The Electronic Visualisation and the Arts conferences (EVA Conferences for short, aka Electronic Information, the Visual Arts and Beyond) are a series of international
interdisciplinary conferences mainly in Europe, but also elsewhere in the world, for people interested in the application of information technology to the cultural and especially the
visual arts
The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts and architecture. Many artistic disciplines such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile art ...
field, including
art galleries
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The lon ...
and museums.
Overview
Started in
London
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(
United Kingdom
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), there are now EVA conferences in
Berlin
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(
Germany
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),
Florence
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(
Italy
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),
Jerusalem
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(
Israel
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),
Paris
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(
France
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),
St Petersburg (formerly in
Moscow
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,
Russia
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),
Australasia
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(first time in
Canberra,
Australia, in 2016) and other major cities. The first EVA Conference was held at
Imperial College, London in 1990, organised by the founders
James Hemsley
James Hemsley is the founder of the EVA Conferences on ''Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts''.
Hemsley was educated as a mathematician at the University of Oxford and undertook his PhD at Imperial College, London in England. More recently he h ...
,
Kirk Martinez, and Anthony Hamber.
The conferences have been overseen by EVA Conferences International, based in London. Conference proceedings are published. In addition, two collected volumes of revised papers are available.
EVA London
The EVA London conference, founded in 1990 by
James Hemsley
James Hemsley is the founder of the EVA Conferences on ''Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts''.
Hemsley was educated as a mathematician at the University of Oxford and undertook his PhD at Imperial College, London in England. More recently he h ...
, is now organised through the
Computer Arts Society The Computer Arts Society (CAS) was founded in 1968, in order to encourage the creative use of computers in the arts.
Foundation
The three founder members of the Society – Alan Sutcliffe, George Mallen, and John Lansdown – had been involved ...
(CAS), a Specialist Group of the
BCS each July at the BCS London office.
Some
V&A Digital Futures events organised by the
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...
have been held in conjunction with EVA London.
In 2016, it hosted an event for the
Lumen Prize
The Lumen Prize is an international award which celebrates art created with technology, especially digital art.
Overview
The prize was founded by Carla Rapoport in 2012, The Lumen Prize has visited more than ten cities around the world includin ...
, an annual award for
digital art
Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media.
Since the 1960s, various name ...
. The proceedings have published through the
BCS ''
Electronic Workshops in Computing
''Electronic Workshops in Computing'' (eWiC) is a publication series by the British Computer Society.
The series provides free online access for conferences and workshops in the area of computing. For example, the EVA London Conference proceeding ...
'' (eWiC) series since 2008 and are indexed by
DBLP
DBLP is a computer science bibliography website. Starting in 1993 at Universität Trier in Germany, it grew from a small collection of HTML files and became an organization hosting a database and logic programming bibliography site. Since Novem ...
.
In 2019, EVA London helped to co-organise the ''
Event Two
''Event One'' was an early digital art exhibition held at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, England, in 1969.
''Event One'' was organised over two days during 29–30 March 1969 in the Gulbenkian Hall at the RCA by the Computer Arts Societ ...
''
digital art
Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media.
Since the 1960s, various name ...
exhibition at the
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It o ...
(RCA), held immediately after the conference, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the ''
Event One'' exhibition, also held at the RCA. The main chairs are
Jonathan Bowen,
Graham Diprose, Nick Lambert, and Jon Weinel.
See also
*
Computer Arts Society The Computer Arts Society (CAS) was founded in 1968, in order to encourage the creative use of computers in the arts.
Foundation
The three founder members of the Society – Alan Sutcliffe, George Mallen, and John Lansdown – had been involved ...
*
ICHIM
*
Lumen Prize
The Lumen Prize is an international award which celebrates art created with technology, especially digital art.
Overview
The prize was founded by Carla Rapoport in 2012, The Lumen Prize has visited more than ten cities around the world includin ...
*
Museums and the Web
*
V&A Digital Futures
References
External links
EVA Conferences International website*
EVA London website*
EVA London archivevia
Archive.org
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*
EVA Berlin onlinein open access at the
Heidelberg University Library
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1990 establishments in England
Recurring events established in 1990
International conferences
Museum events
Visualization (research)
Information technology organizations based in Europe
Visual arts conferences
Digital art
July events
Arts in London
Museum informatics