CHArt CHArt Computers and the History of Art
FUTURES PAST. Thirty Years of Arts ComputingEdited by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen, and Hazel Gardiner
Eleven contributors to this volume reflect upon the unprecedented ways in which digital media have been transforming art practice, study and education. The authors – researchers, teachers, custodians of art collections and picture libraries, and an artist – cover a wide range of issues, arguing for a more profound understanding of digital culture.
With the benefit of hindsight it is now possible to look at futures past and assess the disparities between earlier visions of the future and reality. Frank accounts are given of projects which had promised great advances but failed to deliver, and others that have not only survived but continue to flourish. Another account demonstrates how an individual can make a difference to students’ learning by applying new technologies in a very pragmatic way.
One of the most exciting advancements hinted at in this volume are the ways in which communities of interest are developing shared resources and cultivating a richer use of common vocabulary and standards to transmit an abundance of knowledge and experience. A look forward to the Semantic Web promises an even wider sharing of knowledge.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
vii Contributors
1 Introduction by Trish Cashen
EXPERIMENTAL INTERACTION
5 Painting Digital, Letting Go
by James Faure Walker
13 Microanalysis as a Means to Mediate Digital Arts
by Matthias Weiss
25 Indexed Lights
by Pierre R. AuboironEDUCATING WITH COMPUTERS
31 A Computer in the Art Room
by Catherine Mason
43 Learning Resources for Teaching History of Art in Higher Education
by Jutta VinzentPROJECTS AND ARCHIVES: HISTORIES AND RESURGENCE
55 Sourcing the Index: Iconography and Its Debt to Photography
by Colum Hourihane
63 The Medium was the Method: Photography and Iconography at the Index of Christian Art
by Andrew E. Hershberger
77 The Good, the Bad and the Accessible: Thirty Years of Using New Technologies in BIAD Archives
by Sian EverittONLINE INFORMATION: LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD
87 Object Information at the Victoria and Albert Museum: Successes and Failures in Web Delivery
by Melanie Rowntree
103 This is the Modern World: Collaborating with ARTstor
by Vickie O’Riordan
109 Towards a Semantic Web: The Role of Ontologies in the Literary Domain
by Luciana Bordoni117 Abstracts
125 CHArt – Computers and the History of Art
127 Guidelines for Submitting Papers for the CHArt Yearbook
ISBN 978-1-84150-168-0
ISSN 1743-3959
Published by intellect
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