イベント情報

The 75th International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar on Wednesday, October 28, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

"Some Thoughts on 『改正絵入南都名所記 (Kaisei e iri Nanto meishoki)』--Regarding the Characteristics and Sources of its Illustrations" (in Japanese)

Speaker: Mr. ATAKA Nozomu (Ph.D. Candidate, Digital Humanities for Arts and Cultures, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)

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Date: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 18:00 - 18:45 JST

Participation: online, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate.

Please click here to watch the Webinar on YouTube.

ARCが協力するイベントが開催されます。

日時：2020年10月25日（日）　10:00-14:00　(式典は10:30より)

場所：高松橋ひろば

主催：鴨川運河会議、高松橋ひろばづくりの会
協力：伏見区役所、伏見区役所深草支所、東山区役所、（企画・運営協力）NPO京都景観フォーラム、（企画・運営協力）立命館大学アート・リサーチセンター

The 74th International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar on Wednesday, October 14, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

"The Future of the Preservation and Utilization of Cultural Properties" (in Japanese)

Speaker: Mr. OKAMOTO Kimihide (Senior Cultural Properties Specialist, Promotion of Inter-Regional Cultural Tourism and Regional Development Group, Headquarters Secretariat for Vitalizing Regional Culture, Agency for Cultural Affairs - Japan)

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Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2020 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate. Please access the Webinar via the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlN7ppEMMnF_eoA0PXl2dA/featured

The charity performance -Sending prayers from Kyoto- by the Noh performers of the Kyoto Kanze School will be streamed live online today in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Based on the agreement with the Katayama Family Foundation for the Preservation of Noh and Traditional Kyoto Dance, the Art Research Center studio members have been in charge of the video recording, editing, distribution and live streaming of this performance.

Details:

September 25 (Friday) at 19:00 (JST) live streaming from the ROHM Theatre Kyoto via YouTube

Noh Charity Performance -Sending prayers from Kyoto-

能「大会」 片山九郎右衛門 ほか Noh "Daie" performed by Kuroemon Katayama and others

祝言謡「四海波」 有志全員 Shugen no utai "Shikai-nami" performed by all

能「羽衣」 浦田保浩 ほか Noh "Hagoromo" performed by Yasuhiro Urata and others

狂言「口真似」茂山千五郎 ほか Kyogen "Kuchimane" performed by Sengoro Shigeyama and others

Click here to watch the performance:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTW3eTiibxzBpGEWuawhl5g

Please feel free to spread the word to your friends and family as well.

Date & Time：Saturday, August 1st, 2020　14:00～17:10 (JST）
Location: Web Event (via ZOOM, Youtube and Twitter)

Click here to access the ARC Day 2020 via Youtube.

Program

The handouts with red icons are protected with passwords. If you wish to download any of them, please email us at r-darc(at)st.ritsumei.ac.jp (Please change "at" to @.)

