It is a pleasure to announce that the online registration system is now opened for the TELDAP International Conference 2010 in conjunction with MCN Taiwan Meeting to be held from 2-4 March 2010 at Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan.

This conference provides an international forum for researchers throughout the world to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, latest research results and future development suggestions. By exchanging their experiences on how to develop digitization technology and applications, this Conference would provide the Digital Archive and e-Learning community with invaluable insights for future collaboration. .....

“Speaking with Hands” presents the private collection of Henry Buhl, the American collector and philanthropist, who has collected photographs and sculptures focusing on the special subject of the human hands. In addition to 117 pieces of photographic images, this exhibition at the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts brings together 32 pieces of sculpture made by artists such as August Rodin, Pablo Picasso, and Louise Bourgeois. The exhibition runs from December 5, 2009 to March 28, 2010 (link).
 

After “Dance with Dragons” in 1999 and “Flying Dinosaurs” in 2003, the National Museum of Natural Science in Taichung spent two and a half years preparing for another enchanting exhibition “Sea Dragon.” Through 150 pieces of fossils of crocodiles, ichthyosaurs, sauropterygians, thalattosaurians and mosasaurs in the Mesozoic Era, “Sea Dragon” introduces visitors to the amazing world of aquatic reptiles. The exhibition runs from December 11, 2009 to May 2, 2010 (link).

From December 11, 2009 to March 28, 2010, the National Museum of History proudly brings to you 21 of Van Gogh’s oil paintings and 77 of his sketches (http://vangogh.ishow.gmg.tw/english.html). These master pieces include “Country Road in Provence by Night, 1890” ( also known as Road with Cypress and Star), “Cypresses with Two Figures, 1890,” and “Self-portrait,1887” from the collection of the Kroller-Muller Museum, the Netherlands. On loan from the POLA Museum of Art in Japan is the “Flower Vase with Thistles, 1890.” Guided tours are provided by the museum.

In Southeast Asia, porcelain from Vietnam has been developed into a very sophisticated and fascinating industry. From October 31, 2009 to March 14, 2010, the National Palace Museum is showcasing 38 Vietnamese blue and white wares from the 15th to 16th centuries (http://www.npm.gov.tw/exh98/rising_lotus/), a period that approximately corresponds to the mid-Ming dynasty in China. The vast majority of the porcelain was found at the bottom of the ocean on sunken ships, alluding to the busy oceanic trade activities of the time. Thus, the items in this exhibition not only show the revolutionary and innovative character of Vietnamese porcelain, they also demonstrate a multi-faceted view of Asian culture.