Futures Past

Description

In decades past, artists envisioned a future populated by technological wonders such as hovercraft vehicles and voice-operated computers. Today we barely recognize these futuristic landscapes that bear only slight resemblance to an everyday reality. Futures Past considers digital media’s transformative impact on the art world from a perspective of thirty years’ worth of hindsight. Herein a distinguished group of contributors—from researchers and teachers to curators and artists—argue for a more profound understanding of digital culture in the twenty-first century.

This unprecedented volume examines the disparities between earlier visions of the future of digital art and its current state, including frank accounts of promising projects that failed to deliver and assessments of more humble projects that have not only survived, but flourished.  Futures Past is a look back at the frenetic history of computerized art that points the way toward a promising future.

Sujets

• Arts visuels
• Arts visuels
• Computers
• Informatique
• History of art
• General officer
• Computer science
• Design
• General
• ART

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 07 janvier 2007
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781841509808
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

Extrait

Futures Past
Thirty Years of Arts Computing
Computers and the History of Art, Volume Two
Edited by
Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen and Hazel Gardiner
First Published in the UK in 2007 by Intellect Books, PO Box 862, Bristol BS99 1DE, UK
First Published in the USA in 2007 by Intellect Books, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Copyright 2007 Intellect Ltd
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 978-1-84150-168-0 / Electronic ISBN 978-1-84150-980-8 ISSN 1743-3959
Cover Design: Gabriel Solomons
Copy Editor: Holly Spradling
Printed and bound by Gutenberg Press Ltd, Malta.
Futures Past
Thirty Years of Arts Computing
Computers and the History of Art, Yearbook 2005, Volume 2
Edited by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen and Hazel Gardiner
The papers by Pierre R. Auboiron, Sian Everitt, James Faure Walker, Andrew E. Hershberger, Colum Hourihane, Catherine Mason, Vickie O Riordan, Melanie Rowntree and Matthias Weiss were originally presented at the CHArt conference held at Birkbeck College, Thursday 11 - Friday 12 November 2004 and are published online at www.chart.ac.uk/chart2004. Matthias Weiss s paper appears under the Creative Commons Licence Attribution NonCommercial- NoDerivs 2.0 Germany http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/de/ (November 2004).
The papers have been refereed by the CHArt Editorial Board and independent reviewers. CHArt wishes to thank Michael Allen and Patrizia Di Bello of Birkbeck College, London, UK; Paul Brown of the University of Sussex, UK; Irina Costache of the California State University Channel Islands, USA; Jim Devine of the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, Scotland; Willard McCarty of King s College, London, UK; Heather Robson of Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK; Non Scantlebury of the Open University, UK; Christine Sundt of the journal Visual Resources and Wlodek Witek of the Norwegian National Library in Oslo for reviewing the papers. Their comments were communicated to the authors. A number of authors have responded to the reviewers suggestions and enhanced the clarity of their arguments.
Disclaimer: The articles in this collection express the views of the authors and not necessarily those of the CHArt Editorial Board.
Articles individual author(s) and reproduction is with their permission. Illustrations individual authors.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise, without first seeking the written permission of the copyright owners and the publisher.
CHArt Editor in Chief: Charlie Gere
CHArt Managing Editor: John Sunderland
CHArt Committee:
Tim Ayers, University of York, UK
Christopher Bailey, University of Newcastle at Northumbria, UK
Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Trish Cashen, The Open University, UK
Marilyn Deegan, King s College, London, UK
Rupert Faulkner (Treasurer), Victoria and Albert Museum, UK
Francesca Franco (Student Member), Birkbeck College, London, UK
Hazel Gardiner, King s College, London, UK
Charlie Gere (Chair), Lancaster University, UK
Marlene Gordon, University of Michigan, USA
Neil Grindley, King s College, London, UK
Michael Hammel, IT-University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Colum Hourihane, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, USA
Hubertus Kohle, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany
Dunja Kukovec, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mike Pringle, AHDS Visual Arts, UK
Phillip Purdy, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, London, UK
Jemima Rellie, Tate Modern, London, UK
Tanya Szrajber, British Museum, London, UK
Suzette Worden, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia
CHArt, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King s College, Kay House, 7 Arundel Street, London WC2R 3DX. Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone], www.chart.ac.uk, [e-mail] .
Table of Contents
Contributors
Introduction
by Trish Cashen
EXPERIMENTAL INTERACTION
Painting Digital, Letting Go
by James Faure Walker
Microanalysis as a Means to Mediate Digital Arts
by Matthias Weiss
Indexed Lights
by Pierre R. Auboiron
