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Dear Colleagues,

We cordially invite you to join the International Online Press Conference which will present an unique online exhibition project with partners from 33 countries, supported by AVICOM:

Tuesday 25 March 2025

11:00 AM CET

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Participants’ travel to the conference: more than 40.000 kilometers: AVICOM conference 2023     

With around 40 participants on site and more than 90 participants who used the streaming service or joined in as speakers via Zoom, AVICOM looks back on a very successful annual conference on the topic of “Virtual Museum”.

In the venerable Parliament Hall in St Andrews, Scotland, 17 contributions and a workshop dealt with questions, requirements and possibilities for virtual museum education. The workshop in particular made it clear how necessary a definition of “virtual museum” is that is based on ICOM’s new museum definition. Because not every virtual museum presentation can be equated with a virtual museum.

The topic of “Virtual Museum” will therefore continue to occupy AVICOM: in a joint working group with the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews, which hosted the conference, and the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics. The next AVICOM annual conference will also be dedicated to this topic.

Looking back on a successful conference: AVICOM board together with Dr. Kamila Oles and Dr. Alan Miller (3rd and 4th from right) from the University of St Andrews

Workshop working groups

Speakers and board

Dear AVICOM conference participants,

To ensure a seamless conference experience, please take note of the following important details:

FOR REMOTE PARTICIPANTS:

To gain access to the streaming, please complete your registration on Eventbrite using this link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/719060538427?aff=oddtdtcreator
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Below the final program:

AVICOM 2023 FINAL Conference Program_compressed

Sustainable Preservation and Promotion of Heritage: The Virtual Museum

AVICOM Annual Conference & f@imp Festival 2023 – St Andrews, Scotland

Preliminary Program Version August 23 (All times: GMT)

Thursday September 21 Arrival Day:

15:00 Optional: Visit to the Wardlaw Museum (Museum of the University of St Andrews)

17:00 Medieval St Andrews guided tour (including St Andrews cathedral and castle)

Meeting point: Entrance to the Wardlaw Museum

 19:00 Welcome Meeting, School of Computer Science of the University of St Andrews, Jack Cole Building, North Haugh, St Andrews

Friday September 22: Sustainable Preservation and Promotion of Heritage: The Virtual Museum. General Assembly and Conference Part 1

Parliament Hall of the University of St Andrews, 66 South St, St Andrews

9:30 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 10:15 Opening

N.N. (Representative of St Andrews)

Alan Miller, University of St Andrews

Michael H. Faber, Chair of AVICOM

Questions of Principle and Basics

Moderation: Janos Tari, Károli Gaspár University Budapest, Hungary / Ex Chair of AVICOM

10:15 – 10:35 Gaoli Liu, National Ainu Museum, Shiraoi Hokkaido, Japan:

Exploring the Advantages and Challenges of Virtual Museums: A Case Study of the National Ainu Museum

10:35 – 10:55 ONLINE: Kathryn Nellis Medill-Torres, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver Colorado, USA:

An Anecdotal Review of the Guiding Questions for AVICOM’s General Assembly Conference 2023

10:55 – 11:55 WORKSHOP: Alan Miller, Kamila Oles, Open Virtual Worlds Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, Scotland, U.K.; Julia Römhild, Bernd Günter, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Heinrich-Heine- Universität Düsseldorf, Germany:

Under Construction: Defining Virtual Museums in the context of Sustainablility

Methodical Approaches

Moderation: Michael H. Faber, Chair of AVICOM, Germany

11:55 – 12:15 Simina Badica, House of European History, Brussels, Belgium:

How to create a virtual European History experience?

12:15 – 12:30 Discussion

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch (Self-paying)

14:00 – 14:20 Can Chen, Bournemouth University, Poole, U.K.:

Media Arts in Narrative-style Exhibition : Curatorial Approaches in China

14:20 – 14:40 Rasa Bočyté, Max Tiel, Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, Hilversum, The Netherlands; Arno Verhofstadt, Wendy Van den Broeck, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium:

Remotely Together: The Virtues and Limitations of Social XR in the Cultural Heritage Sector

Attracting Visitors, Barrier Reduction and Sustainability

Moderation: Anna-Maria Marras, Dipartimento di Studi Storici, Universitá di Torino, Italy

14:40 – 15:00 Hazem Mohammed Farrag, Tourist Guidance & Heritage Management, Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt:

Exploring the Perspectives and Expectations of Egyptian Tour Guides on the Incorporation of Virtual Museum Tours in Tourism Activities: Implications for Enhanced Tourist Engagement

15:00 – 15:20 Rema Zeynalova, Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, Baku, Azerbaijan:

Breaking boundries at the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum: Virtual Museum as a tool for increasing accessibility

15:20 – 15:40 Funda Yüksel Özer, Mersin Arkkeoloji Müzesi, Yenişehir Mersin, Turkey:

New Approach to Virtual Museum

15:40 – 16:00 Julia Römhild, Bernd Günter, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany:

Unveiling the Potential: Virtual Museums for Sustainable Development

16:00 – 16:30 Break

16:30 – 16:50 Kamila Oles, Alan Miller, Open Virtual Worlds Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, Scotland, U.K.:

Promoting Sustainable Development with Emergent Immersive and Mobile Technologies

16:50 – 17:00 Discussion

Practical Examples / Case Studies

Moderation: N.N.

17:00 – 17:20 Eva Schubert, Museum With No Frontiers (MWNF), Vienna, Austria

The transnational Museum With No Frontiers programme – online collections, exhibitions, galleries, tours – and hosting the largest online resource dedicated to the artistic legacy of Islam

17:20 – 17:40 Mohamed Ismail Ibrahim, Faculty of Archaeology, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt:

Building a Virtual Museum within a Museum: The Zafaran Museum as an Example

17:40 – 18:00 Lara Corona, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Virtual museums: a threat for ‘real museums’ or an additional value to them?

