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Sound & Vision asked animated GIF artist Kajetan Obarski a.k.a. Kiszkiloszki to make awesome GIF animations from historical newsreels. Here's what he came up with.
Turning historical newsreels into awesome GIF animations

Sound & Vision asked animated GIF artist Kajetan Obarski a.k.a. Kiszkiloszki to make awesome GIF animations from historical newsreels. Here's what he came up with.

Tim Hecker's newest release, Love Streams, found its core in Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez’s last work. Sound & Vision's Gregory Markus interviewed him to investigate Hecker’s process and thoughts behind working with these historic...
Reusing 16th century music - interview with Tim Hecker

Tim Hecker's newest release, Love Streams, found its core in Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez’s last work. Sound & Vision's Gregory Markus interviewed him to investigate Hecker’s process and thoughts behind working with these historic...

On april 15-16 our Sound & Vision R&D team member and EuropeanaTech Community Manager, Gregory Markus ventured to Washington DC for DPLAfest, these are his highlights and reflections.
Digital Cultural Heritage: USA versus EU - where is the grass greener?

On april 15-16 our Sound & Vision R&D team member and EuropeanaTech Community Manager, Gregory Markus ventured to Washington DC for DPLAfest, these are his highlights and reflections.

On 6-8 April members of the IIIF community met at the British Library in London to discuss and define preliminary specifications for a new framework that will support and serve audiovisual content, extending the current image content platfo...
Interweaving Online Media with IxIF

On 6-8 April members of the IIIF community met at the British Library in London to discuss and define preliminary specifications for a new framework that will support and serve audiovisual content, extending the current image content platfo...

#BigArtRide brings together two participants in different cities, invites them to get on their (stationary) bikes, put on virtual reality ‘Oculus Rift’ headsets, and navigate through a virtual city experiencing centuries of Europe’s art alo...
Race for European Art, in 3...2...1…!

#BigArtRide brings together two participants in different cities, invites them to get on their (stationary) bikes, put on virtual reality ‘Oculus Rift’ headsets, and navigate through a virtual city experiencing centuries of Europe’s art alo...
Sweden's Royal Library welcomed a host of heritage professionals last week for the first public PREFORMA workshop.
Open Sourcing Preservation
Sweden's Royal Library welcomed a host of heritage professionals last week for the first public PREFORMA workshop.

Value, a grassroots research group at the University of Leiden organized a two day conference to explore the links between archaeology and games.
Game on! at the Interactive Pasts Conference

Value, a grassroots research group at the University of Leiden organized a two day conference to explore the links between archaeology and games.

We are spotlighting the David W. Niven Collection Early Jazz Legends, which features jazz recordings from the all the greats that Niven collected: Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Thelonious Monk, Stan Getz.
Collection Spotlight | The David W. Niven Collection of Early Jazz Legends, 1921-1991

We are spotlighting the David W. Niven Collection Early Jazz Legends, which features jazz recordings from the all the greats that Niven collected: Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Thelonious Monk, Stan Getz.

The Joint Technical Symposium brings together all the associations within the audiovisual archiving field. It is a three-yearly event that took place last week and was co-hosted by SEAPAVAA and the National Archives of Singapore.
Collaborate for Sustainability: JTS2016

The Joint Technical Symposium brings together all the associations within the audiovisual archiving field. It is a three-yearly event that took place last week and was co-hosted by SEAPAVAA and the National Archives of Singapore.