Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities (Hardback) – Routledge
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Still being planned (Newcastle is still a tbc):
UCL Qatar: (tbc), 20 or 21 November 2017:
Talk, workshop and debate on Historical narratives and digital spaces (place tbc)
Salford, 29 November 2017:
Rethinking Virtual Places
This talk will cover my recent thoughts on what is a virtual place and a virtual world, and why we seem to have shifting, even varying notions of virtual reality. For example, what are virtual environments and virtual museums? Do they open our minds up to the possibility of digital space and virtual culture? In my opinion, they typically fail to do so, virtual museums lack contestation and imagined defensive capacity, they are not cultural worlds. Many philosophers and cultural studies thinkers have given us some hints as to cultural places, but not to virtual cultural places. And architects are also not as well placed as one might think, to design, critique and review virtual places. Nor is it clear to many how we learn through virtual place. Augmented reality will begin to dominate virtual reality, and consumer-friendly component-based VR technology has great promise, but new and emerging devices displays and peripherals may have long-term detrimental cognitive, physical and social effects.
Research Digital Cultural Heritage conference, University of Manchester, 30 November-1 December 2017:
Inside Out: Avatars, Agents, Cultural Agents
If conveying cultural significance is a central aim of virtual heritage projects, can they convey cultural significance effectively without an understanding of the contextual role of cultural knowledge? In this talk I will argue this is very difficult, but even populating virtual environments with others (human-guided or computer-scripted), there are still vital, missing ingredients.
In virtual heritage projects with enough computational power and sophistication to feature intelligent agents, they are primarily used as guides (Bogdanovych et al. 2009). They lead players to important landmarks, or perhaps act as historical guides (revealing past events, conveying situationally appropriate behavior). Intelligent agents are usually designed for limited forms of conversation and typically help convey social presence rather than cultural presence. For an enhanced “sense of inhabited place”, engaging narrative- related elements, or embodiment, a cultural agent recognizes, adds to, or transmits physically embedded and embodied aspects of culture. They could provide a sense of cultural presence, becoming Aware-Of-Not-Quite-Being-‘There’.
Cultural agents would not be mere conversational agents if they were able to:
To fulfil the above criteria, cultural agents would be culturally constrained. Not just socially constrained; their actions and beliefs would be dependent on role, space, and time. They could understand and point out right from wrong in terms of culturally specific behavior and understand the history and possibly also the future trajectory of specific cultural movements. In this talk I will discuss three scenarios for cultural agents, their relationship to roles and rituals, and two more missing ingredients. The result? A more situated, reflexive appreciation of cultural significance via virtual heritage.
We regularly hear about the ‘power of the archive’ and know about the importance of the archive for accountability and identity within our societies. But do we ever actually stop to think about the term ‘power of the archive’? What is the nature of this power? Do archives have inherent power? Or is it those…
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Did you ever have to choose between prospective conference hosts? I don’t remember ever seeing criteria for choosing potential conference hosts but a few times I have been asked to choose or rank applications and from memory I try to mark them against criteria like the one below. Happy change or replace this if someone has a better system well laid out somewhere. Oh and I have not weighted the criteria against each other but that could be done with some contextual information.
Paper accepted for Researching Digital Cultural Heritage – International Conference, Manchester UK, Dates: 30/11-1/12/2017 twitter #digheritage17
Keywords:Digitally enabled collaborative, participatory and reflexive approaches in cultural heritage design, research and practice.
If conveying cultural significance is a central aim of virtual heritage projects, can they convey cultural significance effectively without an understanding of the contextual role of cultural knowledge? In this talk I will argue this is very difficult, but even populating virtual environments with others (human-guided or computer-scripted), there are still vital, missing ingredients.
