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Emanuela Sesti (Alinari, Italy) “Photoarchive: photography, memory and creative impulse for art”

Posted on: 14 rugpjūčio, 2013 by Dalia
Emanuela Sesti

Emanuela Sesti

The photo archive is not only the collection of memories of our past, but inexhaustible source of elaboration of our time and interpretation of reality and history. The photo archive and its sedimentation of memories can give us a lot of information and interpretations of the past and the present through access keys: the catalog is the key to reading the archive. We can read and interpreted it in different ways. But can we dominate the archive?

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Emanuela Sesti has a degree in art history, major in History of Middle Age and Modern Art. Sesti is specialized in management of photographic archives, index and digitisation, copyright and reproduction fees, internet projects management, photographic and iconographic research. Sesti has made researches for the Italian National Centre of Research and for the University of Florence and has created several publications on the History of Art and History of Photography.

She was the director of Alinari Photoarchive and of Alinari Online Department for digital, index and web project and now is Education and Cultural Projects Manager in Alinari Foundation. She teached History of Photography at the University of Florence and at the Master of Fine Arts in Imaging Arts – Photography and in many courses about Conservation and Restore of Photography.

International conference “Digitisation and photographic memory”

Frederik Truyen (KU Leuven, Belgium) “Images, memories and representations in the Europeana Photography collection. The curated digital image as a premier witness to our shared history”

Posted on: 14 rugpjūčio, 2013 by Dalia
Prof. dr. Frederik Truyen

Prof. dr. Frederik Truyen

The EuropeanaPhotography project, with its unique partnership involving both renowned public heritage institutions and private curators and photo agencies, offers a hitherto unaccessible view on how Europe’s history has been captured through the eye of the photographer. Whether it are wedding pictures, portraits, city scapes, sports, nature or politics, colonialism and war, the manifold dimensions that have shaped todays Europe in the pivotal period of 1839-1939 are expressed in the rich collections that we are about to disclose to the general public through Europeana. Together with the history of Europe and its citizens, a story unfolds on the language of Photography through different techniques such as daguerreotype, calotype, glass negative, etc. which had an impact on how the subject was framed and rendered. In this lecture, we will focus on the importance of the digital reproduction and representation of these images for the preservation of our photographic heritage and the lessons learnt within the consortium.

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Prof. dr. Frederik Truyen is associate professor at the Faculty of Arts, Leuven University (KU Leuven). He publishes on E-Learning, ICT Education, Digital Culture and Epistemology. Head of ICT Services at the Faculty of Arts. In charge of CS Digital, the mediaLab of the Institute for Cultural Studies. He teaches Information Science at the BA and Online Publishing at the MA level. Currently chairman of the ICT council for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University. Fred Truyen is programme director of the MA in Cultural Studies. He is involved in many projects on Open Educational Resources, such as OER-HE, Net-CU and OCW EU, and on projects in digitization of Cultural Heritage, such as IDEM, RICH and EuropeanaPhotography, is a coordinator of the latter one.

International conference “Digitisation and photographic memory”

John Balean (TopFoto, Great Britain) “History, created and rediscovered by Press Photography 1842-1939”

Posted on: 14 rugpjūčio, 2013 by Dalia
John Balean

John Balean

Shortly after the invention of photography, in 1839, press photography was born. Only a few iconic names and images have been embraced by academia but ever since the first press imagery appeared, photographic masterpieces have been published, lost, damaged, destroyed, left anonymously and often completely forgotten. Press photography has a strong sense of narrative and enables us to see how the way we remember things can be distorted or manipulated.

John Balean gives a brief introduction about the origins of Press photography and TopFoto’s involvement in EuropeanaPhotography to help preserve digitally a collection of press photographic memory for future generations.

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John Balean is a photographer and international marketing manager at picture library TopFoto. He graduated from the University of Newcastle (Australia) with a bachelor of Arts in the Visual Arts and a major in Photography. J. Balean is TopFoto coordinator for the EuropeanaPhotography project. He has given lectures and written about the picture industry and is the Consultant Researcher to the Press Photo History Project. John has been an editor of the 2008–2009 CEPIC (Coordination of European Picture Agencies Stock, Press and Heritage), from 2013 he is an elected member of the Committee of CEPIC. From 2012 he is an elected member of the Executive Committee of BAPLA (British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies). When time allows he creates daguerreotypes, the earliest form of photography, using a vintage Gandolfi 5×7 plate camera.

