Computing & Visual Culture:
Representation and Interpretation
Fourteenth Annual Conference of CHArt

Computers and the History of Art
24-25 September 1998
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Abstracts are available for the following papers:

• Pat Batley, Mark Gaved and Gordon Selley, (London College of Printing): Digitisation in Art and Design (DIAD)
• Paula J Behrens, (Community College of Philadelphia) & Jeffrey Cohen, (Bryn Mawr College): Building with Megabytes: Establishing Web-Based Image Collections for Architectural History
• Irina D Costache, (Loyola University, New Orleans): The Work of Art(Historians) in the Age of Electronic (Re)Production
• Sean Cubitt, (John Moores University, Liverpool): Cabinets, Charts and Catalogues: Problems of Order in Convergent Media
• Evan Dickerson, (Richmond, The American International University in London): Kulturkampf; the battle to site and interpret Hitler's Art
• Bart Van Elderen, (University of Nijmegen): One image - two views; Differences between historians and art historians
• Nick Frayling, (Royal College of Art/V & A, London): Virtual Conservation: an investigation of the original appearance of Nicholas Hilliard's Portrait Miniatures
• Angie Geary, (Royal College of Art/V & A, London): Virtual Conservation: an investigation of the original examples of European polychromed sculpture
• Charlie Gere, (Birkbeck College, University of London): Hypermedia and Emblematics
• Neil Grindley & Catherine Gordon, (Witt Library, Courtauld Institute of Art): Witt Library; record for Courtauld Gallery CD
• Samantha Littley, (National Gallery of Australia): Couch Culture; Access and Art at the National Gallery of Australia
• Anna Salaman, (Education Department, Victoria & Albert Museum): Going Graphic; An Educational Event at the V &A
• Alison Stones, (University of Pittsburgh): Teaching and Research in Medieval Art; Three Sites
• Peter Walsh, (Wellesley College, USA): "The Headless Curator": Visual Arts in the Age of Universal Access
• Suzette Worden, (University of the West of England): From the 'expository' to the 'declarative': interpreting the WWW

Some Websites Related to the Discussions

• L'Encyclopédie online project - (French mirror site) - an example of an 18th-century "big science" project analogous with today's Hubble Space Telescope, according to Sean Cubitt.
• Suzette Worden's presentation on evaluating websites is now online.
  During the discussion, CIDOC's criteria for evaluating multimedia in museums (applicable also to websites) was mentioned.
• Irina Costache spoke about her Artis site (Art Resources Through Internet Surfing ).
• Evan Dickerson highlighted a number of useful online resources for studying Nazi-patronised art (links to follow).
• Peter Walsh celebrated the 'anarchic' tendency of sites such as The Thinker and Mark Harden's Artchive.
• Anna Salaman of the V&A's education department spoke about the Going Graphic event held there earlier this year.
• Samantha Littley discussed the National Gallery of Australia's innovative multimedia information system and how the gallery's database has been made available on the web.
• Alison Stones discussed three medieval art research projects, including the popular MedArt public site.
• Paula Behrens & Jeffery Cohen demonstrated the American Architecture Image Exchange Project and outlined future developments.
• The DIAD Project is currently trialling its web interface on the London Institute's intranet. It may be available on the web in the future.

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