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Americans for the Arts 2021 Annual Convention: Building an Equitable Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy Together
2021-06-08 - 2021-06-12
As the country reemerges and rebuilds from the pandemic, 2021 can be a moment of hope for everyone and a chance to share our art in all the ways we have missed. For the arts and culture sector, it will also be a year of navigating reopening challenges and continuing momentum in the fight for racial equity. The 2021 Annual Convention is our opportunity to gather and reimagine our creative field and communities.

Join us for a week of inspiring keynotes, breakout sessions, and networking opportunities focused on the pressing questions ahead:

Centering Equity in Creative Recovery
Putting Creative Workers and Cultural Organizations to Work
Improving Policies and Practices for the Creative Economy
Envisioning Tomorrow’s Creative Engines

This year, we are thrilled to offer a number of scholarship opportunities for those unable to access resources for a paid registration to attend the 2021 Annual Convention. We strongly encourage those that identify as, reside in, and/or directly serve communities of color, rural populations, audiences with disabilities, LGBTQIA+, and/or marginalized audiences to submit a request for a scholarship. Learn more and submit your request here by May 3, 2021.

MUŻE.X Shaping Museum Features, Spring Webinar Series: Danielle Kuijten
2021-06-11 - 2021-06-12
We are delighted to bring you the second series of pre-conference webinar events in the run-up to the conference MUŻE.X – Shaping Museum Futures. Three international voices from the museum world shall be in conversation with the conference convenors Prof Carmel Borg and Dr. Sandro Debono. The one-hour conversations shall revolve around participatory practices, creativity in museums, and collections-development practices in response to the new realities imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Danielle Kuijten is acting director and co-curator at Imagine IC, a pioneer in the field of contemporary heritage practices. Her main focus is on participatory collecting methods, contemporary collecting, action curating and reflective practice. Danielle has been an active member of COMCOL ICOM’s international committee for collecting, and since 2019 in the role of chair.

Christie's Art and Tech Summit: NFTs and Beyond
2021-07-15 - 2021-07-16
The Art+Tech Summit is a one-day conference that continues Christie’s ongoing initiative to spark dialogue about the role and impact of emerging technologies in the art world. This year, in a combined live and virtual format, we will bring together innovators, artists, thought leaders, collectors and more, for a series of panel discussions around NFTs in the morning session, followed by afternoon conversations on the way technology is impacting the way we create, experience, buy and sell art.
Panel discussions:

• NFTs @ Christie’s: Finding Value in the Unknown
• The New World: Creating, Collecting and Curating NFTs
• Expanding the Conversation: NFTs in Fashion, Music and Collectibles
• Brand Strategy in the Metaverse: How to Drive Strategy and Engagement
• NFTs with Novo: A Fireside Chat with CEO of Galaxy Digital and Crypto-Evangelist, Mike Novogratz
• The Ecstacy of NFTs: The Blank Wall Conundrum
• Hybrid World: The Bridge Between Physical and Digital
• The Innovation Cycle

ICOM Prague International Symposium 2021
2021-08-26 - 2021-08-27
Every year preceding an ICOM General Conference, an International Symposium is held in the host city to introduce the main themes. For the first time, this pre-conference will be hybrid, opening the doors for wider, international participation. ICOM Prague International Symposium 2021 will provide an overview of the upcoming ICOM Prague 2022 General Conference, from the axis of the scientific programme to the new hybrid infrastructure.
The themes of ICOM Prague 2022:
• Purpose: Museums and the Civil Society
• Sustainability: Museums and Resilience
• Vision: Museum and Leadership
• Delivery: Museums and new technologies
The milestones of ICOM Prague 2022
The afternoon sessions will tackle the innovative hybrid format of the 26th ICOM General Conference and other institutional milestones.

The Inclusive Museum Conference: What Museums Post Pandemic?
2021-09-08 - 2021-09-11
What Museums Post Pandemic?
Visitors
No longer the universal individual citizen of our recent modern aspirations, visitors of today are recognizably diverse.
Forms of Engagement
What is the role today of the reader, the viewer, the audience, the citizen, the customer, the patron?
Modalities of Representation
The emerging communications environment—in which image, sound, and word are all made of the same digital stuff—affords new openings for museums and new challenges.
Reimagining the Scholarly Conference
To support the range of options, and flexibility needed in our current climate, we will offer a blended conference experience. You do not need to commit either to a place-based or virtual presentation at the time of submission. You can present both ways, or change your mode of the presentation if your preferences change. The choice to participate virtually could also be a moral decision – for the planet, for security, or when the financial burden of travel is too great. We aim to foster spaces that align with principles of social justice and community development.

