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We're excited to announce the December 2023 issue of Multimedia & Technology Reviews, available on our website in ARLIS/NA Commons:  https://multimediatechnologyreviews.arlisna.hcommons.org/865/december-2023/

 

Alternatively, follow the DOI links below to access the reviews. You can find more of our reviews in the ARLIS/NA Commons CORE Repository.

Many thanks to our reviewers for their excellent contributions and thank you to Textile Hive for providing trial access.

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

 

Matthew Gerklavs

Virginia Kerr

Abigail Walker

Karina Wratschko

All Light, Expanded

Review by Siân Evans
All Light, Expanded is the digital companion to the 2021 film, All Light, Everywhere, which won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Award for Nonfiction Experimentation. The film itself is a non-linear experimental documentary that explores the intertwined histories of cameras, weapons, and policing. The director, Theo Anthony, is a Baltimore native and so the film’s narrative weaves its way through these international and national histories alongside a particular focus on Baltimore City, an early adopter of aerial police surveillance of its majority Black population. See full review at https://doi.org/10.17613/xcg3-zn14

Mapping Philippine Material Culture

Review by Tessa Mediano
Mapping Philippine Material Culture (MPMC) is a project that aggregates digital images of Philippine objects in museums worldwide, contextualizing these objects in collaboration with Philippine scholars and “culture bearers.” The online platform relies on images that are either in the public domain or have creative commons licenses, and currently hosts images of over 8,000 objects related to Philippine material culture up until the mid-twentieth century. Nearly all of the objects featured hail from collections in the United States and Europe, with 3,000 held by the Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology at Harvard University alone. See full review at https://doi.org/10.17613/mxhv-dd94

CARTA

Review by Hiu Wing Sze
The Collaborative ART Archive (CARTA), formerly called Consortial Action to Preserve Born-Digital Web-Based Art History & Culture, is a project that preserves at-risk web-based art materials, making them accessible for art historians, critics, curators, and other individuals involved in art research and scholarship. See full review at https://doi.org/10.17613/fwz2-rh37

D-CRAFT

Review by Summer Shetenhelm
D-CRAFT, the Digital Content Reuse Assessment Framework Toolkit, is a set of tools that was created to provide galleries, libraries, archives, museums, and repositories (GLAMR institutions) with best practices for assessing reuse of digital objects. Released in May 2023, the Toolkit includes information about ten assessment methods; tutorials; supporting information such as definitions of use and reuse with examples, ethical guidelines, and how to utilize storytelling to show impact; and information about the project itself.

Designed by Women

Review by Anina Rossen
Designed by Women, a digital resource organized by the Stewart Program for Modern Design, is an effort to focus attention on the many significant examples of women’s contributions to design around the globe from 1900 to the present. The scope of objects covered includes furniture, textiles, jewelry, tableware, and some graphic design. This site was developed in conjunction with the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 2023 exhibition Parall(Elles): a History of Women in Design. Drawing from works in the Stewart Collection, it is funded by individual, foundation, and corporate supporters. The site provides background on the Stewart Program team, as well as Liliane Stewart, the primary collector behind the Stewart Collection. See full review at https://doi.org/10.17613/wcqv-kp72

LUX: Yale Collections Discovery

Review by Emma Metcalfe Hurst
LUX: Yale Collections Discovery is an ambitious digital discovery platform that aggregates Yale University’s cultural heritage and natural history collections. Using a Linked Open Usable Data (LOUD) Linked Art model and a backend knowledge graph structure, LUX centralizes the collection catalogs of Yale University Library, Yale Center for British Art, Yale Peabody Museum, and Yale University Art Gallery. Launched publicly in May 2023, the platform supports research, learning, and teaching by providing access to over 50 million records for objects, concepts, people and groups, events, places, and works; unveiling unexpected connections between museum, gallery, archival, and library collections into a single discovery platform. See full review at https://doi.org/10.17613/3hy1-pv45

New York Public Library Artists Studios Resources

Review by John Hosford
The Artists Studios Resources guide offers valuable information for emerging studio artists such as books and databases, as well as links to websites on artists (such as artist archives), grant resources, podcasts, and artist interviews related to studio practice and the fine arts. Created by a Senior Art Librarian at the New York Public Library (NYPL), the guide serves as a gateway to many resources within the NYPL, as well as a selection of links to freely available resources. See full review at https://doi.org/10.17613/jvt9-f554

Textile Hive

Review by Bradley Johnston
Textile Hive is an online repository of more than 40,000 textiles, featuring high-quality photos and information designers can use to inspire, enrich, and enhance their creative projects. This database originated from the Andrea Aranow Textile Design Collection, an extensive personal collection and physical textile library located in Portland, Oregon. Textile Hive is available to individuals or institutions on an annual subscription basis and is intended for use by design professionals, academics, and textile aficionados. See full review at https://doi.org/10.17613/h4v1-3j15