During the “Reframing Openness: Empowering Authenticity and Reuse in Audiovisual Heritage” symposium we will discuss how, in a rapidly evolving social and technological landscape, film and audiovisual heritage institutions face urgent questions about how to preserve the authenticity of the archive and its collection while embracing openness, innovation, and reuse. This symposium will bring together professionals, scholars, rights experts, technologists, and community practitioners to explore critical intersections between archival integrity, public access, and participatory practices.
The symposium will address the shifting definition of “openness” in the context of copyright constraints, AI-generated content, and co-creation, and examine how reuse strategies need to be reimagined to balance legal, ethical, and cultural responsibilities. Special attention will be given to the transformative potential — and risks — of artificial intelligence in archival description, access, and interpretation, as well as to the role of inclusive, community-driven approaches that promote plural narratives and empower users as co-stewards of AV heritage, archival integrity that relies on trust and quality and necessary competences in the sector to allowing it to face the new realm.
Programme
Wednesday, 8th of April
13:00 – 13:30 Registration with coffee and bites
13:30 – 13:45 Words of welcome
- Johan Oomen (EUscreen Foundation Chair)
- Tomasz Kolankiewicz (FINA, Director)
- Elżbieta Wysocka (FINA, vice-Director)
13:45 – 14:30 Keynote
- Alek Tarkowski (Open Future Foundation)
14:30 – 15:30 Panel Public Access & Copyright Law chaired by Bart Meletti
- Stef van Gompel (Open University Amsterdam)
- Adelheid Heftberger (German Federal Archives)
- Ksenia Kakareko (University of Warsaw)
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30 Panel Integrity of Audiovisual Content in the Age of AI chaired by Elżbieta Wysocka
- Joanna Kaliszewska (FINA)
- Marta Materska-Samek (Jagiellonian University)
- Ilana Diamant (independent producer)
- Fabio Paul Bedoya Huerta (Trust in Archives)
- Montse Bailac (3Cat)
Thursday, 9th of April
09:00 – 10:30 EUscreen internal network meeting (EUscreen members only)
10:30 – 11:00 Registration with coffee and bites
11:00 – 12:00 Panel Collaboration & Participatory Practices chaired by Marco Rendina
- Jolė Stimbirytė & Laura Kerušauskaitė (Lithuanian Central State Archive)
- Żaneta Żegleń (IMPULSE)
- Daniel Chavez Hera (King’s College London)
- Elspeth Vischer (Nerve Centre)
12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break
12:30 – 13:30 Panel Upskilling the Archives chaired by Maja Drabczyk
- Agata Krawczyk (Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage)
- Virginia Bazán Gil (FIAT/IFTA)
- Marco Rendina (Istituto Luce – Cinecittà)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch and goodbye
Practical information
The symposium is entirely free of charge and open to anyone interested in data policy, digital public spaces, archiving, audiovisual heritage, cultural heritage and media. Are you a full member of the EUscreen network? Then your travel and lodging expenses are co-financed by the network for up to two people from your organisation!
The EUscreen network would also like to invite its members to a closed network meeting on Thursday 9 April from 09:00 – 10:30 where we will discuss matters pertaining to the EUscreen Foundation, such as strategic plans and finances. Registration for the EUscreen network meeting can be completed in the same form for the symposium ticket.
The programme and other practical information will be available closer to the symposium. Should you have any questions about the symposium, programme, tickets or any other (practical) information. Reach out to info@euscreen.eu and we will be in touch!
Please note that the symposium is only available to attend in-person and will not be livestreamed.
Funding
The EUscreen Symposium has been co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Poland)
