[1] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (42)
Subject: The Getty Information Institute's new Arthur Image
Search System
[2] From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk> (45)
Subject: computer art degrees -- for all?
[3] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (94)
Subject: Two Web sites: Book Arts Web; Investigating the
Renaissance
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Date: Mon, 1 Jun 1998 17:55:39 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: The Getty Information Institute's new Arthur Image Search
System
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
June 1, 1998
FEEDBACK REQUESTED ON NEW IMAGE SEARCH SYSTEM: ARTHUR
<http://www.gii.getty.edu/arthur/>
>Date: Thu, 28 May 98 11:31:29 PDT
>From: april@vaneyck.Gii.Getty.EDU (April Brown)
>To: lacn-list@lacn.org
>>Cc: april@vaneyck.Gii.Getty.EDU
>Status:
>
>
>Try the Getty Information Institute's new Image search system:
>
> Arthur (http://www.gii.getty.edu/arthur/)
>
>Arthur is a demonstration project currently under development
>in the Getty Information Institute's Technology Research & Development
>group. Arthur uses the AMORE (http://www.ccrl.com/amore/) image system,
>developed by NEC USA, Inc. to index and search the images and text
>of nearly 600 selected websites.
>
>Your feedback is really helpful to us. Please let us know what
>you think. Use the Comments link on the search page or e-mail
>directly to arthur@gii.getty.edu .
>
>
>April Brown
>Technology Research & Development
>The Getty Information Institute
>
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Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 07:00:58 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: computer art degrees -- for all?
>From "Microsoft in Higher Education", Microsoft Technology Source for June
1998, comes notice of the BFA and MFA degree programmes in computer arts at
the School of Visual Arts, New York City, <http://www.sva.edu/mfacad/> (for
the MFA degree) and <http://bfaca.schoolofvisualarts.edu/> (for the BFA).
The introductory statement for the MFA page is worth some consideration by
those whose primary orientation is to words:
"Computers are transforming our culture by fundamentally altering the way we
communicate. The very nature of what we say to each other is becoming more
constituted by computer-aided imagery, and visual information is assuming a
larger role in our everyday interactions as well as in specialized
disciplines. The challenge of crafting articulate messages will require the
skills of visual artists more than ever before - artists who are conversant
with electronic technologies and digital media. The innovative Graduate
Program in Computer Art at the School of Visual Arts seeks to prepare
students to play a formative role in the emergence of this new cultural
environment."
(The fundamental alteration in "the way we communicate" is an interesting
assertion carrying along with it an assumption about who constitutes this
"we". You and I belong, so there may seem to be no problem here, but what if
we ask about whom it excludes? "Vox populi vox dei" means (does it not?)
that one either defines the "populus" very carefully or has a very dangerous
"deus" on one's case. See Hobbes et al. But more about this later.)
That aside, we would do well to think about the second assertion that "The
challenge of crafting articulate messages will require the skills of visual
artists more than ever before...." Some of you, I know, have spent quite a
bit of time thinking about the artefactual and specifically visual aspects
of the things from which we often thoughtlessly derive our disembodied
notion of "text". One implication of realising the importance of these
aspects is that we alter how we train future scholars. If "crafting
articulate messages" in the new medium puts greater or renewed emphasis on
"the skills of visual artists", then should we not think about how to impart
these skills, or at minimum some appreciation of them, in our degree
programmes? Isn't the Web, as a scholarly publishing medium, an excellent
subject around which to build such training? This suggests that humanities
computing take on a strong visual design and artistic component, including
the basics of layout, typography, colour and related subjects -- as
important means of scholarly expression.
Who has done this?
Comments?
Yours,
WM
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Dr. Willard McCarty, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
voice: +44 (0)171 873 2784 fax: +44 (0)171 873 5801
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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:34:44 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: Two Web sites: Book Arts Web; Investigating the Renaissance
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
June 2, 1998
INVESTIGATING THE RENAISSANCE:
Examining Material Aspects of Three Early Netherlandish Paintings
Using Digital Imaging Techniques
<http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/Renaissance/index.html>
BOOK ARTS WEB
<http://www.dreamscape.com/pdverhey/>
Below are two worthwhile websites of interest to this audience, caught by
The Scout Report in its May 22 edition.
David Green
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FROM: The Scout Report--May 22, 1998
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>======== The Scout Report ==
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>>SNIP
7. Investigating the Renaissance: Examining Material Aspects of Three Early
Netherlandish Paintings Using Digital Imaging Techniques--HUAM [Shockwave]
http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/Renaissance/index.html
The Harvard University Art Museums provide this fascinating site, a
technologically enhanced look at three Netherlandish Renaissance Paintings:
_Portrait of a Man_ (Master of the 1540s), _The Virgin and Child_ (Workshop
of Dirck Bouts), and _The Last Judgement_ (Jan Provoost). Designed to
demonstrate how scientific techniques can aid in both art conservation and
education, the site provides images of the paintings with selected details,
as well as explanations of infrared reflectography, X-radiography and
ultraviolet light. Highlight of the site, however, is the "examples"
section, which includes a detailed examination (click in the red boxes), a
three step cleaning guide, and a multi-layered view. In the multi-layered
view, Shockwave based comparisons of visible light with infrared and x-ray
views of the painting are available. [JS]
>>>SNIP
14. Book Arts Web
http://www.dreamscape.com/pdverhey/
Peter Verheyen, Conservation Librarian at Syracuse University, has put
together this gateway to book arts related web sites. Information is
available on letterpress printing, typography, hand book binding and paper
making, rare book dealers and conservation of library materials. Included
are home pages of individual book artists, printers, and bookbinders and
their organizations, several listservs with searchable archives,
specialized bibliographies and links to a variety of arts organizations.
There is also a gallery with images of handbound books and links to online
exhibitions and collections, including a show of miniature books at the
University of Iowa, and the Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection at the
School of the Art Institute of Chicago. [DS]
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Executive Director
NATIONAL INITIATIVE FOR A NETWORKED CULTURAL HERITAGE
21 Dupont Circle, NW
Washington DC 20036
www-ninch.cni.org
david@ninch.org
202/296-5346 202/872-0886 fax
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