2024 – From humanism to digital humanities
Today, our understanding of technology has been shaped by the idea of industrialisation as progress that makes our daily lives safer and easier but also more diverse. In our post-digital age, physical and virtual systems are becoming increasingly inseparable. Concepts for new products and systems are often conceived, implemented, and tested simultaneously in digital and natural environments. This is especially true for extended reality applications in which code and materiality, virtuality and reality form a unit.
Discussions of new materiality go hand in hand with physical and hybrid realities. At the same time, software and computer programs are increasingly helping to develop physical innovative materials for product design and other application fields. However, this new understanding of materiality is found in product design, arts and culture created and/or presented with digital technologies such as extended reality (VR, MR, AR).
The Culture and Computer Science conference series will focus on best practice examples, challenges and future trends in the fields of physical and virtual spaces, mixed, extended, augmented, and virtual reality, hybrid systems, 3D technology, data collection and management, media integration, modelling, visualisation, and interaction. The conference addresses employees of cultural and creative industries, art and culture professionals, media and communication scientists, computer scientists, engineers, designers, and architects who conduct research and development on cultural topics.
Starting in 2023, the KUI conference, which had always taken place in Berlin until then, became itinerant with its first meeting in Lisbon, Portugal, and the current event in Florence, Italy, in 2024.
KuI abbreviation is originated in the former German naming of the conference series »Kultur und Informatik«, which was replaced in 2013 to »Culture and Computer Science« due to the increased international focus.