James Hemsley

{{Short description|Conference founder and organizer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} [[File:James Hemsley.jpg|thumb|James Hemsley speaking at the EVA London 2016 Conference.]]

'''James Hemsley''' is the founder of the EVA Conferences on ''Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts''.<ref>James Hemsley, Vito Cappellini, and Gerd Stanke (editors), ''[http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=834&sort=title&title_id=4697&edition_id=6874 Digital Applications for Cultural and Heritage Institutions] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227105208/http://www.ashgate.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=834&sort=title&title_id=4697&edition_id=6874 |date=2012-02-27 }}''. Ashgate Publishing, 2005. {{ISBN|978-0-7546-3359-4}}.</ref><ref>{{cite book| chapter=The EVA Conference 1990–2012: Personal Reflections | pages=1–5 | first=James | last=Hemsley | authorlink=James Hemsley | title=Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture | url=https://www.springer.com/gb/book/9781447154051 | editor-first1=Jonathan P. | editor-last1=Bowen | editor-link1=Jonathan Bowen | editor-first2=Kia | editor-last2=Ng | editor-first3=Suzanne | editor-last3=Keene | series=Springer Series on Cultural Computing | publisher=Springer | year=2013 | isbn=978-1-4471-5406-8 }}</ref>

Hemsley was educated as a mathematician at the University of Oxford and undertook his PhD at Imperial College, London in England. More recently he has dedicated himself to electronically mediated culture. The first EVA Conference was held at Imperial College, London in 1990 and many EVA Conferences have been held around the world, including continuing conferences in London on an annual basis. He founded VASARI UK Limited in 1993 as a result of the European ESPRIT VASARI Project,<ref>[http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/km/projs/vasari/ VASARI project].</ref> which he project managed, aimed at digitizing paintings at very high quality.<ref>[http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/vasari/ A Chain of EVA Conferences] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070517134345/http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/vasari/ |date=2007-05-17 }}, ''[http://www.cultivate-int.org/ Cultivate International]'', [http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue3/ Issue 3], January 2011.</ref> He was also project director of the EC-supported EVA Networking EVAN projects. Among his posts, he has worked for the National Museums of Scotland.

Hemsley lives in central London.

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==External links== {{commons category|James Hemsley}} * {{DBLP|name=James Hemsley}} * [http://www.eva-conferences.com/ EVA Conferences International website] * [http://www.evarussia.ru/eva2001/eng_str/14.htm Photograph] from EVA Russia {{authority control}}

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