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CHArt (Computers and the History of Art) 2007: Digital Archive Fever
23rd Annual Conference
Thursday 8 and Friday 9 November 2007
Birkbeck, University of London, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD

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 Web 2:0 technologies. Will such institutions respond to this threat to their cultural hegemony by resistance or adaptati on? 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.

CHArt (the Computers and the History of Art group) is a community engaged with advanced technologies in arts research. It organises an annual conference and publishes conference proceedings, a Yearbook and a newsletter. The CHArt community comprises a broad range of practitioners ranging from art and architecture historians, artists and cultural theorists to museum professionals, archivists, computer scientists and philosophers.

Membership is available on an institutional and individual basis. The CHArt website is hosted by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London.

Click here to read MILE's report on this conference: Lucy Geering, MILE Digital Archive Fever Report, PDF 287 KB