Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 15, No. 585.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 07:23:15 +0100
From: "J. Trant - Executive Director" <jtrant@amico.org>
Subject: AMICO Announces New Members
Art Museum Image Consortium
www.amico.org
Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia
AMICO Press Release
For Immediate Release: April 14, 2002
The Art Museum Image Consortium Welcomes New Members
The Louisiana State Museum, The Newark Museum,
the Terra Museum of American Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum join AMICO
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) welcomes four new members to our
growing collaboration. The Newark Museum, the Louisiana State Museum, Terra
Museum of American Art, and the Victoria & Albert Museum join thirty--two
other museums in an unprecedented collaboration to enable educational use
of museum multimedia. Together AMICO's Members are building The AMICO
Library, an on-line multi-media resource documenting works of art in their
collections.
"AMICO draws its strength from the diversity of its Members" says Elizabeth
Broun, Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and AMICO's Chair.
"This exceptional group of new members will further develop The AMICO
Library and enhance our collaboration."
Mark Jones, the Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum remarked, "The V&A
is committed to making its collections available and useful to as many
people as possible. We are glad to collaborate with our partners in AMICO
in creating common access to the wonderful objects that these museums contain."
James F. Sefcik, Assistant Secretary, Office of State Museums, Department
of Culture, Recreation & Tourism, and Director, Louisiana State Museum,
concurred "the opportunity to share the resources of the group with others
is remarkable. I look forward to the time - and it gets closer every day -
when students worldwide will be able to share the collective wealth of the
Louisiana State Museum and our sister institutions for their own work and
information.
AMICO Members are working together to ensure that teachers and students,
researchers and museum professionals world-wide can easily access and use
museum multimedia documentation. The 2002 release of The AMICO Library will
document approximately 100,000 works of art from our Members collections.
This exceptional compilation is a valuable resource in teaching across the
Arts and Humanities curriculum. Subscribing institutions around the world
are making creative use of previously inaccessible or difficult to find
images, text documentation, multimedia and sound files, including those
from selected Antenna Audio tours.
Membership in AMICO is open to institutions with a collection of art,
willing to contribute to The AMICO Library. Please contact Jennifer Trant,
AMICO's Executive Director at jtrant@amico.org for further information.
About AMICO
The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a growing, independent
non-profit (501c3) corporation. Founded in 1997, the Consortium today is
made up of over 35 major museums in the United States, Canada, and the
United Kingdom. It's an innovative collaboration - not seen before in
museums - that shares, shapes, and standardizes digital information
regarding museum collections and enables its educational use. Membership
is open to any institution with a collection of art.
Together AMICO Members build The AMICO LibraryTM a compilation of
multimedia documentation of works in their collections. The 2002 edition
of The AMICO Library documents approximately 100,000 different works of
art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations; new
works are added annually. More than simply an image database, AMICO
Library works are fully documented and may include curatorial text,
detailed provenance information, multiple views, and other related
multimedia. Subscribers find The AMICO Library valuable because it
combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence
and academic weight of traditional library reference sources.
The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to licensed
subscribers such as universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and
museums. Over 3 million users on four continents include faculty, students,
teachers, staff, researchers, and public library patrons. Educational
subscribers receive access to The AMICO Library through one of our
Distributors. A subscription to The AMICO Library provides rights to use
works for a broad range of educational purposes. Potential subscribers may
preview a Thumbnail Catalog of The AMICO Library, request a free trial from
our Distributors, and get further information at http://www.amico.org.
Contact Information
Jennifer Trant
Executive Director
Art Museum Image Consortium
Phone: +1 412 422 8533
Email: info@amico.org
Web: http://www.amico.org
AMICO Members
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Art Gallery of Ontario
The Art Institute of Chicago
Asia Society Gallery
Center for Creative Photography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art
Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley College
Denver Art Museum
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library
George Eastman House
J. Paul Getty Museum
The Library of Congress
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Louisiana State Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Muse d'art contemporain de Montral
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Gallery of Canada
National Museums of Scotland
The Newark Museum
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia Museum of Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Terra Museum of American Art
Victoria & Albert Museum
Walker Art Center
The Walters Art Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art
-- ________ J. Trant 2008 Murray Ave, Suite D Executive Director Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA Art Museum Image Consortium http://www.amico.org Phone: +1 412 422 8533 jtrant@amico.org Fax: +1 412 422 8594AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia ________
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