August 1st（Sat）　14:00～17:10（JST）
14:00-14:05	Opening remarks
14:05-14:35	Session 1 Firstly, each project leader will introduce their projects within 3 minutes in the order of the program. Then, the rest of the session will be spent on Q&As. We will take questions from the participants on Zoom and questions from YouTube participants via Twitter。
	1.	「Research Project on the Japanese Cultural Resources using the Concept of "Metahistory" or "Les lieux de mémoire"」 Project leader: Koichi HOSOI, Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU
	2.	「A System Development Project for Exhibition of Images such as Ukiyo-e through the Means of Games」 Project leader: Ruck THAWONMAS, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU
	3.	「Play between Creativity and Learning」 Project leader: Akinori NAKAMURA, Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU (Presenter: Akito INOUE, Lecturer, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU）
	4.	「Digital Archive of the Techniques, Processing and Enjoyment of Manga and Anime with its Focus on International Spread and Propagation of Culture」 Project leader: Ryosuke YAMANISHI, Associate Professor, Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University
	5.	Collaborative Project ① Project leaders：Prof. HOSOI, Prof RUCK, Prof. NAKAMURA (Presenter: Mr. Toshinari TSUJI, M1, Graduate School of Letters, RU)
14:35-15:05	Session 2
	6.	「Play and Discovery in Kanji Characters」 Project leader: Lin MENG, Associate Professor, College of Science and Engineering, RU
	7.	「Construction and Transmission of a Kyoto Street Culture Archive」 Project leader: Shinya SAITO, Associate Professor, College of Image Arts and Sciences, RU
	8.	「Playing in the City of Kyoto - Construction of a Virtual Kyoto Using VR and AR」 Project leader: Naomi KAWASUMI, Associate Professor, College of Letters, RU (Presenter: Hirotaka SATO, Assistant Professor, College of Letters, RU)
	9.	Collaborative Project ② Project leaders: Prof. RUCK, Assoc. Prof. SAITO, Assoc. Prof. KAWASUMI (Assis. Prof. SATO)
	10.	Collaborative Project ③ Project leaders: Prof. MAEDA, Assoc. Prof. MENG, Assoc. Prof. Fumio GOTO (The Shirakawa Shizuka Institute of East Asian Characters and Culture/ Grad. School of Professional Teacher Education)
15:05-15:35	Session 3
	11.	「Acoustic Sound Reconstruction and Playing-Support with Traditional Instruments」 Project leader: Takanobu NISHIURA, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU
	12.	「A Project on the Intellectual Linkage of Large-Scale Cultural Information」 Project leader: Ryo AKAMA, Professor, College of Letters, RU
	13.	「Project of developing Evaluation Datasets for ARC Collection Databases」 Project leader: Akira MAEDA, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU
	14.	「Digital Archiving of Indonesian Cultural Heritage and Development of 4D High-Definition Visualization Contents」 Project leader: Dr. Fadjar I. THUFAIL, Senior Researcher, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) (Presenter: Satoshi TANAKA, Professor, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU)
15:35-15:50	Break
15:50-16:20	Session 4
	15.	「Collection and Preservation of Traditional Games from around the World, the Systematization and the Study of Cultural Relevance of Them」 Project leader: Isao UMEBAYASHI, Part-time Lecturer, Shitennoji University
	16.	「Visualization for Re-experiencing the Psychology/ Festival using VR Technology」 Project leader: Kyoko HASEGAWA, Lecturer, College of Information Science and Engineering, RU
	17.	「Generation Z Web Content Archiving Project」 Project leader: Yumi TAKENAKA, Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, RU
	18.	Collaborative Project ④ Project leaders: Prof. TAKENAKA, Dr. HASEGAWA
16:20-16:50	Session 5
	19.	「Digital Archive Project of Japanese Arts in the Collection of Salar Jung Museum, Hyderabad, India」 Project leader: Shinya MAEZAKI, Associate Professor, Dept. of Apparel and Space Design, Kyoto Women's University
	20.	「Edo Period Map goes Digital - The O Edo ezu as an Interactive Resource」 Project leader: Michael KINSKI, Professor, Japanese Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt
	21.	「Using Digital Archives to Create a Research Network of Japanese Cultural Resources in the UK and Utilizing Digital Resources for Japanese Studies」 Project leader: Ryoko MATSUBA, Senior Digital Humanities Officer, SISJAC
	22.	「A Database Construction of Japanese Medieval Handwritten Copies of Sutras Located in Europe and their Analysis Using Machine Learning」 Project leader: Toshiaki AIDA, Lecturer, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering in Health System, Okayama University
16:50-17:05	Buffer（15分） Q&A Session （Questions from each session and other questions）
17:05-17:10	Closing remarks

The 73rd International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar next week on Wednesday, July 22, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

"Digitizing Borobudur: A Perspective on Technological Co-Production" (in English)

Speaker: Dr. Fadjar I. THUFAIL (Senior Researcher, Research Center for Area Studies, Indonesian Institute of Sciences)

Seminar handout (free to download)

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Date: Wednesday, July 22, 2020 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate. Please access the Webinar via the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlN7ppEMMnF_eoA0PXl2dA/featured

Gion Festival Digital Museum 2020

Live Web Event: Round Table at the Nagae Family Residence on Sunday, July 19, 2020 (in Japanese)

Topic: Effectivity and Possibility of Digital Archives for Local Communities from a Digital Humanities Point of View

Organizer: Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University (Executive Committee of The Gion Festival Digital Museum 2020)

Date & Time: Sunday, July 19, 2020 / 15:00 - 16:30 JST live from the Nagae Family Residence via Youtube >>https://youtu.be/-L_I4MBuf_o

Language: Japanese

Background: The Nagae Family Residence is a Kyo-machiya - a traditional wooden townhouse - and has been designated a tangible cultural property by Kyoto city which sought to restore the interior to how it looked when the building was constructed 150 years ago. The Nagae family used to be merchants of the Kimono fabric. After Ritsumeikan University was donated a collection of items belonging to the Nagae Family Residence, the Art Research Center (ARC) began to digitally archive this collection and became involved in the planning and managing of the Byobu Matsuri (folding screen festival) held at the Nagae Family Residence during the Gion Festival.

