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ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Needs You!

ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors are seeking volunteers to author reviews for the December 2019 issue.

To volunteer, choose a resource from the list below and complete our Reviewer Interest form (https://forms.gle/L1Peaewm9A24yyJMA) by Wednesday September 25.

 

Initial draft submissions are due Monday November 4.

Contributing to ARLIS/NA 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://www.arlisna.org/publications/multimedia-technology-reviews/303-for-reviewers) 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

 

Art & Inquiry (Coursera course)

https://www.coursera.org/learn/artinquiry

Explore how to integrate works of art into your classroom with inquiry-based teaching methods originally developed for in-gallery museum education.

 

A&AePortal

https://www.aaeportal.com/

The A&AePortal provides an innovative digital environment in which to discover and interact with important art and architectural history scholarship. With deep tagging on images and text, a robust image search that directs users toward relevant publications, and an interactive online reader tailored for highly illustrated works, the A&AePortal offers a powerful research tool for today’s students and scholars.

 

Vetusta Monumenta

https://scalar.missouri.edu/vm/index

This digital edition of a major eighteenth-century print series, Vetusta Monumenta (Ancient Monuments) makes high-quality scans of the original copperplate engravings, with full text and new scholarly commentary, freely available to scholars and the public. This edition focuses on the first three volumes, produced in the eighteenth century. It offers two complete sets of digital images, searchable transcriptions of the texts with the Latin portions translated into English, and commentaries on each individual plate and text by an international team of scholars.

 

The Complete Francis Hodgkins

https://completefranceshodgkins.com/explore

New Zealand’s leading expatriate artist, Frances Hodgkins (1869–1947) has a reputation forged through her practice in Britain and Western Europe. The Complete Frances Hodgkins is an online catalogue of the artist’s known paintings, watercolours and drawings ranging from 1886 to 1946. You can search across artworks, and related exhibitions, people and locations. The site also includes digitised and transcribed letters written by Hodgkins, her family and friends, as well as a wide range of related photographs and documents. The catalogue will continue to be updated as new material becomes available.

 

Feminist Search Tool*

https://feministsearchtool.nl/

In collaboration with Utrecht-based art & research collective Read-in Hackers & Designers developed a Feminist Search Tool*,–a digital interface that invites users to explore different ways of engaging with the records of the Utrecht University Library, putting forth the question: Why are the authors of the books I read so white, so male, so Eurocentric?.

 

Chicago Architecture Biennial [website and archive]

https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/

The Chicago Architecture Biennial is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to creating an international forum on architecture and urbanism through the production of distinctive exhibitions and public programs. The Biennial creates new opportunities every two years for emerging talent in architecture, design, and the arts to engage a wide public audience. The review will focus on the website as a resource for use independent of the event.

 

Met Museum YouTube channel

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

The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The YouTube channel includes hundreds of videos,  grouped by themes such as artist interviews, conservation, kids, and fashion, for users to explore the museum's collections, services, and history.

 

Charting the American Bottom

http://theamericanbottom.org/

“Charting the American Bottom” is a multi-platform project in digital humanities that looks to define a new category of narrative geography and landscape curation. Pulling equally from the legacy of illustrated County Atlases of the late 19th century, the “tour” structure of the 1930s WPA American Guides, and the evolving interconnectivity of online frameworks, this project provides an urgent model for the construction of landscape publics. Importantly this website is designed to serve as an invitation that facilitates actual navigation of this region—a threshold between the world out-there and the world of the archive—and as such promotes a kind of spatial encounter with an empowered, literate, landscape public. Our goal, then, is to provide a framework for deciphering the irreducible geography we find today.

 

urbanNext

https://urbannext.net/

urbanNext’s main goal is to generate a global network to produce content focused on rethinking architecture through the contemporary urban milieu —urbanity that is conditioned by the specificities of the information society, sustainable awareness, globalized knowledge and leisure. urbanNext is designed to establish a working structure and a multidisciplinary authorial platform for collaborations between people who have an interest in working, thinking and reflecting on design practices and their future. urbanNext is dedicated to distributing content through multiple channels, formats and media (print, digital, audiovisual, and even exhibitions or events). This convergence of resources, teams and media allows for a new collective narrative, which we call transmedia.

 

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Gabriella Karl-Johnson, M.Arch, MLS  (she, her, Ms.)

Architecture Librarian, School of Architecture

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ  08544

609.258.3128

http://library.princeton.edu/libraries/architecture

 

Co-Editor, ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews

https://www.arlisna.org/publications/multimedia-technology-reviews