This panel presents current approaches to digitizing, preserving and (subsequently) presenting cultural heritage. The topics discussed will range from high-quality digitization methods to data design and modelling.
Special attention will also be paid to strategies for making digitized and digital art and heritage visible and available: examples include high-resolution imagery for art education, digital research with and on art and cultural heritage data, as well as ways of connecting sources and resources to break open silos and find new ways to reach audiences. The newly relaunched Ars Electronica Archive will also be presented as part of the panel.
Bios
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Alessandro Ludovico
IT
Alessandro Ludovico is a researcher, artist and the chief editor of Neural magazine since 1993. He received his PhD in English and Media from Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge (UK). He is currently Associate Professor at the Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
Ludovico has published and edited several books, including Post-Digital Print and Tactical Publishing, and has conducted lectures worldwide. He also served as an adviser for Documenta 12’s magazine project. He is one of the authors of the award-winning Hacking Monopolism trilogy of artworks: Google Will Eat Itself, Amazon Noir, Face to Facebook.
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Photo: Gerhild Leljak, University of GrazChiara Zuanni
Chiara Zuanni is a museologist, digital heritage, and digital humanities researcher. She studied archaeology in Bologna and received a PhD in Museology from the University of Manchester (UK). Since 2018, she is based in Graz, where she completed her Habilitation in Digital Humanities and is Associate Professor in the Department of Digital Humanities, University of Graz.
She is interested in knowledge-construction and mediation in museums, data practices and data-driven research in cultural heritage, and 3D modelling. -
Katharina Pektor
AT
Katharina Pektor (Vienna), literary scholar, editor of books and catalogues, curator of literary exhibitions and events. She designed and realized various research projects, most recently at the Austrian National Library Vienna and the German Literary Archive Marbach the virtual archive and research platform “Handkeonline”, currently as edition manager the digital edition “Peter Handke: Notizbücher“.
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Sandra Sonnleitner
AT
Sandra Sonnleitner is Managing Director of the Kaiserschild Foundation, where she is particularly responsible for the art and research agendas. With its new project Kaiserschild Art Defined, the foundation is breaking new ground in art education as well as in making its art collection accessible. The foundation works together with art institutions and museums on the project.
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Photo: Vanessa HannesschlägerVanessa Hannesschläger
Vanessa Hannesschläger is head of European Collaboration at Ars Electronica. She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Vienna and teaches digital humanities in Austria and Sweden.
Before joining Ars Electronica, Vanessa worked on developing European digital research infrastructures and numerous projects involving physical and digital archives for cultural heritage and art. In the European policy context, Vanessa advocates for digital infrastructure for the arts and humanities, data and legal literacy, the Commons, and Open approaches.
