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 field, including art galleries and museums. [1]
Started in London (United Kingdom), there have also been EVA conferences in Berlin (Germany), Florence (Italy), Jerusalem (Israel), Paris (France), St Petersburg (formerly in Moscow, Russia), Australasia (first time in Canberra, Australia, in 2016) and other major cities. [2] The first EVA Conference was held at Imperial College, London in 1990, [3] organised by the founders James Hemsley, Kirk Martinez, and Anthony Hamber.
The conferences were initially overseen by EVA Conferences International, based in London. Conference proceedings are published [4] (e.g., for EVA London [5] and EVA Florence [6] ). In addition, two collected volumes of revised papers are available. [7] [8]
The EVA London conference, founded in 1990 by James Hemsley, [9] is now organised through the Computer Arts Society (CAS), a Specialist Group of the BCS, each July at the BCS London office. [10]
Some V&A Digital Futures events organised by the Victoria and Albert Museum have been held in conjunction with EVA London. [11] [12] In 2016, it hosted an event for the Lumen Prize, an annual award for digital art. [13] The proceedings have published through the BCS Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) series since 2008, and are indexed by DBLP. [14]
In 2019, EVA London helped to co-organise the Event Two digital art exhibition at the Royal College of Art (RCA), held immediately after the conference, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Event One exhibition, also held at the RCA. [15] The main chairs are Jonathan Bowen, Graham Diprose, Nick Lambert, and Jon Weinel. [16] [17] From 2020, videos of presentations and links to papers in the proceedings have been archived by the Computer Arts Society in the Computer Arts Archive. [18] [19]
Jonathan P. Bowen FBCS FRSA is a British computer scientist and an Emeritus Professor at London South Bank University, where he headed the Centre for Applied Formal Methods. Prof. Bowen is also the Chairman of Museophile Limited and has been a Professor of Computer Science at Birmingham City University, Visiting Professor at the Pratt Institute, University of Westminster and King's College London, and a visiting academic at University College London.
The Z User Group (ZUG) was established in 1992 to promote use and development of the Z notation, a formal specification language for the description of and reasoning about computer-based systems. It was formally constituted on 14 December 1992 during the ZUM'92 Z User Meeting in London, England.
BCS-FACS is the BCS Formal Aspects of Computing Science Specialist Group.
The Virtual Library museums pages (VLmp) formed an early leading directory of online museums around the world.
The Computer Arts Society (CAS) was founded in 1968, in order to encourage the creative use of computers in the arts.
James Hemsley is the founder of the EVA Conferences on Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts.
Jeremy Gardiner is a contemporary landscape painter who has been based in the United Kingdom and the United States. His work has been featured in books. It has also been reviewed in The Boston Globe, Miami Herald, The New York Times, and British newspapers including The Guardian and The Observer. He is represented by the Portland Gallery in London.
Professor Martin C. Henson FBCS FRSA is an English computer scientist based at the University of Essex. He is dean for international affairs and is affiliated to the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering. Henson was head of the department of computer science from 2000 to 2006.
The Lumen Prize is an international award which celebrates art created with technology, especially digital art.
Kim (Keimpe) Henry Veltman was a Dutch/Canadian historian of science and art, director of the Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (VMMI), consultant and author, known for his contributions in the fields of "linear perspective and the visual dimensions of science and art," new media, culture and society.
Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) is a publication series by the British Computer Society.
Andy Lomas is a British artist with a mathematical background, formerly a television and film CG supervisor and more recently a contemporary digital artist, with a special interest in morphogenesis using mathematical morphology.
V&A Digital Futures is a series of events organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in the area of digital art.
The Turing Guide, written by Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Mark Sprevak, Robin Wilson, and others and published in 2017, is a book about the work and life of the British mathematician, philosopher, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing (1912–1954).
Rachel Ara is a London-based contemporary British conceptual and data artist.
Event One was an early digital art exhibition held at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, England, in 1969.
Museums and Digital Culture (2019) is an interdisciplinary book about developments in digital culture with respect to museums. It is edited by Tula Giannini and Jonathan P. Bowen, who are also the authors of 12 chapters. The book is part of the Springer Series on Cultural Computing, edited by Ernest Edmonds. The book was launched at the EVA London 2019 Conference.
Prof. Tula Giannini is an American academic with subject expertise in musicology, digital culture, and digital heritage.
Grapham Diprose is a British photographer and author.
Susan Hazan is a museum curator based in Jerusalem, Israel. She has been a curator at the Israel Museum for much of her career and is known for promoting digital aspects of museum access, especially in the form of virtual museums.
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