AMICO Appoints Executive Director and Director,

From: J. Trant (jtrant@ARCHIMUSE.COM)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 09:49:06 CDT

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    AMICO Press Release For Immediate Release: April 6, 2002

    AMICO Appoints Executive Director, and Director, Strategy and Research

    The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is pleased to announce the appointment of Jennifer Trant as Executive Director, and David Bearman and Director, Strategy and Research. Trant and Bearman, who have been actively involved in the planning of AMICO through their consulting firm of Archives & Museum Informatics, will formally join AMICO's staff as of July 1, 2002. Both will also reserve time for their ongoing consulting and research.

    "We're delighted that Jennifer and David will continue to play a leadership role in AMICO" said Elizabeth Broun, Director of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art and AMICO's Chair. "Their vision and enthusiasm has helped us grow from an idea to a reality in five short years."

    AMICO's an unprecedented collaboration, and we're looking forward to continuing our work with AMICO Members. This group of committed professionals has broken new ground in the network distribution of cultural information," said Jennifer Trant. "Forging new kinds of relationships is key to the success of cultural heritage institutions in the digital age. AMICO's proven that we can work together to meet common goals."

    Bearman concurred: "This year is a key turning point for AMICO. We've moved from one distributor to more than five, and from a North American to world-wide community of members and users. With our upcoming move into a university environment, AMICO will be well positioned to play a long-term role in the digital cultural landscape."

    About AMICO

    The Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) is a growing, independent non-profit (501c3) corporation. Founded in 1997, the Consortium today is made up of over 35 major museums in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. It's an innovative collaboration - not seen before in museums - that shares, shapes, and standardizes digital information regarding museum collections and enables its educational use. Membership is open to any institution with a collection of art.

    Together AMICO Members build The AMICO Library(TM) a compilation of multimedia documentation of works in their collections. The 2001 edition of The AMICO Library documents over 78,000 different works of art, from prehistoric goddess figures to contemporary installations; new works are added annually. More than simply an image database, AMICO Library works are fully documented and may include curatorial text, detailed provenance information, multiple views, and other related multimedia. Subscribers find The AMICO Library valuable because it combines the immediacy and accessibility of the Web with the persistence and academic weight of traditional library reference sources. Over 100,000 works of art will be represented in The AMICO Library's 2002 edition, to be released July 1, 2002.

    The AMICO Library is accessible over secure networks to licensed subscribers such as universities, colleges, libraries, schools, and museums. Over 3 million users on four continents include faculty, students, teachers, staff, researchers, and public library patrons. Educational subscribers receive access to The AMICO Library through one of our Distributors. A subscription to The AMICO Library provides rights to use works for a broad range of educational purposes. Potential subscribers may preview a Thumbnail Catalog of The AMICO Library, request a free trial from our Distributors, and get further information at http://www.amico.org.

    Contact Information

    Jennifer Trant Executive Director Art Museum Image Consortium Phone: +1 412 422 8533 Email: mailto:info@amico.org Web: http://www.amico.org

    AMICO Members

      Albright-Knox Art Gallery Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Institute of Chicago Asia Society Gallery Center for Creative Photography Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute The Cleveland Museum of Art Dallas Museum of Art Davis Museum & Cultural Center, Wellesley College Denver Art Museum The Detroit Institute of Arts Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library George Eastman House J. Paul Getty Museum The Library of Congress Los Angeles County Museum of Art Louisiana State Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Minneapolis Institute of Arts The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, Boston National Gallery of Canada National Museums of Scotland The Newark Museum Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Philadelphia Museum of Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Smithsonian American Art Museum Terra Museum of American Art Victoria & Albert Museum Walker Art Center The Walters Art Museum Whitney Museum of American Art 

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J. Trant                        2008 Murray Ave, Suite D
Executive Director              Pittsburgh, PA 15217 USA
Art Museum Image Consortium
http://www.amico.org            Phone: +1 412 422 8533
mailto:jtrant@amico.org                Fax: +1 412 422 8594

    AMICO - Enabling Educational Use of Museum Multimedia
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