DASH Archives - February 2007

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International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings
October 24-26, 2007
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www.archimuse.com/ichim07/


CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DEADLINE APRIL 30, 2007

The bi-annual International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings  
(ICHIM) have --since 1991-- explored cultural heritage informatics on  
a global scale, with a strong focus on policy, infrastructure and  
economic issues. They are attended by senior cultural, governmental,  
academic and publishing professionals, including library, archives  
and museum directors and managers, and cultural policy advocates and  
analysts.

You are invited to participate in the 2007 edition of the  
International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meetings. Topics of  
interest include:

Heritage Information & Society
     * Policy
     * Law
     * Economics and Funding
     * Convergence of Institutions

Technologically Mediated Heritage
     * Resources
     * Public Programs
     * Services
     * Collaborations

Cultural Knowledge
     * Acquisition
     * Retrieval
     * Preservation

Digital Heritage
     * Digital Art
     * Representations
     * Delivery methods
     * Evaluation

Organizational Policy
     * Best Practices
     * Impacts
     * Innovations

Cultural Heritage Information Systems
     * Research
     * Prototypes and Models
     * Innovative Design
     * Applications
     * Architectures
     * Networks

Education and Infrastructures
     * Cultural & Linguistic Diversity
     * Educating Cultural Heritage Informatics Professionals

Session Formats
ICHIM meetings include formal papers, round table discussions,  
seminars, workshops, project briefings and demonstrations. Those  
interested in participating are encouraged to describe what they wish  
to convey and to whom; if accepted, the Program Committee will  
suggest an appropriate delivery format.

Deadline for Proposals: April 30, 2007.
Submit your proposal using our on-line form. See http:// 
www.archimuse.com/ichim07/


ICHIM07 Program Committee
Co-Chairs: David Bearman and Jennifer Trant, Archives & Museum  
Informatics
     * Maxwell Anderson, Indianapolis Museum of Art, USA
     * David Arnold, University of Brighton, UK
     * Liam Bannon, University of Limerick, Ireland
     * Jean François Chougnet, Berardo Museum of Contemporary Art,  
Portugal
     * Susan Chun, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA
     * Costis Dallas, Panteion University, and PRC Group SA, Greece
     * David Dawson, MLA, UK
     * Wendy Duff, University of Toronto, Canada
     * Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
     * Kati Geber, Canadian Heritage information Network, Canada
     * Margaret Hedstrom, University of Michigan, USA
     * Harald Kraemer, Universitry of Bern, Switzerland
     * Ottmar Moritsch, Technisches Museum Wien, Austria
     * Xavier Perrot, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, France
     * Peter Sigmond, Rijksmuseum, The Netherlands
     * Jane Sledge, National Museum of the American Indian, USA
     * Kevin Sumption, Powerhouse Museum, Australia
     * Nicole Vallières, McCord Museum, Canada
     * Christabel Wright, Dept of Communications, IT and Arts, Australia


To learn more about ICHIM, see past papers on-line at http:// 
www.archimuse.com/conferences/ichim.html

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J. Trant				jtrant@archimuse.com
Partner & Principal Consultant		phone: +1 416 691 2516
Archives & Museum Informatics		fax: +1 416 352 6025
158 Lee Ave, Toronto
Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada		http://www.archimuse.com

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Paul Brown - based in OZ Dec 06 - Mar 07
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OZ Landline +61 (0)7 5443 3491 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900
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Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
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CRUMB is looking for new colleagues!

University of Sunderland, UK
School of Arts, Design, Media & Culture
Curating New Media Art
Since 1993 the School of Arts, Design, Media & Culture has had a  
special interest in issues for exhibiting new media art (including  
internet art, and interactive digital media).  The CRUMB web resource  
for curators http://www.crumbweb.org is now an internationally  
acclaimed site, which complements the postgraduate work in Fine Art,  
Curating and Informatics at the University.  A recent AHRC Research  
Grant enables the continued expansion of this research, with research  
partners Eyebeam (New York) and Lancaster University.

