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Digital Archive Fever
CHArt TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE
London Venue to be confirmed
Thursday 8 - Friday 9 November 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS
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 what is generally known as
Web 2:0 - encompassing YouTube, Bittorrent, Napster, Wikipedia, Google,
MySpace and more. 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?
For the twenty-third CHArt conference we are looking for papers that
reflect upon these issues, particularly in relation to visual culture.
We particularly welcome contributions from those working in either
'traditional' cultural organisations or those involved in new forms of
cultural access and distribution.
We welcome contributions from all sections of the CHArt community: Art
Practice; Art History; Museums; Galleries; Curation; Archives;
Libraries; Education; Media and Broadcast Production; Cultural Assets
Management and Access; Hardware; Software; Theory.
CHArt also hopes to offer a bursary scheme again this year (supported by
the AHRC ICT Methods Network) to Post Graduate students presenting papers.
Please email submissions (a three hundred word synopsis of the proposed
paper with brief CV of presenter/s and other key figures) by 30 June
2007 to Hazel Gardiner ([log in to unmask]).
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Dr Charlie Gere
Chair, CHArt
CHArt
c/o Centre for Computing in the Humanities
Kings College, University of London
Kay House
7 Arundel Street
WC2R 3DX
www.chart.ac.uk
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Marlene Gordon
Visual Resources and Music Curator
University of Michigan-Dearborn
313-593-5463
313-593-1902 (fax)
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