We are pleased to announce that the next inArt conference, inArt 2024, will be organised in Oslo (Norway) by the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo from 4 to 7 June 2024. For more information visit the inArt 2024 website.

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Welcome to inArt 2022

Dear Colleagues,

Following the postponement of the inArt 2020 conference, we are pleased to announce that the 5^th International Conference on Innovation in Art Research and Technology (inArt 2022) will be held in Paris from Tuesday 28 June to Friday 1^st July 2022.

Previously inArt conferences took place in Evora - Portugal in 2013, in Ghent - Belgium in 2016 and in Parma - Italy in 2018, and for this new edition we aim to organise a convivial in-person conference.

The conference inArt 2022 aims to gather professionals from all the disciplines concerned by the study and the preservation of cultural heritage materials: chemists, physicists, geologists, biologists, conservation scientists, conservators, historians, archaeologists, etc. Ancient materials require interdisciplinary approaches and the development of specific analytical methodologies due to their complexity and heterogeneity, the need for non-invasive analyses and limited sampling, or to simulate alteration processes. The conference wish to stimulate discussions between the participants around three main topics related to the scientific analysis of ancient artefacts: knowledge of the manufacturing techniques and materials; understanding of their degradation processes and the use of innovative conservation strategies; and the development of new methodologies and data treatments for their study.

The topics to be addressed within the conference sessions can be related to the following 3 main thematic sessions with various sub-themes (amongst others):

• Comprehension of materials and techniques involved in Cultural Heritage
  

         - Identification approaches

         - Circulation of materials and manufacturing techniques

         - Dating and chronological approaches

• Degradation mechanisms and conservation strategies

         - Characterisation of degradation products

         - Impact of the environment on the degradation or protection of the objects

         - Experimental aging simulation and modelling

         - Diagnosis of conservation states, documentation of objects (including numerical approaches)

         - Cleaning, stabilisation and protection

• Technological developments and data analysis

         - In situ experiments and mobile instrumentation

         - Imaging techniques

         - Coupling of analytical methods and data fusion

Extended deadline for abstract submission: new date January 10^th, 2022.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we kindly invite you to this edition of inArt that will be held in the Campus Pierre et Marie Curie of Sorbonne University in the centre of Paris (France).

We would like to thank all the participants of the inArt 2022 conference for the enriching scientific exchange and the warm atmosphere.

For those who did not get a chance to join us, the book of abstract can be downloaded here.

The inArt 2022 organising committee