Hi all,
An event for your attention, maybe of interest.
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Digital Cultures: future thinking and innovation for arts and heritage
<http://bit.ly/1gG0jKY>
Monday 19 May 2014 9.30-4.30
Discovery Museum, Newcastle upon Tyne
Produced by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
<http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/home.html> and Thinking Digital Arts
<http://www.thinkingdigital.co.uk/>
Formerly known as Bits2Blogs, Digital Cultures <http://bit.ly/1gG0jKY>
is an annual conference for anyone working in the arts and heritage
sectors that is passionate about experimenting with new ideas and new
technologies to inspire new audiences.
Digital Cultures will feature a range of thinkers from the cultural and
digital creative sectors sharing innovative approaches to public
engagement. Talks will explore open data and reuse cultures,
co-curation, mobile and gaming technologies, interdisciplinary
collaboration, the power of play, and will investigate the impact of
creative technologies and the rise of digital industries on arts and
heritage.
The final programme will be published very soon. The following speakers
are confirmed:
Nora McGregor - Digital Curator in the Digital Scholarship Department
(British Library) <http://www.bl.uk/>
Annette Mees - Co-Director (Coney) <http://www.coneyhq.org>
Irini Papadimitriou - Digital Programmes Manager (V&A)
<http://www.vam.ac.uk/>
Martha Henson - (Freelance Digital Producer/Science Museum)
<http://marthasadie.wordpress.com/>
Dominic Wilcox - Artist and Designer (Dominic Wilcox.com)
<http://dominicwilcox.com/about/>
Dr Noel Lobley - Sound Curator and Ethnomusicologist (Pitt Rivers
Museum, University of Oxford) <http://pittrivers-sound.blogspot.co.uk/>
Olga Mink - Director (Baltan Labs) <http://www.baltanlaboratories.org/>
Marialaura Ghidini- Curator and Founder Director (Or-bits)
<http://or-bits.com/>
Beryl Graham - Professor of New Media Art at the Faculty of Arts, Design
and Media, University of Sunderland (CRUMB)
<http://crumbweb.org/index.php?id=9&showList=1&op=3&ts=1393507813>
More info and tickets from our Eventbrite here- http://bit.ly/1gG0jKY
<http://bit.ly/1gG0jKY>
A LIMITED NUMBER OF EARLY BIRD TICKETS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AT THE SPECIAL
RATE OF £40 (plus booking fee)
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Cheers!
John.
John Coburn
Digital Coordinator
Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums
Discovery Museum
Blandford Square
Newcastle NE1 4JA
Tel: 0191 277 2317
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