologne
- Prometheus – the distributed digital image archive for research and education goes international!
1.00 LUNCH
EXHIBITION, VISUALISATIONS AND DEMOS
Veronica Zammitto, Simon Fraser University: Canada
- Visualization Techniques in Video Games
Wei-Kuang Liu, University of Edinburgh
- Envisioning everyday life: Explorations of visualization techniques in Taiwan
Julie Tolmie, King's College London
- Visualisation across domains
3.20 EXHIBITION, VISUALISATIONS AND DEMOS
3.50 TEA / COFFEE
Rebecca Gamble, University College Falmouth
- Online Encounters: a new method of creating participatory art
Angelina Russo and Jerry Watkins, Swinburne University of Technology: Australia
- New Literacy New Audiences: social media and cultural institutions
5.00 Conference day closes
Garrick Street,
Covent Garden,
London,
WC2E 9BH
Tel. 020 7836 0990
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Programme may be revised
Full draft programme at a glance - click here
8.30 Registration opens
Welcomes, introductions
Francesca Millar, Graeme Were, Ian Brown, Mona Hess, Sally MacDonald, Stuart Robson and Yean-Hoon Ong, University College London
- 3D Colour Scans for Object Assessment
Julie Tolmie, King's College London
- Between perceptualisation and notation in mathematics and art
Steve DiPaola, Simon Fraser University: Canada
- The Trace and the Gaze: Textural Agency in Rembrandt’s Late Portraiture from a Vision Science Perspective
10.50 COFFEE / TEA
11.15 Keynote speaker
Chris Batt: Chris Batt Consulting: Building Bridges to Knowledge
Ihsan Sezal, TOBB University of Economics and Technology: Turkey
- New Perspectives in Teaching of Arts
Roma Patel and Deborah Tuck, Nottingham Trent University
- Narrating the Past: virtual environments and narrative
Charles O'Neill and Kia Ng, ICSRim - University of Leeds
- Sonification Method for Visual Preview
David Bradshaw and Kia Ng, ICSRim - University of Leeds
- Movement Capture System for Analyzing Conductors Hand Movements
Ginevra House, British Library
- [Un]Realised : Investigative 3D visualisation as a window for discovery
- The British Library Archive of Sound Recordings (demonstration)
Rachel Hann, University of Leeds
3.20 TEA / COFFEE
Matthias Arnold, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Buddhist Stone Scriptures of Shandong, China
Louise Shannon and Shane Walter, The V&A and onedotzero
- Digital Programming; The V&A and onedotzero
4.30 George Mallen, System Simulation
-Closing review
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I have copied the reg page from 2008 because it can be the basis for next year,
suzanne
Register & pay by 15 July 2007.
Bursaries available for students and those without access to grants for conferences - you may be able to attend free of charge.
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.
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
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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A great chance to get to know the presenters
Mick Grierson
- Making Music with Images : Interactive Audiovisual Performance Systems for the Deaf
Mario Bucolo
- Catania Multimedia Museums Network
Christin Bolewski
- ‘Shan-Shui-Hua’ – Traditional Chinese landscape painting reinterpreted as moving digital visualisation
Russell Richards and Maurice Owen
- KikiT VisuoSonic Performance Demonstration
Richard Hooper
- Round, round, get around, I get around: the potential of solid modelled virtual CAD animations in sculptural practice
Deborah Wilson and Mike Wilman (COMMERCIAL)
- Designing interactive multimedia heritage content for mobile and small screen devices.
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Very important: please REGISTER by 15th July by post or fax - click here
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.
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.
As you see, the programme is very tightly timetabled, and chairs will be keeping speakers strictly to time. Your presentation must fit into 20 minutes maximum, including any time for questions.
EVA's Poster Session. Tables will be provided on Day 2 for you to set up your laptop. Delegates will be encouraged to come in and see your demonstration and meet you.
More information will be provided about this shortly by email and on this website page. There will be a data projector, audio connection and internet connection. In general,
This is an opportunity to show off something interactive and exciting and to have a dialogue with EVA delegates. Technical instructions will be provided shortly.
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.
About the schedule: suzanne.keene@ucl.ac.uk
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The conference attracts attendance across a wide range of disciplines with interests in the new technologies in the cultural sector, including:
We expect between 50 and 100 delegates to attend. A substantial proportion of delegates are from overseas, including Australia, Russia, the USA and a number of European countries.
We offer the following opportunities:
The conference is being held at the London HQ of the British Computer Society. One of the public areas connected with the room for refreshments and lunch will be available for stands.
We would welcome sponsorship of bursaries to enable students and practicing artists to attend. A £100 bursary will provide attendance at any two of the three days. Sponsors will be entitled to have promotional material in delegate packs.
For a conference stand, the standard cost is £250 (excl VAT). This will include free attendance at the conference sessions for one person.
Promotional material in delegate packs: cost £100. Free attendance at the conference for one person.
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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 -
Suzanne Keene University College London Chair, Programme
George Mallen System Simulation Ltd - Venue
Stuart Dunn King's College London - Publication
Carol Scott - Publicity
Jonathan Bowen Museophile Limited
Nick Lambert Birkbeck College, London - Website
Lindsay MacDonald University of the Arts
James Hemsley
Tom Keene The Anthill Social - Website hosting
Francesca Monti EVA - Administration
Gemma Liddiard British Computer Society - Administration
Programme Committee
Sarah McDaid London South Bank University
Mayra Ortiz
Michael Lesk Rutgers University, USA
Holly Witchey Cleveland Museum of Art
Steve DiPaola Simon Fraser University, BC, Canada
Anna Clark University College London
Lauren Moriarty
Peter Hassell Royal College of Art
Kasia Molga University of East London
Rebecca Norris Kent State University, USA
Hsian-Yi Liu National Taiwan Normal University
Eleanor Lisney Coventry University
Kate Devlin Goldsmiths College
Vito Cappellini University of Florence, Italy
Catherine Draycott Wellcome Images
Angelina Russo Swinburne University of Technology, Prahran, Australia
Lizbeth Goodman University of East London
Nicole Smith Southampton University
Kia Ng University of Leeds
Gregory Sporton
Nancy Proctor Smithsonian American Art Museum
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