Speculative Values: Between the Institution and the NFT
2021-11-04 - 2021-11-05
What can an institution become when it is organized with the network at its core? This question, which has been a topic of concern for art institutions since the rise of the public internet, is newly relevant thanks to the ascendance of blockchain-based forms of social organizing at a time of ongoing crisis for many legacy institutions.
Collecting art, making grants, and other functions long performed by arts organizations are increasingly being taken on by blockchain-based digital cooperatives known as DAOs (decentralized autonomous organizations), which are organized using tools such as NFTs (non-fungible tokens, a means of certifying digital assets on the blockchain). Co-organized by the New Museum’s digital art affiliate Rhizome and interdisciplinary contemporary arts organization Kadist, this event asks to what extent the work of institutions might be propelled forward using these new models.
Gathering artists, developers, and thinkers for a series of conversations and presentations, the afternoon-long event will also consider the apparent contradictions inherent in these forms, which are both financialized and cooperative; how these relate to the contradictions involved in traditional institutional models; and how these contradictions might play out in the future.

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.

6th International Museum Construction Congress
2021-11-07 - 2021-11-10 | London
IMCC is designed for international museum leaders, architects, project managers, project directors, museum leadership, facilities and security administrators, business development directors, finance & procurement directors, collections & exhibition directors, social media directors involved in new construction, renovation or expansion of museums.

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.

ACM SIGGRAPH: Museums Immersive Experiences and Beyond
2021-11-09 - 2021-11-10
There is a quiet revolution evolving in the realm of experiential museum design globally. Often called “Immersives”, some of these digital-based experiences incorporate extended reality (XR) techniques such as augmented reality and virtual reality. Others employ large-scale, sensory-engaging, projected environments or domes that offer unique interactivity and many selfie opportunities to visitors. All generate feelings of discovery and what might be called “ah hah” moments.
Our program focuses on an intriguing subset in the Immersives arena, namely, experiences focused on supporting cultural heritage preservation and historical issues of social importance.
We showcase several leading innovators behind pushing the creative technologies forward on this mission. Their projects have extended reach and utilize immersive display, 360°degree panoramic content, augmented reality (AR), spoken word interactivity, natural language processing, AI, big data visualization and more.

Europeana 2021 Conference: Recover, Rebuild, Grow
2021-11-10 - 2021-11-13
We’re really looking forward to Europeana 2021 taking place between 10-12 November 2021. In light of last year’s successful digital conference and with ongoing uncertainty due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re planning for another online celebration of digital cultural heritage. If you work in or around digital cultural heritage, Europeana 2021 is for you.
At Europeana 2021, we want to explore with you how we can support a sustainable, responsible and inspiring cultural heritage sector for today and tomorrow.

Tiqets Most Remarkable Venue Awards 2021
2021-11-10 - 2021-11-11 | Tourism Innovation Summit
Museums and attractions have had to be more creative than ever to provide exceptional experiences to customers. That’s why our annual tourism awards series, the Remarkable Venue Awards, is shining a spotlight on museums and attractions that are moving the industry forward.

Collective Imagination 2021 Workshops
2021-11-15 - 2021-11-20
Collective Imagination is Gallery Systems’ International Users Conference, attracting museum professionals from all over the world.
Attendees come away with new connections within the cultural heritage community, new insights into Collection Management, and a better understanding of the TMS Suite.

Collective Imagination 2021
2021-11-15 - 2021-11-16

Le Quotidien de l'Art: The Art Market Day 2021
2021-11-16 - 2021-11-17 | The Center Pompidou, Paris
In only two editions, The Art Market Day has established itself as one the main events for European art market professionals.
Bringing together 300+ professionals driving the art market today and tomorrow, a series of panels, keynotes and demonstrations will help understand and anticipate the changing forces in the market.
The Art Market Day is an opportunity to network, make new contacts and build lasting and relevant business relationships during the day and after the event via an application. By coming to The Art Market Day, you will join a community of professionals united around common challenges.
The conference will be fully bilingual, in English and in French, with simultaneous translation devices available on demand.

Interactive Immersion: The Future of VR
2021-11-16 - 2021-11-17
The concept of “immersion” in exhibitions using virtual reality headsets can be categorised as an isolating experience rather than a communal one. A person, on their own, wearing a headset to immerse themselves into another world. But increasingly, virtual reality producers take the immersion to the next level using interactive technology. Wearing a headset, you can travel together inside Notre Dame, to Egyptian tombs, try Ayahuasca, dissolve into a tree or wander through the history of cinema.
In this webinar, we speak to exhibition producers, Emissive, Atlas V and Marshmallow Laser Feast leveraging the newest technology to create immersive, multi-player, unforgettable experiences. When an experience can be shared real-time between people in the same physical space, you can travel anywhere. Is that the future of tourism?

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.

Brand Licensing Europe
2021-11-17 - 2021-11-20
Brand Licensing Europe (BLE) is the only pan-European event dedicated to licensing and brand extension, bringing together retailers, licensees and manufacturers for three days of deal-making, networking and trend spotting.
BLE is a must-attend event for businesses looking to discover and secure deals with the most sought-after brands, characters and images available for licensing.

