EAA CALL FOR PAPERS
Urgent demand for papers for session 14: Archaeological Futures: Heritage as Radical History-Making of the European Archaeologists Association this September. If you fancy a trip to Croatia, there is your chance. Sit down and write up! The deadline has been extended until the June 20th...
For more details:
http://www.unizd.hr/eaa2007/Programme/ThematicBlocks/ArchaeologyintheModernWorld/tabid/1436/Default.aspx
Good luck!
Thursday, 31 May 2007
The Van - Archaeology in Transit
Some of you may be interested toknow that Greg Bailey's film about last year's Transit Van excavation (In Transit, 15 mins) is now streaming online on the Archaeology Channelwebsite:http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/video/intransit_700kW.html
Do pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, and esp anyother email groups you are members of.
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/video/intransit_700kW.html
Do pass this on to anyone you think might be interested, and esp anyother email groups you are members of.
Wednesday, 23 May 2007
Myths of Immateriality: Curating, Collecting and Archiving Media Art
DANUBE TELELECTURE from the MUMOK, Vienna
The Department for Image Science at Danube-University Krems created a new format of international lecture and debates on key questions of ImageScience and Media Art with high-calibre experts - the DANUBE TELELECTURES.
The discussion will be recorded by several cameras and transmitted live over the www. Online viewers can participate live in the discussion via email.TELELECTURE # 3
"Myths of Immateriality: Curating, Collection and Archiving Media Art"
During the last decades media art has grown to be the art of our time, though it has hardly arrived in our cultural institutions. The mainstream of art history has neglected developing adequate research tools for these contemporary art works, they are exhibited infrequently in museums, and there are few collectors. Media art is hardly being archived and systematically preserved like ancient and traditional forms of art. This loss of data our society is facing because of the change in storage media and operational systems threatens to result in a total loss of our contemporary digital art. Which practices and strategies in the curating and documenting of media art do experts in the field suggest?
*** CHRISTIANE PAUL, curator for New Media, Whitney Museum, NY, author of"Digital Art" (Thames & Hudson 2003)*** PAUL SERMON, media artist and scientist at the University of Salford, UK
http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/paulsermon/cv.html
*(Introduction: Oliver Grau, Univ.-Prof. and Head of the Department forImage Science, Danube University Krems)
Danube TeleLecture # 3 at the MUMOK, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Time: Sun, 27. May 2007, 17.00h CET (Start of Streaming)+ You can attend the event in MUMOK or in realtime over the www +http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
After 20 minute long lectures the audience will have the possibility to ask the speakers questions. Internet users may join the discussion via e-mail.
Contact: Mag. Jeanna Nikolov-Ramírez GaviriaTel: +43 (0)2732 893-2570 E-Mail: jeanna.nikolov@donau-uni.ac.athttp://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
*******************************************PARTNERSORF http://noe.orf.at DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART www.virtualart.at
The Department for Image Science at Danube-University Krems created a new format of international lecture and debates on key questions of ImageScience and Media Art with high-calibre experts - the DANUBE TELELECTURES.
The discussion will be recorded by several cameras and transmitted live over the www. Online viewers can participate live in the discussion via email.TELELECTURE # 3
"Myths of Immateriality: Curating, Collection and Archiving Media Art"
During the last decades media art has grown to be the art of our time, though it has hardly arrived in our cultural institutions. The mainstream of art history has neglected developing adequate research tools for these contemporary art works, they are exhibited infrequently in museums, and there are few collectors. Media art is hardly being archived and systematically preserved like ancient and traditional forms of art. This loss of data our society is facing because of the change in storage media and operational systems threatens to result in a total loss of our contemporary digital art. Which practices and strategies in the curating and documenting of media art do experts in the field suggest?
*** CHRISTIANE PAUL, curator for New Media, Whitney Museum, NY, author of"Digital Art" (Thames & Hudson 2003)*** PAUL SERMON, media artist and scientist at the University of Salford, UK
http://creativetechnology.salford.ac.uk/paulsermon/cv.html
*(Introduction: Oliver Grau, Univ.-Prof. and Head of the Department forImage Science, Danube University Krems)
Danube TeleLecture # 3 at the MUMOK, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna
Time: Sun, 27. May 2007, 17.00h CET (Start of Streaming)+ You can attend the event in MUMOK or in realtime over the www +http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
After 20 minute long lectures the audience will have the possibility to ask the speakers questions. Internet users may join the discussion via e-mail.
