DRHA2023: Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts 2023 University of Turin Turin, Italy, September 11-13, 2023

DRHA (the 27th Annual Conference for Digital Research in the Humanities and Arts) will bring together artists, scholars, educators, curators, digital researchers, and entrepreneurs interested in the ways digital technologies intersect with the arts and humanities. The 2023 conference celebrates the interplay between notions of intangible and tangible heritage, investigating how digital strategies can be used to widen participation, facilitate inclusivity, and promote a wider range of ways of appreciating and understanding the intersections between our tangible and intangible heritage.

Submission Guidelines

All proposals must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers - 15', 5 papers for each panel session
• Posters - presented in the lobby during coffee breaks
• Performances - presented alongside the panel sessions
• Artworks - presented in the lobby during coffee breaks
• Workshops - presented alongside the panel sessions

List of Topics

• Museums and Digital Media
• Documenting and Conserving Digital Art
• Performance, Dance and Opera in Museums 
• Film and Digital Heritage 
• Music and Sound in Museums and Exhibition
• New trends in Literature and Digital Humanities 
• VR, XR and Cultural Heritage
• Collaboration between Science and Art in Cultural Heritage
• Conservation and Communication of Cultural Heritage
• Online communities for Cultural Heritage
• Immersive experiences, including audio and digital soundscape
• Creative industries in Museums and Heritage
• Design of Digital Experience for Cultural Heritage
• Participation and inclusion with Digital Media
• Fostering citizenship, social cohesion, political engagement, and accessibility through Digital Heritage
• Digital Heritage’s impacts on the Experience Economy and the Creative Industrial Sector
• Communicating Digital Heritage
• Digital Curatorship
• Conservation through VR, XR and Metaverse
• AI curation and AI for Cultural Heritage
• Digital archaeology
• Sustainability and digital Cultural Heritage
• Computer Science as Cultural Heritage

Local Organizing Committees

Chairs

• Antonio Pizzo (Chair): Professor of Drama and Performance, Head of Media and Arts – DAMS – undergraduate program.
• Gabriella Giannachi (Chair) Visiting Professor UniTo and Professor in Performance and New Media, Director, Centre for Intermedia, Exeter University, UK
• Giulia Anastasia Carluccio (deputy Chair) Professor of Film Studies, Deputy Rector Università di Torino, Professor of Film Studies
• Vincenzo Lombardo (deputy Chair) Professor of Computer Science, President of CIRMA

Committee

• Alberto Pelissero, Professor of Indology and Tibetology, Head of Department of Humanities
• Gianluca Cuniberti, Professor of History, Head of Department of History
• Graziano Lingua, Professor of Moral Philosophy, Head of the Philosophy and Education Sciences
• Andrea Balbo, Professor of Latin Literature, Founder of Language Technologies and Digital Humanities undergraduate program
• Ermanno Malaspina, Professor of Latin, Head of Research Centre “Digital Scholarship for the Humanities” DISH
• Livio Geata, Professor of Latin Literature, Founder of Language Technologies and Digital Humanities undergraduate program
• Rossana Damiano, Professor of Computer Science
• Silvio Alovisio, Professor of Film Studies, Head of Media and Communication undergraduate program
• Alessandro Pontremoli, Professor of Dance and Performance
• Andrea Malvano, Professor of Musicology, Head of Cinema and Media postgraduate program
• Simone Natale, Professor of Media Theory and History
• Alessandro Morandotti, Professor of Modern Art, Head of History of Art postgraduate program 
• Franca Varallo, Professor of Museology
• Gelsomina Spione, Professor of Modern Art History

Keynote Speakers

• Matt Adams - Artist, Blast Theory

• John Cassy - Founder and CEO, Factory 42

• Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev - Director, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea

• Annet Dekker Professor, Archival and Information Studies, and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam

• Christian Greco - Director, Museo Egizio di Torino

Venue

The conference will be held in Turin, Italy

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to drhaturin2023@unito.it

Sponsors

UniVerso and CIRMA (University of Turin)