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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 September 2023 issue. To volunteer, choose a resource from the list below and complete our Reviewer Interest form (https://forms.gle/6NFpNtUWUWEae56RA) by Thursday, June 22.   

 

Initial draft submissions are due Monday, August 7.

 

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:

Alexandra Provo

Karina Wratschko

Virginia Kerr

 

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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

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Digital Benin 

https://digitalbenin.org/ 
Digital Benin brings together objects, historical photographs and rich documentation material from collections worldwide to provide a long-requested overview of them royal artifacts from the Benin Kingdom looted in the late nineteenth century. The historical objects are an expression of Benin culture and history, and were originally used to depict historical events, to communicate, to worship and to perform rituals.

The Imitation Game: Digital Culture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
https://imitationgameexhibition.ca/ 
This 2022 online exhibition from Vancouver Art Gallery surveys the extraordinary uses (and abuses) of AI in the production of contemporary visual culture. Following a chronological narrative of its development beginning in the 1950s, the site then emphasizes the explosive growth of AI over the past decade across creative disciplines—including animation, architecture, art, fashion, graphic design, urban design and video games.

Project Himalayan Art
https://projecthimalayanart.rubinmuseum.org/ 
Project Himalayan Art is an integrated three-part initiative—digital platform, publication, and traveling exhibition—designed to support the incorporation of Himalayan, Tibetan, and Inner Asian art and cultures into humanities and liberal arts teaching curricula. It offers digital source material for a traveling exhibition, 108 in-depth object essays, online collection materials, and features such as an interactive map, glossary, and videos of rituals and art-making technologies. 

Focus on Japanese Photography, a digital publication from SFMOMA
https://www.sfmoma.org/publication/focus-japanese-photography/ 
This digital publication, centered on SFMOMA’s large, diverse collection of Japanese photography from the postwar years to the present, examines the development of the country’s distinctive and innovative photographic culture through the work of key practitioners of the last six decades. Biographical overviews, artist talks, video interviews, and additional resources provide insight into this tumultuous but artistically fertile period.

Virtual St. Paul’s Cathedral
https://vpcathedral.chass.ncsu.edu/ 
The goal of this digital humanities project from North Carolina State University is to use visual and acoustic modeling to make available the experience of public worship as it unfolds in real time in a recreation of one of the most significant worship centers of the Church of England in the early seventeenth century. 

Matisse Paintings, Works on Paper, Sculpture, and Textiles at the Art Institute of Chicago
https://www.artic.edu/digital-publications/31/matisse-at-the-art-institute-of-chicago
This online collection catalogue created in 2019 highlights Matisse holdings in the museum’s collection, narrating the numerous stylistic and thematic paths the artist explored. It includes an extended entry on Bathers by a River, using state-of-the-art imaging to “excavate” the canvas, charting how radical changes to composition and palette marked a creative evolution at a pivotal moment in the artist’s career. 

Missouri Remembers, Artists in Missouri through 1951
https://missouriartists.org/ 
Missouri Remembers is a robust and dynamic portal created by three libraries documenting the history of Missouri artists through 1951. Resources including museum and library archival materials were consulted to share information on regional cultural history and visual artists whose practice has shaped the artistic heritage of the state, including women artists and artists of color.