In virtual heritage projects with enough computational power and sophistication to feature intelligent agents, they are primarily used as guides (Bogdanovych et al. 2009). They lead players to important landmarks, or perhaps act as historical guides (revealing past events, conveying situationally appropriate behaviour). Intelligent agents are usually designed for limited forms of conversation and typically help convey social presence rather than cultural presence. For an enhanced “sense of inhabited place”, engaging narrative- related elements, or embodiment, a cultural agent recognizes, adds to, or transmits physically embedded and embodied aspects of culture. They could provide a sense of cultural presence, becoming Aware-Of-Not-Quite-Being-‘There’.
Cultural agents would not be mere conversational agents if they were able to:
To fulfil the above criteria, cultural agents would be culturally constrained. Not just socially constrained; their actions and beliefs would be dependent on role, space, and time. They could understand and point out right from wrong in terms of culturally specific behaviour and understand the history and possibly also the future trajectory of specific cultural movements. In this talk I will discuss three scenarios for cultural agents, their relationship to roles and rituals, and two more missing ingredients. The result? A more situated, reflexive appreciation of cultural significance via virtual heritage.
Have you decided to learn to work with a Geographic Information System and you don’t know how to start? Now that the premiere of the new season of Game of Thrones series will be in a few days, we recommend you do it using the book that we have just published: “Learning GIS with Game of Thrones“.
This book compiles a series of post with practical exercises that have been published in the gvSIG project blog previously. The objective is that anyone, without previous knowledge and through a series of practical exercises, learn to handle a GIS in an entertaining and funny way.
Everything necessary to follow the course is available free of charge, including gvSIG Desktop software – a free GIS used in more than 160 countries – as well as the data (download links are available in the book) and this tutorial, distributed…
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I am finishing a chapter (Chapter 3: ‘Architected’ Places) for my own book on Virtual Places, but the structural arc has escaped me until now. It will be polemical and controversial so I need to rewrite it to show that I realize this, there will be gaps and generalizations.
The basic premises are:
| *START* | DUE | CONFERENCE | THEME | LOCATION |
| 22-Oct-17 | 12-Jul-17 | UIST | ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology-posters | Quebec City, Canada |
| 31-Oct-17 | 15-Jun-17 | VSMM2017 | 23rd Int’l Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia | Dublin Ireland |
| 08-Nov-17 | ? | Chacmool | The Future of Archaeology: How Technology Can Influence a Discipline | Calgary Canada |
| 08-Nov-17 | 30-Jun-17 | VRST | Virtual Reality Software and Technology | Gothenburg Sweden |
| 28-Nov-17 | 16-Jun-17 | ozchi17 | OzCHI 2017 – Human-Nature | Brisbane Australia |
| 01-Dec-17 | 21-Jul-17 | DCH2017 | Digital Cultural Heritage | Manchester UK |
| 04-Dec-17 | 31-Jul-17 | dha | 4th Digital Humanities: Data First! | Innsbruck Austria |
| 05-Dec-17 | 10-Jul-17 | GALA 2017 | Games and Learning Alliance conference | Lisbon Portugal |
| 07-Dec-17 | 01-Jun-17 | Postcolonial | Post colonial memory | Amsterdam Netherlands |
| 18-Dec-17 | 25-Aug-17 | TAG UK | Theorectical Archaeology Group | Cardiff Wales |
| 17-Mar-18 | 29-Sep-17 | CRDH | Current Research in Digital History | Arlington, VA |
| 19-Mar-18 | ? | CAA2018 | Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology | Tübingen, Germany |
| 21-Apr-18 | 12-Sep-17 | CHI2018 | Computer Human Interaction | Montreal, Canada |
| 24-Apr-18 | ? | CAA2019 | Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology | Kraków, Poland |
| 02-May-18 | ? | Best Practices | Best Practices in World Heritage: Archeology | Menorca Spain |
| 09-Jun-18 | ? | DIS | Designing Interactive Systems | Hong Kong |
