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*** Program highlights ***
Iinternational museum multimedia comes to Washington DC, September 21-26,
1999. Plan to join registrants from over 20 countries to hear papers,
question panels, and meet your colleages at this bi-annual event.
Don't miss your chance. ICHIM won't be back in North America for another 4
years. Call the Crystal Gateway Marriott (+1 703 920 3230) today and
mention ichim99 to reserve at the conference hotel rate of $139. This
special is only guaranteed 'til the end of August (and that's soon!).
Sessions explore issues ranging from Conservation and 3-D Reconstruction to
Multimedia Authoring and Evaluation. You can find the full program,
including paper abstracts on the detailed conference web site at:
http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/sessions/index.html
Conference registration information is online at:
http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/register/index.html
Here are some highlights!
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OPENING PLENARY
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Saturday, September 25, 1999
Finding the Real in the Virtual: Authenticity in Digital Representation
A panel discussion with:
Constantinos Dallas, Panteion University, Greece
Peter Samis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
Jane Sledge, National Museum of the American Indian,
Smithsonian Institution, USA
Jennifer Trant, Art Museum Image Consortium, USA, ichim99 Co-Chair
David Bearman, Archives & Museum Informatics, USA, ichim99 Co-Chair
As digital representations become more realistic and full-audio
three-dimensional virtual experiences become part of our interpretive tool
set, cultural heritage professionals are faced with increasingly pressing
issues of authenticity. How can we engage and entertain our visitors, while
trying to interest and educate them, without doing a disservice to the
artifacts in our care? Participants in this panel have played the roles of
curators, artists, archaeologists, cultural documentation specialists and
policy makers, often wearing multiple hats. Using real examples, they will
explore the challenges to the 'authentic' posed by interactive multimedia.
These reflections presage a theme that runs throughout ichim99: How do we
make sure that the virtual doesn't obscure the real?
Full abstract at:
http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/sessions/index.html#EVT10000030
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SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
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Saturday, September 25, 1999 in the Exhibit Hall
See first-hand demonstrations of two innovative interactives, using new
technologies and approaches to present cultural heritage.
From Wireless Object and Body Tracking to Wearable computers:
technologies and methods for interactive exhibit design
Flavia Sparacino, Kent Larson, Ron MacNeil, Glorianna Davenport,
Alex Pentland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
See interactive exhibit projects developed to add technology to the museum
space or to the museum visitor. These technological interventions aim to
help curators and designers achieve a balance between leisure and learning,
and to be more effective in conveying story and meaning. These interactives
track people and objects (with wireless and unencumbering real time
computer-vision techniques and with wearable computers that can respond to
the context and presence of the visitor). These systems enhance the memory
of the visit and help build a constructivist-style learning experience.
Details:
http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/sessions/index.html#PRG65000158
A Performative Artwork by Terminal Time
Steffi Domike, Michael Mateas, Paul Vanouse,
Terminal Time Co-Producers, USA
The Terminal Time engine uses the past 1,000 years of world history as
"fuel" for creating these custom-made historical documentaries. Through an
audience response-measuring device (applause-meter) connected to a
computer, viewing audiences respond to periodic questions reminiscent of
marketing polls. These questions occur every 6 minutes during the story.
The loudest applause determines the winning answer. Each program lasts
approximately 30 minutes.
Details:
http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/sessions/index.html#PRG60000137
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CLOSING PLENARY
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Sunday, September 26, 1999
Un-Private: The Reality of an Interactive Environment
Greg Van Alstyne and Andrew Davies, Museum of Modern Art, USA
What happens when The Museum of Modern Art and MIT Media Lab collaborate to
design and build an unprecedented interactive environment, installed within
an international exhibition of innovative architecture? The result is an
aesthetically rich, highly informative, and socially complex experience
which engages visitors with each other, with the physical space and themes
of the exhibition, and especially with the content of the artists' and
curator's work. The MoMA/MIT Media Lab Interactive Table uses an array of
sophisticated experimental hardware and software, but places this
technology visually and conceptually 'outside the frame'. The goal is to
illuminate the exhibition material while preserving, indeed amplifying,
contact with the physical and social reality of the gallery setting.
Details:
http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/sessions/index.html#EVT10000031
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JOIN US AT ichim99!
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ichim99 - the International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting
September 22 - 26, 1999
Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel
1700 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202
Tel. +1 703 920 3230
Fax +1 703 271 5212
Room rate of US$139 (per night) is guaranteed until
** MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1999 **
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NEED TO KNOW MORE?
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For further information about ichim99, contact us or:
Aimee Fantazier
Conference Coordinator
Archives & Museum Informatics
2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA
Tel. +1 412 422 8530
Fax +1 412 422 8594
Email [log in to unmask]
See you soon!
jennifer and David
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J. Trant & D. Bearman ichim99
Co-Chairs, ichim99 Washington, DC
Archives & Museum Informatics September 22 - 26, 1999
2008 Murray Avenue, Suite D http://www.archimuse.com/ichim99/
Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA [log in to unmask]
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