Museums and New Technologies Conference
2021-11-24 - 2021-11-26
Starting from the premise that new technologies can offer us an opportunity to optimize management, in addition to favoring learning and improving accessibility to museum spaces, this two-day conference will carry out a comprehensive analysis of its implementation in museums, from two main perspectives: The internal management of the museum and the visitor’s experience.

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.

Stepping into the Future: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy
2021-11-25 - 2021-11-27
Plekhanov Russian University of Economics will host the Scientific Forum “Stepping into the Future: Artificial Intelligence and Digital Economy” at Digital Business Space on November 25-26th. An international Forum will traditionally bring together Russian and foreign experts, explorers, practical workers and managers. The event’s architecture is formed on the principle of defining the roles of main actors ensuring technological leadership: state, society, business and global community. The main topic of IV International Scientific Forum – “Technological Leadership: looking beyond the Horizon” – is connected with creating the image of future which will reflect an optimal balance between digital technologies, “green” economy and both social safety and living environment comfort. The solution of such global questions causes the necessity of developing mechanisms providing and coordinating state, scientific, educational, societal, industrial and business efforts, and which will let Russia not only to follow worldwide trends of low-carbon development, but also to create these trends.
Источник: https://www.rea.ru/en/events/Pages/step-into-the-future.aspx © ФГБОУ ВО «РЭУ им. Г.В. Плеханова»

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.

MCG Museums+Tech 2021: Data Tales
2021-12-01 - 2021-12-03
Data, information, statistics. For better or worse they are part and parcel of our world, gathered and used as an influence in decision making, or in defence of a decision made. The pandemic has probably been the most data rich epidemic in human history, and we are all familiar with how the reading of it altered throughout. The collection and use of data is itself not neutral, and can be used to fight causes. Our own museum world is awash with data, and that is increasingly becoming ‘joined up’ with moves such as ‘Towards a National Collection’. Collections of data in themselves can be regarded as collections in their own right, rather than data about something else.
With these perennial questions about data, combined with the increasing scrutiny of data and shift in how museums may identify themselves and their audiences after the pandemic, this year’s conference is calling to discuss our relationship with data. We want to talk about how our sector is using it, what insights it has brought to our work, and how to use it. We are interested in the collection and curation aspects, how it affects interpretation and communication.

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?

Spotlight on Digital Engagement
2021-12-07 - 2021-12-08
How has the pandemic changed the way audiences engage with museums, and the way museums engage with their audiences? How can digital tools enhance the visitor experience and help museums transition through what comes next?
Join the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and a panel of museum experts for this special summit on moving towards a visitor-centered, digital-enabled future. The session will include a review of recent research presented by Lee Groves Consulting, followed by a panel discussion on museum audience expectations and engagement around digital initiatives.
This event will be presented in English with simultaneous translation in French.
Whether your role is in curatorial, marketing, visitor experience or education, professionals from museums of all sizes and types will benefit from this exciting learning opportunity. Relevant content and tactics will be shared for beginner, intermediate, and advanced champions and users of digital tools.
This session is presented by the Canadian Museums Association and the Art Gallery of Ontario in partnership with Lee Groves Consulting. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Dreaming of a New Collections Management System: Episode 9
2021-12-07 - 2021-12-08
In this episode, we have invited Collector Systems to share with us their initiatives, strategies, and methodologies to directly answer some of the questions and ideas put forth by Valarie Kinkade, Koven Smith, Chad Weinard, and Nik Honeysett, in Episode 1 – Dreaming of a New Collections Management System. Collector Systems, a cloud-based CMS, will show how change is possible through their API, No-Code/Low-Code programming initiative, import/export, CMS notifications, and many other new capabilities. Curious about the questions that came up during Episode 1? Check out the recording here: https://youtu.be/lMzxR0A5eI4

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

Colloquia for DAM Leaders: New Boundaries in Museums
2021-12-10 - 2021-12-11
Uplift your professional practice and join us for a webinar exploring contemporary issues around museum equity, reparation, and their digital dimensions. We’ll explore and witness incremental shifts moving the museum field forward with bold new approaches to how digital asset and collections management supports these innovations.
First, social justice and DEI museum leader Monica O. Montgomery will discuss museum remedy: processes for engagement and repair, with guidance for equitable strategies in an evolving landscape of return. We then examine case studies of museums as better neighbors, sharing perspectives of three curators, working to boost social awareness around origins of sculptural and sacred items from Native American and African communities. Current exhibitions from the University of Michigan Museum of Art and a project partnership between the Anchorage Museum / Chickaloon Village Tribal Council are vibrant case studies, redefining ethics, intellectual property, and best practices around remedy.

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.

ENCUENTROS REMED: Monetización de Experiencias Digitales en Museos
2021-12-16 - 2021-12-17
Para este encuentro REMED hemos invitado a cinco expertos en monetización, para que compartan sus opiniones respecto a las posibilidades y oportunidades del cobro por experiencias digitales en museos.

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.