| 19-Jun-18 | ? | IDC2018 | ACM Interaction Design and Children | Trondheim, Norway |
| 24-Jun-18 | ? | DH2018 | Digital Humanities 2018 | Mexico City, Mexico |
| 12-Aug-18 | ? | SIGGRAPH18 | SIGGRAPH | Vancouver Canada |
| 01-Sep-18 | 31-Mar-17 | 2018achs | Heritage Across Borders (sessions) | Hangzhou China |
| 19-Sep-18 | 01-Feb-18 | eCAADe2018 | computing for a better tomorrow | Lodz Poland |
| 14-Oct-18 | ? | ? | ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology | Berlin Germany |
| START | *DUE* | CONFERENCE | THEME | LOCATION |
| 08-Nov-17 | 30-Jun-17 | VRST | Virtual Reality Software and Technology | Gothenburg Sweden |
| 05-Dec-17 | 10-Jul-17 | GALA 2017 | Games and Learning Alliance conference | Lisbon Portugal |
| 22-Oct-17 | 12-Jul-17 | UIST | ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology-posters | Quebec City, Canada |
| 01-Dec-17 | 21-Jul-17 | DCH2017 | Digital Cultural Heritage | Manchester UK |
| 04-Dec-17 | 31-Jul-17 | dha | 4th Digital Humanities: Data First! | Innsbruck Austria |
| 18-Dec-17 | 25-Aug-17 | TAG UK | Theorectical Archaeology Group | Cardiff Wales |
| 21-Apr-18 | 12-Sep-17 | CHI2018 | Computer Human Interaction | Montreal, Canada |
| 17-Mar-18 | 29-Sep-17 | CRDH | Current Research in Digital History | Arlington, VA |
| 19-Sep-18 | 01-Feb-18 | eCAADe2018 | computing for a better tomorrow | Lodz Poland |
This week on Monday and Tuesday (19-20 June 2017) ran the 3D Digital Heritage Exploring Virtual Research Space for Art History conference at Humboldt University.
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It sounds paradoxical but one of the world’s leading hubs of digital heritage learning, research and innovation is based in an art school, and it had to be in Glasgow…
A fusion of cultural heritage and technological expertise, history and data, human stories and computational power, it’s the “idea of dueling polarities within one entity” made concrete (and virtual) in an unexpected setting.
Whether its staff and students would agree with or dismiss the idea of the ‘Caledonian antisyzgy‘ is moot, but I can’t resist seeing a correlation between this new formation and that reading of the Scots cultural psyche coined by G. Gregory Smith in 1919…
“That it is defined by duality. Passionate heart versus rational head, Highlands and Lowlands, Scottish and British identity, Scots and English language, realism and fantasy.” [ref]
Debatably then, this brief dérive into Scottish literary history goes some way to…
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VSMM2017 – Deadline postponed!
Abstracts and workshop proposals deadline for the 23rd International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM2017), has been postponed from June 2nd to June 15th 2017.
The conference will be held October 30th – November 2nd 2017 in Ireland at University College Dublin, with Special Workshops and Cultural Tours on November 3rd – 5th in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Thur 15 Jun 2017 – Deadline for Abstracts/Workshop Proposals
Fri 28 Jul 2017 – Notification of Acceptance to Authors/Presenters
Fri 1 Sep 2017 – Registration Opens
Mon 15 Sep 2017 – Camera-ready Papers Due
Fri 13 Oct 2017 – Registration Closes
Tue 31 Oct – Thur 2 Nov – VSMM2017 Conference in Dublin
Fri 3 Nov – Sun 5 Nov – VSMM2017 Workshops & Cultural Tours in Belfast
Website: http://vsmm.org/vsmm2017/
I am speaking at 3D Heritage Exploring Virtual Research Space for Art, 19 -20 June 2017, Berlin. Program here
Address:Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Humboldt Graduate School,Luisenstr 56, 10117, Berlin
A Scholarly Ecosystem for 3D Digital Heritage Simulations
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Major impediments to the development of high quality and effective virtual heritage projects has been technological constraints or insufficient audience evaluation methods. That said, this talk proposes that a more fundamental issue has been with the design, circulation and use of the digital models themselves as components of scholarly arguments or as vehicles to communicate hypotheses to the wider public.
