Forwarded from the VRA-L since these activities are open to and
may be of interest to ARLIS members.
Best wishes,
Maureen
The College Art Association (CAA)
conference will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from
February 22nd to 25th.
From the CAA's website:
"Speakers and panelists will present
their recent artistic projects and art-historical research, while
others will talk about relevant issues in pedagogy, technology,
publishing, and the academic workforce."
The CAA is the VRA's oldest affiliate
society and this year marks the VRA's 30th anniversary and
CAA's 100th.
We're planning a number of activities
to celebrate this momentous year, including, a panel on the history of
teaching with images, a business meeting and a walking tour with the
LA Conservancy:
Thursday, February
23rd
12:30-2:00pm
Concourse Meeting Room 403A.
Paint, Prints and Pixels: Learning
from the History of Teaching with Images
Chair: John Trendler, Scripps College
Revisioning Art History: How a
Century of Change in Imaging Technologies Helped to Shape a
Discipline
Allan T. Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art & Design
Light Explorations: Teaching 19th -
21st Century Intersections of Photographic, Scientific, and Digital
Technologies
Sheila Pinkel, Pomona College
Pictures of Art History: The Getty
Research Institute's Photo Study Collection
Anne Blecksmith and Tracey Schuster, The Getty Research
Institute
New Challenges for a Digital
Generation: An Information Literacy Approach to Teaching Visual
Literacy
Joanna Burgess, Reed College; Ann Medaille, University of Nevada,
Reno
Saturday, February
25th
12:30-2:00pm
Concourse Meeting Room 407
VRA Business Meeting
In addition to organizational updates, we
plan to discuss the VRA's new Fair Use Guidelines and how VR
curators might consider implementing ACRL's Visual Literacy
Standards.
ARLIS/NA is also holding a session
focused on image issues.
Friday, February
24th
5:30-7:00pm
West Hall Meeting Room 511BC, Level
2
Collaboration, Access, Sustainability:
The Future of Image Research Collections
Chairs: Tony White, Indiana University
Bloomington; Laura Graveline, Dartmouth College
Picturing the Future: Private
Collections and Public Institutions
Inge Reist, Frick Art Reference
Library
Digital Humanities and New Emerging
Paradigms for Librarians
Ann Whiteside, Harvard
University
The Evolution of
Corporate-Personal-Public Image Collections: Implications for Research
and Preservation
Andrea Copeland, Indiana
University
Yours, Mine, and Our Common Cultural
Heritage: Losing Control of Digital Visual
Information
Joane Beaudoin, Wayne State
University
Saturday, Feb 25th
2:30-4:30pm
Historic Downtown walking tour led by
the LA Conservancy
The business meeting will be followed by
a walking tour of "Historic Downtown" provided by the LA
Conservancy.
Whether you attend the CAA affiliate
events or not, anyone interested in the Historic Downtown walking tour
led by the LA Conservancy should send their RSVP ([log in to unmask] or
310-489-3792) and check for $10 per person to Maureen Burns at 2174 W.
Rockinghorse Road, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275 by FRIDAY, FEB 17th.
Information forthcoming about meeting spot and other details. Everyone
welcome.
After the tour we will be meeting
casually for food and drinks.
In order to attend either the VRA or
ARLIS activities (or any affiliate society 1.5hour sessions) you do
not need to be a member or register for the conference.
More about the conference can be found
here:
http://conference.collegeart.org/2012/
Full session information and schedules
can be found here:
http://conferencecollegeart.org/2012/sessions/
Hope to see you
there!
John M. Trendler
Curator of Visual Resources
Scripps College
(909) 607-3099
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http://imageminders.net/