Date: Thursday 3 and Friday 4 March from 09:00 to 17:00
Venue: Level -1 in Block B, Faculty of ICT, Msida Campus
Academics from the Department of Communication and Hypermedia, University of Savoy, France, together with others from the UNESCO chair on Innovation, Transmission and Digital editions (Paris) as well as a professor from the University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis will be delivering talks on digital heritage. Also participating in this conference are three academics from the Department of French, one from the Department of History of Art and a visiting lecturer, all from the University of Malta.
One of the Savoyard academics makes use of digital art to explore new worlds ensconced amidst the i-real and the virtual. Another academic takes a look at the transhumanist philosophy of Google Corporation. Mention will be made of an app introduced by the municipality of Chambéry showing place-names, signs and inscriptions meant to highlight the heritage of the town. Islands induce another academic to create the geopoetics of data. To a computer artist, landmass on an ocean is the way forward: deterritorialisation based on multiplicity.
A major speaker during this event will be M. Dalbéra who holds the UNESCO chair (ITEN) at Maison des sciences de l’homme. He will explain how the inauguration of the Centre Pompidou in Paris in 1977 revolutioniszed the very concept of a museum.
Proceedings of the conference will be delivered in French, but the powerpoint presentations will be in English.
This conference is to be inaugurated by Pro-Rector Joe Friggieri and by Laurent Croset (Embassy of France)
Organisers: Ghislaine Azémard, Richard Spiteri and Marc Veyrat.
Other speakers: Franck Soudan, Ghislaine Chabert, Giuseppe Schembri-Bonaci (with simultaneous interpretation by Marilyn Mallia), Carole Brandon, Michel Agnola, Carmen Depasquale, Matthieu Quiniou and Charles Xuereb.
For more details contact Prof. Richard Spiteri.