NODEM 2010 – From Place to Presence. Digital media breaking boundaries between inside, outside and virtual spaces in cultural heritage institutions
Copenhagen 24 – 26 Nov 2010
www.nodem.dk
2. Call for:
Research papers
Project Presentations
Posters and Exhibition Presentations
One of the most striking features of digital media in museums today is their potential for linking and integrating resources, spaces and users in multiple and proactive ways. The topics of this year's NODEM conference – Inside, Outside and Virtual – explore how content can be shared and gain exposure across online and onsite services and exhibitions. Special focus is on how users can contribute to knowledge production on different exhibition platforms.
The theme From Place to Presence devotes special attention towards how digital media can be supporting tools for experiences, reflection and knowledge inside AND outside the museum – as well as to discussing the concept of museums as knowledge arenas.
NODEM 2010 Conference in Copenhagen 24 – 26 Nov 2010
Conference participants will exchange presentations and great experiences from projects, case stories, workshops, reflections and results from research – while meeting with museum professionals, designers and researchers working with digital heritage communication. Conference participants will also be invited to visit exhibitions and participate in other activities at some of the most innovative Danish museums.
Among confirmed keynote speakers are Dr. Fiona Cameron, Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Pranav Mistry, Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Lab, Nina Simon, researcher, consultant, and moderator of Museum 2.0 blog and author of the book “The Participatory Museum” 2010, and as a Nordic keynote speaker, Kirsten Drotner, leader of the digital learning research centre DREAM in Odense, Denmark.
NODEM 2010 also aims to offer a framework for active networking through social events and venues for discussing more day-to-day problems with digital media.
Conference themes
Topics of interest include but are not limited to three themes that touch upon links between resources, spaces and users:
Inside. Exhibition spaces are filled with a diversity of digital and interactive media. Access to museum archives and bases, which formerly demanded a physical presence, is now expected to be everywhere. This digital accessibility gradually forces us to rethink the borders of the concepts of “exhibition”, “communication”, “visitor”, “authenticity” and “authority”.
Outside. Cultural landscapes, heritage sites and buildings are increasingly being mediated through Geoware and location-based services. Even formerly inaccessible locations buried under water or in the ground are now mapped and visualized. Mobile phones, PDAs etc. make it possible to receive relevant information and participate in appropriate discussion groups almost everywhere. Moreover, (unlimited) access to the Internet gives rise to the connection of museum information with tourist information and urban communication (city map, hotels, traffic). This digital accessibility forces us to rethink the borders of the voice of the museum and other voices as well as the physicality and materiality of the museum.
Virtual. Information and knowledge are being spread and shared more and more intensively on the Internet and in other networks. Museums, archives and libraries are syndicated in joint interfaces and portals, and used in many different ways – with or without our control. From the perspective of the user, inside distinctions between e.g. different practices and discourses in domains of museums, archives and libraries just do not matter. From the perspective of the institutions, the virtual world is an opportunity to meet users and non-users where they are (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr etc.). This digital accessibility forces us to rethink …
Three types of submissions
NODEM2010 invites contributions in the following three categories:
1) submissions of written research papers, which will undergo a blind review process, and will be presented during the session and be published on the conference website. Selected conference papers will be considered for publication in Nordic journals.
2) shorter project presentations for oral presentation during the conference sessions. Requires submission of an abstract, which will be reviewed by the committee.
3) proposals for poster and/or digital presentations in the exhibition space. Requires submission of a short description of project and equipment needed.
Abstracts must indicate the theme. Please also include the title of your presentation/poster/paper along with author name(s), affiliation, and contact details (postal address, telephone, fax or email address).
If you would like to present your project in several formats (for example paper, project presentations or exhibition proposals) this is also an option.
Important Dates
Deadline for all submissions: 1 Oct 2010
Notification of Acceptance: 22 Oct 2010
Deadline for registration: 1 Nov 2010
Submission
All contributions should be formatted in pdf, doc, docx or rtf.
Please define the submission category in the subject field in the email.
Submit to following address:
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Conference language
The conference language is English
This invitation goes out to museum professionals, researchers in digital media, interactions design as well as museology and communication studies, designers, developers and producers from the field of experience technology or anyone else who has an interest in the field.
NODEM2010 is part of the NODEM conference forum and network of museums professionals and researchers for exchange of experiences, best practices and research aspects on the use of new digital media in communicating with visitors and audiences, at museums, galleries, heritage attractions, natural and science discovery centres, etc. NODEM 2010 will work to sustain networks that are built in the conferences.
Please visit the conference website for more information about NODEM 2010:
www.nodem.dk
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