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ARTNOUVEAU - On the transition to the digital era of arts and culture

Objective

The artnouveau project intends to devise new visions for the presentation of arts and culture. It will foster the exchange of information and experience between all relevant parties in arts, culture, research, and industry by establishing a working group. This working group will identify requirements and demands for innovative technological applications in arts and culture on the one hand and potentials and limits of technology in this domain on the other hand. By accompanying hands-on demonstrations of mixed reality and human-computer interaction techniques the value of its utilisation as enabling technology in the cultural and artistic context will be evaluated and the gap between the technical/industrial and the cultural/artistic community will be diminished. Finally, extensive research roadmaps dedicated to the cultural heritage domain reflecting both, the user's and the technology perspective will be developed.

Objectives:
The artnouveau project aims at defining new user centred approaches to experience arts and culture in a lively, individual and user-friendly way. Public access, interaction, personalisation and education will be the key aspects of the concepts enabled through innovative technologies such as human-computer interaction, virtual and augmented reality. Current advances in theses fields will be analysed and evaluated with respect to their potential for overcoming he "untouchable arts" paradigm. Necessary activities in all related fields will be pointed out yielding roadmaps for the CH and RTD communities. The consortium constitutes a core-working group of partners in research, industry, and cultural heritage, each providing their specific experience about the subject. Together with further associated members to be recruited relevant topics will be identified and investigated, new concepts and methods will be defined and possible research and application scenarios derived and evaluated.

Work description:
The project consortium constitutes a core working group with partners from research, industry and cultural heritage. After the initial set up of the project recruiting further organisations, institutions, research projects and individuals as associated members will extend this working group. Project results will be achieved in several consecutive phases. First of all a thorough state-of-the-art analysis will be carried out. It aims at documenting the current status quo in the cultural heritage and technologies field. Existing services, products and applications as well as methods and techniques will be gathering and evaluated. This process will be rounded off by the compilation of the individual visions and needs of the respective working group members, serving as a "user requirements" analysis for the following phases. Second, this individual vision will be merged into one common and agreed upon vision of the future directions including new methods, concepts and techniques.

Based upon the state-of-the-art analysis roadmaps for the communities involved will be devised. These roadmaps will be presented to the wide public in general but particularly to the respective communities, to be evaluated and commented on by the experts of these fields. Finally, possible research and application scenarios will be defined to support the new vision. These scenarios are intended to serve as proofs-of-concept and provide a far less abstract foundation for fertilising discussions among experts. Furthermore they directly allow first-grade hands-on experiences and experiments for a wide audience. All these actions will be escorted by diverse dissemination and exploitation activities spreading the projects' results, especially the new concepts and visions, in the various communities and spawning further worldwide activities such as novel applications, services and last but not least research projects of the future.

Milestones:
MS1 - State-of-the-art analysis on cultural heritage presentations, scientific and market activities;
MS2 - The new vision describing innovative concepts, methods and plans for the future;
MS3 - Evaluation of the research and application scenarios derived from the new vision. The overall result will be the development of new visions and concepts, common to researchers, technicians and cultural heritage people, serving as roadmaps for the future activities of the CH and the RTD community.

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THN - Thematic network contracts

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ZENTRUM FUER GRAPHISCHE DATENVERARBEITUNG E.V.
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