SECAC 2003
Raleigh, North Carolina
October 29 - November 1, 2003
The annual meeting of the Southeastern
College Art Conference (SECAC) will be held in conjunction with the
Tri State Sculptors in Raleigh, North Carolina from October 29 -
November 1, 2003. The meeting will be jointly hosted by the
North Carolina State University's Department of Art and Design and
Meredith College's Department of Art. The joint meeting of
SECAC and Tri State Sculptors allows a rich menu of traditional
sessions and panels as well as the "hands-on" demonstrations
and workshops that are a traditional part of the Tri State meetings.
Artist Alison Saar will be the keynote speaker.
Please see
http://www.meredith.edu/art/secac/default.htm for details on the
conference city, the conference hotel, air and ground transportation,
and conference registration. Advanced registration deadline:
October 1, 2003.
The Visual Resources Curators Group
has a day-and-a-half of special VR events planned. In addition
to a formal session at the conference hotel and a roundtable at Duke
University (see below), many site visits have been scheduled to take
advantage of the North Carolina Triangle cities' concentration of
major universities: NC State University in Raleigh, Duke University in
Durham, and the University of North Carolina in Chapel
Hill.
Raleigh is easily accessible by car or
plane and VR specialists and art librarians in North Carolina and the
neighboring states of Tennessee, Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, and
South Carolina, and the city of Washington should take advantage of
this exciting regional VR meeting.
VISUAL RESOURCES CURATORS
GROUP EVENTS
Friday, Oct. 31
"VR CURATORS ON THE ROAD IN THE TRIANGLE"
(subject to modification)
9:00-10:00 Raleigh
VR Site Visit: North Carolina State
University, Visual Resources Library
11:00-12:00
Durham
VR Site Visit: Duke University, Center for Documentary
Studies
12:00-1:00 Durham
Lunch
1:15-2:00 Durham
VR Site Visit: Duke University,
Visual Resources Center
2:00-3:30 Durham
VR Roundtable: Out With the Bath
Water: The Orphaning of the Analog Image Surrogate. Duke University,
East Campus, free and open to the public (see
below)
4:00-5:00 Chapel Hill
VR Site Visit: University of North
Carolina
Evening Raleigh
Halloween Night Gallery Walk
Saturday, Nov. 1
10:30-12:00
Raleigh
VR Session: Current Directions in
Digital Imaging: Theory and Practice. Conference Hotel, registration
required (see below)
12:00-1:30 Raleigh
VR Lunch and Business Meeting:
Greenshields Brewery and Pub, Raleigh
(www.greenshields.com)
Evening
NC Museum of Art reception
VR ROUNDTABLE
Out With the Bath Water: The Orphaning of the Analog Image
Surrogate
Moderator: Mark Pompelia, Rice University
Abstract:
At a time when visual resources professionals are still grappling with
the idea and reality of parallel collections management (analog and
digital), decisions are being made with greater frequency-at both the
national and local levels-that will directly affect the future
viability of the 35mm color slide in the visual resources collection.
This growing pattern of abandonment is being established by image
owners, users, and providers. The move toward digital-only collections
has occurred at major institutions with substantial film holdings as
well as at startup collections in smaller departments and schools;
academic and museum activity, from field research to classroom
presentation to publications, regularly occurs on a strictly digital
pathway.
Image vendors can now offer a complete digital inventory of their film
holdings, with new offerings only from digital source material. Major
new initiatives are built only as digital resources; and an increasing
number of film manufacturers and local film processors are
discontinuing slide film services due to declining demand. Unlike
traditional book publishing that has not been hurt by the emergence of
e-books and e-journals, the specialized nature of art image
collections renders them highly susceptible to these shifts in market
and user behaviors; thus the field of visual resources is irrevocably
altered.
This roundtable does not look to explore
how visual resources professionals should manage, classify, or control
a growing number of digital materials; rather it seeks to gauge the
imminence-the problems and promise-of the digital-only
environment.
VR SESSION
Current Directions in Digital Imaging: Theory and Practice
Moderator: John J. Taormina, Duke University
Abstract:
Presentations will discuss practices, procedures, and problems related
to developing a viable digital imaging program; case studies of
implementing digital programs; existing software programs developed
for digital archives and digital delivery; licensing and using online
image resources; digital consortia; teaching with the digital format;
and digital assets management
Speakers:
Ann Baird Whiteside, University of Virginia
"Metadata: Today, Tomorrow, Forever"
Christina B. Updike, James Madison University
"Integrating Digital Imagery Into the Classroom: MDIDv2 and the
ARTstor Beta-Test"
Jenni Rodda, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
"MDID at the IFA: Workflow, Implementation, and Application
Strategies"
Rachel Kuhn, North Carolina State University
"Luna Imaging Insight Implementation for Photographic Collections:
Planning, Selection, and Discovery"
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John J. Taormina
Director of Visual Resources
Dept. of Art and Art History
Duke University
Box 90764
Durham NC 27708-0764
http://www.duke.edu/web/art/
Editor, Visual Resources Association
Bulletin
http://www.vraweb.org