ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors seek volunteers to author reviews for the April 2024 issue. To volunteer, choose a resource from the list below and complete our Reviewer Interest form (https://bit.ly/mtrjune2024) by Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024
Initial draft submissions are due Tuesday, April 30th, 2024.
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 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:
Karina Wratschko
Virginia Kerr
Matthew Garklavs
Abigail Walker
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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.
BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art)
https://basiraproject.org/ BASIRA (Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art) is a new, open-access online database of representations of books and other textual documents in the figurative arts between approximately 1300 and 1600 CE, the period encompassing the advent of print culture in Europe and its neighboring regions. Users anywhere can browse and query thousands of images of books from a constantly expanding dataset. Dozens of aspects of a book’s depiction can be searched, including details of its binding, bookmarks, contents, and position. In addition, users may search for the particulars of who or what is interacting with the book, and how that action is taking place.
Digital Florentine Codex
https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/ The Digital Florentine Codex gives access to a singular manuscript created by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a group of Nahua elders, authors, and artists. Written in parallel columns of Nahuatl and Spanish texts and hand painted with nearly 2,500 images, the encyclopedic codex is widely regarded as the most reliable source of information about Mexica culture, the Aztec Empire, and the conquest of Mexico. Upon completion in 1577 at the Imperial Colegio de la Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco (today Mexico City), the manuscript was sent to Europe where it entered the Medici family’s library in Florence—thus, the Florentine Codex. This digital edition unlocks the manuscript’s content by making the texts and images searchable.
Perspectives on Data
https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593152 This publication, the second in the three-volume Perspectives series, explores the potentials and pitfalls of using data and data-oriented approaches in art, art history, and museums through essays, interviews, and a video that address topics such as data analysis and visualization, the design of collection management systems, and the representation of provenance.
Shadow Plays: Virtual Realities in an Analog World
https://shadow-plays.org/ Shadow Plays is a digital publication that explores popular forms of entertainment used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to transport viewers to a new world, foreshadowing present-day virtual, augmented, and extended reality experiences (VR, AR, and XR). Through six case histories and eight interactive simulations, Massimo Riva explores themes of virtual travel, social surveillance, and utopian imagination, shedding light on illustrious or, in some instances, forgotten figures and inventions from Italy’s past.
Artstor on JSTOR
https://www.jstor.org/site/artstor/ Artstor is JSTOR’s cross-disciplinary collection of over 2 million rights-cleared images from around the world, discoverable alongside JSTOR’s journals, books, and other primary sources on one feature-rich platform. By joining images with vital critical and historical background, Artstor on JSTOR expands avenues of research in one convenient workflow, and empowers educators to support active learning, build critical skills like visual literacy, and engage students with diverse primary sources in in-person, online, and hybrid settings alike.
