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Athens, Greece |
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25 – 26 – 27.09.2019 |
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| Polyxeni Mantzou (Prof. DUTh) represented the project at the 3rd Panhellenic Conference-EuroMed 2019 on Digital Cultural Heritage. The Conference, under the auspices of His Excellency the President of the Hellenic Republic Mr Prokopios Pavlopoulos and His All-Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, was organized by the Technological University of Cyprus, the University of West Attica and Diktio Perevvia and took place on 25-26-27 September in the University of West Attica’s Conference Center.
The presentation was focused on the digitization of Cultural Heritage and was followed by an overview of the PALIMPSEST as a case study and its theoretical background as well as a demonstration of the partnership and the open challenges of the various phases. The main focus was on the relationship between digitization, representation, reproduction and ultimately new cultural production. The importance of preserving cultural heritage, ensuring its sustainability and the need for documentation makes digitization a necessary and widespread process. However, the existence of many different parameters that determine the process of digitization has a condition of interpretation in any attempt to make a digital copy. The very intangible nature of digital itself is characterized, inter alia, by variability, multimodality, multiplicity and adaptability. Digital cultural heritage inherits the characteristics of the binary code and becomes flexible, transformable and immaterial, responsive, participatory, and multisensorial, securing in this way its preservation and sustainability. For a further examination of the matter PALIMPSEST project was used. The project attempts to discuss the urban palimpsest as it is constructed by oral history and revived by art and culture as an open and progressive process, which involves many actors and takes place at the urban public space, configuring a new collective and participatory way to address culture and incite artistic creation. |
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