[Commlist] DRHA2020: Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts 2020

Call For Papers: DRHA2020: Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts 
2020, University of Salford, MediaCityUK, UK.

September 6-9, 2020

Digital Curation has become ubiquitous on a scale ranging from large 
digital preservation programmes to individual citizen curation projects 
that often involve collaborations between professionals and enthusiasts. 
Extending Joseph Beuys’ controversial assertion that everyone is an 
artist, now everyone is a (digital) curator. Curation in the context of 
Contemporary Art is closely aligned with Digital Curation skills; while 
a grounding in contemporary art marking is essential, of course, the 
ability to understand the contemporary media ecology within which the 
works are created, exhibited, documented, and preserved is equally 
relevant for contemporary art curators. Similarly, in Performance 
there’s an interest in curation of emerging formats, or immersive 
documents including social media and augmented/virtual reality, as well 
as perspectives relating to the motivations, needs and aspirations of 
readers or audience members who might engage with such document. More 
broadly, Digital Curation aligns with interest in Digital Heritage, 
Digital Forensics, Digital Preservation, and Digital Archives.

In focusing on this evolving area, DHRA 2020 mirrors the purpose of the 
Digital Curation Lab at the University of Salford in its theme of 
‘Situating Digital Curation: Locating Creative Practice and Research 
between Digital Humanities and the Arts.’ The Digital Curation Lab was 
established at MediaCityUK in 2019 to facilitate research on the 
collection, preservation, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination of 
digital assets and technologies of memory at The University of Salford.

Submission Guidelines

We would like to extend a call for proposals for papers, presentations, 
provocations, workshops, and other interventions on this theme for the 
2020 DRHA conference. Individual 20-minute slots will be made for 
proposals selected through a peer-review process. Other formats will be 
considered on a case-by-case basis.

Conference Strands

Digital arts and design
Digital humanities
Creative and cultural industries
Digital libraries and archives
Citizen science
Documenting performance*

* The Documenting Performance strand is coordinated by Dr Joseph 
Dunne-Howrie and Dr Lyn Robinson (Department of Library & Information 
Science, CityLis, at City, University of London) who will be running 
this strand as a DocPerform symposium throughout the parallel sessions 
of DRHA 2020. This follows on from three previous DocPerform symposia 
that have been held in London since 2016. Further information available 
on the DRHA 2020 website.

Conference Convenors

Dr Kirsty Fairclough
Dr Toni Sant

Publication

Selected DRHA2020 proceedings will be published in an affiliated issue 
of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 
following blind peer-review on the final submission for publication.

Submissions and Contact Information

All proposals must be submitted through EasyChair.

https://easychair.org/cfp/drha2020

Abstracts sent via email will not be processed.

Questions about submissions and general queries about the conference 
should sent through the DRHA 2020 website.

http://www.drha.uk/salford2020/call-for-proposals/

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