Research Assistant
Fixed-term 3 years
£20,119 - £23,187 pa
To undertake research outputs, and assist the research of the CRUMB  
team, and to undertake research outputs in the field of curating new  
media art.  You will hold special responsibility for online/print  
research outputs, and collaborative networking.
Ref No:  ADR017/1362
Closing date:  2 March 2007
An application form and Role Profile can be obtained by contacting  
Human Resources on +44 191 515 2057 or www.sunderland.ac.uk/jobs

Research Studentships x 2 posts
Curating New Media Art, and New Media Art & Programming
Fixed-term 3 years
AHRC grant of - £12,300 pa
PhD proposals including practice-led artist/curator research are  
invited. Applicants should meet AHRC UK/EU residency regulations.
Closing date: 2 March 2007
Further details can be found on http://www.crumbweb.org.
An application form and further details on the Research Studentships  
can be obtained by contracting Valerie Cornell on + 44 191 515 3725  
or email: valerie.cornell@sunderland.ac.uk


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Paul Brown - based in OZ Dec 06 - Mar 07
mailto:paul@paul-brown.com == http://www.paul-brown.com
OZ Landline +61 (0)7 5443 3491 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900
OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown
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Visiting Professor - Sussex University
http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html
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CONFERENCE: "THE PRAGUE SCHOOL AND THEORIES OF STRUCTURE"
Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts,
Charles University, Prague 18-21 October 2007

Call for Papers

The theme of the conference goes back to the structural concept of  
the language system developed by the Prague School. The papers are  
expected:
1. to reassess the theoretical work of Prague structuralists  
(especially Bohumil Trnka and René Wellek) and its relevance for  
contemporary research, and;

2. to discuss transformations of structuralist approaches in recent  
and contemporary theories of structures and systems, characterized by  
the movement away from the models of homogeneous, hierarchized and  
centralized structures to concepts of structurality based on  
dehierarchized assemblages, transversal relations and dynamic  
semantic situations (Einstein, Dewey, Bateson, Merleau-Ponty,  
Derrida, Deleuze, etc.).
The conference will have two sections and will conclude with the  
first annual Prague colloquium on "Frontiers of Theory: Technicity,  
Art and the New Media" (Saturday 20 October 2007):

*Section 1: Theories of Structure and their Transformations
Suggested problem areas:
1. Prague Structuralism in relation to other structuralist and  
formalist trends (Saussure, Peirce, New Criticism, cultural  
semiotics, etc.)
2. The legacy of the Prague School and later theories of structures  
and systems
3. Structuralist theories and methodologies in sciences and humanities

*Section 2: Prague Structuralism and Language Systems
Suggested Problem Areas:
1. The structural concept of the language system in contemporary  
descriptions of English and its historical development
2. Interfacial aspects of the highest language level

*Frontiers of Theory: Technicity, Art and the New Media
Suggested Focus Areas:
1. Contemporary theories of technicity in relation to semiotics,  
structuralism, cybernetics and deconstruction. How does "techhnicity"  
make possible a new understanding of language systems in the  
technosciences and the life sciences?
2. Technicity and contemporary culture, media and aesthetics (new  
media, the internet, digitalisation, real-time communication and  
transmission)?


Please send an abstract for a 30 minute paper (3000 words maximum)  
with your contact details via e-mail by 1 March 2007 to:
Prof. Dr. Martin Procházka (Section 1): martin.prochazka @ ff.cuni.cz
Doc. Dr. Jan Cermák (Section 2): jan.cermak @ ff.cuni.cz.
Questions concerning the colloquium on "Frontiers of Theory:  
Technicity, Art and the New Media" should be addressed to Dr. Louis  
Armand: info @ litterariapragensia.com.
Papers will be selected by  a conference committee and the speakers  
will be notified by 30 April 2007 and mailed a registration form and  
futher information.
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Director of Intercultural Studies (ICS)
Department of English & American Studies,
Philosophy Faculty, Charles University,
Nam. J. Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Republic.
Tel.: (+420) 221 619 279 Fax: (+420) 221 619 382
www.louis-armand.com
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