[Frameworks] Sensory Moving Image Archive Symposium

Tue Nov 20 18:56:05 UTC 2018

Dear Frameworkers,

As an update to the message I sent out via the list in September concerning
the symposium "Sensory Moving Image Archives – Visualization, Exploration
and Reuse of Moving Image Data" (see below) I would like to bring to your
attention that we have extended the proposal deadline and announced the
keynote speakers confirmed for the symposium so far.

We have extended the proposal deadline to 3 December 2018. The submission
guidelines can be found and downloaded in pdf format via our blog, where
you can also read more about our research:
http://sensorymovingimagearchive.humanities.uva.nl/index.php/2018/11/18/keynote-speakers-announcement-and-proposal-deadline-extension/
.

In addition to extending the proposal deadline, we are also happy to be
able to announce that the symposium will include the participation of the
following speakers:

- Catherine Grant (Professor of Digital Media and Screen Studies, Birkbeck,
University of London)
- Steve F. Anderson (Professor of Digital Media, UCLA School of Theater,
Film and Television)
- George Wright (Head of Internet and Future Services, BBC Research &
Development)
- Geert Mul (Media Artist, Rotterdam, NL)
- Mitchell Whitelaw (Associate Professor of Design, Australian National
University) – remote participation via Skype

We expect to announce more speakers soon. Please do share the call widely
and register if interested in attending.

Best wishes,

Christian Olesen, also on behalf of the SEMIA team

Den fre. 28. sep. 2018 kl. 01.37 skrev Christian Gosvig Olesen <
christian.gosvig at gmail.com>:

> Dear Frameworkers,
>
> I would like to bring your attention to a Call for Papers for a symposium
> I am involved in organizing as part of the research project The Sensory
> Moving Image Archive at the University of Amsterdam.
> It is a symposium on visualization and exploration of moving image data
> which aims to bring many different groups and practitioners together to
> discuss - scholars, computer scientists, archivists and artists. Please see
> below for more info or read more about the research project here:
>
> http://sensorymovingimagearchive.humanities.uva.nl
>
> I hope to see some of you there!
>
> Best,
>
> Christian Olesen
>
> ==========
>
>
> *CfP: Sensory Moving Image Archives – Visualization, Exploration and Reuse
> of Moving Image Data*
>
> *Date: *25-26 February, 2019
>
> *Location: *Doelenzaal, University Library, University of Amsterdam,
> Singel 425.
>
> *Registration: *Entrance is free but seats are limited, so please
> register by emailing c.g.olesen_at_ uva.nl.
>
> The international two-day symposium *Sensory Moving Image Archives:
> Visualization, Exploration and Reuse of Moving Image Data* comes out of
> the research project *The**Sensory Moving Image Archive: Boosting
> Creative Reuse for Artistic Practice and Research (*SEMIA, 2017-2019*)*.
> Working with diverse archival material from Eye Filmmuseum and the
> Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, SEMIA develops alternative ways
> of exploring moving image archives by analyzing data concerning visual
> features – such as colour, movement and shape. To achieve this, SEMIA has
> trained deep-learning networks for extracting sensory data from moving
> images and developed an interface for exploring the results. The project’s
> outcomes will support alternative ways of accessing collections and
> facilitate new forms of reuse based on sensory data.
>
> In pursuing these goals, the project seeks to challenge the limitations of
> traditional text-based search. In recent years, three groups in particular
> have expressed a need for this – and it is these groups the symposium
> targets – namely: *scholars and scientists* – including media historians,
> museum and archival scholars, digital humanities scholars and computer
> scientists; *artists* working with moving image or cultural heritage
> collections; and *archivists* – including media archivists and cultural
> heritage professionals more broadly. Taking SEMIA’s results as its starting
> point and test case, the symposium offers a platform for exchange between
> perspectives from those different groups, and the fields they represent.
> The program will consist of invited presentations and papers accepted
> through an open call. Scholars, professionals and practitioners from all
> groups are strongly encouraged to submit proposals.
>
> *The programme committee for the symposium invites contributions in the
> following areas (but will also consider other relevant topics):*
>
> *Media Historiography and Digital Humanities*
>
>    - Data-driven visual methodologies for the analysis of visual culture
>    (Rose 2013), in different areas of the humanities
>    - Examples of the exploration of moving image and cultural heritage
>    data, for instance in the lineage of  Exploratory Data Analysis (Tukey
>    1977) or Cultural Analytics (Manovich 2009)
>    - Approaches in film studies engaging with data visualization as a
>    form of  deformative criticism (Ferguson 2017) or new cinephilia (Habib,
>    2015)
>
> *Heritage Studies*
>
>    - Interfaces for heritage collections that challenge text-based search
>    and retrieval, for instance “generous” interfaces (Whitelaw 2015) or forms
>    of humanistic interface design (Drucker 2013)
>    - Processes for and experiences in designing exploratory interfaces
>    for heritage collections, specifically prototyping and user testing
>
> *Computer Science*
>
>    - Deep-learning and/or feature engineering for visual analysis of
>    moving images
>    - Computer science approaches tailored to the analysis of subjective
>    attribute data (rather than object recognition or scenes)
>
> *Media Art*
>
>    - Media art projects and practice-based research exploring the
>    affordances of non-evidentiary algorithmic approaches to moving image data
>    analysis and visualization
>    - Practices of found footage, expanded cinema and moving image archive
>    appropriation involving data analysis and visualization
>
> *Media Archiving*
>
>    - The integration of computer-generated (sensory) moving image data in
>    media asset management systems and/or moving image archive databases
>    - Reuse of (sensory) moving image data for TV production and in
>    journalism
>
> *Submission guidelines:*
>
> Please submit an abstract of 300 words and a short bio of 50 words, in pdf
> format, by emailing c.g.olesen_at_uva.nl before 23 November.
>
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