James Hemsley is the founder of the

EVA Conferences The Electronic Visualisation and the Arts conferences (EVA Conferences for short, aka Electronic Information, the Visual Arts and Beyond) are a series of international interdisciplinary conferences mainly in Europe, but also elsewhere in the wor ...

on ''Electronic Imaging & the Visual Arts''. Hemsley was educated as a mathematician at the

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and undertook his PhD at

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. More recently he has dedicated himself to electronically mediated culture. The first EVA Conference was held at

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, which he project managed, aimed at digitizing paintings at very high quality.A Chain of EVA Conferences
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Cultivate International
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Issue 3
January 2011. He was also project director of the EC-supported EVA Networking EVAN projects. Among his posts, he has worked for the

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. Hemsley lives in central London.

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