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The CHArt 2005 CONFERENCE, which takes place on Thursday 10 - Friday 11
November 2005 at The British Academy, is hosting a ROUND-TABLE
DISCUSSION at the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) Cinema, 4.00pm –
6.00pm, Thursday 10 November 2005.
DEMOCRATIZING THE IMAGE: CREATING A GLOBAL LEARNING COMMUNITY
The widespread use of digital technology in the field of art history has
the potential to help forge an international learning community in which
the widest range of students, educators, and researchers share
unprecedented access to the world’s cultural heritage. Indeed, the
capability to connect individual databases worldwide has existed for
some time. In practice, however, institutions have pursued an
assortment of individual solutions. One of the greatest ironies of
attempting to make cultural property widely accessible is that the
guardians of this material (museums, archives, etc.) are frequently and
unknowingly at odds with the community of end users (educators,
researchers, students). While museums view their primary role as
safeguarding precious resources, the academic community demands ever
freer on-line access to cultural artefacts. The other overriding issue
here is that of copyright, and any comprehensive effort of this sort has
to take an active role in defining a new global understanding of
“educational fair use.” After brief statements from a diverse range of
experts (artists, educators, curators), this session will function as
open forum on the possibilities and challenges of creating an
international digital image database. Focusing on efforts currently
underway in the UK, the panel will also consider how these initiatives
could be linked with corresponding efforts in Germany and in the United
States.
The event will be moderated by David Ehrenpreis, Director, Institute
for Visual Studies, James Madison University and participants will
include: Tom Bilson, Head of Digital Media, Courtauld Institute of Art;
Charlie Gere, Reader in New Media Research and Director of Research at
the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University; Jemima
Rellie, Head of Digital Programmes, Tate; Mike Pringle, Director, AHDS
Visual Arts; Duncan Smith, Digital Artist and Artistic Director of ACAVA
(Association for Cultural Advancement through Visual Art); along with a
representative from Prometheus, the distributed digital picture archive
for research and learning, used throughout the German university system.
The ICA, the Mall, London, SW1Y 5AH (www.ica.org.uk) is located behind
the British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
(www.britac.ac.uk)
The booking form for this event and the CHArt conference is available on
the CHArt website (www.chart.ac.uk). The round-table fee is £5. If you
are attending all or part of the CHArt conference, the round-table fee
is included in the conference fee.
For queries, please contact CHArt, Centre for Computing in the
Humanities, Kings College London, Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, WC2R
3DX. tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2013, fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980,
[log in to unmask] (please use the subject heading CHArt
Conference 2005 in any email queries).
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Marlene Gordon
Visual Resources and Music Curator
University of Michigan-Dearborn
313-593-5463
313-593-1902 (fax)
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CHArt Committee
VRA-IPR Committee, Chair
IS, co-editor
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