Contributors

David Austin (daustin@uic.edu) holds degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of California. His interest in non-verbal information access led to presentations in Ljubljana, Barcelona, Essen and Amsterdam, and numerous venues in the United States. He is head of a taskforce at the University of Illinois at Chicago responsible for mounting on the web more than five million image, video and audio files related to the city.

Susan Augustine (saugusti@uic.edu) is a Reference Librarian and Instructor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She completed her MLIS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1999, where she was a Rose Bernice Phelps Fellow and recipient of the Anne M. Boyd award. Her interest in how digital information is organized and accessed led to a recent usability study of the University of Illinois at Chicago's web site that is scheduled for publication.

Colin Beardon (c.beardon@plym.ac.uk) is Professor of Art and Design at the University of Plymouth, UK and Visiting Professor at Malmö University, Sweden. He specialises in the design of software to support creative practices.

Anna Bentkowska (anna.bentkowska@courtauld.ac.uk) is currently working on digitisation of images for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (www.crsbi.ac.uk). Her research and publications have been mainly on early modern visual culture in Western Europe, with special interest in cosmological and anthropomorphic representations of nature; as well as the use of digital imaging in iconographical analysis and interpretation of paintings. She has an MA in the History of Art (Warsaw), MA in Computing Applications for the History of Art (London) and PhD in Digital Media Studies (Southampton). She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1999.

A. Jean E. Brown is a Senior Lecturer on the MA Conservation of Fine Art Programme at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She was previously Head of Paper Conservation at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, prior to which she worked for many years in the Western Pictorial Art section at the British Museum. She is a project manager for A Shape Retrieval System for Watermark Images, which is a collaborative research project between the Conservation Unit and the Institute of Image Data Research (IIDR), funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB). Her research interests include: the digital imaging of watermarks in paper; pigment characterisation profiles, environmental scavengers for the absorption of volatile organic compounds emitted by iron gall inks. She undertakes regular consultancy work in fine art conservation and has published widely on different aspects of conservation practice and training. She is responsible for the organization of the triennial UNN Conservation Conference and editing the post prints. She is a member of the British Association of Paper Historians and an accredited member of the Institute of Paper Conservation.

Trish Cashen (t.cashen@open.ac.uk) has been involved with integrating computing into university level humanities teaching since 1993. Initially Research Officer for Art History with the CTI (Computers in Teaching Initiative), she moved to Birkbeck College where she taught on the MA in Computer Applications for the History of Art, and The Open University, where she is currently charged with exploiting new media for teaching arts subjects. Her main areas of interest are exploring the pedagogical effectiveness of new media and using the Internet for art history – she maintains the WWW Virtual Library for the History of Art (www.chart.ac.uk/vlib/). At present she is working on the educational potential of DVD video, as well as contributing to an interactive CD-ROM of the Soane Museum and to electronic resources for the Open University's MA in Art History. She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1994.

Stephen Clancy (clancy@ithaca.edu) began his professional life as a lawyer, before returning to school to gain a PhD in Art History, which he received from Cornell University in 1988. Since 1988 he has been a professor in the Department of Art History at Ithaca College, where currently serves as Chair. He teaches medieval art and architecture and Northern Renaissance painting and sculpture, as well as courses on visual persuasion and the rhetoric of art. He has also published on the 15th-century French manuscript illuminator and panel painter Jean Fouquet. He spent a year in Belgium on a Fulbright research scholarship studying the manuscript illumination of Simon Marmion.

John P. Eakins is Professor of Computing and Director of the Institute for Image Data Research (IIDR) at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. He has over ten years' experience of research into storage and retrieval techniques for drawings and images. He is the author of over 20 papers on the subject, including commissioned reviews of the state of the art in Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) and trademark retrieval. He has given many invited presentations on the topic of image retrieval, most recently at the third European Summer School in Information Retrieval, held in Varenna, Italy, in September 2000. He has for three years been co-chair of the Challenge of Image Retrieval conferences set up to promote exchange between researchers and practitioners in this field.

Michael Greenhalgh (Michael.Greenhalgh@anu.edu.au) is The Sir William Dobell professor of Art History at the Australian National University, Canberra; and Fowler Hamilton Research Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford. His books include The Classical Tradition in Art, Donatello and His Sources, The Survival of Roman Antiquities in the Middle Ages, and with Paul Duro Essential Art History. Server: (ArtServe) http://rubens.anu.edu.au

Michael Hammel (michael@bitland.dk) is an independent art historian working freelance as designer and researcher in interactive media. He read Art History, Mathematics and Media Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Media Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is currently working on his dissertation on interactive art.

Dew Harrison is a Research Fellow for the AHRB (the Arts and Humanities Research Board) funded project entitled "Digital Art Curation and Practice: Aesthetics, Participation and Diversity" at the Digital Media Research Centre at the University of the West of England at Bristol. Prior to this position she has lectured in interactive art, multimedia and new media theory and currently contributes to the Visual Culture course at UWE. Her Ph.D., completed in 1998, was practice-based and looked at the affinity between conceptual art practice and hypermedia; it culminated in the Duchampian 'StarGlass' CD-ROM.

