Thursday 8 and Friday 9 November 2007
Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD

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.

THURSDAY 8 NOVEMBER

KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Charlie Gere (Chair of CHArt), Lancaster University, UK.
SESSION ONE
	Eva Moraga Guerrero, Madrid, Spain	New media and Web 2.0 Challenges for Cultural Organisations. A New Organisational Model: the “Cultural Learning Organisation"
	J Milo Taylor, London College of Communication, London, UK	‘Immersion’ An Interactive Archive of Sound Art
SESSION TWO
	Tara Chittenden, The Law Society, London, UK	Virtually the ‘real thing’? Changing Definitions of Authenticity in the Display and Interpretation of a Virtual Artefact
	Jacqueline Cooke and Dafna Ganani-Tomares, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK	A Visual Arts Perspective on Open Access Institutional Repositories
SESSION THREE
	Melanie Kjorlien and Quyen Hoang, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada	ArtPad: A Collection. A Connection
	Bridget McKenzie, Flow Associates, London, UK; Jon Pratty, 24 Hour Museum, Brighton, UK	Your Paintings: Institutions, Identities and Interactions
SESSION FOUR
	Neil Grindley, JISC, London, UK; Torsten Reimer, AHRC ICT Methods Network, London, UK	Transforming the Methods Network: Where’s My Community Dude?

FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER

SESSION FIVE
	Tanya Szrajber, Head of Documentation, The British Museum, UK	Collection online: the British Museum Collection Database goes public
	Doireann Wallace, Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland	Designing the Electronic Archive: Archive Fever and the Archival Economy of Getty Images Online Operations
SESSION SIX:
	Sarah Parsons, York University, Toronto, Canada	From Information to Knowledge: An Unfinished Canadian Case Study
	Douglas Dodds, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK	Computer Art Then and Now: Evaluating the V&A’s Collections in the Digital Age
SESSION SEVEN
	Janis Jefferies, Goldsmiths Digital Studios, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK	Curation in the Digital Age

Abstracts (also available in RTF and PDF formats)

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