DEADLINE FOR REDUCED CONFERENCE RATE - 14 OCTOBER 2005 

CHArt TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL CONFERENCE

THE BRITISH ACADEMY, 10 CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE, LONDON, SW1Y 5AH

THEORY AND PRACTICE

Thursday 10 - Friday 11 November 2005

- PROGRAMME -

Since its foundation in 1985 CHArt has closely followed the extraordinary
developments in arts computing that have taken place over nearly two
decades. The twenty-first CHArt conference will reflect upon the
relationship between theory and practice in all areas of digital media and
technology in the visual arts including: new media art; the development of
scholarly and art historical resources; visual resources management; ICT in
museums, libraries and galleries; the Internet, the World Wide Web and the
Semantic Web; art and art history teaching; and new media theory.

KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Jemima Rellie, Head of Digital Programmes, Tate

THURSDAY 10 NOVEMBER 

SESSION 1 – 
RELOCATING THE FRAME: OBJECT-ORIENTED AND LOCATIVE ART ENVIRONMENTS.
Elizabeth Coulter-Smith, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design; Colin
Price, University College Worcester.

OBSERVING 'SYSTEMS-ART' FROM A SYSTEMS-THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE.
Francis Halsall, School of Art and Design, Limerick, Republic of Ireland. 

SESSION 2 –
PAPER-LIKE DISPLAYS AND PAPER-LIKE BOOKS. Simon Downs, Loughborough
University School of Art & Design.  


PROBLEMATICS OF MAKING AMBIGUITY EXPLICIT IN VIRTUAL RECONSTRUCTIONS: A CASE
STUDY OF THE MAUSOLEUM OF AUGUSTUS.
John Pollini. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California,
USA.                            

SESSION 3 – 
LES CYCLISTES.
David Furnham, Middlesex University.   

DIGITAL ARCHIVING AS AN ART PRACTICE.
Dew Harrison, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland.  

SESSION 4 – 
TO TAKE PLACE AT THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ARTS (ICA)
DEMOCRATIZING THE IMAGE: CREATING A GLOBAL LEARNING COMMUNITY 
Round-table Discussion chaired by David Ehrenpreis, James Madison
University, Virginia, USA.
The round-table will function as an open forum on the possibilities and
challenges involved in creating an international digital image database.
Focusing on efforts currently underway in the UK, the panel will also
consider how these initiatives could be linked with corresponding efforts in
Germany and in the United States.

FRIDAY 11 NOVEMBER 

SESSION 5 – 
THE REPRESENTATION OF ARTISTIC PRACTICE IN DIGITAL VISUAL CULTURE.
Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Utrecht University. 
 
DO YOU COPY? - ART AND QUESTIONS OF DIGITAL RIGHTS
Jacob Lillemose and Mogens Jacobsen, Copenhagen, Denmark.  

SESSION 6 – 
ARTSTOR, A DIGITAL LIBRARY FOR THE HISTORY OF ART AND THE HUMANITIES.
Max Marmor, ARTstor, USA.  

MDID: SHARING DIGITAL CONTENT IN A GLOBAL, OPEN-SOURCE COMMUNITY.
David Ehrenpreis, James Madison University, Virginia, USA. 

SESSION 7 – 
CONVERGENCE; UNITING, OR MERGING TENDENCIES THAT WERE ORIGINALLY OPPOSED OR
VERY DIFFERENT. Stephen Partridge, University of Dundee, Scotland.  

A COMMANDO RAID INTO SOCIETY: TOWARDS A TRANSDISCIPLINARY ART-PRACTICE IN
REAL-TIME.
Morten Søndergaard, Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde, Denmark. 

SESSION 8 – 
FROM UNCAGED TO CYBER-SPATIALISM. 
Ralf Nuhn, London.  


THE DIGITAL IMAGE AND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE: THE CONSUMPTION OF REALISM IN
THE AGE OF SIMULATION.
Hamid van Koten, University of Dundee, Scotland.  

DEMONSTRATIONS 
EdiNA (Edinburgh University Data Library), Paula Cucurrulo.
Others to be confirmed.

The booking form is available online on www.chart.ac.uk.  Bookings made
before 14 October 2005 will be entitled to a discount.  Conference Fees
(pounds sterling) - include coffee/tea breaks and lunch.  Send bookings to:
Hazel Gardiner, CHArt, CCH, Kings College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel
Street, WC2R 3DX,  tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2013, fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980,
[log in to unmask] (please use the subject heading CHArt Conference
2005 in any email queries).

BOOKING                                                        
CHArt Member:
TWO DAYS
£100   (£80 before 14 Oct 2005)
ONE DAY
£60 (£50 before 14 Oct 2005)
Non-member:
TWO DAYS
£130 (£110 before 14 Oct 2005)
ONE DAY
£80 (£70 before 14 Oct 2005)
CHArt Student Member:
TWO DAYS
£60   (£40 before 14Oct 2005)
ONE DAY
£40 (£30 before 14 Oct 2005)
Student Non-member:
TWO DAYS
£80  (£60 before 14 Oct 2005)
ONE DAY
£50 (£40 before 14 Oct 2005)