ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Needs You!

 

ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors are seeking volunteers to author reviews for the June 2017 issue. To volunteer, choose a resource from the list below and complete our review form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc2QLTDn82_R0KZVJjOJDKbnfImEPbq-nifuXn21YlrjHu7Eg/viewform) by Friday, March 24, 2017. Initial draft submissions are due Wednesday May 3, 2017.

 

Contributing to ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews (https://www.arlisna.org/publications/multimedia-technology-reviews) is a great opportunity to get involved with the Society, learn about interesting new resources, and help shape the publication. Please feel free to read the complete review guidelines (https://arlisna.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=303:for-reviewers&catid=38:multimedia-technology-reviews&Itemid=146) and direct comments and questions about the reviews to [log in to unmask]

 

Submitted by ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors:

Melanie Emerson

Gabriella Karl-Johnson

Alexandra Provo

 

Resources for Review: We seek reviewers for the following resources.

*The snippets below are taken from each resource’s web page and are not necessarily the opinions of the M&T Reviews Co-Editors.

 

Google Arts & Culture

https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/

Explore collections from around the world with Google Arts & Culture, created by Google Cultural Institute. Discover artworks, collections and stories from all around the world in a new way. Explore cultural treasures in extraordinary detail and easily share with your friends. For hundreds of years, cultural institutions have collected and safeguarded our history and heritage. Powerful technologies can amplify this mission, while preserving these artifacts for a worldwide audience today and tomorrow. We created The Lab in Paris as a place where tech and creative communities can come together to share ideas and discover new ways to experience art and culture. We welcome experts, creatives, curators, artists, designers and educators to help us craft new bridges between technology and culture.

 

David Rumsey Map Collection

http://www.davidrumsey.com/home

The David Rumsey Map Collection was started over 30 years ago and contains more than 150,000 maps. The collection focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps. Items range in date from about 1550 to the present. The David Rumsey Map Collection opened at Stanford in April 2016, but the online collection is still available and updated at its own site.

 

Net Art Anthology presented by Rhizome

https://anthology.rhizome.org/

Retelling the history of net art from the 1980s through the present day. This two-year online exhibition will present 100 artworks from net art history, restaging and contextualizing one project each week. Devised in concert with Rhizome's acclaimed digital preservation department, Net Art Anthology also aims to address the shortage of historical perspectives on a field in which even the most prominent artworks are often inaccessible. The series takes on the complex task of identifying, preserving, and presenting exemplary works in a field characterized by broad participation, diverse practices, promiscuous collaboration, and rapidly shifting formal and aesthetic standards, sketching a possible net art canon.

 

Troublemakers

trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD5IurD7CJI

about the film: http://troublemakersthefilm.com/

Troublemakers unearths the history of land art in the tumultuous late 1960s and early 1970s when a cadre of renegade New York artists sough to transcend the limitations of paining and sculpture by producing earthworks on a monumental scale in the desolate desert spaces of the American southwest. The film includes rare footage and interview which unveil the enigmatic lives and careers of storied artists Robert Smithson, Walter de Maria, and Michael Heizer; a headstrong troika that established the genre and who stand in marked contrast to the hyper-speculative contemporary art world of today.

*The film is on DVD, which will be mailed to the reviewer to keep or donate to their library.

 

Cultural Analytics

http://culturalanalytics.org/about/

Cultural Analytics is a new open-access journal dedicated to the computational study of culture. Its aim is to promote high quality scholarship that intervenes in contemporary debates about the study of culture using computational and quantitative methods.

 

MIT video channel on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/user/MITNewsOffice

The MIT video channel on YouTube includes hundreds of videos that range in subject from biographic profiles to tech tutorials to glimpses of life on campus.

 

NYC Public Art Map and Guide

https://www.nycgovparks.org/art-map

New York City’s parks are host to the country’s greatest outdoor public art museum. With hundreds of permanent works in our collection, and more than a dozen works of temporary art on display at any given time, there’s always something new to see just around the corner.

 

Poetry for Robots

http://poetry4robots.com/

Poetry for Robots is a digital humanities experiment instigated by this Imaginary Papers blog post and sponsored by Neologic Labs, Webvisions, and Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination. Starting today, we will populate a database with poetic metadata affiliated with specific images. Click an image and write a poem. Your poem will be stored in the database with the picture as 'poetic metadata.' Later, when we search the database, we'll see if the robot has learned how we see, describe, and feel the world.