DCN Tech Platform Demo: Siteimprove - Accessibility Solutions for your Website
2021-09-23 - 2021-09-24
The Digital Culture Network is pleased to present this 30-min live demo and Q&A by Siteimprove. This event is part of a series of Tech Demos, presented with the purpose of sharing opportunities and ideas about what new technologies can offer the arts and cultural sector.
The Siteimprove platform offers a whole suite of website management tools, that covers Accessibility, Content Quality Assurance, SEO, Analytics, as well as Data Privacy and GDPR. They also helped write the accessibility legislation for the Government. They will be walking us through their accessibility tool and sharing best practice examples.

2021 ICEE Annual Conference
2021-09-27 - 2021-10-02
From September 27 to October 1, 2021, the 2021 ICOM ICEE Annual Conference will be held in Geneva, Switzerland, in collaboration with the Museum of Art and History of the City of Geneva (MAH), and ICOM Switzerland. The preliminary plan features four days of keynote speeches, panel sessions, networking opportunities, private visits to exhibitions and museum collections in Geneva, and a one-day excursion to Lausanne.
The safety of our members, participants, partners, and collaborators is our top priority. As we write this message, it is our hope that we will be able to meet face to face in Geneva at the end of September. However, with the ongoing uncertainties of the global pandemic, along with travel restrictions, we are aware that there is a chance face to face activities might not happen. Therefore, the conference plan can be easily switched from an in-person event to a digital platform for a virtual conference, just as we successfully did for the 2020 ICEE Virtual Conference. We will keep you informed.
The conference theme, along with the call for papers and more exciting news about the 2021 conference will be announced in our April newsletter. Please save the date for the conference. We hope everyone will join us in for the 2021 ICEE Conference in Geneva, face to face or digitally!
A few sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, please contact the ICEE team at programs.icee.icom@gmail.com.

Communicating the Arts Conference
2021-09-27 - 2021-09-30
Plateforme 10, the new art district in the heart of Lausanne, will host the 25th edition of Communicating the Arts conference. The union of the Musée cantonal des Beaux-arts (MCBA), the Musée de l’Elysée and the mudac, complemented by the presence of the Toms Pauli and Félix Vallotton Foundations, will form PLATEFORME 10, a genuine cultural platform in Lausanne.
Communicating the Arts Lausanne will bring together under one roof, a host of communication and engagement experts working in museums, historical monuments, heritage, the visual and performing arts as we explore the Art of Placemaking.

MUŻE.X: Shaping Museum Futures
2021-10-18 - 2021-10-21
As museums navigate uncertain times, some seek to look back in the hope that the new normal will recover the lost publics, most of whom can only be reached online intermittently and in between lockdowns and restricted access procedures. Others have slowly but surely embarked on systemic change. This conference seeks to present the latest thinking, actions, and initiatives that modestly or radically depart from the traditional museum idea, to rethink the museum of the future. We are keen on showcasing the latest developments in the museum landscape, be they reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic, conceptual initiatives that have been in the pipeline for a while, or tangible projects happening and evolving in the now, and which may well inform, influence, and define the museum of the future. We are particularly keen on showcasing the lessons learnt over the past year and the ways and means how these have been overcome. Yet, we areUni also eager to create spaces for critical reflections that can help shape museum futures.

Arts Marketing Association(AMA) Conference 2021
2021-10-21 - 2021-10-23
We are masters of adapting, pivoting, rethinking, and resetting. With Covid-19, social justice, climate change, and more, we’ve been riding a rollercoaster like never before.
Our sector, our audiences, our ways of working have changed. With this, we take the opportunity to rethink what, how, and why we do what we do.

What can we learn from the changes we’ve seen — and what’s coming up that we need to know?
What new relationships do we want to build with our audiences — and how?
How can we keep making progress towards big-picture goals?
Can we reimagine the kind of arts and culture sector we want to see — and redefine our place in it?

