There are said to be approximately 2,500 public theaters and concert halls in Japan at present. Almost all of these were built in the 1980s or later. There was an unprecedented rush of construction in the 1990s in particular, when approximately 1,000 halls opened during a ten-year period. The building of such a large number of facilities in the 1980s and 1990s took place in a context not only of government support for public works projects but also as a result of the following three movements.
Released February 2006, this study finds that artists careers are strengthened and urban neighborhoods and smaller city downtowns are revitalized with the presence of dedicated space for artists to convene, share workspace and equipment, find mentors, and compete for grants and opportunities to exhibit/publish/present.
Nowdays there are courses, diplomas, masters degrees that certify you as an artist manager or agent. In my college days, over 30 years ago, there was nothing of the kind, it was not an official profession. There always were, of course, the grand impressarios: Sol Hurok, Nelly Walter, Thea Dispeker, Anne Colbert, Herbert Breslin. These were personalities who kept a watchful eye on their artists and managed their careers. They all were classical agents and always had several artists in their stable.
Over the last few decades, the culture and creative industries have become a major economic force. The creative industries, a complex of eleven economic sectors, aroused a lot of attention in 2006 due to its surprisingly high turnover and growth figures. The culture and creative industries subsequently gained a new importance on the political agenda in the Lisbon process for the strengthening of economic growth in Europe as well as in the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Diversity, which was ratified by Germany in February 2007. At the beginning of the German EU Presidency in 2007, the German Federal Government placed the issue of culture and creative industries on the agenda of the informal meeting of the European Ministers of Culture in Berlin.
The relationships between diaspora communities, festivity, cultural events and tourism are of considerable interest to academic researchers, as well as for arts, social, cultural and tourism policy makers, professional officers and cultural practitioners in many countries who have much to learn from each others experiences and approaches. In October 4-6, in York, United Kingdom, there will be an international conference about this issue.
The Observatory of Cultural Policies in Africa (OCPA), in cooperation with UNESCO and the European Network of Cultural Administration Training Centres (ENCATC), is developing a regional directory of African training centres and institutions in the field of cultural policy, administration and management as well as cultural development.
The Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden has opened a counterpart in the desert. But only in the virtual world, of course. The three-dimensional clone of the museum can be visited in Second Life®. The magnificent rooms of the museum are reproduced true to scale, and all 750 masterpieces in the exhibition are on display. The doors are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Visitors can view the art, chat with each other, access information about the works of art, participate in art education events, note their impressions in the guestbook or browse in the shop all in real time.
Dirk Heinze, editor-in-chief of Arts Management Network, led an interview with Brian Schottlaender, who is University Librarian at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). This library is famous not only for an impressive architecture of the main building, but also for its digital library, the general strategic management or for its extensive staff training. In the interview, Brian Schottlaender makes obvious, how a strategic plan can be implemented in an organization and how it can be proceeded by the entire management staff.
On the 8th Berlin Conference on Arts and Media Administration Frances Q. Tschinkel, Director of Membership and Public Affairs of The New York Public Library lectured about a case study in developing a diversified funding base.
The dominance of search engines for discovering resources is unlikely to diminish substantially in the future, but libraries can increase their participation in the online world and the search engine revolution.
The knowledge economy is a new concept that has appeared worldwide in recent years. As a sub-discipline of the knowledge economy, knowledge management is a completely new concept and method of management. It works for converting intellectual assets of workers and staff members in the organization into higher productive forces - competition power and new value. Knowledge management requires linkage of information with information, information with activities and information with man - so as to realize the sharing of knowledge (including tacit and explicit knowledge).
Author : Robert D. Stueart, Barbara B. Moran
The latest edition of this management classic sports a fresh new look to complement its updated content. It continues to cover all of the important functions involved in library management and development. New chapters on marketing, team building and ethics have been added; thought provoking mini-cases and other activities introduced or expanded; and more international materials referenced than ever before. A perennial favorite in the classroom, an invaluable reference source for information managers everywhere.
The latest edition of this management classic sports a fresh new look to complement its updated content. It continues to cover all of the important functions involved in library management and development. New chapters on marketing, team building and ethics have been added; thought provoking mini-cases and other activities introduced or expanded; and more international materials referenced than ever before. A perennial favorite in the classroom, an invaluable reference source for information managers everywhere.
Author and radio personality Garrison Keillor, who stated that "libraries are the best counter terrorism tool we have," brought to a close the largest conference in the history of the American Library Association (ALA). More than 28,635 librarians, exhibitors and library supporters attended the 128th ALA Annual Conference at the Washington Convention Center from June 21 to 27. According to the Washington, D.C. Tourism Bureau, the conference generated more than $15.6 million in revenue for the local economy.
Preview on the World Library and Information Congress / 73rd IFLA General Conference and Council in Durban (South Africa), August 19-23, 2007
BLIDA (European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations), EUCLID (the European Association for Library and Information Education and Research) and the BAD (the Portuguese Association of Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists) are proud to announce their first ever joint conference to be held in Lisbon (Auditorium of the Direcção-Geral de Arquivos Alameda da Universidade 1649-010 Lisboa, Portugal) from the 19th to the 21st of September 2007.
With a new record number of exhibitors and new ideas, SHOWTECH 2007 is set to go in Berlin . From 19 to 21 June, the trade show combined with a congress will show its unique range of technical equipment from the areas of stage, lighting, sound and event technology.
This session in Liverpool (UK) on June 19th, 2007, will show you how you can integrate some of the latest digital developments into your communications and marketing strategy - from MySpace to YouTube, pocast to vodcast, sms to mms and more. This is a new training session and attendance at the previous Mighty Mouse course is not required.
LabforCulture is an online information and knowledge platform dedicated to European cultural cooperation, complemented by a range of offline services and programmed activities. The website provides an unprecedented range of information on cultural cooperation across the broader Europe, as well as offering a platform for transnational cultural exchange, cultural debate, news and research.
In Part II I have traced the coevolution and coconstruction of Art, Science & Technology from the beginning of Western Civilization using changing mathematical epistemes. Beginning with Harmony in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds the episteme shifted to Perspective in the Renaissance then to Motion with the Scientific Revolution and finally to Probability with the second Scientific Revolution. From this review I draw two conclusions.
In this first panel of a triptych of articles, I have defined Art, Science & Technology.
These words are pointers to a gestalt world of knowing. Art is codified knowledge conveying meaning from one human mind to another.
Some Codes are alphabetic, some aural, some visual, some kinetic but always sender and receiver must share and understand the Code if a work is to work. 15 Technology is tooled knowledge, i.e., knowledge fixed in Matter/Energy as function. The subject of both Art & Technology is the Natural Person. Their work is the result of Design, of human purpose, of formal and final causes. Codified and tooled knowledge, however, have no meaning or function without the intermediation of a Natural Person.
These words are pointers to a gestalt world of knowing. Art is codified knowledge conveying meaning from one human mind to another.
Some Codes are alphabetic, some aural, some visual, some kinetic but always sender and receiver must share and understand the Code if a work is to work. 15 Technology is tooled knowledge, i.e., knowledge fixed in Matter/Energy as function. The subject of both Art & Technology is the Natural Person. Their work is the result of Design, of human purpose, of formal and final causes. Codified and tooled knowledge, however, have no meaning or function without the intermediation of a Natural Person.