Jean Kerrigan (J.Kerrigan@citylit.ac.uk) has a BA Hons in Sociology and a Diploma in Education from the University of Sheffield. She completed her MA in Art History at Goldsmiths College at the University of London in 1995 and in 1999 received a Certificate in Online Education and Training from the Institute of Education, University of London. She currently teaches art history to adult learners at The City Literary Institute, London where she is an ILT Staff Mentor. Also teaches design and layout to journalism students at School of Media at the London College of Printing.

Stefanie Kollmann (kollmann@bbf.dipf.de) is the Project Manager for the Pictura Paedagogica Online at the Bibliothek für Bildungsgeschichtliche Forschung in Berlin. She read the History of Art, Classical Archaeology and English Philology at the University of Freiburg and completed her MA on the witch drawings of Jacques de Gheyn II. She was Affiliate Research Student at the University College London. She gained her Ph.D. on Dutch art and artists in London in the 17th century from the Bern University, Switzerland (publ.: Olms, Hildesheim 2000).

Harald Kraemer (h.kraemer@uni-koeln.de) has a Ph.D. in the History of Art from the University of Trier/Mosel and a diploma in museum curatorship from the Institute for Cultural Studies in Vienna. He set up a consulting company for museum informatics and new media in 1993 and has worked on dbms projects, operational analysis, exhibition shows and symposia. His work includes Science Wonder Productions (e.g. DVD-ROM Vienna Walk Demo, 1997-1998) and the CD-ROM Art and Industry, 1999. He has published, among others: Museumsinformatik und Digitale Sammlung, WUV, Wien, 2001. Euphorie digital? Wissensvermittlung in Kunst, Kultur und Technologie, ed. with C. Gemmeke and H. John, transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2001; Zum Bedeutungswandel der Kunstmuseen. Positionen und Visionen zu Inszenierung, Dokumentation, Vermittlung, ed. with H. John, Verlag fuer moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, 1998.

Sylvia Lahav (Sylvia.Lahav@ng-london.org.uk) is Senior Education Officer, National Gallery in London and was previously Curator of Adult Programmes at Tate Modern, London.

Judy Mills (judy.mills@cotswold.gov.uk) is Collections Management Officer for Cotswold Museums Service.

Richard Mulholland graduated with distinction in the MA Conservation of Fine Art (Works of Art on Paper) programme at the University of Northumbria, Newcastle in December 2000. He was the recipient of the Wilfred Taylor Memorial Award upon graduation. Prior to this, he worked as a paper conservator on the Map Preservation project at the National Library of Ireland, Dublin. His research interests include the conservation of modern works of art on paper, and applications for digital imaging and technical examination for fine art conservation. He is presently employed as Senior Research Assistant at the University of Northumbria, on a collaborative project between the Conservation Unit and Institute of Image Data Research, A Shape Retrieval System for Watermark Images. He is a member of the Institute of Paper Conservation, and British Association of Paper Historians.

Johnathan Riley has previously worked in the field of Mechanical and Electronic production. He obtained a Higher TEC Certificate in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from York College of Arts and Technology in 1983, and a B Eng degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1986. Currently he is employed as Research Associate and Software Engineer for the Institute for Image Data Research (IIDR) at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle. He was involved in the development of the trademark retrieval software, ARTISAN in association with the UK Patent Office and on Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) evaluation projects in collaboration with the London Guildhall Library and Bristol Biomedical Image Archive. He is presently involved in the development of a Shape retrieval system for watermark images in collaboration with the Conservation Unit at the University of Northumbria.

John Sunderland has been Witt Librarian at the Courtauld Institute of Art since 1966. He was involved in such projects as The Witt Computer Index and VAN EYCK. In 1986 the Walpole Society published his catalogue of John Hamilton Mortimer's work. He also wrote on Constable and Chardin and other aspects of English and French art and recently contributed to the catalogue of the Art on Line exhibition to be held at the Courtauld in 2002. He has been Managing Editor of CHArt Journal since 1990.

Martin Wright (martin.wright@cotswold.gov.uk) is Museum Assistant for Cotswold Museums Service.

Wlodek Witek (wlodek.witek@nb.no) is photographer and paper restorer. He read English at the University of Poznan, Poland and has a diploma in paper conservation from Camberwell School of Art and Crafts in London. He worked on The Frith Photographic Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and on Edvard Munch's photographs at the Munch Museum in Oslo before taking up the review of the condition of microfilms and photographs in the University of Oslo Library. He carried out a pioneering project on Conservation and Computer Network Access to Fridtjof Nansen Photographic Collection at the University of Oslo Library, consisting mainly of records of Nansen's polar expeditions between 1888-1913 (http://www.nb.no/baser/nansen/). He was head of the Paper Conservation Department at the National Archives of Norway from 1992 to 1994 when he returned to work as paper and photo conservator at the University of Oslo Library. He worked with a small team on digitisation of the picture, film and sound archive of the Norwegian linguist Georg Morgenstierne (1892-1978), available since 2000 at http://www.nb.no/baser/morgenstierne/. Since 1999 he has been a paper and photo conservator at the National Library of Norway, Oslo Division. He exhibited his photographic work in Galeri Foton and Fotogalleriet in Oslo, in Rønvik Vel, Bodø, as well as the Photographic Gallery in Gdansk and Gieraltowski Gallery in Warsaw, Poland.