[Commlist] CFP: Born Digital Heritage Now Conference

BORN DIGITAL HERITAGE NOW

Place: Australian Centre for the Moving Image & Online
Organisers: Archiving Australian Media Arts/Swinburne University

Dates: Thursday, November 30th – Friday, December 1st, 2023

Keynotes:
Sean Cubitt, Professor of Screen Studies, University of Melbourne
Dragan Espenschied, Preservation Director, Rhizome.
Melanie Swalwell, Professor of Digital Media Heritage, Swinburne University.

http://www.aama.net.au/conference

#BDCH23 is the third iteration of the Born Digital Cultural Heritage 
conference series. The first and second iterations – in 2014 and 2022 – 
brought together academics and practitioners from across the world to 
consider issues in the field of born digital heritage, from a range of 
disciplinary perspectives. A notable feature of this conference series 
has been the deliberate attempt to establish dialogue between those 
working in different professional fields. We recognise that born digital 
heritage reaches into all disciplines and that, if we want to make 
progress on the challenges of preserving born digital heritage, it takes 
people from a range of disciplines and professions working together. 
Therefore, we seek to break down professional silos and other barriers 
that inhibit the discussion and sharing of questions, knowledge and know 
how to address common challenges that we al face when researching, 
preserving and accessing different forms of born digital cultural heritage.

#BDCH23 will consider where born digital cultural heritage is at now. 
What are we making progress on and what are the urgent challenges? How 
are we going to safeguard our digital heritage for future generations? 
For this event, we aim to expand the fields of discussions to include 
architecture and design and extend the focus on digital games and media 
arts to include websites, networking and other relevant domains. The 
challenges of preserving digital cultural heritage aren’t limited to 
legacy technologies, of course, but also affect contemporary platforms 
such as apps, VR, AR, etc.

Abstracts: Due July 27th, 2023

We invite 300 word proposals for papers that address the four 
sub-themes: Collecting, Curating, Preserving and Researching. as well as 
those that cut across these sub-themes.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to: Recognition of 
digital cultural heritage- New approaches to collecting and curation - 
Engaging audiences with legacy digital artefacts - Exhibition case 
studies - Policy directions - Institutional interactions - Networked 
initiatives and coalitions - Distributed collections - New approaches to 
loans - New techniques in preservation - Imagining future tools, 
methodologies, problems and/or solutions - Legal developments - Tools 
and practical case studies - Training and workforce development - 
Progress on emulation strategies - Histories of the born digital - 
Reflections from researchers on accessing newly re-accessible artworks - 
Collaborations between practitioners and researchers


Partners: Swinburne, RMIT and Griffith universities, ACMI, the Art 
Gallery of NSW, the State Library of South Australia, Experimenta Media 
Arts, dLux Media Arts, ANAT, UNESCO PERSIST, and Rhizome.

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