The Computers and the History of Art Group announces its first Yearbook,
"Digital Art History: A Subject in Transition". A detailed
description of the first issue and an order form follows. This message
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COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART (CHArt)
Digital Art History: A Subject in Transition.
COMPUTERS AND THE HISTORY OF ART YEARBOOK, VOL. 1, 2005.
Published by intellect BOOKS
Contributors: Stephen Clancy, Antonio Criminisi, Margaret E. Graham, Dew
Harrison, Michael Hammel, Martin Kemp, Mary Pearce, K. Jonathan Riley,
Nic Sheen, William Vaughan, Annette A. Ward, Wlodek Witek, Suzette
Worden, Andrew Zisserman
Editors: Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen and Hazel Gardiner
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. Some show how much is
to be gained from the flexibility of the digital image or could be
gained if the roadblock 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 may
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.
A further challenging aspect covered in this book is the range of
possibilities offered by digital media for new art forms. One point that
emerges is that digital art is not a discrete practice, separated from
other art forms. It is rather an approach that can involve all manner of
association with other art practices and with other forms of
presentation and inquiry, 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.
CONTENTS
Introduction by William Vaughan
TEACHING AND COMMUNICATION
1. History of Art in the Digital Age: Problems and Possibilities by
William Vaughan
2. Animating Art History: Digital Ways of Studying Colour in Abstract
Art by Mary Pearce
VISUALIZING THE PAST
3. The Cathedral as a Virtual Encyclopaedia: Reconstructing the Texts
of Chartres Cathedral by Stephen Clancy
4. With Camera to India, Iran and Afghanistan: Access to Multimedia
Sources of the Explorer Professor Dr. Morgenstierne (1892-1975) by
Wlodek Witek
ONLINE ART
5. Towards a Yet Newer Laocoon. Or, what we can learn from interacting
with computer games by Michael Hammel
6. Digital Arts On (the) Line by Dew Harrison and Suzette Worden
METHODS AND PRACTICES
7. Bringing Pictorial Space to Life: Computer Techniques for the
Analysis of Paintings by Antonio Criminisi, Martin Kemp and Andrew Zisserman
8. Enhancing a Historical Digital Art Collection: Evaluation of
Content-Based Image Retrieval on Collage by Annette A. Ward, Margaret E.
Graham, K. Jonathan Riley and Nic Sheen
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