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Wired! @ 5 (Years): Visualizing the Past at Duke University
No full textWired! is a learning community of faculty, staff, and students at Duke University committed to exploring how digital technologies prompt new approaches to teaching and research in the humanities. Wired! was founded to explore the potential of digital visualization tools for the study of art, architecture and urban space. Digital projects focus on communicating humanities research to a broad public through websites and digital applications.
Wired!'s special focus is the study of visual and material culture: art, architectural, and urban history. Research projects and teaching are based in the Wired! Lab at Duke University, where faculty, staff, and students work in teams to ask new questions and expand upon emerging lines of inquiry on topics related to change and process in the creation of works of art and the man-made environment.
This group essay summarizes the activities and achievements of the Wired! initiative at Duke University as it celebrates five years of innovation and experimentation in visualizing the past
2014 State of the Visual Resources Association
No full textDuring the 2014 Annual Business Meeting of the Visual Resources Association in Milwaukee, WI, the president highlighted the accomplishments and challenges of the Association in a state of the association presentation. This article provides the transcript
2011 State of the Visual Resources Association
No full textAs part of the business meeting at the VRA + ARLIS/NA 2011 joint conference, the president provided a summary of the accomplishments and challenges facing the field in a state of the association presentation. This article provides the transcript
Texture and Materiality: Creating a New Material Resource Center at RISD
No full textThe new Material Resource Center at Rhode Island School of Design is a growing collection of material samples with broad appeal across an art and design campus comprised of twenty-four departments and disciplines. The creation of this teaching and learning resource challenges traditional concepts, roles, and functions as library, collection, lab, and center merge into one space with a cross-campus mission. The newly learned areas of digital collection creation and management (metadata schema, digital asset management) are also challenged with the return to and assertion of the physical object. For the studio faculty member, innovative materials require a rethinking of traditional application and process, though the concepts of sustainability and life-cycle/story-telling are a comfortable fit. Simply: the MRC stands to benefit from key lessons learned from the analog and digital worlds, from the structured to the organic, from the descriptive to the creative, from the traditional to the innovative. This will naturally require faculty to become more inventive with their curriculum and for librarians and visual resources curators to become comfortable and fluent in these new, recombined, and expansive modes of access, presentation, and use. This paper will trace the evolution of the RISD MRC as it confronts these issues
VRAB Volume 11, Issue 1 & Supplement, 1984
No full textAssociation News:
Conferences
Notes from the President
Technical Information:
Ask the Photographer
Computer News
Asian Slide & Photograph Collections
Collections:
Collections Outside Art History Departments
Reviews:
Photographic Journals
Book Review
For Your Information:
Slide Market News
Professional News
Miscellaneous
In the supplement:
Southeastern College Art Conference - Visual Resource Curators
Mid-America College Art Association - Visual Resources:
Microcomputer Hardware Evaluation
Microcomputer Software Evaluation
Computers and the Visual Resources Environment
College Art Association - Visual Resources Associatio
VRAB Volume 10, Issue 4: Supplement, 1983
No full textSupplement: Congress International d'Histoire d'Art Conference Visual Documentation Sessions:
Slide Quality Control
The Problems of Handling Historical Photograph Negatives on Cellulose Nitrate Film - Peter A. Juley and Son Collection
Art History and Visual Documentation: The Interplay of Two Evolutions
Videodiscs and Art Documentation
Australia's Audiovisual Copyright Review, 1982-1983
The Computer as an Acquisition: Progress Report on Automatic Data Processing in a Photograph Collection
Clio - A Computer Program for the Exploitation of a Picture Archive
Acquisitions Through the Looking Glass (summary
VRAB Volume 10, Issue 3, 1983
No full textIn this issue:
Association News:
Conferences:
MACAA-VR
SECAC
IFLA
Notes from the Editor
Technical Information:
Ask the Photographer
Computer News
Asian Slide and Photograph Collections
Collections:
Collections Outside Art History Depts
Profile:
Syracuse University
Professional Development:
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Reviews:
Photographic Journals
For Your Information:
Slide Market News
Professional News
Miscellaneou
VRAB Volume 9: Issue 4 & Supplement, 1982
No full textIn Volume 9, Issue 4:
Conferences to Come: VRA
Conference Reports: MACAA
Obituary for H.W. Janson
Guides:
Visual Resource Guides: Past, Present, and Future
Directory
Philadelphia: ARLIS/VR Sessions
Ask the Photographer:
Precautions when Photographing Works of Art
SECAC
Conservation:
Report on the "International Symposium: The Stability and Preservation of Photographic Images"
Microforms:
The Videodisc as an Information Storage Medium
Profile:
The Rotherhithe Picture Research Library, London
Workshop on Photographing Architectural Models
Comparative Aging of Identical Slides in Various Collections
Photographic Journals
Professional News:
Basic Training Workshop
Reviews:
Image Information
Freudenthal/Lyders Article
Photographing Works of Art
Picture Retrieval in the Time, Inc. Picture Collection
Polaroid Slide Printer
Slide Market News:
U.S. Commercial
U.S. Institutions
Canada
England
In Volume 9, Issue 4: Supplement:
The Osborne-I Micro-Computer: Feasibility for Use in Organizing and Classifying Slides
Color Microfiche Production and Reproduction
Aspects of Color Film Preservation
Photogard Technology
Fungus in Glass-Mounted Slides: Recent Findings
Slide Collections Outside North America
Acquisition and Classification of Native American Art Slide
Art Museums and the Public Domain: A Movement Towards Open Access Collections
No full textOver the past decade, open access digital collections have become more prevalent among Western art museums. As focus has shifted away from revenue gain and towards collection accessibility, there has been an increase in digital copies of works made available online for public viewing and scholarly research. The objective of this paper is to examine the different ways in which different art museums handle open access policies, exemplified by case studies of three institutions in the United States: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. These case studies provide a narrower, more detailed look at the changes that have occurred in open access policy and collection availability. Based on historical patterns, current trends, and the case studies, predictions will be made for the future of open access resources in art museums.
 
Growing the Art Image and Visual Literacy Garden: The Journey to Create a Practical Guide for Student Employees
No full textExpanding upon my poster titled “Art Instead of Just Images: Training Students to See Beyond the Screen” presented at the 2016 ARLIS/NA + VRA Third Joint Conference in Seattle, I detail the current journey of my project to create a practical guide for student employees to understand and manipulate images of art. In exploring this topic I discovered that there is a lack of literature specifically addressing looking at and manipulating digital surrogate images of works of art. Non-humanities student employees often lack the visual literacy and art historical skills to successfully edit and evaluate digital art images. This article seeks to find a way to effectively provide such students with a baseline of knowledge with the goal of both improving the quality and extent of their work and adding value to their own educational careers. In this article, I question both what constitutes a baseline of knowledge and what we actually want to teach student employees. What would a practical guide need to include and entail? Further investigation reveals a host of theoretical and ethical considerations that must be addressed for any such documentation to function.
Acknowledgements:
The author would like to thank Grace L. Barth and Amy Lazet who were instrumental in helping navigate the many winding paths of this project