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Date:   1/14/98  4:40 PM

RE:     AMICO presentation at CAA Conference


NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
January 18, 1998



             AMICO PRESENTATION AT COLLEGE ART CONFERENCE
                 Friday, February 27, 7:30-9:00 a.m.
             Convention Centre South Building--room 709

Omitted from the preliminary program of the College Art Association's
upcoming conference is a session on the Art Museum Image Consortium,
presented by three of the founding members. Below is a description of the
presentation.

David Green

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                     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