Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:38:47 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
From: Michael Fraser <[log in to unmask]>

DIGITAL RESOURCES IN THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS
  * *  CONFERENCE 2006  * *
DARTINGTON COLLEGE OF ARTS, UK
SEPTEMBER 3-6, 2006

for further details see
http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/index.asp

and
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drha2006/index.php?cf=5

Key dates:

     * 15th April 2006: Deadline for submission of proposals/abstracts (decision 
1st May 2006).
     * Mid April 2006: Notification of acceptance of performances, exhibitions, 
film-screenings, associated and academic papers, sessions and poster 
presentations.
     * April 2006: Registration opens (early booking advised as restricted to a 
maximum of 250 persons).
     * May 2006: Provisional programme announced.


This year the renamed DRHA (UK) Conference - Digital Resources in the 
Humanities and Arts - is choosing to bring a new dimension into its standard 
range of digital projects and interests across the major disciplines of the 
humanities (archaeology, history, languages, linguistics, literature, 
philosophy...) by offering an exceptional invitation to practitioners and 
scholars working with digital media across the creative, visual, performing and 
media arts (music, performance, dance, visual arts, gaming, media, 
Internet...).  This development is intended to draw upon and give greater 
opportunity to consider changes that have occurred through the various 
applications of digital resources across multi-media platforms and 
practice-based and practice- led arts research.  The Conference offers an 
opportunity to all participants involved in arts, humanities and cultural 
studies to present, witness, experience and exchange knowledge and applications 
of accessible digital resources, and to appreciate how the collaborative 
practices of everyone involved with digital resources has a considerable 
potential to inform and influence other disciplines.

The history and environment of Dartington College of Arts UK make it the 
perfect location for Conference 2006.  Well known as a place of special beauty 
and seclusion, the performance studios and exhibition facilities are equally 
superlative and include the 14th Century Great Hall, The Barn Theatre, The 
Gallery, plus several 'black-box' and 'white-box' studios equipped with highly 
sophisticated computer installations appropriate for music, sound, theatre, 
dance, media, exhibition, installation, screenings, demonstrations and 
presentations of both completed digital works and work in progress; 
comfortable well-equipped seminar rooms complement these facilities for the 
presentation of academic papers, panels sessions and debates; outdoor events 
are possible in the extensive gardens and estate grounds.  You can visit 
Dartington College of Arts online at: 
http://www.dartington.ac.uk/space/index.asp

For this Conference two websites have been commissioned to give
expanded up-to-date Conference details and to provide opportunities
for making proposals and registering online.  The Dartington venue
website is at
http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/index.asp

and the DRHA2006 website (providing further details and facilities for making 
online proposals and checking the overall Programme as it develops) is at 
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/drha2006/index.php?cf=5

On these websites you will also find more detailed information on:
*  key themes for Conference 2006;
*  how you can participate and make proposals for presentations;
*  the  variety of presentation formats available;
*  additional notes for practitioners with particular technical
    requirements;
*  key dates;
*  points of contact for further information.

DRH Conferences are never less than inspirational for those working with 
digital resources in the arts and humanities. With the advent of DRH+Arts this 
conference series enters a new decade (the first DRH Conference was at 
Somerville College, University of Oxford in 1996) and begins an exploration of 
new horizons in digital resources. The organisers hope you will feel a sense of 
anticipation and be inclined to join DRHA Conference 2006 in order to 
participate in its presentations and debates and contribute to its scholarly, 
artistic and cultural endeavours and exchange.

Contacts:

Please contact the local organisers, headed by Christopher Pressler, with any 
questions about registration or conference arrangements at Dartington: 
[log in to unmask]

Please contact the 2006 Programme Chair with any questions about submitting 
abstracts or the reviewing process: Barry Smith (Senior Research Fellow 
University of Bristol Drama Department) [log in to unmask]

- - - x