a subject in transition; opportunities and problems
CHArt Seventeenth Annual Conference
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ART HISTORY a subject in transition; opportunities and problems |
Michael Greenhalgh, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
The Classroom of the Future
The Classroom of the Future will review the use of digital media and the web in learning Art History today, and discuss the various technologies which add more "context" to artworks than is possible with "flat" slides. Beginning with the mechanics of teaching using exclusively web-based materials for storage and display, the paper continues with an assessment of panoramas (linked, hotspotted, or stand-alone), stereo, and VRML and related technologies, linked to image databases. The paper concludes with a question: will the classroom survive, or will it be a computer (or some other display technology) fed by the web?