Special Issue
Extended Intelligence for Cultural Engagement
Deadline 15th September 2023
Scope and Context
In recent years new forms of citizen participation in cultural heritage have emerged, producing a wealth of material relevant to curatorial practices, spanning from visitors’ experiential feedback to exhibitions and cultural artifacts, to digitally mediated forms of interaction, e.g. on social media. However, there are open questions on how digital innovation can influence and support new ways of engaging with cultural heritage. These include, among others, how to engage audiences that are not the common “museum goers” including teenagers and young adults as well as minority groups, how to encourage interaction and share opinions between different groups, and how to promote the acceptance of diverse opinions. Innovations include new ways for interacting with the digital world (virtual and augmented reality), paired with new powerful computing methods provided by either neural or symbolic artificial intelligence for.
How should we interact with cultural heritage? Citizen curation is proposed in the context of the European project SPICE - Social Participation, Cohesion, and Inclusion through Cultural Engagement (https://spice-h2020.eu/) - as a methodology for eliciting, producing, collecting, interpreting, and archiving people’s responses to cultural objects. This “participatory” approach deals with the reappraisal of expertise in cultural heritage, with the museum curator no longer being a lone expert, thus requiring methods and technologies that are accessible to different types of people with various skill levels, and differing goals and motives. The outcomes of citizen curation can complement traditional expertise by following an Open Work perspective and favor the emergence of multiple, sometimes conflicting viewpoints that motivate users and memory institutions to reflect upon them. Citizen curation imagines a bazaar of solutions and providers that work together in an open-ended, distributed digital ecosystem for cultural engagement, going beyond the limitations of current frameworks and platforms for the management of cultural data.
This Special Issue will appeal to academics and museum professionals working in disciplines involving the application of novel ICT to cultural heritage, museums data management infrastructures, arts professionals and scholars interested in digitally-mediated cultural engagement and its impact upon curation, teaching and learning, and social cohesion and inclusion.
Submissions can include both theoretical and practical approaches and case studies, focusing on innovative research and applications of state-of-the-art technologies. We welcome submissions from practitioners in the industry and early career researchers.
For more information, https://dl.acm.org/journal/jocch/calls-for-papers
BR. Lily
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Dr. Lily Díaz-Kommonen
Professor of New Media
Aalto University
Otakaari 1, A-114
Otaniemi, Espoo
https://sysrep.aalto.fi
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