Computers and the History of Art Conference

Marlene Gordon (mailto:MGORDON@AB-F1.UMD.UMICH.EDU)
Tue, 12 Aug 1997 13:34:39 EST5EDT

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************************************************************************** WORKING METHODS: Thirteenth Annual Conference of CHArt Computers and the History of Art 5-6 September 1997, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

This two day conference takes as its theme the ways in which information technology is changing the way we work, as historians of art and design, as information managers, or as curators and conservators.

We will be presenting the following papers:

Peter Enser (Brighton University): Retrieving visual information

David Humphrey (Royal College of Art): Avatars and navigation strategies: VRML and designing for Point of Information access

Rachael Edgar (Teesside University): Made for TV, made for the World Wide Web

Catherine Grout (Visual Arts Data Service): VADS: Curating electronic information for the millennium

Kate Hainsworth (AXIS): ImageIn: Exploring an Intranet application for fine art images

Spike Bucklow (Hamilton Kerr Institute): The connoisseurship of craquelure

Matthew Cock (Victoria & Albert Museum): Getting lost in the museum: An approach to multimedia in the gallery

Ruth Levy (University of Central England): Teaching The application of interactive systems to History of Art & Design material

Jillian Duffield (University of Queensland): Facilitating information exchange: The virtual tutorial gallery

Colum Hourihane (Princeton University, USA): The Princeton Index

Peter Walsh (Wellesley College, USA): New Technology and the Ownership of Images

Kelly Bousman (USA): Intertextual referencing in the visual arts

Brian Larkman (Teesside University): Non immersive Virtual Reality Technologies and art rich landscapes

Newcastle upon Tyne is easily reached by road or train (train journey time from London is appoximately 3 hours). Delegates wishing to stay in the City will be accommodated in student residences on the City Campus. Extra nights' B&B accommodation are available at 20 pounds per night.

Full details of fees and how to book are available online (http://www.hart.bbk.ac.uk/chart/chart97book.html) or from the conference organiser, Jeremy Beach, Department of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK. Tel: +44 (0)191 227 3015. Fax: +44 (0)191 227 4630 Email: mailto:jeremy.beach@unn.ac.uk *********************************************************

Marlene E. Gordon CHArt Committee mailto:mgordon@umich.edu