The 16th international festival for digital arts of Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), the pioneer longest living institution dedicated to digital culture in the country (est.2005), is launching the Online era and continues its daily activities presenting even more … Co … | Continue reading
Text by Caterina Sbrana. In August 2007 the Munch Museum set up a project related to Edvard Munch’s writings. The project was financed with funds from Arts Council Norway, the Fritt Ord (Freedom of Expression) Foundation, The Municipality of Oslo’s Kunstsamlingenes institutt … Co … | Continue reading
New technologies in heritage, interpretation and outreach Organised by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, Digital Past is an annual two-day conference which showcases innovative digital technologies and techniques for data capture, interpretati … | Continue reading
images in the Closer to Van Eyck’s website: The Lamb of God on the central panel, from left to right: before restoration (with the 16th-century overpaint), during restoration (showing the van Eycks’ original Lamb from 1432 before retouching), after retouching … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth will kickstart the discussion on the future of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) post-Covid with an opening speech at the Cities, Design and Innovation conference, hosted by the … | Continue reading
SIMULTAN is an annual festival dedicated to interdisciplinary arts – emerging media projects, experimental music and audio-visual and sound projects, in order to support new forms of artistic expression. The festival hosts annual live audio-visual performances, video art screenin … | Continue reading
Focusing on contemporary performance arts across multiple genres, Kundura Stage is an alternative platform for cutting edge theatre productions. It marks the second stage in the redevelopment of Beykoz Kundura as a multipurpose arts venue and cultural destination in Istanbul. … C … | Continue reading
The discovery of the exact location where Vincent van Gogh painted his last artwork Tree Roots was made by Wouter van der Veen, the scientific director of the Institut van Gogh (Auvers-sur-Oise). Van der Veen found a post card dating … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The 2020 edition of European Research and Innovation Days will be held online from 22 to 24 next September. This leading event of the the European Commission brings together researchers, entrepreneurs, policymakers and citizens to debate and shape the future … Continue reading → | Continue reading
European Research and Innovation Days bring together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond. This event, planned on 22-24 September, is the European Commission’s annual flagship event an … | Continue reading
Three events will be organised by museum organisations located in the countries holding the presidency of the Council of the European Union and they will focus on different aspects of social responsibility. The first of them will be held online … Continue reading → | Continue reading
PAGODE – Europeana China is proud to host an expert blog written by dr. Martina Bofulin, Slovenian Migration Institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The blog explains how legacies from Chinese emigration are now taken … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Now is the chance for Europe’s most inspiring architects, craftsmen, cultural heritage experts, professionals, volunteers, public and private institutions, and local communities to be recognised for their achievements! Watch the video. Europe’s top honour in the field of cultural … | Continue reading
Due to the COVID-19 global crisis the Organizing Committee of the HeLLo project (Heritage Energy Living Lab Onsite) final event has come the decision on doing the HeLLo conference fully virtual. The event will be held on September 28 from … Continue reading → | Continue reading
From 27th October 2020 to 30th October 2020, the ROCK Open Knowledge Week will take place online on the topic: Cultural Heritage as Oxygen in Times of Crisis. After the annulation of the conference in Bologna, scheduled on 14-15 May, … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2021 are open for submissions! Now is the chance for Europe’s most inspiring architects, craftsmen, cultural heritage experts, professionals, volunteers, public and private institutions, and local communities to be recognised fo … | Continue reading
There are 3 days left to register for the international competition “Reimagining museums for climate action”. This competition invites designers, architects, academics, artists, poets, philosophers, writers, museum professionals, community groups and the public at large to think … | Continue reading
AI will now be well-versed in cultural heritage due to a new EU-funded project called Saint George on a Bike. Composed of researchers from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Europeana Foundation, the project has begun training natural language processing … Continue rea … | Continue reading
Within the framework of Germany’s presidency of the Council of the European Union, NEMO and the German Museums Association are co-organising the online conference Museums and Social Responsibility – Values revisited from 17-18 September 2020. The conference will focus on what soc … | Continue reading
European Research and Innovation Days is the European Commission’s annual flagship event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond. This year’s online format will provide … | Continue reading
The British Library is home to the UK’s sound archive, an extraordinary collection of over 6.5 million recordings of speech, music, wildlife and the environment. These recordings, from the UK and around the world, date from the birth of recorded … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The edA (Esempi di Architettura Internationale Research Center) together with UNESCO University and Heritage activated a new international project titled “Reconnecting With Your Culture” in order to bring the younger generations closer to the theme of cultural heritage. The conce … | Continue reading
Sacrebleu consulting Art agency based in New York city is calling to artists for a 3D art contest with prize of 400 $. We are on the final stage to launch a new mobile app with Augmented-Reality, based on geolocation … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Digital tools offer numerous opportunities and can significantly support the work of museums and strengthen the public exchange. Throughout this digitalization process, museums often have had to overcome many obstacles connected with insufficient resources and insufficient staff. … | Continue reading
