Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment (ECLAP 2012)

 "Masks" courtesy of my wife Michaela

ECLAP 2012 

Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts,

Media Access and Entertainment

07-09 May 2012, 

Florence, Italy

Conference web page: http://www.eclap.eu/conference

We would like to invite you to the ECLAP Conference on Information Technologies for Performing Arts, Media Access and Entertainment Information Technologies have made possible many important changes in the field of cultural heritage and continue to provide dynamic and exciting media platforms through which new possibilities perpetually emerge. This wave of change has had particularly significant consequences in the field of the Performing Arts, where a vast array of possibilities for digital content fruition continues to
reveal itself, constantly opening the doors to new and as-yet-unexplored synergies. Many technological developments concerning digital libraries, media entertainment and education are now fully developed and ready to be exported, applied, utilised and cultivated by the public.
The ECLAP 2012 conference is open to researchers, professionals, industries, institutions, technicians, practitioners in the area of performing arts and information technologies, media entertainment, technology enhanced learning, intelligent media systems, acoustic systems, cultural heritage, and many others.
The ECLAP conference aims to function as a forum in which progress-oriented individuals and institutions within the aforementioned fields can find a place to collaborate and present results. The ECLAP 2012 conference has confirmed a keynote-speaker lineup consisting of some of the most salient voices in the
field. Demo and poster sessions will be organized. The event will include plenty of opportunities for networking, discussion, sharing ideas and best practices.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
-- MARCO MARSELLA, Deputy Head of Unit, eContent and Safer Internet, E European Commission, Information Society and Media Directorate-General
-- SARAH WHATLEY, Director of the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) at Coventry University, UK
-- HEATHER NATHANS, Professor of Theatre Studies, School of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, University of Maryland, USA
-- NIKKI TIMMERMANS, Advisor Media Plusregeling at Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie, The Netherlands

GENERAL TRACK: PERFORMING ARTS, MEDIA ACCESS AND ENTERTAINMENT

WORKSHOPS
--EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
--NEW BUSINESS MODELS IN THE CULTURAL HERITAGE DOMAIN
--AUTHORITATIVE METADATA VS USER-GENERATED CONTENT
--PERFORMING ARTS & ICT
--OPEN ACCESS 2002-2012
--NATURAL EUROPE LEARNING PATHWAYS

--TUTORIAL AND TRAINING ON ECLAP: open to all interested people on ECLAP mechanism and activity, content providers, archives, library, institutions, museums.

SOCIAL EVENT
May 8, 2012 - Florence, Stazione Leopolda, Viale
Fratelli Rosselli - Porta al Prato
Please make a reservation: http://www.eclap.eu/drupal/?q=node/71625

Organized by: University of Florence, Italy; University of Leeds; National
Technical University of Athens, Greece; Institute
of Sound and Vision, Netherlands;
University of Cambridge, UK; Universidad de
Castilla La Mancha, Spain; University
of Glasgow, UK; University of Rome La Sapienza,
Italy; University of Amsterdam,
Netherlands; Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Italy; Dario Fo & Franca Rame
Archive, Italy; Escola Superior de Música, Artes
e Espectáculo do Porto, Portugal;
AXMEDIATECH, Italy; Festival International de
Films de Femmes de Créteil, France;
The Institute of Polish Culture University of
Warsaw, Poland; Museu de les Arts
Escèniques Institut del Teatre de Barcelona,
Spain; La Bellone, House of Performing
Arts, Belgium; Muzeum, Ljubljana, Slovenia;
Hungarian Theatre Institute, Hungary;
Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology.

GENERAL CHAIR
Paolo Nesi, University of Florence, Italy

PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS
-Emanuele Bellini, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, Italy
-Peter Eversmann, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
-Kia Ng, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
-Johan Oomen, Institute for Sound and Vision, The Netherlands
-Pierfrancesco Bellini, University of Florence, Italy (ECLAP Tutorial)

NETWORKING & WORKSHOP COORDINATOR
-Raffaella Santucci, Sapienza, University of Rome, Italy

DATE & VENUE
7 - 9 May 2012
Convitto della Calza - Piazza Della Calza, 6, 50125, Firenze - Italy
Tel. +39 055.222287 - Fax +39 055.223912 -
calza@calza.it - http://www.calza.it

INFO & PARTICIPATION
Registration form: http://www.eclap.eu/eclap2012registration

FURTHER INFORMATION
Morning and afternoon coffee breaks as well as lunches will be provided.
The language of the event is English. If you have any further inquiries or
require additional information about this event,
please contact: info@eclap.eu

SECRETARY: Simonetta Ceglia, ceglia@dsi.unifi.it, tel: +39-055-4796567, 425