Contact: Mag. Jeanna Nikolov-Ramírez GaviriaTel: +43 (0)2732 893-2570 E-Mail: jeanna.nikolov@donau-uni.ac.athttp://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dis
*******************************************PARTNERSORF http://noe.orf.at DATABASE OF VIRTUAL ART www.virtualart.at
H-Museum
For over one year I am already benefiting from this very informative website and its e-newsletters that I want to recommend you!
It is giving international museum news digests, sending out calls for papers, scholarships, job announcements and other activities all related to museum and cultural studies mainly from central Europe and the U.S., so the information comes in various languages and can at times be a little overwhelming..
Anyway, it is definately worthwhile to have a look for yourselves!!!
http://www.h-net.org/~museum/index.html
It is giving international museum news digests, sending out calls for papers, scholarships, job announcements and other activities all related to museum and cultural studies mainly from central Europe and the U.S., so the information comes in various languages and can at times be a little overwhelming..
Anyway, it is definately worthwhile to have a look for yourselves!!!
http://www.h-net.org/~museum/index.html
Online magazine MOnuMENTA
An online magazine, MOnuMENTA, has produced its first issue on urban space and the urban green space. The magazine has a Greek/Cypriot focus (so that should interest quite a few of our students!), although it includes case-studies from elsewhere.
http://www.monumenta.org/article_list.php?IssueID=2&lang=en&CategoryID=1
This issue contains:
The history of greek urban space from the post-war period to nowadays. Interview with the architect and urban designer Andreas Symeon
Editing: Irini GratsiaInterview with the architect and urban designer Andreas Symeon regarding town planning, the formation of the Greek urban space from the post-war period to nowadays. Through his training and professional development one can follow the international and local trends of town planning and the traumatic evolution of Athens. Meanwhile the problems of the modern town are presented as well as ways to encounter them.
"Castleford Project", an innovative regeneration project
David Barrie, producer of public projects and consultant in city development "Modernisation is possible only through democratisation". This is a key philosophy of "Castleford Project", the innovative regeneration project of a town in West Yorkshire, England that in just four years has transformed several of the town’s public spaces and leveraged over €300m of new public and private investment.
Urban regeneration in Athens and the broader Attica region
Eleni Portaliou, associate professor, National Technical University of Athens In the middle of the 1990s, plans for the Olympic Games intensified Attica’s centralization. Sporting and other Olympic venues encouraged the expansion policy and the euphemistically called rehabilitation projects, namely the sitting of Olympic Poles in unbuilt areas. However, all these areas constituted either valuable reserves for the reconstitution of the fragmentary city or parts of natural landscape.
They also have a Monuments at risk section and a discussion forum.
http://www.monumenta.org/article_list.php?IssueID=2&lang=en&CategoryID=1
This issue contains:
The history of greek urban space from the post-war period to nowadays. Interview with the architect and urban designer Andreas Symeon
Editing: Irini GratsiaInterview with the architect and urban designer Andreas Symeon regarding town planning, the formation of the Greek urban space from the post-war period to nowadays. Through his training and professional development one can follow the international and local trends of town planning and the traumatic evolution of Athens. Meanwhile the problems of the modern town are presented as well as ways to encounter them.
"Castleford Project", an innovative regeneration project
David Barrie, producer of public projects and consultant in city development "Modernisation is possible only through democratisation". This is a key philosophy of "Castleford Project", the innovative regeneration project of a town in West Yorkshire, England that in just four years has transformed several of the town’s public spaces and leveraged over €300m of new public and private investment.
Urban regeneration in Athens and the broader Attica region
Eleni Portaliou, associate professor, National Technical University of Athens In the middle of the 1990s, plans for the Olympic Games intensified Attica’s centralization. Sporting and other Olympic venues encouraged the expansion policy and the euphemistically called rehabilitation projects, namely the sitting of Olympic Poles in unbuilt areas. However, all these areas constituted either valuable reserves for the reconstitution of the fragmentary city or parts of natural landscape.
They also have a Monuments at risk section and a discussion forum.
Tuesday, 22 May 2007
Black Swan saga
You may be aware of the current debate regarding underwater pillaging of historic wreck sites, especially with regard to recent "Black Swan" site.
