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ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Needs You!

 

It's not too late to volunteer! ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors are still seeking volunteers to author reviews for the June 2022 issue. To volunteer, choose a resource from the list below and complete our Reviewer Interest form (https://forms.gle/cEGL6775LF7ys2c27) by Thursday, March 31 Wednesday, April 13!

Initial draft submissions are due Friday, April 29 Friday, May 6.

 

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 and direct comments and questions about the reviews to [log in to unmask]. 

Know of a resource we should review? Submit ideas here. 

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

Gabriella Karl-Johnson

Alexandra Provo

Karina Wratschko

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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 and Obsolescence Podcast

https://www.artandobsolescence.com/

Conversations with artists, collectors, and professionals shaping the past, present, and future of art and technology.

Internet Culturale

https://www.internetculturale.it/

**Please note: this resource is in Italian only

Obiettivo primario di Internet culturale è promuovere la conoscenza del patrimonio bibliografico e documentario offrendo anche approfondimenti culturali sulle raccolte librarie attraverso risorse multimediali, dedicati alla cultura letteraria, scientifica, musicale. ecc.; si propone come punto di riferimento per quanti sono portatori di interessi nel mondo del libro; in quanto aggregatore tematico italiano di contenuti digitali aspira ad accogliere i risultati di queste attività realizzate dalle biblioteche di diversa natura ammnistrativa.

Materia: Journal of Technical Art History

https://materiajournal.com/

Materia: Journal of Technical Art History is a digital, open-access peer-reviewed journal for the technical study of art objects. We hope to cater to a broad readership, ranging from conservation specialists, academic and museum professionals, or anyone interested in the materiality of artworks. Among our contributors we count practicing conservators and conservation scientists, as well as art historians and researchers within the fields of material culture, archaeology and social anthropology. Acting as a scholarly forum for the bridging of these diverse yet interrelated disciplines, Materia aims to highlight the benefits and value of examining our cultural heritage through a material lens.

Nautilus Catalogue
http://www.marselykehoe.org/nautilus/

Welcome to the Nautilus Catalogue, a database aiming to include all of the nautilus shells that have been made into artistic objects by the transformation of the shell or addition of a framing mount. Mounted nautilus shells are fascinating and strange objects that cross time and geography. They were avidly collected by Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who appreciated their rarity, exoticism, mysterious biology, logarithmic form, and their beauty. To me, they are gloriously tacky and sometimes silly, and also evidence of the relationship between Europe and the rest of the world, forged through trade and colonialism.

People of Craft

https://peopleofcraft.com/

People of Craft is a growing showcase of creatives of color and their craft in design, advertising, tech, illustration, lettering, art, and more. It’s time to redefine what a creative looks like.

Play a Kandinsky

https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/sgF5ivv105ukhA

What if you could hear color? Explore Vassily Kandinsky’s synesthesia and “play” his pioneering masterpiece, Yellow-Red-Blue, with the help of machine learning. A new project from Google Arts & Culture called Play a Kandinsky lets you go beyond imagining to hear what Kandinsky might have heard as he looked at color. The interactive tool even lets you experience his abstract 1925 masterpiece Yellow Red Blue through sound by clicking around the artwork to hear a seven-movement composition that travels through colors and moods as Kandinsky described them.

PodcastRE

https://podcastre.org/
Podcasting is just over 10 years old, but it has been nothing short of an explosion of cultural and sonic creativity: there are millions of episodes in more than 100 languages. But this exciting new media form is shockingly vulnerable; podcast feeds end abruptly, cease to be maintained, or simply aren’t saved and archived properly.

PodcastRE (short for Podcast Research) aims to avoid this fate for podcasts by preserving podcasts and presenting an interface for researching them. We believe that what today’s podcasters are producing will have value in the future, not just for its content, but for what it tells us about audio’s longer history, about who has the right to communicate and by what means. We may be in a “Golden Age” of podcasts but if we’re not making efforts to preserve and analyze these resources now, we’ll find ourselves in the same dilemma many radio, film or television historians now find themselves: writing, researching and thinking about a past they can’t fully see or hear.

Visualizing the Virus

https://visualizingthevirus.com/

Visualizing the Virus is an interdisciplinary digital project through which one can visualize and understand the Coronavirus pandemic from a variety of perspectives. It aims to center the inequalities the pandemic makes visible.

Gaps between the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences are hard to bridge. This means that pandemics are often studied without considering their many interconnected histories. Visualizing the Virus connects insights from different disciplines to create a collective digital space for exactly such a convergence.

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