Conference Sessions and Speakers

Day 1:… Monday 13th March 2006

Session 1: New heritage overview: media, affordances and strategies

Session 1a Chair: Alonzo Addison

09:15… Yehuda Kalay Center for New Media, UC Berkeley
……………Preserving Cultural Heritage Through Digital Media

10:00… Zilan Wang Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
……………Integrity on Focus: A New Media Strategy to Vanishing Cultural Heritage Conservation

Session 1b Chair: Maria Roussou

10:40… Alonzo Addison UNESCO World Heritage Centre
……………The vanishing virtual

11:30… Sara Roegiers Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
……………History is 3D. Possibilities for Historical Representations in Digital Media

11:50… Brett Leavy Australiasian CRC for Interaction Design
……………Digital Songlines: Digitising the Arts,Culture and Heritage Landscape of Aboriginal Australia

12:10… Round up and discussion: session chairs

Session 2: Essence: digital representation and interpretation of tangible & intangible cultural heritage

Session 2a Chair: Jose Ripper Kos

14:00… Neil Silberman Ename Center
……………Chasing The Unicorn?: The quest for ‘Essence’ in Digital Heritage

14:45… Janice Affleck Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong
……………Reconstructing virtual heritage: Participatory Interpretation of cultural heritage through new media

15:05… Elisa Giaccardi University of Colorado at Boulder
……………The Silence of the Lands: Promoting the Virtual Museum as a Place of Cultural Negotiation

Session 2b Chair: Neil Silberman

15:45… Jose Ripper Kos Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
……………Digital Media Contributions For The City History Representation

16:30… Valerio Augusto Soares De Medeiro Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
……………The New And Old Side By Side: New Medias And Analysis Tools For Architectural Heritage Conservation

16:50… Rodrigo Cury Paraizo PUC-RIO / PROURB-FAU-UFRJ
……………Digital tales of urban heritage: databases,cybertexts,simulations

17:10… Round up and discussion: session chairs