Dear Colleagues, 

 

In case you haven’t had a chance to book, this is a reminder that the
reduced conference fee for CHArt is still available, but don’t forget to
submit your booking form before 12 October.

 

The booking form and conference abstracts are available on the CHArt website
(www.chart.ac.uk).

 

We hope to see you at CHArt 2007!

 

With all good wishes.

 

Hazel Gardiner

CHArt

 

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DEADLINE FOR REDUCED CONFERENCE RATE - 12 OCTOBER 2007 

 

CHArt TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE – BOOKING NOW OPEN!

 

DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER

Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007, Birkbeck, University of London.

 

PROGRAMME

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 Web 2:0 technologies. 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? The
twenty-third CHArt conference will reflect upon these issues. 

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKER – Dr Charlie Gere, Director of the Institute for Cultural
Research, Lancaster University and Chair of CHArt.

 

THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER 

 

SESSION 1 – 

New media and Web 2.0 Challenges for Cultural Organisations.

Eva Moraga, Madrid, Spain.

 

‘Immersion’ An Interactive Archive of Sound Art. 

J Milo Taylor, London College of Communication, London, UK.

 

SESSION 2 – 

Virtually the ‘real thing’? Changing definitions of authenticity in the
display and interpretation of a virtual artefact.

Tara Chittenden, the Law Society, London,UK.

 

A Visual Arts Perspective on Open Access Institutional Repositories.

Jacqueline Cooke and Dafna Ganani-Tomares, Goldsmiths College, University of
London,UK.

 

SESSION 3 – 

ArtPad: A Collection. A Connection.  

Melanie Kjorlien and Quyen Hoang, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. 

 

Your Paintings: Institutions, Identities and Interactions

Bridget McKenzie, Flow Associates, London, UK; Jon Pratty, 24 Hour Museum,
Brighton. UK.

 

SESSION 4 –  

Transforming the Methods Network: Where’s My Community Dude?

Neil Grindley, JISC, London, UK; Torsten Reimer, AHRC ICT Methods Network,
London, UK

 

Saatchi ‘Your Gallery’ Website’s Problems and Potentials. 

Ana Finel Honigman, University of Oxford, UK. 

 

 

FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER 

 

SESSION 5 –  

Merlin on the Web: the British Museum Collection Database goes public.

Tanya Szrajber, Head of Documentation, The British Museum, UK.

 

Designing the Electronic Archive: Archive Fever and the Archival Economy of
Getty Images Online Operations.

Doireann Wallace, Dublin Institute of Technology, Eire.

 

SESSION 6 – 

Marketing Visual Culture:  Liberty Fabrics’ Digital Archive

Anna Buruma and Peter Taylor, Liberty, London, UK.; Annette Ward, University
of Dundee, UK.  

 

Art Criticism 2.0?  

Stijn Van De Vyver, Ghent University, Belgium.    

 

 

SESSION 7 – 

From Information to Knowledge: An Unfinished Canadian Case Study.

Sarah Parsons, York University, Toronto, Canada.

 

Understanding Value and new space:  The Key to Effective Provision of and
Engagement with Digitised Cultural Resources.

Heather Robson, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University,
UK.

 

SESSION 8 – 

Curation in the Digital Age. 

Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Goldsmiths, University of
London, London, UK.

 

Computer Art Then and Now: Evaluating the V&A’s Collections in the Digital
Age.

Douglas Dodds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK.

 

DEMONSTRATIONS:  To be announced

 

The booking form is available online on www.chart.ac.uk.  Bookings made
before 12 October 2007 will be entitled to a discount.  Conference fees
(pounds sterling) - include coffee/tea breaks and lunch.  Send bookings to:
Francesca Franco, CHArt, c/o CCH, Kings College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel
Street, WC2R 3DX,  fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980,
[log in to unmask] (please use the subject heading CHArt
Conference 2007 in any email queries).          

                                      

BOOKING 

CHArt Member: TWO DAYS £110 (£90 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Member: ONE DAY £70 (£60 before 12 Oct 2007)

Non-member: TWO DAYS £140 (£120 before 12 Oct 2007)

Non-member: ONE DAY £90 (£80 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Student Member: TWO DAYS £65 £45 before 12 Oct 2007)

CHArt Student Member: ONE DAY £45(£35 before 12 Oct 2007)

Student Non-member: TWO DAYS £85 (£65 before 12 Oct 2007)

Student Non-member: ONE DAY £55 (£45 before 12 Oct 2007)

 

 

........................................................ 

Hazel Gardiner

Senior Project Officer

AHRC ICT Methods Network

Centre for Computing in the Humanities

Kings College

Kay House, 7 Arundel Street

WC2R 3DX

 

+44 (0)20 7848 2013

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 <http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk> www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk

 


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