The 14th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR 2020), as well as the SPECIAL TRACK on METADATA & SEMANTICS for CULTURAL COLLECTIONS & APPLICATIONS, due to the COVID-19 pandemic will take place virtually on 30th November – 4th … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Tomorrow July 23, the webinar “Museums after the pandemic” will be held, organized by UNESCO and ICCROM ( International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property). This events aims to comprehensively address the critical issues … Continue readi … | Continue reading
The ten ROCK cities – Athens, Bologna, Cluj-Napoca, Eindhoven, Lisbon, Liverpool, Lyon, Skopje, Turin, and Vilnius – developed innovative solutions and demonstrated how heritage and cultural activities have essential importance for keeping the cities alive. Culture and heritage c … | Continue reading
NEW issue from 44DEGREES online art magazine. The subject of this issue is SOCIAL DISTANCING, which we all have been asked to respect and follow due to the COVID-19 crisis. The issue presents contemporary Israeli and international artists, from various fields … Continue reading → | Continue reading
© Oak Taylor Smith for Factum Arte The site of Risco Caído was incorporated into the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2019 as ‘Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria Cultural Landscape’. It is a complex of 21 … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The newly established UNESCO and European Research Area (ERA) Chairs on Digital Heritage are announcing the International Web-Conference EuroMed 2020 dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage Documentation, Preservation and Protection This unique conference is in cooperation with th … | Continue reading
Text by Caterina Sbrana. The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF), founded in 1999 by Nelson Mandela also known as Madiba, is a non-profit organisation committed to promoting Madiba’s living legacy through the collection of all documentation scattered throughout the world. The … Conti … | Continue reading
Traveling while staying in our homes. Exploring the world, having fun, living new experiences, even while the pandemic limits our travels. How is this possible? This is thanks to immersive and accessible video games that are interactive escapes which bring … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The REACH project had to cancelled their final conference planned for the 4-5 June 2020 in Pisa due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, the REACH Consortium decided to keep alive the call for posters and videos until October 2020 … Continue reading → | Continue reading
NEMO and the German Museums Association, within the framework of Germany’s presidency of the Council of the European Union, are co-organising an online conference from 17-18 September 2020. This conference is the first of three events organised by museum organisations … Continue … | Continue reading
The European Heritage Days Call for European Heritage Days Stories is one of the key initiatives within the European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH) 2018 and aims to identify the European Dimension of heritage sites and heritage work undertaken by … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The Cultural and Creative Sector (CCS), comprises all the sectors whose activities are based on cultural values, or artistic, creative expressions. Beyond its value for the European economy, it plays a crucial role in the well-being and cohesion of the … Continue reading → | Continue reading
On 10 July, ADAF Online opens its digital doors. Against the adversity of the time, Athens Digital Arts Festival is evolving, becoming even more creative and develops an Online presence in addition to the main festival. The new, specially designed … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Text by Caterina Sbrana. The home page of Art Basel Viewing Rooms is beautiful. Every page of Art Basel is beautiful. It’s a continuous and amazing discovery. Art Basel was founded in 1970 by gallerists from Basel and 50 years … Continue reading → | Continue reading
arebyte Gallery are pleased to announce Real-Time Constraints, a group exhibition featuring works by artists working within the realms of artificial intelligence, algorithms, machine learning, big data, and interventions in web-based platforms. The exhibition brings forward the c … | Continue reading
The REACH project is pleased to announce the put online of the digital posters&videos gallery , joined by innovative and engaging contributions coming from resilient communities and the European Cultural Heritage network of social participation as a whole. You can … Continue read … | Continue reading
The Prix Ars Electronica, which has been happening every year since 1987, is considered to be one of the most prestigious media arts competition in the world. The 2020 edition received proposals from 90 countries, for a total of 3,209 … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) has organized a very interesting webinar, planned on Thursday 2nd July, in which the sector of cultural heritage is called to reflect on the actions … Continue reading → | Continue reading
EVA (Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts) is a series of annual meetings started as small workshop in 1991 and become in few years a well defined conference. The key aim of this event is to provide a Forum for … Continue reading → | Continue reading
Which impact do the cultural and creative industries, and in particular the arts, generate for the development of innovations between industry, people and technology? >> ACCESS HERE: https://kreativ-bund.de/artcreatesindustry >> Also live on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube! Registr … | Continue reading
The Commission has opened a public consultation on the opportunities offered by digital technologies for the cultural heritage sector. Stakeholders and all interested people are invited to provide feedback on the Recommendation of 2011 on digitising cultural material and digital … | Continue reading
The 16th international festival for digital arts of Greece, Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF), the pioneer longest living institution dedicated to digital culture in the country (est.2005), will be implemented also ONLINE, introducing a new digital institution. Since the new er … | Continue reading
This Workshop is organized by the PAGODE – Europeana China project team at the Department of Asian Studies, University of Ljubljana. Its aim is to set the common ground for the curation of Chinese cultural heritage in the Europeana Digital Library. … Continue reading → | Continue reading
The three-day conference will bring together science, computing, and (international) collaboration with the aim to exchange knowledge and expertise on a very rich and articulated range of topics. The scientific programme includes: • Novel technical solutions Existing and emerging … | Continue reading