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Keynotes and lectures by Professor Sarah Kenderdine before 2020

2020

GIFF 2020 INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES FOR DIGITAL MUSEOLOGY

Professor Sarah Kenderdine researches at the forefront of interactive and immersive experiences for galleries, libraries, archives and museums. In widely exhibited installation works, she has amalgamated cultural heritage with new media art practice, especially in the realms of interactive cinema, augmented reality and embodied narrative. She is considered a pioneer in the field digital heritage, digital museology, digital humanities and data visualisation. In 2017, Sarah was appointed Professor of Digital Museology at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland where she has built the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), exploring the convergence of aesthetic practice, visual analytics and cultural data. She is also director and lead curator of EPFL’s new art/science initiative ArtLab.

DA Z 2020 Art Future Wars – The culture war between Analogue- and Digital Art

Data Modeling / the future of museums Sarah Kenderdine researches at the forefront of interactive and immersive experiences, amalgamating tangible and intangible cultural heritage with new media art practice, especially in the realms of interactive cinema, augmented reality and embodied narrative. She joined EPFL 2017 where she has built the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), exploring the convergence of aesthetic practice, immersive visualization, visual analytics and cultural (big) data. She is also director and lead curator of EPFL’s new art science initiative ArtLab.

IASTE 2020 DISRUPTIVE TRADITIONS: THE PANDEMIC AND ITS IMPACT

Sarah Kenderdine, head of the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) joins key speakers for this IASTE event as part of 17th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE)

Art x Science Dialogues: SwissNex Shanghai

Bridging the Future – New Interdisciplinary Initiatives: In recent years, collaborations between artists and scientists have increasingly become a feature of the cultural landscape. Over the past years, a hybrid set of research-based or experimentally-driven initiatives have emerged where artists and scientists work together to explore the creative possibilities and producing many exciting projects. Such interdisciplinary initiatives are observed as a trend in future education and research. In the final edition of the Art x Science Dialogues series, we will introduce the interdisciplinary initiatives from the two top Swiss universities – ETH Zurich and École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), as well as the art-science practices of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) from China. We will invite Prof. Sarah Kenderdine, Director of Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) & ArtLab EPFL, Ms. Maximiliane Okonnek, Managing Director of ETH Library Lab, and Prof. Zhijie Qiu, Dean of the School of Experimental Art of CAFA for a collaborative discussion on the opportunities and challenges in building up such initiatives. We are also trying to explore long term communication as well as collaboration systems within art and science through the dialogue.

iV2020 Keynote: “Inhabited information spaces: a landscape for the senses”

Sarah Kenderdine, head of the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+) gives a keynote lecture at the 24 International Conference Information Visualisation (iV2020)

Art over Lunch: Is the Future of Art Virtual? by Asia Society Switzerland

Sarah Kenderdine In Conversation with Annette Bhagwati, Director of the Museum Rietberg. With the coronavirus outbreak the need for digital and virtual art experiences has risen. Museums have been closed, instead virtual art tours and online exhibitions have been offered by many – including by us as part of our Art over Lunch series. But the impact of modern technologies on exhibitions and artworks did not just begin now. Interactive experiences have shaped museum visits for a long time. Online art programs already existed before the lockdown – although in a small number. The current restrictions and the challenges they bring have the potential to change how we visit museums and experience art forever. How does digitalization influence exhibitions? What challenges does the pandemic hold for museums? How did the Museum Rietberg deal with the lockdown? And what will art tours look like in the future? Will virtual art replace classical exhibitions? During this Art over Lunch.

ICM SEMINARS IN COMPUTER AND COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE

Sarah Kenderdine keynote

An intimacy with the physical world: new technologies generating new knowledge

Sarah Kenderdine, head of the Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+), and Frédéric Kaplan, head of the Digital Humanities Lab (DHLab), will participate in the 3-part series, “New Technologies and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage”, organized by the Art Newspaper and Factum Foundation, with Il Giornale Dell’Arte.

Sarah Kenderdine: Experimental Museology – Sculpting Cultural Data in Krems

Experimental Museology – Sculpting Cultural Data Keynote Research Summit “Making Digital Heritage Multisensory” Department for ImageScience, Danube University

2019

Keynote: “Experimental Museology, Repertoires for Archives: Reperforming Histories”

NDLI-UNESCO International Symposium on Knowledge Engineering for Digital Library Design (KEDL 2019), IIT Delhi, India, 9-11 December 2019 http://kedl2019.ndl.gov.in/

Symposium Panel: “Civic Cultural Futures”

Panel session at Australian Academy of the Humanities’ 50th Symposium – Humanising the Future, Brisbane, Australia, 13-15 November 2019

Deep Mapping: The Atlas of Maritime Buddhism

ArtTech Forum, Cini Foundation, Venice, Italy, 24-25 September 2019

Architectures for the Immersive Museum

Digital Rome, Istituto Svizzero, Rome, 18-20 September 2019

“Experimental museology: sculpting cultural data“

Media Art Cultures Research Summit, Danube University, Krems, Austria, 4-5 September 2019

“Future of Museology, Technology and ICH”

UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites Summer School, Müstair, Switzerland, 30-31 August 2019

Keynote: “Archives in motion: digital collections and experimental museology”

Athena Digital Curation Unit, Summer School in Digital Humanities, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, National Library of Greece, Athens, 15 July 2019.