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Posted: 05/11/08 NEDCC ANNOUNCES PRESERVATION 101 - THE FREE ONLINE PRESERVATION COURSE ********************************** THE COURSE IS ACCESSIBLE FREE OF CHARGE AT www.preservation101.org, and is intended to benefit professionals who are responsible for the preservation of library and archival materials. Participants will learn how to put preservation basics to work in the context of small and moderately-sized collections - how to identify deteriorated materials, how to care for collections, and how to set priorities for preservation. GOALS FOR PRESERVATION 101: DEVELOPMENT OF PRESERVATION 101 WAS FUNDED BY an Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership grant. A live version of the course in workshop format was taught in the Pacific Northwest, hosted by the University of Washington in Seattle. Faculty came from the University of Washington, NEDCC, SOLINET, Amigos Library Services, CCAHA, and the OCLC Western Service Center. NEDCC and its Web production / e-learning consultant, WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston, produced this online version of the course. We are interested in your feedback. Send your comments about Preservation 101 to: jcarlson@nedcc.org *********************************** For more information about NEDCC and its extensive online resources on preservation, visit: www.nedcc.org NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER
Posted: 04/20/08 Urban Encounters: Photography, Ethnography and the City Conference, Exhibition, Workshops 16 & 17 May 2008 Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross SE14 6NW This two-day conference at Goldsmiths, University of London, will bring together international photographers, artists and academics researching the city. The speakers reflect an interdisciplinary range of photographic, theoretical and research areas, and through six panels will explore the nature of past and contemporary photographic approaches to the representation and evocation of city life. The theme of Œthe encounter¹ is explored, not only in the way photographers experience the city, but also through discursive encounters between urban social science and visual practice. There is an associated exhibition, photographic workshop and curated urban walks programme co-ordinated by Photofusion and the Centre for Urban and Community Research (CUCR). Urban Encounters Conference Panels
Day one 1. Urban landscapes: mapping memories This session will explore the cultural geographies of landscape in relation to photographic theory and practice. The presentations will focus on the changing nature of landscape photography, both as a spatial and cultural practice. Key questions addressed are: How does landscape photography produce knowledge of space and ethnographies of place? 2. Architecture and photography This session will focus on the relationship between architectural theory and photographic practice. We will look at how architectural photographers negotiate the complex task of producing meaningful images about urban architectural space, and how collective experiences and lives are visually evoked within such spaces. Key questions addressed are: How do narratives of community coalesce with architectural space? 3. Urban Portraiture and identities This session will focus on the challenges of portraiture within the urban domain. Through a discussion of the psychologies and sociologies of self, the panellists will delineate key themes within a theory of photographic portraiture. The session will explore portraiture as a mediated practice concerned with the active construction of identities and will address the following key questions: What role does psychological and psychoanalytic theory play within an understanding of portrait photography?
Day two 4. Street photography In this session we will focus on recent developments within street photography, particularly with reference to its re-emergence as an important part of fine art and gallery practice. Panellists will discuss the historical context of street photography, and why both a theoretical and practical reconsideration of the genre has led to such a renaissance of diverse forms in recent years. Key questions addressed are: 5. Visual Ethnographies and the urban encounter This session will address the central question of whether urban photography might be thought of as a form of visual ethnography. The panellists will debate the changing nature of urban visual practice set against a blurring of the boundaries between visual practice and research-based urban sociology. Key questions addressed are: 6. Emerging forms In this session, panellists will debate the changing nature of urban photography within visual arts and urban research practice. Panellists will map out personal ideas about where the future of their urban photographic practice and research might lead them. Questions addressed are:
Posted: 04/20/08 Sculpture & Touch This symposium aims to introduce a new impetus to the discussion of the relationship between touch and sculpture by setting up a dialogue between art historians and individuals with fresh insights working in disciplines beyond art history. The programme reflects this ambition by bringing together an international and truly diverse set of speakers who will tackle subjects ranging from prehistoric figurines to the work of contemporary artists, from pre-modern ideas about the physiology of touch to tactile interaction in the museum environment, and from the phenomenology of touch in recent philosophy to the experimental findings of scientific study. To book a place: GBP 35 (GBP 15 students and Courtauld staff). Please send a cheque made payable to 'Courtauld Institute of Art' to: Research Forum Events Co-ordinator & Administrator, Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN, clearly stating that you wish to book for the 'Sculpture & Touch conference'. For credit card bookings call 020 7848 2785/2909. For further information, send an e-mail to ResearchForumEvents@courtauld.ac.uk http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/index.shtml PROGRAMME Charles Spence (Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford): Making Sense of Touch Andrew Benjamin (Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University, Australia): Endless Touching: Herder and Sculpture 11.30 - 12.00 COFFEE/TEA 12.00 - 13.30 Session 2 Michael Paraskos (Director of Programmes, Cyprus College of Art): Bringing into Being: Vivifying Sculpture Through Touch James Hall (independent art historian): Michelangelo and the Cult of the Left Hand Toby Juliff (School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds): Untouched Sound: Ventriloquism and the 'Touch' of Sculpture 14.30 - 16.00 Session 3 Francesca Bacci, (Centro Interdipartmentale Mente e Cervello, Università di Trento, Italy): Either Touch or Look: When One Sense is Better than Two Carmen Windsor (Philosophy, University of Reading): Proprioception and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Sculpture Arie Hartog (Curator, Gerhard-Marks-Haus, Bremen, Germany): Look as if You Touch 16.00 16.30 COFFEE/TEA 16.30 18.00 Session 4 Julia Cassim (Helen Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art): Touch and the Non- Visual Imagination - Case Studies from the Japanese Museum Experience Rosalyn Driscoll (contemporary artist, USA): Crossing Boundaries of Self, Time and Space Fiona Candlin (Birkbeck College, University of London): Licit and Illicit Touching in the Museum Saturday 17 May 9.30 10.00 Registration 10.00 11.30 Session 5 Robert Hopkins (Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield): Sculpture, Vision and Touch Claude Heath (contemporary artist, UK): Islands of Clarity: Drawing Sculpture with a Blindfold Sebastiano Barassi (Curator of Collections, Kettle¹s Yard, University of Cambridge): The Sculptor as a 'Blindman': Constantin Brancusi's 'Sculpture for the Blind' Caterina Y. Pierre (Department of Art, City University of New York at Kingsborough Community College): The Pleasure and Piety of Touch in Aimé-Jules Dalou's 'Tomb of Victor Noir' Michael Petry (contemporary artist, UK and Curator, Royal Academy Schools Gallery): U TOUCH ME: The Body Transposed 13.30 14.30 BREAK FOR LUNCH 14.30 16.00 Session 7 Hagi Kenaan (Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University, Israel): Narcissus' Touch: Sculpture and the Phenomenology of the Body Alison Wright (Department of History of Art, University College London): 'Toccare il vero'? Playing on Touch in 15th-century Florentine Sculpture and the Case of Desiderio Shir Aloni (Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London): 'Textures of Memory': Touch and Remembrance in the Works of Mona Hatoum, Doris Salcedo, and Anne Wilson 16.00 16.30 COFFEE/TEA 16.30 17.30 Session 8 Douglass Bailey (School of History and Archaeology, Cardiff University): Small Things in the Hand: Miniaturism, Figurines and Body-objects Anne Cranny-Francis (Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Australia): Touching Bodies: Ron Mueck's Exploration of 17.30 18.00 Concluding Remarks Organised by Peter Dent The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 0RN http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/researchforum/index.shtml
Posted: 04/06/08 Electronic Visualisation and the Arts *When?* 22-24 July 2008 EVA London 2008 will debate the issues, discuss trends and demonstrate the digitial possibilities in: If you are interested in the new technologies in the cultural sector – if you are an artist, policy maker, manager, researcher, practitioner, audience evaluator or educator – this conference is for you. Registration and outline programme http://www.eva-conferences.com/eva_london/
Posted: 03/30/08 The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria is pleased to offer the following 6-day immersion opportunity for professionals and volunteers working in museums, heritage sites, and cultural centres. Many museums hold archival materials including documents and photographs that require specialized care and management. This course focuses on archives as an important component of museum collections and develops your understanding of ways in which they should be organized, managed, preserved and shared. While there is common ground between the management of artifacts and the management of archives, recognizing the distinctions is important to caring effectively for documentary materials and increasing their role in the museum environment. Regardless of the kind of institution you work in, this course strengthens your understanding of * the nature of archival materials Dates: June 2 - 7, 2008 Please register by: May 5 (late registrations accepted if space permits) To register in this course please visit https://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/forms/crm/online_reg.aspx. Instructor Laura Millar has been an archival, editorial, and educational consultant for over 25 years. She received her Master of Archival Studies degree from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1984 and her PhD in archival studies from the University of London, England, in 1996. She is the author of nearly four dozen professional publications on a range of topics, including records and archives management; information systems; and editing, publishing, and writing. She has delivered dozens of workshops, seminars, and presentations on archives and records management around the world, from Inuvik, Northwest Territories and St. John's, Newfoundland to Lusaka, Zambia and Wellington, New Zealand. Laura has worked with international agencies such as the International Records Management Trust, the United Nations, and the World Bank, and with governments around the world, including Bermuda, Trinidad and Tobago, Sri Lanka, and Ghana. In British Columbia, she has consulted with local government museums and archives, including Vancouver, North Vancouver, West Vancouver, Coquitlam, and New Westminster. Her most recent consulting work has been with such diverse organizations as the Vancouver Art Gallery, the United Church of Canada, the College of Registered Nurses' of British Columbia, the Government of Alberta, and the Salvation Army. She has taught archival studies courses at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and the University of Alberta. Laura was the author of the 1988 publication A Manual for Small Archives, which remains a popular reference tool for archival management in museums, archives, and community associations across Canada. Her latest book, on the preservation of authors' and publishers' archives, will be available in September 2008. For more information about this course, including a draft course outline, please visit: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/courses/ha488b-archival.aspx Enrollment options allow you to choose to take courses either to enhance professional development or to build academic credit. Individual course descriptions and registration forms are available by contacting us at crmp@uvcs.uvic.ca or by visiting our web site at: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/home.aspx For more information, please contact: Anissa Paulsen, Program Coordinator
Posted: 01/20/08 SAVE THE DATE: JUNE 10-12, 2008 DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections (The NEW School for Scanning) Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront A conference presented by The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) Co-Sponsored by SOLINET This revitalized version of the three-day School for Scanning conference presents the essentials of digitization and is geared toward participants with a beginning or intermediate level of digital knowledge. From file formats to funding, from metadata to rights management, learn how to create and manage sustainable digital collections. Visit the Vendor Showcase to meet the leading providers of digital products and services. Watch NEDCC's Web site for complete conference details: www.nedcc.org To receive a conference brochure or email announcement when available, or if you are a vendor interested in exhibiting at the conference, please contact: Julie Martin Carlson, jcarlson@nedcc.org. NEDCC is grateful for support from the National Endowment for the Humanities for its field services.
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