Dear ICOM and AVICOM members, AVICOM Annual Conference will take place in Milan, Italy, in conjunction with ICOM’s General Conference on July 3-9, 2016. AVICOM members and all interested persons are kindly invited to participate. This year AVICOM program consists of four sessions. Monday, 4th July 2016, 14:00 - 18:00 ------------------ FIRST SESSION - HISTORY OF MULTIMEDIA IN MUSEUMS 25th years of AVICOM Activity: In the same year of the 70th anniversary of ICOM, AVICOM committee celebrates its 25 years of activity. Chair of session: Janos Tari 14:00 - 15:00 : Marco Tonon, founder of AVICOM in 1991, guides us in an excursus on the experiments in technology for museums. 15:00 - 16:00 : János Tari, president, changing the technological interpretation of cultural heritage in museums, pilot study result of winners 2000 and 2015 F@imp festivals in Budapest 16:00 - 17:00 : AVICOM Video presentation IMAGES from AVICOM/F@imp 25 years in 65mn To present experiences in this session, participants must submit case studies that will document acknowledged innovative experiences in museum from 1991 to 2015. Tuesday 5th July 2016 - 11:00 - 13:00 ; 15:00 - 18:00 ------------------ SECOND SESSION - TECHNOLOGICAL CULTURAL LANDSCAPES According to the topic of ICOM General Conference of Milan 2016, all AVICOM members are invited to present some experiences that involve technology in the relation between Museums and Landscapes. Authors may refer to the Siena Chart. Papers can present projects that exhibit or enhances the relationship between museum and landscapes, for instance projects that use technology to: - interpret, construct, diffuse, promote heritage in the territory - enhance the protection, safeguard, conserve, restore, recreate, regulate, transform, monitor landscapes that surround museums Chair of session: SImona Caraceni 11:00 - 11:45 Ildiko FEJES : The Landscape of the Hungarian Museums by Data Visualisation. 11:45 - 12:30 Gábor TATAI "Agile Museums? Yes!" - Gábor Tatai, director, Hospital in the Rock Nuclear Bunker Museum, Hungary A lecture on how Agile IT projects catalyze the museums to transform rapidly and thus influence their positive change of management and organizational culture. 12:30 - 13:00 Mathias Henkel, Heritage 2.0 Tuesday 5th July 2016 15-18 AVICOM General Assembly General Assembly of AVICOM - Presentation of the new board 2016 - 2019 ------------------ Wednesday 6th July 2016 - 10:00 - 12:00 THIRD SESSION - INTERNET FESTIVAL OF MUSEUM MULTIMEDIA “MEDIA GEEK : CULTURAL HERITAGE” Chair of session : Natalia Tolsataya This year AVICOM starts the new project - First International Internet Festival of museum multimedia “Media Geek: cultural heritage”. A presentation of the “Media Geek : cultural heritage” project, evaluation of the two seasons of the festival in Russia and presentation of the Media Geek Hungary will be held. AVICOM members and those who are interested in participating in the festival and all interested persons are kindly invited to take part in the session. Thursday 8th July 2016 Off-site Meeting: Biella Chair of session: Marco Tonon Program to be announced ------------------ Call for paper ------------------ Submission process: Abstracts have to be written in English and should be submitted for selection to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] Text: maximum 300 words Images: up to 3 images are allowed for a maximum total of 3MB Contributions : Abstracts will be reviewed and authors contacted by the 1st May 2016. Full papers have to be presented due to 15th June 2015. Language of this session will be French and English. Accepted abstract will be published on the AVICOM website. The following information should be included with the abstract: • Title of submitted paper • Name(s) of author(s) • Professional background • Keywords Further information: for all queries on this Call for Papers and the submission process, please contact: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] All proposals submitted will be assessed for suitability by the Organising Committee of the AVICOM Conference and the Chair of AVICOM. http://network.icom.museum/avicom - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Change ICOM-L subscription options, unsubscribe, and search the archives at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/icom-l.html