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----------------------------Original message---------------------------- The following AMICO (Art Museum Imagining Consortium) presentation was not listed in preliminary program of the Toronto College Art Association program, but it will be listed in the final program. To give you advance notice, here is the description which I hope will entice you to attend this early session (breakfast served!) WHEN: AMICO presentation on Friday, February 27th from 7:30-9:00 a.m. held in room 709 of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre's South Building, 222 Bremner Boulevard. WHAT: THE SEEDS OF REVOLUTION: NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND THE ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) For many institutions and individuals involved in the study of art, advances in image technology--including digital imaging, campus intranets, and the World Wide Web--have only led to confusion and anxiety. Vexing issues such as electronic rights, data standards, fair use, and the digitization of slide libraries and other types of visual collection have blunted the benefits technology was supposed to herald. But in 1997, a nonprofit consortium of 23 leading North American art museums began work on a solution that promises new pathways around the technological impasse. This panel, presented by representatives of three of the founding members of the Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO), will show how AMICO is tackling the complexities of standards, hardware, intellectual rights, electronic distribution systems, and confusing museum procedures. By the fall of 1998, AMICO will have assembled digitized art images from museum collections around the US and Canada and combined it with related data-- including bibliographies, provenance, conservation information, and catalogue entries-- into a digital library which it expects will eventually grow to millions of works from museums around the world. The AMICO Library will be licensed and distributed exclusively for educational use to colleges and universities. Panel members will present the problems of museum image use in the past; review AMICO's progress to date; and explain how its approach differs from image locator services, photo archives, and rights agencies and resellers. The panelists will also demonstrate the potential revolutionary effects of digital libraries on future research and teaching in such fields as art history, studio art, conservation, chemical and materials analysis, cultural history, and the social sciences.. LIST OF THE THREE PANELISTS -Susan Chun, Publications Manager, Asia Society Galleries, NY, NY -Stephanie A. Stebich, Administrative Coordinator, The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH -Peter Walsh, Director of Information and Institutional Relations, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, CT Please feel free to cross post to other list servers. Stephanie Stebich