18:00 – 18:15 Discussion

19:00 Meeting in a traditional Pub (precise location details to be communicated later)

 

Saturday September 23: Sustainable Preservation and Promotion of Heritage: The Virtual Museum. General Assembly and Conference Part 2

Parliament Hall of the University of St Andrews, 66 South St, St Andrews

Practical Examples / Case Studies

Moderation: Aleš Kapsa, Jan Amos Komenský Museum, Uherský Brod, Czech Republic

9:30 – 9:50 Muhammad Zubair Rabbani, Bahawalpur Museum, Bahawalpur, Pakistan:

Virtual Museums: A Gateway to Cultural Exploration

9:50 – 10:00 Yuqiao Hu, School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, U.K.:

Empowering Small Museums in Creating Virtual Museums on Social Media Platforms – A Case Study of Longxi County Museum, China

10:10 – 10:30 Nina Pearlman, Andy-Hudson Smith, Valerio Signorelli, Leah Lovett, Jason McEwan, UCL Museums, UCL, London, U.K.:

Bridging Worlds: Novel panoramic capture and virtual navigation of exhibition spaces at UCL

10:30 – 10:50 Kaji Appolinaire, Musée La Blacktude, Yaoundé, Cameroon:

Virtual exhibition on traditional African musical instruments: Issues and audiences

10:50 – 11:00 Kamila Oles, Alan Miller, Open Virtual Worlds Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, Scotland, U.K.:

Climate Change and the Virtual Museum

11:00-11:10 Kamila Oles, Alan Miller, Open Virtual Worlds Research Group, School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews, Scotland, U.K.:

The digital curation of open-air museum Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) mobile apps

11:10 – 11:20 Discussion

11:20 – 11:35 Short Coffee Break („1 coffee“)

11:35 – 12:00 ONLINE: Nicolle Manuelle Bahia Bittencourt, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies

Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan:

From physical to virtual: Information and Communication Technologies Strategies adopted by the National Museum of Brazil and Shurijo Castle in Japan after a destructive fire

Discussion

12:00 – 12:15 Michael H. Faber, Chair of AVICOM

Conclusions. Results of the Conference

12:15 – 12:45 General Assembly of AVICOM (for AVICOM members only)

12:45 – 14:00 Lunch (Self-paying)

14:00 – 15:30 Faimp Award Ceremony

15:40 Assembling at the designated bus for the trip to Dundee (specific location details to follow).

16:15 – 18:00 Guided exploration of Discovery Point and RRS Discovery in Dundee, located along Riverside Drive.

19:00 Conference Dinner with Reception of the Faimp Winners at Discovery Point, Dundee

(Self-paying by participants; Winners: free)

(Meeting point will be announced later.)

 

Sunday Sept 24 Departure Day

10:00 Gathering at the School of Computer Science, University of St. Andrews, situated within the Jack Cole Building on North Haugh, St. Andrews. Luggage storage is available at this location, in room no 0.37. Refreshments, including coffee and tea, are provided.

Welcome to St Andrews, Scotland!

Cordial invitation to the F@IMP Festival and the AVICOM General Assembly / Conference 2023:

Sustainable Preservation and Promotion of Heritage: The Virtual Museum

It is now definite: The traditional international AVICOM Festival (Festival of Audiovisual and Innovative Museum Media Productions) 2023 in combination with the annual General Assembly / Conference of AVICOM  will take place from Thursday 21 September (arrival day) to Sunday 24 September (excursion and departure day) in the university town of St Andrews in Scotland.

Founded in the 15th century, St Andrews is Scotland’s first university and the third oldest in the English speaking world. Teaching began in the community of St Andrews in 1410, and the University was formally constituted by the issue of a papal bull in 1413.

At the last Faimp Festival, the University of St Andrews, School of Computer Science, had won an award with their website production “Virtual Orkney North Isles”. AVICOM is grateful that, as is tradition at the festivals, the university as a winning institution has agreed to host this year’s festival and conference.

Photo: Charles Clegg https://www.flickr.com/photos/glasgowamateur/ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_view_of_St_Andrews_8515359035_d7fb968324_o.jpg

The F@IMP Festival:

AVICOM invites all museums and other cultural institutions as well as media producers who are members of ICOM to participate in this year’s Media Festival.

Please note that the categories have changed as follows: Museum film, animation –  Media – Web – Exhibition installation – Mobile application.

The following criteria will be assessed in the categories: Research, documentary – Education and mediation – Interpretation – Inclusivity and sustainability.

The General Assembly / Conference:  Sustainable Preservation and Promotion of Heritage: The Virtual Museum

In addition, AVICOM cordially invites you to participate in this year’s General Assembly / Conference. The theme is “The Virtual Museum”:  What are the content-related and methodological criteria for a Virtual Museum and what distinguishes it from other online museum databases? In which cases does the installation of a VM make sense? Can and may the VM replace the physical museum? Does the VM pose a threat to the physical museum or can the VM support the physical museum? Are there target groups that can be reached better via the VM than via the physical museum? What opportunities does the VM offer in terms of barrier reduction, inclusion and sustainability?

Submission of contributions is closed.

The Festival and Conference are intended as hybrid events.

The language at the Festival and in the General Assembly / Conference is English.

Here you can find the preliminary program which will be continuously updated, the registration form and some useful informations:

Schedule-AVICOM Annual Conference Festival 2023-Version 06July

Registration form

Avicom_conf_2023_guide

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions:

Media Festival: Ms Ildikó  Fejes, Festival Director: fejes.ildiko@gmail.com

General Assembly / Conference: Mr Dr Michael H. Faber, Chair of AVICOM: dr.m.faber@t-online.de