Nodem 2013: Beyond Control - The Collaborative Museum and its Challenges

NODEM 2013 is a multidisciplinary conference where the latest research in digital media and technology are mixed with best practices from museums and cultural institutions. The Keynote sessions will include speakers from MoMA, Ars Electronica and the International Institute for the Inclusive Museum.

NODEM creates arenas for exchanges of experiences, best practices, and research aspects on the use of digital media in communicating with visitors and audiences, at museums, galleries, and heritage attractions. The conference will focus on the challenges that museums and cultural institutions face in an increasingly media saturated landscape.

This year, the conference will celebrate ten years. The theme for this year's conference is Beyond Control - The Collaborative Museum and its Challenges.

Keynote Speakers include Allegra Burnette, Creative Director, Digital Media at the Museum of Modern Art, USA, Nora McGregor, Digital Curator, The British Library, UK and Gerfried Stocker, Artistic and Managing Director, Ars Electronica, Austria.

The digitization of the museum and heritage sector has been ongoing for decades and has fundamentally changed the role of institutions. Knowledge and interpretation processes have become more available and are increasingly influenced by various collaborations with visitors and other groups. Simultaneously, the research and technology industries work to develop new tools, applications, interfaces and projects that provide new experiences. NODEM 2013 brings together representatives from all these areas, initiating collaboration and innovation.

Date: Conference Program December 2nd to 3rd.
Guided museum tours for conference attendees, December 1st and 4th.
Location: Hotel Hilton Slussen, Stockholm City Museum, and Museum of Medieval Stockholm

The conference is in English.

Press Registration
Press is welcome to participate in all or part of the conference.

For further information, please contact:
Name: Halina Gottlieb
E-mail: halina@tii.se
Phone Number: 0707451768

Applications and more information are available at: http://www.nodem.org/conferences/stockholm-2013/

NODEM2013 is a collaboration between NODEM Network of Design and Digital Heritage, Interactive Institute, Swedish ICT, Riksutställningar and Stockholm City Museum.

Keynote Speakers and Chairs:

• Future Museum and Collaborations, Gerfried Stocker, Artistic Director, Ars Electronica Center – Museum of the Future, Austria.

• New Approaches to Exhibition Design: Temporary and Permanent Exhibitions, Kimmo Antila, Director, Finnish Post Museum, Finland.

• Supporting the Museum’s Mission through Mobile, Allegra Burnette, Creative Director, Digital Media, The Museum of Modern Art, USA.

• Balancing Act: Object, Interpretation and Technology, Herminia Din, Associate Professor of Art Education, University of Alaska, USA.

• Fetishisms to Digital Incarnations, Amareswar Galla, Executive Director, International Institute for the Inclusive Museum.

• Bringing the Digital Museum to Your Home, Bartek Gudowski, Innovator, Sweden.

• Every book tells a story, but what can 68.000 books tell you? New Perspectives on Digital Collections and Curation at Library and Cultural Heritage Institutions, Nora McGregor, Digital Curator, British Library, UK.

• Museums, Media and Human Rights, Richard Sandell, Professor of Museum Studies, Head of School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, UK.

• The Question Concerning Ontology – How the values of diverse communities can be embraced in the digital age, Ramesh Srinivasan, Associate Professor, Department of Information Studies and Design|Media Arts, University of California, USA.

• User Interactivity at ABBA The Museum, Ebbe Strandell, CTO, ABBA The Museum, Sweden.

• Dramaturgy in Interaction, Nils Wiberg, Interaction Designer, Gagarin, Iceland.

• Anne Balsamo, The New School for Public Engagement, USA.

• Maria Economou, Lecturer in Museum Studies, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery – University of Glasgow, UK.

• Kevin Walker, Head Of Information Experience Design, School of Communication, Royal College of Art, UK.