AMA Conference 2021 will bring you case studies, practical help, the space to answer the big questions and the support you need.

NFT.NYC
2021-11-01 - 2021-11-05 | Times Square
Since its inaugural conference in February 2019, NFT.NYC events have hosted thousands of attendees, hundreds of leading speakers and the best projects in the Non-Fungible Token ecosystem. NFT.NYC will return to Times Square on October 20-21 for a two-day in-person event.

The Art Business Conference
2021-11-02 - 2021-11-03 | London
Founded in 2014, The Art Business Conference is the leading global platform for the discussion of key issues in today’s art market. The one-day conferences held in London, New York and Shanghai are attended by senior art market professionals offering knowledge and insight for all those running an art business or art collection.

CiMAM 2021 Annual Conference
2021-11-05 - 2021-11-08
While the pandemic appears to be the most pressing challenge today, it is merely a vector of more global political and environmental changes. The conference will address the roles of artists and museums in this dramatically changing global situation. How can artists be agents of change, and museums be places to test proposals for the communities of the future? Can museums guide processes of political and/or technological solutions?
During the three days of discussions, the conference will focus on the two interconnected current crises of Xenophobia and Climate Change, and the sometimes hidden or unexplored connections between the two.
Keynote speakers and relevant case-study presentations will show how institutions, artists, and thinkers working together can provide practical laboratories concerning these emerging issues and offer methodological tools to combat discriminatory and nationalistic tendencies in an increasingly divisive and divided world.

inDICEs: Measuring the Impact of Digital Culture
2021-11-05 - 2021-12-20
Apply for the chance to learn how to monitor trends, design a digital strategy and assess your capacity and performance. Together, we will explore how digitized collections can become assets in a comprehensive digital strategy based on your core mission and ambition. You will learn how open access, online publishing and social media presence can be used to establish new relationships with stakeholders and empower citizens to actively engage with and contribute to your content. With special attention on how this can help in the development of a future-proof, sustainable business model.
The free consultation workshop ‘Monitoring & Self-Assessing the Digital Performance in Museums’ takes place online from 10:00-12:00 CET on 5, 12 and 19 November 2021. Applications are welcome until 28 October.

Museum Association Conference 2021: Brave New World
2021-11-08 - 2021-11-11
How can museums change lives in a post-pandemic world and help society respond to the many challenges it faces?
In the past year museums proved that they can be responsive, creative and resourceful. We look at how we can build on what we have learned to emerge stronger and more relevant.
We explore how can we work effectively with communities hit hard by economic hardship and social upheaval during the pandemic. We discuss what we can do to improve people’s health and wellbeing, and give them hope and confidence in the future.
We examine the role we can play in tackling the urgent issues of our day, including the climate crisis, racism and discrimination.
We discuss how we can galvanise our collections and the expertise and passion of those who work with and for museums to engage audiences in new and exciting ways, including the transformational impact of digital technology.

2021 Arts & Museum Summit
2021-11-17 - 2021-11-20
The Asia Society will host a dynamic convening of curators, artists, and museum and arts professionals at the 2021 Arts & Museum Summit, which will be held virtually on November 17–19, 2021. Held biennially, the Summit features presentations, panel discussions, and workshops by leading arts professionals from the Asia Pacific region and beyond.
This year’s Summit, “Reimagining Museum Narratives in the 21st Century,” will focus on issues relating to decolonization in the arts. Some of the topics to be explored include decolonizing curatorial practices, re-negotiating art historical narratives, and deconstructing the legacies of regional colonial histories.

DCN Tech Platform Demo: GoodCRM - CRM for Arts, Culture & Charity
2021-11-25 - 2021-11-26
The Digital Culture Network is pleased to present this 30-min live demo and Q&A by GoodCRM. This event is part of a series of Tech Demos, presented with the purpose of sharing opportunities and ideas about what new technologies can offer the arts and cultural sector.
GoodCRM is developed by the third-sector, for the third-sector. It’s used by arts, culture and charity, to foster relationships, connect, engage and monitor. Join us to hear more about how their platform can help you manage and monitor your contacts, relationships, donations and memberships.

