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CHArt (COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART) TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER
Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007
London Venue to be confirmed
Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organisations such as
publishers and film and broadcast companies, have traditionally mediated and
controlled access to cultural resources and knowledge. What is the future of
such 'top-down' institutions in the age of 'bottom-up' access to knowledge
and cultural artifacts through what is generally known as Web 2:0 -
encompassing YouTube, Bittorrent, Napster, Wikipedia, Google, MySpace and
more. Will such institutions respond to this threat to their cultural
hegemony by resistance or adaptation? How can a museum or a gallery or, for
that matter, a broadcasting company, appeal to an audience which has
unprecedented access to cultural resources? How can institutions predicated
on a cultural economy of scarcity compete in an emerging state of cultural
abundance?
For the twenty-second CHArt conference we are looking for papers that
reflect upon these issues, particularly in relation to visual culture. We
particularly welcome contributions from those working in either
'traditional' cultural organisations or those involved in new forms of
cultural access and distribution.
Please email submissions (a three hundred word synopsis of the proposed
paper with CV of presenter/s and other key figures) by 31 May 2007 to Hazel
Gardiner ([log in to unmask]).
Dr Charlie Gere
Chair, CHArt
CHArt
c/o Centre for Computing in the Humanities
Kings College, University of London
Kay House
7 Arundel Street
WC2R 3DX
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