The firm involved, Odyssey, have issued a long (and vague) press statement which you access via their website: http://www.shipwreck.net/
Mark Horton, writing in Britarch, neatly summarises the issues:
"I must admit I have been somewhat disappointed by the Britarch discussion (which sometimes verges on the banal), on what potentially is the biggest removal to the USA of our cultural heritage that has ever taken place. Basically:
a) it seems that the best candidate is the Merchant Royal, a British merchantman, carrying Spanish government bullion under contract. By all accounts, while in international waters (and we only have Odyssey's word for this - surely someone was monitoring their activities (e.g. MCA/Receiver of Wreck?)) it seems be be very close to the 12 mile limit.
b) If our government had signed up to the UN convention for the protection of underwater heritage, then it would have undertaken to outlaw treasure hunting not only in territorial waters, but also in waters where we claim an economic interest - this includes the continental shelf, where we clearly have already legislation claiming jurisitiction over natural resources such as gas and oil, or 200 miles for fisheries.
c) I suspect that to sign the UN convention, we would need primary legislation - but the opportunity is there with the Marine Bill to do exactly this. d) Unless this happens, the western approaches is going to become treasure hunters alley, as there is many other ships down there, perhaps also with equally large hauls on board. For those who don't know, this isn't a harmless activity, but these large ships basically hover up the sea bed, sort out the loot, and throw the rest back overboard. Whatever our views on the rights and wrongs of treasure hunting, this is I am sure something that none of us would condone.
e) one suspects that the government's reluctance to sign the convention is because of HMS Sussex, (of course the deal would be illegal under the convention), and the potential benefit the MoD hopes to get from Odysseys's next little venture."
The firm involved, Odyssey, have issued a long (and vague) press statement which you access via their website: http://www.shipwreck.net/
Mark Horton, writing in Britarch, neatly summarises the issues:
"I must admit I have been somewhat disappointed by the Britarch discussion (which sometimes verges on the banal), on what potentially is the biggest removal to the USA of our cultural heritage that has ever taken place. Basically:
a) it seems that the best candidate is the Merchant Royal, a British merchantman, carrying Spanish government bullion under contract. By all accounts, while in international waters (and we only have Odyssey's word for this - surely someone was monitoring their activities (e.g. MCA/Receiver of Wreck?)) it seems be be very close to the 12 mile limit.
b) If our government had signed up to the UN convention for the protection of underwater heritage, then it would have undertaken to outlaw treasure hunting not only in territorial waters, but also in waters where we claim an economic interest - this includes the continental shelf, where we clearly have already legislation claiming jurisitiction over natural resources such as gas and oil, or 200 miles for fisheries.
c) I suspect that to sign the UN convention, we would need primary legislation - but the opportunity is there with the Marine Bill to do exactly this. d) Unless this happens, the western approaches is going to become treasure hunters alley, as there is many other ships down there, perhaps also with equally large hauls on board. For those who don't know, this isn't a harmless activity, but these large ships basically hover up the sea bed, sort out the loot, and throw the rest back overboard. Whatever our views on the rights and wrongs of treasure hunting, this is I am sure something that none of us would condone.
e) one suspects that the government's reluctance to sign the convention is because of HMS Sussex, (of course the deal would be illegal under the convention), and the potential benefit the MoD hopes to get from Odysseys's next little venture."
Thursday, 17 May 2007
The challenges and problems of Strategic Planning Object
Alghero, 27th July - 4th August 2007
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL (ISS)
ISS 2007: The challenges and problems of Strategic Planning Object
Effective strategic planning must feature the capacity to define a particularly coherent, stable outline of objectives, instruments and policies, it must link up with other planning instruments at different spatial and temporal scales in a precise, regulated way, and it must combine top-down and bottom-up approaches. Strategic planning does not clash with ordinary planning, which is necessary and is - and must be - (also) made up of norms and vetoes, and it has to be able to be both rigid when useful and flexible when necessary: rigid, because once a shared vision has been constructed, this vision cannot change every time the leaves rustle, flexible, because a good strategist knows how to modify tactics and actions on the basis of changing conditions. Strategic planning has to express a shared vision, shared firstly by all those who have or will have rights, male and female citizens first of all, but also guests and friends, and also and with particular importance by the future citizens: girls and boys and adolescents; this means that before allowing those to speak who already have a say, those who express strong economic interests (they, too, are not to be excluded), we need to know how to listen to the demands, needs and wishes of those less capable of expressing or recognising them. But we must avoid this being a passing fashion. Fashions are not necessarily bad, nor are they necessarily good. It would not be right for strategic planning to be a fashion, a copy of slightly old-fashioned company practices brought into the field to justify urban marketing actions, as if the task of public administrations were to “sell” a product and not to ensure lasting quality of life for citizens and guests. Quality of life means fairness, it means a good tenor of life (tenor of life is not just the income pro capite), it means a healthy environment, it means beauty, it means public spirit (for the Greeks those who were not interested in public things were called “idiots”). Strategic planning for the city and territories must therefore be equipped with its own instruments, suited to the different scales, it must provide its own normative framework and determine concrete effects on the set of choices, it must compete with other planning dimensions, it must constitute a process of true empowerment. How to carry out strategic planning properly in accordance with the territorial level (with particular reference to small and medium cities), how to incorporate it in the picture of planning and management instruments, how to link it up with the different types of plan and other scales, how to encourage citizenship and participation to grow: these will be the themes of the summer school, which, after two days of (technical and territorial) background, will be
Place
ISS 2007 will take place in Alghero. This town is called L’Alguer by Catalans, S’Alighera by Sardinian people, L’Aliera by Sassari’s citizens and Alguer in Spanish. It is a town in the district of Sassari with over 42.000 inhabitants. It is well connected with Italian and European destinations with several daily flights. It is close to Porto Torres harbour and it hosts the first Faculty of Architecture in Sardinia.
