March 16, 2006
DRHA Conference
An Exceptional Invitation
CFP: Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts, September 3-6, 2006, Dartington: An international invitation and call for participation in a major conference for practitioners and scholars working with digital resources in the Humanities and Arts.
This year the renamed DRHA Conference - Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts - is choosing to bring a new dimension into its standard range of digital projects and interests across the major disciplines of the humanities (archaeology, history, literature, languages, linguistics...) by offering an exceptional invitation to practitioners and scholars working with digital media across the creative, visual, performing and media arts (music, performance, dance, visual arts, gaming, media...).
This development is intended to draw upon and give greater opportunity to consider changes that have occurred through the various applications of digital resources across multi-media platforms and practice-based and practice-led arts research. This development offers an opportunity to all participants involved in either the arts or the humanities to present, witness, experience and exchange knowledge and applications of accessible digital resources, and to appreciate how the collaborative practices of everyone involved with digital resources has a considerable potential to inform and influence other disciplines.
If you are working with digital processes and resources in any discipline in the arts or the humanities or allied subjects, you are warmly invited to consider making a presentation about your work or to articulate your perspective on the key themes of Conference 2006 which will be considering digital strategies, engagements and developments both as of now and in the future.
This significant and unique opportunity for an exchange of views, experience, approaches and knowledge across all the disciplines of both the humanities and the arts involved with digital resources, will be held at Dartington College of Arts (Totnes, Devon, UK) from Sunday September 3rd to Wednesday September 6th, 2006.
The history and environment of Dartington College of Arts make it the perfect location for this Arts and Humanities Conference 2006. Well known as a place of special beauty and seclusion, the performance studios and exhibition facilities are equally superlative and include the 14th Century Great Hall, The Barn Theatre, The Gallery, plus several 'black-box' and 'white-box' studios equipped with highly sophisticated computer installations appropriate for music, sound, theatre, dance, media, exhibition, installation, screenings, demonstrations and presentations of both completed digital works and work in progress; comfortable well-equipped seminar rooms complement these facilities for the presentation of academic papers, panels sessions and debates; outdoor events are possible in the extensive gardens and estate grounds. You can visit Dartington College of Arts online.
For this Conference two websites have been commissioned to give expanded up-to-date Conference details and to provide opportunities for making proposals and registering online. The Dartington venue website is here and the DRHA2006 website (providing further details and facilities for making online proposals and checking the overall Programme as it develops) is here.
On these websites and also duplicated below you will find more detailed information on:
* key themes for Conference 2006;
* how you can participate and make proposals for presentations;
* the variety of presentation formats available;
* additional notes for practitioners with particular technical requirements;
* key dates;
* points of contact for further information.
DRHA Conferences are never less than inspirational for those working with digital resources in the arts and humanities. The conference series has established itself firmly in the UK and international calendar as a major forum bringing together scholars, practitioners, artists, innovators, curators, archivists, librarians, postgraduates, information scientists and computing professionals in an unique and positive way, to share ideas and information about the creation, exploitation, use, management and preservation of digital resources in the arts and humanities and to analyse the all-important contemporary issues surrounding them.
With the advent of DRHA this conference series enters a new decade (the first DRH Conference was at Somerville College, University of Oxford in 1996) and begins an exploration of new horizons in digital resources. I hope you will feel a sense of anticipation and be inclined to join this significant and exceptional Conference 2006 in order to participate in its presentations and debates and to contribute to and further its fine traditions of scholarly, artistic and cultural endeavours and exchange. Further details on how to participate are available on the websites and duplicated below for convenience and easy reference.
I look forward to welcoming you to Dartington and DRHA2006.
Barry Smith
Programme Chair, DRHA Conference 2006
barry.smith[at]bristol.ac.uk
Posted by jo at March 16, 2006 10:47 AM