International conference “Digitisation and photographic memory”

Anna Grusková (Theatre institute, Slovakia) “The Secret of Theatre to be Discovered in Old Photographs”

Posted on: 14 rugpjūčio, 2013 by Dalia
Anna Grusková

Anna Grusková

Theatre is a social phenomenon that especially from the second half of the 19th century till (at least) the outbreak of the WWI touched all layers of European society. Even newspapers often informed about theatre events on front pages. To make amateur theatre was one of the most popular way how to spend leisure time. Social life and its urban celebrations, manifestations, parades etc. had a strong theatrical character – fixed scenario, set design, costumes, “actors” and auditorium etc. Theatrical features could be easily recognized in rural celebrations, like folklore ceremonies and rites. We could say that theatre was deeply rooted in everyday life. How is it reflected in photography at that time?

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Anna Grusková is the Czech-Slovak theatre scientist, theatre, film and radio author and director. She was graduated from Theatre and Film Studies at Charles University in Prague. She initiated and led many domestic and international projects with both artistic and social dimension (America, Brides / Brides, Sarcophagi and ATMs), on others she participated as an author (Donaudrama, Chance ’89). Her drama Rabbi Woman about the fate of the Bratislava Jewish activist Gisi Fleischmann was staged in Slovak National Theatre and the Theatre Reon in Bologna. Among others, she also directed theatre and film installation Danube Drama or Filthy coffee, cheap cigarettes, documentary film Rabbi Woman etc. She is employed by the Divadelný ústav under the Theatre Institute, lives in Bratislava and enjoys cycling.

International conference “Digitisation and photographic memory”

 

Antonella Fresa (Promoter, Italy) “The creative re-use of digital cultural content”

Posted on: 14 rugpjūčio, 2013 by Dalia
Antonella Fresa

Antonella Fresa

In recent years Europeana and other digital cultural resources and collections have received large-scale investment from the European Commission and Member States – and some private investment as well – and it is now necessary to move to the exploitation phase.

The return on this investment, which has mostly taken the shape of public funding initiatives, needs to be assessed against the impact delivered to society in terms both of the use of Europeana by the general public, and in terms of its use by economic actors – most particularly the creative industries.

The potential impact of Europeana’s digital cultural assets has not yet been fully realised and needs stronger instruments to support its delivery.

The main issues:

– Increasing the exploitation of the digital cultural content generated through the digitisation campaigns;

– The metadata services are key elements for the content and the Creative Industry; and the new CC0 licences for Europeana content open new opportunities;

– The public domain, which is a tremendously rich resource and offers a great deal of value for society at large, is currently underexploited and there a number of barriers to re-use of this material.

The lecture aims to explore these issues, discuss specific characteristics of Creative Industries sector and propose elements of best practice.

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Antonella Fresa is ICT expert, General Manager and Administrator of Promoter, ICT research and innovation company established in Pisa (Italy). She has graduated in Computer Science at the University of Turin. Antonella has been working as a system engineer, manager, researcher, policy advisor for the High Technology Network and free-lance consultant for major ICT and online services. Between 1999 and 2002 she was a Project Officer at the European Commission, between 2002 and 2012 – an advisor of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. She has more than 15 years of work experience in European cooperation projects and policy development frameworks. She’s currently Technical Coordinator of EC projects of digital content: DCH-RP, EuropeanaPhotography, Linked Heritage, DC-NET ERA-NET, MINERVA series and MICHAEL series. Antonella has been a member of various ICT, cultural heritages organisations and committees. In her free time she enjoys being at countryside and riding a horse.

International conference “Digitisation and photographic memory”

International conference “Digitisation and photographic memory”

Posted on: 13 rugpjūčio, 2013 by Dalia

On 11th of September 2013 the department of the Lithuanian Art Museum Lithuanian Museums’ Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS (LM CID LIMIS) is organising an international conference “Digitization and photographic memory”. The conference will be held at the Vytautas Kasiulis Art Museum (A. Goštauto Str. 1, Vilnius). It is dedicated to EuropeanaPhotography – an international project of digitization and dissemination of old photographs. (daugiau…)

Europeana Open Culture free app for iPad

Posted on: 5 birželio, 2013 by Dalia

Europeana, Europe’s digital library, has launched its first free iPad app. “Europeana Open Culture” introduces the public to hand-picked and beautiful collections from some of Europe’s top institutions, and allows people to explore, share and comment on them. The 350,000 images available through the app come from collections of museums, libraries and other institutions in Bulgaria, Estonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom. (daugiau…)

AthenaPlus – Access to Cultural Heritage Networks for Europeana

Posted on: 24 balandžio, 2013 by Donatas No Comments

AthenaPlus is a CIP best practice network started in March 2013 and ending in August 2015. The consortium is composed by 40 partners from 21 Member States countries. AthenaPlus will build on the successful experience developed by the previous ATHENA project – where LIDO and the ATHENA Ingestion Server and Mapping Tool (MINT), widely used across the Europeana’s ecosystem of projects including the finished Linked Heritage project were developed, in order to further advance and complete the effective infrastructure and tools developed to support museums and other cultural institutions in their work to making available digital content through Europeana.

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