Events
- Archiving Media Art: Politics and Strategies
- See this Sound: Symposium
- Workshop The Scent of Information
- Interaction, Interactivity, Interactive Art
- Closeness vs. Dislocation Contextualizing Net-Based Art
- Online Archives of Media Art
- 100 Years of Radio The Return of Wireless Imagination
- Placing and Re-placing Media Art
- netzpioniere.at
- When Cybernetics meets Aesthetics
- Survival and Maintenance of Media Based Art
- Digital Archives Conference
- Salon
Workshop The Scent of Information
This two-day expert meeting is dedicated to the discussion and comparison of new approaches to organize, analyze and visualize large bodies of archival information. Archives like the ars electronica archive present themselves as massive collections of heterogeneous and, in some ways, conflicting data organized in many different formats. In order to make sense of this information, traditional database structures and query interfaces are not sufficient.
At the same time, it becomes more and more important to connect and contextualize information resources that already exist. For example, the past ten years have seen numerous initiatives for the documentation and preservation of media art, each contributing to the knowledge in the field. However, their content is usually fragmentary and employs a different form of knowledge organization. This workshop is also dedicated to current approaches that can help to bridge these islands of information. We will compare methods for the exploration, contextualization and disambiguation of information through computational analysis, social approaches and interaction design. We will also discuss frameworks for knowledge architectures that are flexible enough to accommodate heterogeneous and often ambiguous information. We will bring together international experts who work in relevant areas, such as machine learning, visual analytics, knowledge technologies and interface design.
Introduction
[more]Dietmar Offenhuber - Art University Linz, LBI for Media.Art.Research.
Panel I Knowledge Discovery
[more]Strategies for knowledge discovery through content analysis, statistics or the social context
Moderation: Dietmar Offenhuber - Art University Linz, LBI for Media.Art.Research.
Panel II Structuring Information
[more]Strategies for Structuring Knowledge
Moderation and Introduction: Sandor Herramhof - LBI for Media.Art.Research.
Keynote Lecture
[more]CULTURAL ANALYTICS: Visualizing Cultural Patterns
Lev ManovichPanel III Knowledge Interfaces
[more]Interfaces and Access Methods for Hybrid Archives
Moderation: Evelyn Münster - LBI for Media.Art.Research.