Futures past : thirty years of arts computing

Most papers first presented at the CHArt annual conference held at the Birkbeck College, London, 11-12 November 2004.
Book Description : / "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 : /
0. Trish Cashen: Introduction /
Part 1 : EXPERIMENTAL INTERACTION /
1. James Faure Walker: Painting Digital, Letting Go by /
2. Matthias Weiss: Microanalysis as a Means to Mediate Digital Arts /
3. Pierre R. Auboiron: Indexed Lights /
Part 2 : EDUCATING WITH COMPUTERS /
4. Catherine Mason: A Computer in the Art Room /
5. Jutta Vinzent: Learning Resources for Teaching History of Art in Higher Education /
Part 3 : PROJECTS AND ARCHIVES: HISTORIES AND RESURGENCE /
6. Colum Hourihane: Sourcing the Index: Iconography and its Debt to Photography /
7. Andrew E. Hershberger: The Medium was the Method: Photography and Iconography at the Index of Christian Art /
8. Sian Everitt: The Good, the Bad and the Accessible: Thirty Years of Using New Technologies in BIAD Archives /
Part 4 : ONLINE INFORMATION: LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD /
9. Melanie Rowntree: Object Information at the Victoria and Albert Museum: Successes and Failures in Web Delivery /
10. Vickie O'Riordan: This is the Modern World: Collaborating with ARTstor /
11. Luciana Bordoni: Towards a Semantic Web: The Role of Ontologies in the Literary Domain /
12. Abstracts / CHArt - Computers and the History of Art / Guidelines for Submitting Papers for the CHArt Yearbook.
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