Capturing Staged Performance for the Screen
2021-11-29 - 2021-11-30
In this webinar we’ll share case studies from producers and directors whose work involves reimagining staged work for viewing as a live stream, on demand, or on TV. Our speakers will discuss their approach to rethinking a performance to be captured on camera, and how theatre production teams collaborate creatively and practically with peers from the world of digital, tv, and video.
We’ll consider planning for a capture, and some of the key issues in production and post-production. We’ll discover how different production practices mesh together, what perspectives each group bring, and where and how they learn from one another.
And now that audiences expect digitally distributed work, we’ll also consider how theatres and performance companies have developed the expertise needed to deliver high quality captures, and what more can be done to upskill the sector.

XR Platforms for Digital Storytelling: Panel Discussion
2021-12-01 - 2021-12-02
You’ve likely heard of Virtual Reality (VR) but what about Extended Reality (XR)? Extended reality is the umbrella term for the immersive digital technologies that blend the boundary between ‘virtual’ and ‘real’ worlds.
Virtual exhibition tours and multi-media wall labels are just some of the ways museums and galleries are using XR technology.
In this webinar, Flying Arts Communications and Marketing Coordinator Odette Miller will facilitate a panel discussion with collaborators of Flying Arts’ XR 50th Anniversary project, Flying Arts: Paint the Town to share the storytelling capacities of this new technology.
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of XR platform Holoscribe, Marcus Callon, Visual Artist Erin Dunne and Flying Art’s Digital Engagement Project Coordinator Bobbi-Lea Dionysius will discuss the capabilities of XR platforms and the artistic considerations of creating new media content.

Art Basel Conversations: Re-inventing the Institution? New Museum Leaders
2021-12-01 - 2021-12-02
How to chart the future of an art museum while honoring or redressing its past, is a complex challenge for any museum leaders, but perhaps particularly delicate for newly appointed ones. New leadership brings opportunities to inject exciting ideas into an institution, albeit under the scrutiny of communities, trustees, staff and artists. In this panel, recent appointees to major institutions share how they approach these challenges, as well as how they view the evolving role of the museum director in these turbulent times.

Art Basel Conversations: Immersive Installations? Digital Experiences in the Exhibition
2021-12-04 - 2021-12-05
Developments in digital technology have seen exhibition spaces welcoming increasingly large-scale, interactive and immersive installations. Beyond the initial spectacle in space, what strategies are artists using to transport viewers? From the perspectives of artists or the newly established Superblue, Miami, this panel considers what such installations reveal about technology’s growing influence on reality. Can these works also raise awareness around the politics of algorithms, digital access and technology’s impact on ecology?

How Can Art Play a Role in Wealth Management Services?
2021-12-08 - 2021-12-09
Over the past years, we witnessed a significant shift in wealth managers’ perception of the role and value of art and collectibles in a wealth management strategy and service offering. In 2021, 85% of wealth managers believe art should be included as part of a wealth management service.
Today the question is no longer whether art should be part of a wealth management offering, but rather how it can be implemented effectively.
Join us to discuss this topic and hear from our panel of high-profile experts:
Ms. Anne-Claire Bisch, CEO at Ports Francs & Entrepôts de Genève
Mr. Andreas Gerber, Head of New Business at Sygnum Bank
Mr. Nicolas Syz, Head of Private Banking at Bank Syz
Ms. Marlène Bergue Corbun, Art Advisor at ODDO BHF Family Office

The Year In Digital Innovations: From NFTs To Creative Tech
2021-12-15 - 2021-12-16
The past year has been transformative for museums. Emerging from a global lockdown, cultural institutions have innovated with creative technologies and retooled their digital strategies to better reconnect with audiences. The hybrid landscape emerged, immersive experiences have boomed, and NFTs arrived as a radically digital-first medium — all of which presented museums with new opportunities to expand and enrich their programs.
So how have museums met the challenges and possibilities of 2021? Join Jing Culture & Commerce for a webinar that looks back at 2021’s key culturetech activations, trends, and events, and how they might point the way forward in 2022. We’re excited to be joined by Bernadine Bröcker Wieder, CEO of Vastari, Brendan Ciecko, Founder and CEO of Cuseum, and Anna Lowe, Co-Founder and Director of Partnerships at Smartify, who will be sharing insights from their unique vantage points.

