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Title Futures past : thirty years of arts computing / edited by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen and Hazel Gardiner.

Publication Info. Bristol, UK : Intellect ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Books, the University of Chicago Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 128 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Computers and the history of art, 1743-3959 ; v. 2
Computers and the history of art ; v. 2. 1743-3959
Note Contains papers originally presented at the CHArt Conference, held at Birkbeck College on 11-12 November 2004.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction / by Trish Cashen -- Painting digital, letting go / by James Faure Walker -- Microanalysis as a means to mediate digital arts / by Matthias Weiss -- Indexed lights / by Pierre R. Auboiron -- A computer in the art room / by Catherine Mason -- Learning resources for teaching history of art in higher education / by Jutta Vinzent -- Sourcing the index : iconography and its debt to photography / by Colum Hourihane -- Medium was the method : photography and iconography at the Index of Christian Art / by Andrew E. Hershberger -- Good, the bad and the accessible : thirty years of using new technologies in BIAD archives / by Sian Everitt -- Object information at the Victoria and Albert Museum : successes and failures in web delivery / by Melanie Rowntree -- This is the modern world : collaborating with ARTstor / by Vickie O'Riordan -- Towards a semantic web : the role of ontologies in the literary domain / by Lisa Bordoni.
Summary 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.
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Subject Art and technology -- Congresses.
Art and technology.
Art -- Data processing -- Congresses.
Art -- Data processing.
Art.
Arts -- History -- Computer-assisted instruction.
Arts.
History.
Computer-assisted instruction.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Conference papers and proceedings.
History.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Bentkowska-Kafel, Anna.
Cashen, Trish.
Gardiner, Hazel.
CHArt (Group)
Added Title Futures past : 30 years of arts computing
Other Form: Print version: Futures past. Bristol, UK : Intellect ; Chicago, IL : Intellect Books, the University of Chicago Press, ©2007 9781841501680 1841501689 (OCoLC)122257197
ISBN 9781841509808 (electronic book)
1841509809 (electronic book)
9781841501680
1841501689
1280763019
9781280763014