CALL FOR PAPERS - CHArt (COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART)

:: CALL FOR PAPERS
:: CHArt (COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART) TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER / 8 - 9 November, 2007
:: Deadline: 31 May 2007

Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organizations 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 what is generally known as Web 2.0 - encompassing YouTube, Bittorrent, Napster, Wikipedia, Google,
MySpace and more. Will such institutions respond to this threat to their
cultural hegemony by resistance or adaptation? 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?

For the twenty-second CHArt conference we are looking for papers that
reflect upon these issues, particularly in relation to visual culture. We particularly welcome contributions from those working in either
'traditional' cultural organisations or those involved in new forms of
cultural access and distribution.
Please email submissions (a three hundred word synopsis of the proposed
paper with CV of presenter/s and other key figures) by 31 May 2007 to

Hazel Gardiner ( [email protected])

Dr Charlie Gere
Chair, CHArt
CHArt
c/o Centre for Computing in the Humanities
Kings College, University of London
Kay House
7 Arundel Street
WC2R 3DX