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From: Shoshannah Holdom
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Sent: 27 September 2005 16:00
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Subject: CHart conference 2005
The following may be of interest to list subscribers:
The CHArt 2005 CONFERENCE, which takes place on Thursday 10 - Friday 11
November 2005 at The British Academy, is hosting a ROUND-TABLE
DISCUSSION at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) Cinema, 4.00pm -
6.00pm, Thursday 10 November 2005.
DEMOCRATIZING THE IMAGE: CREATING A GLOBAL LEARNING COMMUNITY
The widespread use of digital technology in the field of art history has
the potential to help forge an international learning community in which
the widest range of students, educators, and researchers share
unprecedented access to the world's cultural heritage. Indeed, the
capability to connect individual databases worldwide has existed for
some time. In practice, however, institutions have pursued an
assortment of individual solutions. One of the greatest ironies of
attempting to make cultural property widely accessible is that the
guardians of this material (museums, archives, etc.)
are frequently and unknowingly at odds with the community of end users
(educators, researchers, students). While museums view their primary
role as safeguarding precious resources, the academic community demands
ever freer on-line access to cultural artefacts. The other overriding
issue here is that of copyright, and any comprehensive effort of this
sort has to take an active role in defining a new global understanding
of "educational fair use." After brief statements from a diverse range
of experts (artists, educators, curators), this session will function as
open forum on the possiblities and challenges of 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.
The event will be moderated by David Ehrenpreis, Director, Institute for
Visual Studies, James Madison University and participants will include:
Tom Bilson, Head of Digital Media, Courtauld Institute of Art; Charlie
Gere, Reader in New Media Research and Director of Research at the
Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University; Jemima Rellie,
Head of Digital Programmes, Tate; Mike Pringle, Director, AHDS Visual
Arts; Duncan Smith, Digital Artist and Artistic Director of ACAVA
(Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Art); along with a
representative from Prometheus, the distributed digital picture archive
for research and learning, used throughout the German university system.
The ICA, the Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH (www.ica.org.uk) is located behind
the British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
(www.britac.ac.uk)
The booking form for this event and the CHArt conference is available on
the CHArt website (www.chart.ac.uk). The round-table fee is £5. If you
are attending all or part of the CHArt conference, the round-table fee
is included in the conference fee.
If you have any queries, please contact CHArt, Centre for Computing in
the Humanities, Kings College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, WC2R
3DX. tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2013, fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980,
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