MAGPI's Advanced Networks and the Arts & Humanities Symposium was held virtually on February 2, 2012 from 1-4pm EST.

MAGPI was pleased to bring its members and the community this exciting virtual Advanced Networks and the Arts & Humanities Symposium event on Thursday February 2nd from 1-4pm EST. The Advanced Networks and the Arts & Humanities Symposium is free and open to universities and performing arts organizations around the world. The Symposium builds upon the success of the national Teaching and Learning with Internet2 Symposium which was held on April 1, 2011. The Advanced Networks and the Arts & Humanities Symposium aims to reach educators in the humanities and performing arts around the pedagogy and technology of delivering humanities education and live performance events using advanced networks.

Advanced research and education networks, such as Internet2, offer arts and humanities practitioners and faculty opportunities to connect to a diverse array of resources and to collaborate with partners around the world. Through a series of keynote and breakout sessions, this half-day symposium is designed to give faculty and practicioners a taste of the range of projects and resources that exist and how they can be applied in their own teaching and arts practice.

The Advanced Networks and the Arts & Humanities Symposium will be held virtually using H.323 videoconferencing and advanced networking. Host institutions are encouraged to register and open up their sites to faculty and practicioners for local viewing and discussion. The Symposium will also be available via live webstream to those not connecting interactivly. View-only webstream sites will be able to interact and ask questions via twitter.

The Symposium Keynote will feature Sam Gustman, Chief Technology Officer at the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. Mr. Gustman's talk will focus on how the USC Digital Repository was launched to provide collections from all over the world as well as researchers a place to digitize, catalog, preserve and provide access to their content. Two simultaneous talks will also be offered during two afternoon breakout sessions. Breakout presenters include

• Schoenberg Database Manuscripts: A Digital Treasure, by David McKnight, University of Pennsylvania
• Contemporary Dance and High Speed Networks, by Gary Galbraith, Associate Professor of Dance, Dance Department Artistic Director, Case Western Reserve University
• Advanced Networks and the Future of Performing Arts, by Michael Bolton, Opera Company of Philadelphia
• Arts & Humanities: A Look to Europe and Beyond by Claudio Allocchio, Senior Technical Director, Advanced Applications and Security, GARR, Italy

Read the full abstracts of the sessions plus speaker bios on the Symposium website at: http://magpi.net/Community/Programs/Advanced-Networks-and-Arts-Humanitie...

Sites Can Participate Two Ways:

1. Participate virtually via interactive H.323 videoconference. Interactive sites are limited so please register early to reserve your spot. Sites are encouraged to be "host" venues for the Symposium and open up their location to viewing audiences. Interactive seats are limited. Register online at http://magpi.net/Community/Programs/Advanced-Networks-and-Arts-Humanitie...

2. All sessions will be webstreamed live on Thursday February 2nd from 1:00-4:00pm EST
Go to http://video.magpi.net/videos/ and click on the 'live stream' button to view available live webstreams the day of the symposium.

Webstream sites can ask questions of presenters by tweeting them to @magpik20 (using hashtag #magpi_arts) or posting them to the MAGPI K20 facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/magpik20.

For more Information About the Advanced Networks and the Arts & Humanities Symposium visit: http://magpi.net/Community/Programs/Advanced-Networks-and-Arts-Humanities-Symposium.