Teachers
Stephane Bosch Arnaldo Cecchini Antonio Font Francesco Indovina Giovanni Maciocco Oriol Nello Bernardo Secchi
Languages
Italian and English
Enrolment cost
400 euro (250 euro for university students and doctorate or PhD students)
There will be 4 grants for EU students for the enrolment cost. There will be 4 grants for students outside UE belonging to partner Universities of the Faculty of Architecture of Alghero, that will cover the costs of enrolment and accommodation.
We have an agreement for the accommodation in Alghero (30 euro per person per night in triple room, 35 in double); also, agreements for meals will be activated.
The ISS will provide a certificate for 3 credits (ECTS).
Info
E sei2007aho@uniss.it M +39 3209234078 U www.sei.architettura.uniss.it
ISSs of Facoltà di Architettura di Alghero area directed by Giovanni Maciocco & Arnaldo Cecchini
The leading team of ISS2007 Alghero is composed by:
Francesca Bua, secretary Alessandra Casu Alessandro Plaisant Silvia Serreli
split between four project workshops on different realities in northern Sardinia.
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL (ISS)
ISS 2007: The challenges and problems of Strategic Planning Object
Effective strategic planning must feature the capacity to define a particularly coherent, stable outline of objectives, instruments and policies, it must link up with other planning instruments at different spatial and temporal scales in a precise, regulated way, and it must combine top-down and bottom-up approaches. Strategic planning does not clash with ordinary planning, which is necessary and is - and must be - (also) made up of norms and vetoes, and it has to be able to be both rigid when useful and flexible when necessary: rigid, because once a shared vision has been constructed, this vision cannot change every time the leaves rustle, flexible, because a good strategist knows how to modify tactics and actions on the basis of changing conditions. Strategic planning has to express a shared vision, shared firstly by all those who have or will have rights, male and female citizens first of all, but also guests and friends, and also and with particular importance by the future citizens: girls and boys and adolescents; this means that before allowing those to speak who already have a say, those who express strong economic interests (they, too, are not to be excluded), we need to know how to listen to the demands, needs and wishes of those less capable of expressing or recognising them. But we must avoid this being a passing fashion. Fashions are not necessarily bad, nor are they necessarily good. It would not be right for strategic planning to be a fashion, a copy of slightly old-fashioned company practices brought into the field to justify urban marketing actions, as if the task of public administrations were to “sell” a product and not to ensure lasting quality of life for citizens and guests. Quality of life means fairness, it means a good tenor of life (tenor of life is not just the income pro capite), it means a healthy environment, it means beauty, it means public spirit (for the Greeks those who were not interested in public things were called “idiots”). Strategic planning for the city and territories must therefore be equipped with its own instruments, suited to the different scales, it must provide its own normative framework and determine concrete effects on the set of choices, it must compete with other planning dimensions, it must constitute a process of true empowerment. How to carry out strategic planning properly in accordance with the territorial level (with particular reference to small and medium cities), how to incorporate it in the picture of planning and management instruments, how to link it up with the different types of plan and other scales, how to encourage citizenship and participation to grow: these will be the themes of the summer school, which, after two days of (technical and territorial) background, will be
Place
ISS 2007 will take place in Alghero. This town is called L’Alguer by Catalans, S’Alighera by Sardinian people, L’Aliera by Sassari’s citizens and Alguer in Spanish. It is a town in the district of Sassari with over 42.000 inhabitants. It is well connected with Italian and European destinations with several daily flights. It is close to Porto Torres harbour and it hosts the first Faculty of Architecture in Sardinia.
