This collection of papers represents the variety, innovation and richness of significant presentations made at the CHArt Conferences of 2001 and 2002. Some show new methods of teaching being employed, making clear in particular the huge advantages that IT can provide for engaging students in learning and interactive discussion. It also shows how much is to be gained from the flexibility of the digital image – or could be gained if the road block of copyright is finally overcome. Others look at the impact on collections and archives, showing exciting ways of using computers to make available information about collections and archives and to provide new accessibility to archives. The way such material can now be accessed via the internet has revolutionized the search methods of scholars, but it has also made information available to all. However the internet is not only about access. Some papers here show how it also offers the opportunity of exploring the structure of images and dealing with the fascinating possibilities offered by digitisation for visual analysis, searching and reconstruction. Another challenging aspect covered here are the possibilities offered by digital media for new art forms. One point that emerges is that digital art is not some discreet practice, separated from other art forms. It is rather an approach that can involve all manner of association with both other art practices and with other forms of presentation and enquiry, demonstrating that we are witnessing a revolution that affects all our activities and not one that simply leads to the establishment of a new discipline to set alongside others.' - from publisher's website.
Includes notes on contributors, and abstracts of papers presented.
Computers and the History of Art Series: Volume 1
Onsite
English
art history,  digital art,  internet art,  cultural studies,  art administration
2005
123
9781841501161
1
anthology
Introduction - William VAUGHAN
Teaching and Communication
History of Art in the Digital Age: Problems and Possibilities - William VAUGHAN
Animating Art History: Digital Ways of Studying Colour in Abstract Art - Mary PEARCE
Visualising the Past
The Cathedral as a Virtual Encyclopaedia: Reconstructing the 'Texts' of Chartres Cathedral - Stephen CLANCY
With Camera to India, Iran and Afghanistan: Access to Multimedia Sources of the Explorer Professor Dr Morgenstierne (1892-1975) - Wlodek WITEK
Online Art
Towards a Yet Newer Laocoon. Or, What we can Learn from Interacting with Computer Games - Michael HAMMEL
Digital Arts On (the) Line - Dew HARRISON, Suzette WORDEN
Methods and Practices
Bringing Pictorial Space to Life: Computer Techniques for the Analysis of Paintings - Antonio CRIMINSI, Martin KEMP, Andrew ZISSERMAN
Enhancing a Historical Digital Art Collection: Evaluation of Content-Based Image Retrieval on Collage - Annette A. WARD, Margaret E. GRAHAM, Jonathan RILEY, Nic SHEEN
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