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MARIE CURIE CHIRON
FELLOWS
NEWS -
4th
and 5th CHIRON fellows appointed- December 2007
Elodie Moreau
and Lavina Shahani
(from France and the UK respectively) have been appointed as the
4th and 5th
(and last) Marie Curie Chiron Fellows
at the University of the Aegean for a period of 12 months from
December 2007.
 Elodie
Moreau studied European Studies and Languages at the
Université Marc Bloch in Strasbourg, France, and completed a
Master of Arts in Euroculture at the Uniwersytet Jagielloński in
Krakow, Poland. She just obtained a Master’s Degree in Art
Gallery and Museum Studies with a dissertation titled “A Digital
Future for Looted Museums?”, under the supervision of Dr Kostas
Arvanitis, at the University of Manchester. In her CHIRON
fellowship,
Elodie Moreau will examine issues of national
museums and national identity in Europe in the era of new
technologies, especially websites
(under the supervision of Maria Economou and Alexandra Bounia).
She will also be attending “NaMU: Making National Museums”, a
Marie Curie Conferences and Training Courses.
Lavina Shahani
has been appointed as the 5th Marie Curie Chiron Fellows at the
University of the Aegean for a period of 12 months starting in
December 2007. Co-supervis ed
by Dr Maria Economou and Dr Niki Nikonanou she will be
researching issues of communities and how this relationship is
reshaped by the use of new technologies. Lavina holds a
Bachelors of Arts in Art History from The University of
California Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Master of Arts in Art
Gallery and Museum Studies from Manchester University. She has
also undertaken studies at University College Utrecht in
Utrecht, The Netherlands, Eotovos Lorand University in Budapest,
Hungary and Charles University in Prague, The Czech Republic.
Lavina’s experience and interests in community-based cultural
projects have been informed by her various work experience at
both Museums and Not-for-Profit organizations. She has worked as
a docent at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and as a project
assistant at the Manchester Museum on the community engagement
film series “Collective Conversations.” She has also been a
development intern at New York’s Lower Manhattan Cultural
Council and just recently finished a visual arts internship with
VSA arts, an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts working with artists with disabilities.
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3d
CHIRON fellow appointed - September 2007
 Ion
Gil Fuentetaja studied History – Cultural Heritage at the
University of Deusto in Spain and completed a Master of Arts in
Euroculture at the same university. He is registered for a PhD
at the University of Deusto working on “Knowledge-based society
and Innovation in the new cultural spaces”.
Between 2003-07 he
was a member of the research
team investigación eK+i; Culture, Development
and Innovation in Europe at the Faculty of Humanities of the
University of Deusto working on several projects related with
the use of ICT in cultural heritage. He has helped to organise
and participated in several international conferences.
His research during
the CHIRON fellowship will focus on the study of the use online
museum collections.
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PhD awarded to 1st CHIRON fellow- 8 November 2006
Laia Pujol Tost,
the 1st Chiron Fellow at UoA, has been awarded a
European PhD from the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB),
where she passed her viva (cum laude). Her doctoral dissertation's title is
“Archaeology, museums and computers: semiotic approach to
the use of VR for the dissemination of Archaeology in museums”.
Supervisor: Dr. Paloma González Marcén.
NEWS
- 2nd CHIRON fellow
appointed - 1 June 2006
 Ruggero Lancia has been appointed as the
second Marie Curie Chiron Fellow for a period of one year, starting in June
2006, also working at the Department of Cultural Technology and
Communication under the supervision of Dr Maria Economou.
The main subject of his research will be
an analysis of the interrelation between Architecture and Audiovisuals. In
particular, he will investigate the practices of collecting, preserving and
interpreting Built Heritage by digital audiovisual products, combining a
theoretical framework with the analysis of specific case studies.
Ruggero was born in Rome and
graduated with a first class degree in Architecture at the University of
“Roma Tre”, defending a thesis about the linguistic relations between Cinema
and Architecture, with supervisors Prof. Arch. Francesco Cellini, dean of
the Architecture Faculty, and Prof. Giorgio De Vincenti, principal of the
Department of Communication and Spectacle. He obtained a Master’s Degree in
1999-2000 with the dissertation “Approaching Architecture through
its Historical
and Social Context”, at the Department of Architectural Projects of the
Polytechnic University of Catalunya, under the supervision of Prof. Arch.
Enric Miralles and Prof. Arch. Joseph Muntañola. He has attended several
courses on theatre costume and set design, direction and acting, as well as
cinema direction and editing and has collaborated in the production of
documentaries, the direction of operas and artworks in Italy and the design
of multimedia products. He was enroled in 2004-05 as a doctoral student at
the course “Cinema and its relations with theatre and the others arts” at
the doctoral school “Culture of Transformations of City and Territory” of
the University of “Roma Tre” (after winning competitive examinations for
doctoral studies organised by the Institute of Architecture of
the University of Venice).
NEWS
- Award for CHIRON
fellow at VSMM05 conference - 10 October 2005
 At the
VSMM 2005 (Virtual Systems and Multimedia)
Conference in Ghent, Belgium, where
Laia Pujol Tost presented a
paper on 'Interactivity in Virtual and Multimedia Environments: a
Meeting Point for Education and ICT in Archaeological Museums', she
was awarded the Young Researcher Award, one of the two Tsuyoshi and Ai
Endowments (TAE) for major contributions to the VSMM Society <http://www.vsmm.org/>
or its conferences, established by Professor Takeo Ojika, founder of
the VSMM Society <http://www.vsmm.org/>
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1st CHIRON fellow appointed - May 2005
Laia
Pujol Tost has been appointed as the Marie Curie fellow (Early Stage
Research Training Action) at the University of the Aegean for a period of
two years, starting in May 2005. She is working at the Department of
Cultural Technology and Communication under the supervision of Dr Maria
Economou on the research project 'New Forms of Museum Communication: Virtual
Exhibitions and Visitors'. This project is part of the wider research
network
CHIRON:
Cultural Heritage Informatics Research Oriented Network , 2005-2008,
which is supported by the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme
under contract number MEST-CT-2004-514539.
Laia is investigating the use of virtual reality in
archaeological presentations and interpretations of the past and its effect
on visitors. Using different case studies, she is studying, among others, the
role of interactivity, the social context of the visit and the role of the
education guide or mediator, and the effect of different design and
navigation strategies on different types of audiences. Laia was born in
Barcelona, has studied history at Universitat Aut ònoma de Barcelona (UAB)
and Anthropology and Prehistory at the Université de Bordeaux-I. She did an
M.Phil in prehistorical Archaeology at the UAB, where she is
completing her doctoral dissertation on the use of virtual reality in
archaeology and museums.
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