Event Schedule (to be confirmed)

15:00 Welcome speech

Keiji Yano (Professor, College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)

15:05 Part 1 - Introduction of The Gion Festival Digital Museum 2020 and explanation of its contents

Hirotaka Sato (Assistant Professor, College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University), student of the Kyoto Studies Fieldwork Group IV

15:45 Part 2 - Exchange of opinions

Moderator: Keiji Yano

Panelists:

Kenji Tsuji (President, Gion Festival Fune-hoko Preservation Association)

Masao Goto (Former President, Hachiman-yama Preservation Association)

Yoshie Takagi (Curator, Nagae Family Residence Project)

Hirotaka Sato

16:15 Question & Answer session

16:30 End of the event

Access here >>https://youtu.be/-L_I4MBuf_o

The 72^nd International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar next week on Wednesday, July 8, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

1. "Audience Participation Games for Promoting Ukiyo-e" (in English)

Speaker: Pujana PALIYAWAN (Senior Researcher, Research Organization of Science and Technology, Ritsumeikan University)

Seminar handout (free to download)

Presentation slides (free to download)

2. "口絵デジタルアーカイブ構築によってみえてきた課題 (Issues Revealed by Constructing the Kuchi-e Digital Archive)" (in Japanese)

Speaker: Kana TSUNEKI (Assistant Professor, Liberal Arts (Humanities), National Institute of Technology, Kurume College / Ph.D. Candidate, Digital Humanities for Arts and Cultures, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)

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Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate. Please access the Webinar via the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlN7ppEMMnF_eoA0PXl2dA/featured

The MEXT International Joint Usage / Research Center「International Joint Digital Archiving Center for Japanese Art and Culture (ARC-iJAC) 」, Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University, will be co-hosting the 2020 Annual Conference of the Japan Art Documentation Society (JADS) on June 27 (Sat) and June 28 (Sun), 2020.

On the first day, a symposium with the topic 「芸術文化資源デジタル・アーカイブの国際的共同利用 -- オンライン環境での知的生産システムとそのツール (International Joint Usage of Digital Archives for Arts and Cultural Resources -- Intelligent Production Systems and their Tools in an Online Environment)」 will be held where ARC members will be giving lectures and presenting the "ARC Research Space", amongst others.

For a detailed program, please click here (in Japanese).

■ Date:

June 27 (Sat) and June 28 (Sun), 2020

June 27, 13:00 - 17:00 (Reception from 12:00)

June 28, 13:30 - 16:05 (Reception for Research Presentation from 12:30)

■ Participation Method:

This event will be held online.

Details on how to participate will be announced later.

■ Fees for Participation & Materials:

Free of charge for JADS members and non-members (both days).

*A PFD version of the manuscript will be distributed online in advance.

■ Registration:

Please register to participate in the event via this application form (https://forms.gle/uDVHoecvArnV3BpJ7).

*Limited capacity of 200 people; registration deadline is June 22nd, 2020.

For inquiries, please contact: The Organizing Committee for the 2020 Annual Conference of the Japan Art Documentation Society

jads_conf2020■googlegroups.com (please replace "■" with "@")

The 71st International ARC Seminar will be held as a Webinar next week on Monday, June 22, starting at 18:00 JST.

The program is as follows:

"ドイツにおけるデジタル・ヒューマニティーズ。日本学を例として (Digital Humanities in Germany. Japanese Studies and Beyond)" (in Japanese)

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael KINSKI (Japanese Studies, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

Seminar handout (free to download)

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Date: Monday, June 22, 2020 18:00 - 19:30 JST

Participation: online, free of charge (no reservation required)

*This Webinar is open to everyone, and non-ARC members are also invited to participate. Please access the Webinar via the following link:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNlN7ppEMMnF_eoA0PXl2dA/featured