In Australia, we have proposed to UNESCO that we run a project to survey, collate and develop tools for heritage sites and related built environments, focusing initially on Australia. The aim is to consolidate and disseminate 3D models and virtual environments of world heritage sites, host virtual heritage examples, tutorials, tools and technologies so heritage groups and classrooms could learn to develop and maintain 3D models and virtual environments, and act as advisor on policy formulation for the use, evaluation and application of these 3D digital environments and digital models for use in the classroom and for general visualisation projects.
The resulting UNESCO Chair project will implement and advise on 3D models of World Heritage Sites, how 3D models can be employed in teaching and research, investigate ways to host both the digital models and related paradata and publications, and transfer formats (for desktop use, mobile computing etc.), ideally with UNESCO, and we will leverage research facilities at Curtin and at partner institutes and research facilities like the HIVE (Figure 1).
The primary goal is to help educate the public in the area of world heritage sites via interactive collaborative digital media, with an emphasis on free and open source software, and a secondary goal is to examine virtual heritage and related digital simulations as components of scholarly arguments. The UNESCO Chair’s project team will also critique, integrate and extend existing and new infrastructure to support this learning material and the overall integration of scholarly publications, publicly available media and online directories and repositories of digital 3D simulations of world heritage sites and related artefacts as a scholarly ecosystem.
The Games and Learning Alliance conference (GALA 2017) is an international conference dedicated to the science and application of serious games. This year, it will take place at Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon (Portugal) on December 5 -7.
GALA 2017 is organized by the Serious Games Society, building a scientific community at international level for shaping future research in the field. The goal is to share the state of the art of research and market, analysing the most significant trends and discussing visions on the future of serious games. The conference will also include tutorials and the annual Serious Games Awards. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series and the best papers in a special issue of the International Journal of Serious Games, as the previous years.
Possible topics listed at: https://conf.seriousgamessociety.org/call-for-papers/
Important dates:
Papers (10 pages) submission deadline: July 10, 2017
Notification date for Papers: September 8, 2017
Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: October 2, 2017
2017 International Conference on Digital Technologies in Architectural Education and Research 9-10 September 2017 Nanjing China
Summary
The DADA 2017 International Conference on Digital Architecture organized by the Digital Architecture Design Association in China, and the 2017 International Conference on Digital Technologies in Architectural Education and Research organized by the Education Committee of Digital Technologies in Architecture of the National Committee for Architecture Disciplines in Higher Educational Institutions will be held from September 9 to 10, 2017 at Nanjing
University, Nanjing, China. The theme of the conference is “Digital Culture”. The whole event will include forums, exhibitions and workshops. Teachers and students, architects and industrial practitioners are welcome to attend.
Topics
Abstract Submission
The abstract should objectively, clearly, and concisely describe the research background, purpose, methodology, result and conclusion.
Format: Chinese (400-600 words) / English (300-400 words) Related images (1-2) Deadline: 25 April 2017
URL https://caad2017.nju.edu.cn/
Email: caad2017 OR fax 025-83595673
Contact Tong Ziyu tzy@nju.edu.cn
Address: Hankou Road 22, Nanjing, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Nanjing University 210093
And for those interested in Cultural Heritage evaluation
P Koutsabasis 2017, Empirical Evaluations of Interactive Systems in Cultural Heritage: A Review
La 3D appliquée aux sciences historiques États des lieux, pratiques et outils pour l’acquisition, la modélisation et la présentation de modèles tridimensionnels (3D applied to historical sciences, State of the art, practices and tools for acquiring, modelling and presenting tri-dimensional models).
On the occasion of Prof.H. Maschner’s (USF CVAST, Tampa, USA) and Prof. M. Callieri’s (Visual-Computing Lab, CNR, Pisa, Italy) visits, the laboratories from the french CNRS ArScAn and Trajectoires, and the Université Paris 1 Pantheon- Sorbonne, wished to hold two days of study about 3D data, its practices and tools for acquisition, modelling and presentation of tri-dimensional models in the field of historical sciences.
