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The Impact of Blockchain on Image Management
No full textThe management of the global art market is highly concentrated in two auction houses. It is questionable if the artists receive proper compensation for labor within their lifetimes. Blockchain technologies have gained much attention due to their disruptive potential. Technology adoptions can follow a life cycle pattern. Blockchain technologies have experienced a great deal of hype. To separate the enthusiasm from the realistic applications it is important to understand the basic structure of blockchain functionality. This paper explores what utility blockchain technologies may serve in the art market, the current implementation of blockchain in the art community, and the fundamentals of how these technologies operate
Drifting with Professional Scope
No full text“Drift,” as a noun, may ignite feelings of unease. Daunting nouns such as “scope drift,” “change management,” “conflict resolution,” and “project management” swirl around the professional landscape, and in facing these nouns, the work associated with them can be unfamiliar and frightening. However, productive outcomes can quickly emerge when these terms are reframed as inspiring verbs. Managing change, resolving conflict, managing projects, and drifting with scope are verbs that grant some control over what happens next, which is much more inspiriting and motivating than watching from the side and hoping everything turns out fine. From the perspective of a drifter, this article is a case study of one professional’s journey riding with the changing tides of her career in a way that has resulted in growth and opportunity. It will explain how each educational experience, new/evolving job description, and redirected initiative were not means to an end, but tools acquired along the journey and to be used for the duration of the journey. Even though many professionals find themselves in situations where they no longer do what they started doing, this case will provide an example of how every piece of information, professional advice, certification, and educational moment can be leveraged, re-used, and repurposed while drifting with scope
"Now, Slides, Sail Thou Forth to Seek and Find:" Facilitating a Slide and Photograph Diaspora
No full textAfter serving the entire Brown University community for many decades, the Art Slide Library was officially closed in 2010. Faculty were given four years to access the collection and make selections for digitization. During 2014, the slides were weeded to a bare minimum and the remaining collection was dismantled. The slides, photographs, and reproductions were then given away to a wide variety of artists, educators, and students. This article is a description of that process.
Acknowledgements:
The author would like to thank Carina Cournoyer, Social Sciences Librarian at Brown University, for her invaluable help with this project and Maureen Burns, Consultant with Archivision and IMAGinED Consulting, for her advice in seeking out takers for the slide and photograph collection
Visual Resources Association 2013 Annual Business Meeting: Treasurer's Report
No full textThe Treasurer's Report, presented at the Annual Business Meeting of the Visual Resources Association, held April 5, 2013 in Providence, Rhode Island, reviews the state of the organization's finances, and includes a summary of economic trends affecting the Association's budget and membership numbers over the past decade
You Can Do It. We Can Help: Building Digital Image Collections Together
No full textAt the 2009 College Art Association conference in Los Angeles, the Visual Resources Association organized an affiliate session, called “You Can Do It. We Can Help,” focused on building digital image collections together. A distinguished panel of speakers shared information about innovative image projects and presented evidence of the value of such collaborative experiences. This article provides a summary of the session with extended commentary by the moderator, updates on the projects presented, and a discussion of current issues and trends
New VRA Embedded Metadata Panel Released
No full textThe VRA Embedded Metadata working group (EMwg) has released a new custom XMP info panel for Adobe CS4 and CS5 which allows VRA Core 4.0 display metadata to be embedded in digital image files
Special Bulletin #10: Guide to Rights and Reproduction at American Art Museums
No full textMuseum procedures for the rights and reproduction of works in their collections are diverse. Now, the advent of digitization and its imaging potential via the information super-highway has added another element to the ongoing discussion of these issues. This project began in February 1990 when approximately 230 art museums and galleries, as well as other institutions with significant art holdings, were sent questionnaires requesting information about their rights and reproduction policies. The information in each entry is intended to offer only a general guideline. Such categories as contact title, department, reproduction conditions, and credit line should remain relatively constant
Special Bulletin #9: Visual Resources Association Computer Users Directory
No full textThis directory is a compilation of information gathered in a survey of Visual Resources Association members in September 1995. There were 103 respondents who gave information about their computer systems. The directory listings are organized by platform, then alphabetically by the user's last name. Each entry lists user information; hardware, grouped together as configured at the institution, when appropriate; software; supplies; and access and services
Special Bulletin #5: Source List for Illustrations in "Gardner's Art Through the Ages" (ninth edition)
No full textThe ninth edition of "Gardner's Art Through the Ages" (1991) contains over 1300 illustrations. This bibliography lists over 500 book and magazine sources with quality reproductions of the artworks illustrated in this edition
VRAB Volume 10, Issue 1 & Supplement, 1983
No full textIn Volume 10, Issue 1:
VRA:
Business Meeting: Minutes
International:
Conferences
New Columns and Editors
Directory
Art and Architecture Thesaurus
Business Meeting Reports:
Bulletin
Guides
VRA News:
Notes from the President
Applications Invited for Post of Editor of the International Bulletin
New "Slide Buyers Guide" Editor(s) Sought
VRA Logo Contest
Ratification of the VRA Constitution:
Draft
Visual Resource Association Bylaws
Missouri-Kansas Visual Resources Conference
SECAC:
Conference Report
MACAA
Slide Reproduction Rights
Profile:
The New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University
Note to Readers
Image Access Society
Conservation
Ask the Photographer
Conference Reports:
Princeton Session
Photographic Journals:
Summary of Developments in Eastman Color Films
Professional News:
Positions Open
Basic Training Again at UMKC
Equipment News:
A Homemade Slide Binder for the Sundt Method
Typewriter News
Slide Market News:
U.S. Commercial
U.S. Museums
U.S. Institutions
Canada
England
France
West Germany
Microforms
In Volume 10, Issue 1: Supplement:
CAA-VRA Sessions, Philadelphia:
Computers in the Visual Arts
Microcomputer Applications for Scholars in the Arts
Progress Report on the Use of the TRS-80 Microcomputer in the Visual Resources Slide Collection
The Role of Statistics in Staffing Visual Resource Collections
ARLIS:
Microform Technology:
Developments in Color Micrographics
Publishing Major Art Collections - The Logic of the Microform Approach
Architecture: Classification and Cataloging:
Problems Involved in Recataloguing an Existing Collection
Architecture Classification: An Overview
Changes in Visual Resources Curatorship:
A Plugged-In Librarian - Hi Tech and I
Putting Together a Small Architectural Slide Collection; Classification; Computers; Coexistence
Organizing It: A Slide of Life
Changing Scene: New Images, Developments of Slide Curatorship
New Images of Ourselves - The Impact of Hi Tech on Professionalism
Dreams and Schemes to Keep the "Garbage" Out of the System
Conference Paper