Teachers
Stephane Bosch Arnaldo Cecchini Antonio Font Francesco Indovina Giovanni Maciocco Oriol Nello Bernardo Secchi
Languages
Italian and English
Enrolment cost
400 euro (250 euro for university students and doctorate or PhD students)
There will be 4 grants for EU students for the enrolment cost. There will be 4 grants for students outside UE belonging to partner Universities of the Faculty of Architecture of Alghero, that will cover the costs of enrolment and accommodation.
We have an agreement for the accommodation in Alghero (30 euro per person per night in triple room, 35 in double); also, agreements for meals will be activated.
The ISS will provide a certificate for 3 credits (ECTS).
Info
E sei2007aho@uniss.it M +39 3209234078 U www.sei.architettura.uniss.it
ISSs of Facoltà di Architettura di Alghero area directed by Giovanni Maciocco & Arnaldo Cecchini
The leading team of ISS2007 Alghero is composed by:
Francesca Bua, secretary Alessandra Casu Alessandro Plaisant Silvia Serreli
split between four project workshops on different realities in northern Sardinia.
Monday, 14 May 2007
The Marine Bill White Paper: exploring the detail
The Marine Bill White Paper: exploring the detail, 3 July 2007
The Brunei Gallery lecture theatre at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London, is the venue for this one-day conference whose aim is to help a diverse range of stakeholders gain a better understanding of the detail involved in the Marine Bill and with the developing proposals. It will allow key issues to be raised and discussed with both the Defra Marine Bill team and the major stakeholders in the process. Online booking available via the CMS (Coastal Management for Sustainability) website.
The Brunei Gallery lecture theatre at the School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London, is the venue for this one-day conference whose aim is to help a diverse range of stakeholders gain a better understanding of the detail involved in the Marine Bill and with the developing proposals. It will allow key issues to be raised and discussed with both the Defra Marine Bill team and the major stakeholders in the process. Online booking available via the CMS (Coastal Management for Sustainability) website.
Data sans frontières: web portals and the historic environment
'Data sans frontières: web portals and the historic environment', 25 May 2007, British Museum
Organised by the Historic Environment Information Resources Network (Heirnet) and supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and the British Museum, this one-day conference takes a comprehensive look at portal technologies and Web 2.0 approaches to the dissemination and integration of historic environment data. Speakers from national organisations, national and local government and academia will explore options for co-operation at national and international level and create a vision for a way forward for joined-up UK historic environment information provision.
Online registration and payment facilities are available on the Heirnet web page. It is also possible to pay by cheque or cash on the day, but please reserve your place in advance by email.
Organised by the Historic Environment Information Resources Network (Heirnet) and supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and the British Museum, this one-day conference takes a comprehensive look at portal technologies and Web 2.0 approaches to the dissemination and integration of historic environment data. Speakers from national organisations, national and local government and academia will explore options for co-operation at national and international level and create a vision for a way forward for joined-up UK historic environment information provision.
Online registration and payment facilities are available on the Heirnet web page. It is also possible to pay by cheque or cash on the day, but please reserve your place in advance by email.
Can ancient places be preserved successfully as part of a commercial development?
London Archaeologist Annual Lecture and AGM, 22 May 2007, Institute of Archaeology
When Pre-Construct Archaeology began excavations at Bermondsey Square, Southwark, in 2005, the prospect of locating the medieval abbey church was known. But the state and extent of preservation they found was both unexpected and problematical. Can ancient places be preserved successfully as part of a commercial development? Alistair Douglas of Pre-Construct Archaeology examines the archaeology and the issues. Tuesday 22 May 2007, 6.30pm for wine and refreshments; 7pm for AGM and annual lecture; Institute of Archaeology, 31–34 Gordon Square; free of charge; all welcome.
When Pre-Construct Archaeology began excavations at Bermondsey Square, Southwark, in 2005, the prospect of locating the medieval abbey church was known. But the state and extent of preservation they found was both unexpected and problematical. Can ancient places be preserved successfully as part of a commercial development? Alistair Douglas of Pre-Construct Archaeology examines the archaeology and the issues. Tuesday 22 May 2007, 6.30pm for wine and refreshments; 7pm for AGM and annual lecture; Institute of Archaeology, 31–34 Gordon Square; free of charge; all welcome.
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