Interventions will have a length of around 50min and will share a common structure:
– a short presentation of the team of research
– a long presentation of the projects, finished or still undergoing, with an emphasis on the scientific context and questions, the methodology, the technologies chosen, the solutions found and, last but not least, the difficulties encountered.
Based on these interventions, we will discuss the various practices and uses that can be done with these methodologies and the data which are produced by it.Interventions will be done in French or in English.
URL: https://iscpif.fr/upcomingevents/journees-detude-sur-la-3d-appliquee-aux-sciences-historiques/
Date: 24 & 25 April 2017, Salle de conférence de l’ISC (Institute of Complex Systems) http://www.iscpif.fr/, Paris, France.
I have been asked to teleconference in, looks interesting!
19-20th June, 2017, Berlin
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Humboldt Graduate School, Luisenstr 56, 10117 Berlin
URL: https://www.herder-institut.de/veranstaltungen-ausstellungen/fachtagungen/2017/3d-digital-heritage-exploring-virtual-research-space-for-art-history.html (English) or http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/veranstaltungen/3d-digital-heritage-exploring-virtual-research-space-for-art-history/
On the 19th I have been invited to keynote along with Frédéric Kaplan:
19 June 17:15 Keynotes and discussion
then a day of 3D digital reconstruction talks, in English then in German.
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Calls due 24 March http://festival.gamesforchange.org/#submit
Early-bird pricing is available for a limited time. Discounts are available for students, educators, nonprofits, and independent game studios.
Explore the positive power of digital games and virtual technologies in three days of keynotes, panels, and workshops.
Explore groundbreaking new games across three tracks of programming
Back by popular demand, the G4C Festival offers three expertly curated tracks of panels, talks and workshops around emerging sectors in the impact games field.
1. Neurogaming & Health Exploring how games can improve health, fitness, cognitive skills, and mindfulness through interactive experiences and new technologies.
2. Civics & Social Impact Highlighting games that help players engage with contemporary issues on matters of social justice, human development, environment and responsible citizenship.
3. Games for Learning Summit-Sharing new projects and research that evidence the power of game-based learning to transform education in and out of school.
INTRODUCING:
VR for Change Summit
On August 2, join us to explore how virtual technologies offer radical new ways to create social impact.
Talk Ideas and Proposals (Deadline: March 24)
We invite you to submit ideas for talks, panels, demos, and workshops for the 2017 Festival. Session topics should fall within the three tracks of Festival programming or the VR for Change Summit.
Games for Change Awards (Deadline: March 24)
Each year, we celebrate the year’s best impact games with the G4C Awards. If you have launched or will launch a game between January 1, 2016, and March 31, 2017, we encourage you to apply! Categories include: Most Significant Impact, Most Innovative, Best Game Play, Best Learning Game, and Game of the Year.
We are glad to announce that the 23rd Int’l Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia will be held October 30th – November 2nd 2017 in Ireland at University College Dublin, with Special Workshops and Cultural Tours on November 3rd – 5th in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
For over 2 decades, VSMM has been the premier world forum for cross-disciplinary research on multimedia, VR, AR, 3D acquisition, visualization and interaction technologies, and their myriad applications. Known for its broad multidisciplinary approach, VSMM has become a unique bridge between technology and the arts, history, science and engineering.
Held annually since 1995, VSMM2017 will mark the 23rd international gathering of the VSMM Society. VSMM’s Proceedings are available in IEEE’s digital library, Xplore.
IMPORTANT DATES
1 Mar 2017 Call for Papers, Posters, & Workshops
Fri 2 Jun 2017 Deadline for Abstracts/Workshop Proposals
Fri 28 Jul 2017 Notification of Acceptance to Authors/Presenters
Fri 1 Sep 2017 Registration Opens
Mon 15 Sep 2017 Camera-ready Papers Due
Fri 13 Oct 2017 Registration Closes
Tue 31 Oct VSMM2017 Launches in Dublin
3 – 5 Nov Workshops & Cultural Tours, Belfast
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