Day 1: October 3, 2024
Morning Session
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM On spot registrations and distribution of congress material
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Opening Remarks
Riccardo Caldura Director – Academy of Fine Arts of Venice (Italy)
Erica Faccioli Academy of Fine Arts of Venice (Italy)
Donatella Gavrilovich University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy)
11:00 AM – 11:40 AM
Keynote speaker
Riku Rohiankorpi Tampere University and University of Helsinki (Finland)
Mutuality Beyond Innovation: On the Social Function(s) of Digital Performance
Q&A Session
11:40 AM – 11:55 AM: Coffee Break
12: 00 AM – 1:00 PM
I SESSION
Integrating Artificial Intelligence with Performing Arts Archives
Chair: Roberto Basili University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy)
Mariel Marshall Artist and technology entrepreneur, Bluemouth inc., Toronto (Canada)
Digital Immortals: Creating an Interactive Archive of an Artist’s Life Using AI
Sarah Whatley Coventry University (United Kingdom)
AI in creating and archiving performance: dance, disability and robotics
Sarah Bay-Cheng York University (Canada)
From Digital to Data: The Future of Digital Historiography and Performance
Q&A Session
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Lunch Break
AFTERNOON SESSION
3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
II SESSION
Digital Innovations in Virtual Reality and Immersive Environments
Chair: Andrea Vitalini Teatro alla Scala – Historical Artistic Archives – Milan (Italy)
Paola Ranzini IUF, Avignon Université (France)
Rémi Ronfard Centre Inria de l’Université Grenoble Alpes (France)
Past theatre productions: from archive to virtual reconstruction
Ester Merino Peral Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain)
METASCENOGRAPHIC (SMUVI). A proposal for virtual immersion museum of the history of spectacle and scenography in the modern age
Cécile Chantraine Braillon La Rochelle Université (France)
e-spect@tor : theater education through digital technology
Q&A Session
III SESSION
Dance Heritage: digital archives and network approaches
Chair: Andrea Vitalini Teatro alla Scala – Historical Artistic Archives – Milan (Italy)
Silvia Garzarella University of Bologna (Italy)
Preserving Ballet: A Computer Vision Approach to Dance Sources
Alejandra Medellín de la Piedra Centro Nacional de Investigación de Danza “José Limón”, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura, Mexico City (México)
Reimagining Documentation: Networked Approaches for Mexico’s Dance Heritage
Q&A Session
Closing Remarks for Day 1
Day 2: October 4, 2024
Morning Session
10:00 – 10:15 AM: On spot registrations
10:15 AM – 10:30 AM: Opening Remarks
Erica Faccioli Academy of Fine Arts of Venice (Italy)
Donatella Gavrilovich University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy)
10:30 AM – 11:10 AM
Keynote speaker
Nina Marie Evensen Center for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo (Norway)
IbsenStage: Tracking the Worldwide Performances of Henrik Ibsen’s Works
Q&A Session
11:10 AM – 11:25 AM: Coffee Break
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
IV SESSION
Integration, Interoperability and Digital Security of Digital Arts Archives
Chair: Sarah Whatley Coventry University (United Kingdom)
Andrea Vitalini Teatro alla Scala – Historical Artistic Archives – Milan (Italy)
La Scala Historical Database of performances: evolution and perspectives
Klaus Illmayer University of Vienna (Austria)
Connecting archival records with performance identifiers
Emanuele Bellini Logos-RI, Florence – University of RomeTRE (Italy)
Cyber Humanities and Digital Security
Q&A Session
V SESSION
Integrating Artificial Intelligence with Performing Arts Archives
Chair: Sarah Whatley Coventry University (United Kingdom)
Johan Oomen Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision, Hilversum (Netherlands)
AI in Archives: Transforming SSH Research & Society
Roberto Basili University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy)
Performing arts: the promise of current language and vision AI technologies
Elisa Passone University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy)
From ArtBase (Archive and Theatre Database) to ArtChat (Archive and Theatre Chat) via LLMs
Q&A Session
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Lunch Break
AFTERNOON SESSION
3:00 PM – 5:45 PM
VI SESSION
Strategies for Metadata and Data Management and LOD in the Performing Arts
Chair: Emanuele Sinisi Academy of Fine Arts of Venice (Italy)
Donatella Gavrilovich University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy)
The Hyperstage project: work in progress at a glance
Giovanni Bergamin Logos-RI, Florence (Italy)
Valeria Paraninfi University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (Italy)
A prototype for Hyperstage: starting from a collaborative ontology
Marco Argentina University of Bologna (Italy)
A first registry of Italian digital performing arts archives: a Hyperstage project challenge
Q&A Session
VII SESSION
Open Science and the European Science Cloud
Chair: Emanuele Sinisi Academy of Fine Arts of Venice (Italy)
Raffaella Santucci Logos-RI, Florence (Italy)
Open Science Policies in SSH: Connecting Research, Data, and Public Access
Anamarija Žugić Borić Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb (Croatia)
Aligning Arts and Humanities: Theatralia’s Contribution to DARIAH-EU Infrastructure
Sara Di Giorgio Consortium GARR, Rome (Italy)
Empowering cultural heritage: GARR’s infrastructure to innovate the performing arts revolution
Q&A Session
Closing Remarks for Day 2