11th CoMuseum International Conference: (Re)Positioning the Museum of Tomorrow
2022-01-12 - 2022-01-13
An international museum and cultural stakeholders’ conference enriched by satellite events, organized yearly at the Benaki Museum in Athens, Greece. It acts as a global platform of expertise for the wellbeing of cultural organizations and the communities they serve, fostering the production and exchange of ideas and the facilitation of networks between culture and arts professionals from all over the world.
Founded in 2011 by one of the leading cultural organizations in Greece, the Benaki Museum, in collaboration with two prime stakeholders in culture and education, the U.S. Embassy in Athens and the British Council, this is more than a conference.

The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2022 International Online Conference
2022-01-17 - 2022-01-22
The Belvedere Research Center is continuing its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums with its fourth event on the topic. The COVID-19 pandemic, and our resultant inability to experience proximity to people and objects, has given the matter additional “virulence” in museums. Although the topic of digitization was gaining ground before the pandemic, the measures taken against the virus created a very special experimental arrangement in which the digital presence of museums was no longer merely a possible extension of exhibition spaces but rather the only way to reach the public. While the focus of our 2021 conference explored the premise of a crisis-induced return to the museum’s own collections, this time it shifts to questions beyond binary concepts, such as media specificity, hybridity, and mixed reality. In five thematic blocks, the lectures of the online conference by international experts deal with how the digital and the analog can be productively, conceptually, and aesthetically interwoven in a museum setting.

Digital Directions: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections
2022-02-01 - 2022-02-04
Join us for a comprehensive overview of digital preservation, presented by information professionals with deep experience in the preservation of cultural heritage materials. During three half-days of live, interactive, online training, you will learn about good practices and practical strategies for creating and managing digital collections, and you’ll gain confidence in decision-making for the preservation of your digital assets.

DAM and Museums 2022
2022-02-02 - 2022-02-03
Join us for the second year to learn and connect with 1500+ members of the museums, cultural heritage and DAM community. Learn how today’s infrastructure and technology supports art and culture, and how a Digital Asset Management system is becoming the creative link between technology and art.
You’ll hear keynotes from the industry’s leading experts, participate in panel discussions, and network with fellow professionals. We will address key topics such as Integration with Digital Collection Management and Web CMS Systems, Metadata, Governance, Rights, AI and Machine Learning, Onboarding, Workflow and more.
Never has there been a more vibrant motivation for the museum community to come together, share experiences and celebrate a collective sense of togetherness.

2022 STQRY Summit
2022-03-07 - 2022-03-12
Digital experiences have gone from a nice-to-have to a must-have for arts, culture, and tourism organizations under the new normal. This year, STQRY invites you to join industry experts and explore how your business can achieve growth through curating highly immersive digital experiences. You can get inspired by this week-long webinar series with topics spanning content creation, augmented reality, multimedia storytelling, tourism marketing and more.

Heritage Day
2022-03-09 10:00 - 2022-03-10 17:00 (Europe/London)
Heritage Day is The Heritage Alliance’s signature annual event, open to everyone across the heritage sector. Heritage Day this year – taking place over 9 and 10 March 2022 – will be a hybrid event, offering a chance for people to both come together virtually and network in person to explore key topics for the sector in 2022.
Heritage 2022 will combine virtual insight panels and a series of informative breakout sessions from sector experts with an in-person event at the historic Christ Church Spitalfields in London, featuring a keynote address from Heritage Minister Nigel Huddleston MP, curated discussion panels, and a long-awaited opportunity to network at a reception with other heritage professionals.

DAM Asia-Pacific 2022
2022-03-24 - 2022-03-25
Join us for a one-day online event to learn from and connect with 500+ members of the Digital Asset Management community across Asia, the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand.

You will hear LIVE real-world case studies from leading organisations facing the challenge of managing their digital media assets; you will have the opportunity to join virtual roundtable discussions and share your experiences with fellow DAM professionals; and you will leave the event with more knowledge of how Digital Asset Management technology and workflows can help to elevate your brand.

Key topics to be addressed are Metadata, Change Management, Integration, AI, Automation, Creative Operations, Archives, Video, Workflow, Rights, Governance and more.
