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Digital Archive Fever
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Thursday 8 and Friday 9 November 2007
Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PDMuseums, 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)