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From: SMTP%"mailto:edearle@aol.com" 21-MAR-1994 06:25:29.19 To: EDEARLE CC: Subj: Imaging, Network, K-12 projectsFrom: mailto:edearle@aol.com X-Mailer: America Online Mailer Sender: "edearle" <mailto:edearle@aol.com> Message-Id: <mailto:9403210922.tn187899@aol.com> To: mailto:edearle@ucrac1.ucr.edu Date: Mon, 21 Mar 94 09:22:04 EST Subject: Imaging, Network, K-12 projects
AN OVERVIEW OF CMP DIGITAL IMAGING PROJECTS AND FUTURE NETWORK RESOURCES
FROM: Edward Earle California Museum of Photography University of California, Riverside 92521 mailto:edearle@ucrac1.ucr.edu
The California Museum of Photography interprets the medium of photography to include fine art, social history and technology. Educational programs emphasize outreach efforts to the community through primary and secondary schools. Similarly, the Museum is interested in reaching new audiences through exhibitions and publications to include CD ROM and network dissemination. Through the support of a major equipment donation from Apple Computer Inc., the Museum is fully integrating new imaging and network technologies into many parts of its program.
NETWORK EXHIBITIONS for Primary and Secondary Education
The Museum is working with UC/Riverside's Department of Computing and Communications, the Val Verde Unified School District in Riverside County and the Open Charter School in Los Angeles to develop a pilot project to deliver historical images directly to classrooms. Through networking technologies, images will be directly accessible in the classroom as a series of Network Exhibitions. These presentations will be developed with the curriculum in mind and with written interpretation by participating teachers. This material will be available on the INTERNET and accessible throughout the country. This project employs five Macintosh computers and related equipment generously provided through the Apple Library of Tomorrow program. For those with direct Internet access, a test group of images can be found using Gopher to galaxy.ucr.edu. Under "Campus Events" you will find "California Museum of Photography." The first group of images are in GIF format, others will be in JPEG. The Museum hopes to establish an INTERNET connection directly at the Museum's public facility in collaboration with regional higher education network providers.
VISUAL INDEX: A Pictorial Catalogue of California Holdings Using Kodak Photo CD and other digital technologies, the Museum is developing an image database of historical California photographs ranging from the 1850s to the present. This will include photographs of industry, the growth of cities, the San Francisco earthquake in 1906, world's fairs and photographs taken by Ansel Adams in the 1960s for the University of California. Using Library of Congress cataloging standards, text descriptions will be available on Internet through the University's Melvyl library catalog. Visual Index, supported by the Haynes Foundation of Los Angeles, will result in a CD ROM of about 5,000 digital images of California. Photo CD imaging is being done by Digix Inc. Many of these images will eventually be made available on INTERNET as well.
VIDKIDS Media Literacy Program The first program of its kind in Riverside County, VidKids was initiated in 1992 in order to provide elementary-school-age students with the opportunity to learn and experience the technical and creative aspects of video. Using an 8mm camcorder, third graders from Hoffer School in Banning completed a series of in-class video projects exploring the concepts of sight, sound, motion, time, and space. This fall, VidKids will expand to include two additional schools: the California School for the Deaf, and Myra Linn School in Riverside. Future plans for VidKids include a series of Video Day Camps for teachers, a VidKids Video Library, and residencies for video artists to work directly with students in the classroom. VidKids is made possible by a grant from the Riverside Arts Foundation.
Kodak Photo CD Projects in Elementary School Low Tec-High Tech is the first in a series of Photo CD collaborations between the CMP and local elementary schools. Third graders from Hoffer School in Banning produced this "documentary" disc of their own class making 19th century motion devices such as thaumatropes and zoetropes. Students shot and sequenced the photographs, and provided the accompanying commentary for this "low tech/high tech" project. This fall, the CMP will work with Bryant Elementary School in Riverside to produce a bilingual Photo CD by and for young people. Equipment and service for these projects is provided by the Eastman Kodak Company.
SOCIETY AND PERCEPTION: New Imaging Technology Several artists using scanners and interactive computer systems have enj oyed residencies at the Museum. Like historians, they have been able to use photographicx images as sources to incorporate into their work-in this case, computer-based art work. The Museum will publish a CD ROM, Society and Perception: New Imaging Technologies, representing the work done during residencies with Stephen Axelrad, manual (the collaboration of Suzanne Bloom and Ed Hill) and Esther Parada. These residencies were supported through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
TRUTHS AND FICTIONS: A Journey from Documentary to Digital Photography, new work by Pedro Meyer Jonathan Green, Director of the California Museum of Photography has organized a groundbreaking photography exhibition by Pedro Meyer that was 8 years in the making. Meyer's intriguing body of work was created with the advanced technologies of the computer, IRIS ink jet printer, and interactive CD- ROM discs. Truths and Fictions question the essential truths and myths surrounding the documentary aesthetic, while also examining the transition of the photographic medium from its photochemical origins to electronic imaging. The exhibition constitutes the largest conceptually sustained body of photographic work produced with the aid of new digital technologies to date. After its inaugural presentation at the CMP, it will travel throughout the United States, Mexico and to England. "Truths and Fictions" has been funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture, Nash Editions, IRIS Graphics, Inc., and UC MEXUS.
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