EDUCATING WITH COMPUTERS
A Computer in the Art Room
by Catherine Mason
Learning Resources for Teaching History of Art in Higher Education
by Jutta Vinzent
PROJECTS AND ARCHIVES: HISTORIES AND RESURGENCE
Sourcing the Index: Iconography and its Debt to Photography
by Colum Hourihane
The Medium was the Method: Photography and Iconography at the Index of Christian Art
by Andrew E. Hershberger
The Good, the Bad and the Accessible: Thirty Years of Using New Technologies in BIAD Archives
by Sian Everitt
ONLINE INFORMATION: LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING FORWARD
Object Information at the Victoria and Albert Museum: Successes and Failures in Web Delivery
by Melanie Rowntree
This is the Modern World: Collaborating with ARTstor
by Vickie O Riordan
Towards a Semantic Web: The Role of Ontologies in the Literary Domain
by Luciana Bordoni
Abstracts
CHArt - Computers and the History of Art
Guidelines for Submitting Papers for the CHArt Yearbook
Contributors
Pierre Auboiron is a Ph.D. student of Contemporary Art History at Panth on-Sorbonne University in Paris. His research is concerned with light as a material in current artistic practices such as installations, videos, projections, architecture and theatre. Drawing on his interest in visual semiotics and his background in visual electrophysiology, he is currently writing a handbook of visual physiology for art history students.
Anna Bentkowska-Kafel is Imaging Officer for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (www.crsbi.ac.uk) and is responsible for the creation and long-term preservation of the project s digital archive. Her research, teaching and publications have been mainly on early modern visual culture in Western Europe, with special interest in cosmological and anthropomorphic representations of nature; as well as the use of digital imaging in iconographical analysis and interpretation of paintings. She has an MA in the History of Art (Warsaw), MA in Computing Applications for the History of Art (London) and Ph.D. in Digital Media Studies (Southampton). She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1999.
Luciana Bordoni graduated in mathematics and specialised in Control System and Automatic Calculus Engineering at La Sapienza University of Rome. Since 1980, she has worked for ENEA (the Italian National Agency for New Technology, Energy and Environment) in Casaccia, Rome, in the field of data processing, databases and information handling. Currently she is UDA/Advisor for ENEA and aims to develop methods, techniques and systems that can contribute to innovations in the dissemination of information.
Trish Cashen has been involved with integrating computing into university-level humanities teaching since the early 1990s. She works at The Open University, where her role involves integrating new media into a blended environment for teaching arts subjects. Her main areas of interest lie in integrating computing into blended learning environments to deliver opportunities for resource discovery, formative assessment and communication. She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1994.
Sian Everitt is Keeper of Archives at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. She studied history with history of art at the University of Hull and obtained her MA in the History of Art and Design at the University of Central England. She has previously worked in the museum and gallery sector and was teaching art and design history in Further and Higher Education.
James Faure Walker is a British artist and author and has been Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at Kingston University since 2002. He studied painting at St Martin s School of Art in London in the 1960s and aesthetics at the Royal College of Art in the early 1970s. In 1976 he founded Artscribe magazine and was its first editor. His works use both traditional and digital media. He has exhibited widely in Europe, the USA, Japan and Russia and has taken part in a number of computer art events. In 1998 he won the Golden Plotter prize in Germany. Painting the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer has been published by Prentice Hall in 2006.
Hazel Gardiner is Senior Project Officer for the AHRC ICT Methods Network, based at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King s College, London. Before joining CCH in May 2005, she was the Research Officer for the MA in Digital Art History at Birkbeck College and prior to this the Research Assistant for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland (www.crsbi.ac.uk). She continues to work with the CRSBI and is a researcher for this project and also for the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (www.cvma.ac.uk). She also contributes to the Material Culture module of the MA in Digital Humanities at CCH. She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1997.
Andrew E. Hershberger is Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, Bowling Green State University, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2001. His teaching and research are concerned with the history of photography. He is currently working on a book entitled Cinema of Stills: Minor White s Sequential Photography.
Colum P. Hourihane received his Ph.D. from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London in 1984 for a study on the iconography of medieval Irish art which was subsequently published as Gothic Art in Ireland 1169-1550 (Yale University Press, 2003). After working in the Institute for over