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*VRA-sponsored Session at College Art Association Annual Conference* ***open to all CAA-affiliate members--registration not required*** *Beyond the Slideshow: Teaching the History of Art and Material Culture in the Age of New Media* *Thursday, February 10, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM* *Nassau Suite, 2nd Floor, Hilton New York* Chair: Johanna Bauman, ARTstor Paper Abstracts: "Technology, Instrument of a New Geography of Art" Katherine Manthorne, The Graduate Center, City University of New York The current mandate for globalism interrogates the traditional foundations of the field but proposes few alternative models. This paper reviews a case study for a *New Geography of Art *(forthcoming, coauthored with the artist James L. McElhinney). Eschewing focus on the nation-state, it maps trade and travel routes as the nexus of artistic production and consumption. Venturing beyond the usual taxonomies of artist or stylistic category, how do we identify new rubrics and imagery? This presentation showcases databases of visual materials, ranging from fine art and trade prints to film. It utilizes creative search words to compile a series of intersecting image groups that cut across stylistic and national boundaries. These image groups provide building blocks for constructing new constellations of artworks, thematic lectures, and projects that further dismantle old patterns and move us closer to casting new paradigms for the study of the visual world. "The Digital Media Lab at the Bard Graduate Center" David Jaffee and Kimon Keramaidas, Bard Graduate Center The Bard Graduate Center opened a Digital Media Lab (DML) in the fall of 2009 to highlight the increasing importance of new media for teaching and learning with visual and material evidence. We wanted to have a formal venue for this work along with a DML director to promote the use of interactive technology in course work and student projects. This has brought about an increase in the use of blogs and wikis for course materials and presentations; students and instructors create a public space for communication and use more audio and video materials. In addition, students can visualize their work using such open-source programs as Omeka to create digital exhibitions and Google Sketch-Up to produce exhibition walk-throughs. We talk about the challenges and rewards of this new approach to both faculty and students in our teaching and learning of material culture and design history. "Teleporting to Assisi: Art and Art History in the Virtual World" Donald Beetham, Rutgers University Virtual worlds offer new opportunities for teaching and learning and also a new medium for artistic creation. An international community now inhabits Second Life where avatars are playing, learning, building, and working. Interaction is limited only by time zones. Might these worlds offer anything new as a tool for teaching and learning art history? At Rutgers two projects set out to explore this question: (1) a virtual museum looking at Second Life re-creations of architectural monuments and how these virtual structures might be used to expand knowledge of their real-life counterparts; and (2) a monthly workshop teaching art history graduate students how to create presentations in Second Life. Students then curated an exhibition in Second Life for a real-life Byzantine seminar. This paper discusses how virtual worlds are potentially a laboratory for students to explore otherwise illusive concepts, that is, experiencing spatial relationships in inhabitable architectural models. -- Mark Pompelia Visual Resources Librarian Rhode Island School of Design phone: 401-709-5935 http://library.risd.edu -- Mark Pompelia Visual Resources Librarian Rhode Island School of Design phone: 401-709-5935 http://library.risd.edu ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~