New Technologies to Preserve and Promote Cultural Heritage: The Italian Experience
By Gvantsa Turmanidze
Monday, February 11
On February 8, 2019, the Embassy of Italy to Georgia together with the National Research Council of Italy and several institutions from Georgia have organized the seminar “New Technologies to Preserve and Promote Cultural Heritage: The Italian Experience”, which was held at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.
Welcome speeches were made by Dr. George Sharvashidze, Rector of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Mariam Jashi, MP, Parliament of Georgia and H.E. Antonio Bartoli, Ambassador of Italy to Georgia.
Mr. David Lordkipanidze, Director of the National Museum of Georgia was the Chair of the Panel and the presentations were made by the following:
Giuseppe Amato - senior researcher of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and leader of the “Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia Information Retrieval” research group (ISTI-CNR);
Jan Bigazzi - the representative of Targetti has been designing and producing indoor and outdoor architectural light;
Alberto Del Bimbo - Full Professor at the Department of Information Engineering of University of Firenze and the head of MICC Media Integration and Communication Center;
Livio Karrer - curator for the M9 Museum;
Massimo Osanna - full Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Napoli “Federico II”.
Together with Italian speakers, representatives of Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation took part in the seminar: Prof. Vakhtang Licheli; Prof. Irine Koshoridze; Prof. Teo Jalaghania; Prof. Giorgi Jibuti and Nikoloz Antidze.
The Seminar "How ancient cities can get smart too" is the third event held by the Embassy of Italy in the framework of the project "New Technologies to Preserve and Promote Cultural Heritage: The Italian Experience" and its goal is to share Italian knowledge and experience from the past in the field of rich cultural heritage protection. The first seminar was held on digital storytelling and the second seminar was dedicated to designing and managing the 21st century museum.
