Archive for October, 2009
Minneapolis Institute for the Arts and the Walker Arts Center have been collaborating sinse 1998 to bring their collections online for educational use with ArtsConnectED. Awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services grant for 2008 and 2009 , the site has been recently redesigned and is now more interactive and user-friendly. Art Finder allows you to search and browse over 100,000 items, including works of art and educational resources. With Art Collector, you can save, customize and present your personalized collections to other users on the site.
Tags: art education, digital_collections, Minneapolis Institute for the Arts, museums, Walker Arts Center
Posted by Joan Winter on October 30, 2009 in art, image presentation, images | No Comments »
Before Henry Hudson landed on the shores of Manhattan island, the area’s biodiversity rivaled Yosemite and Yellowstone National Park. The Mannahatta Project seeks to understand what New York looked like before it became a city. To recreate Manhattan circa 1600, the project “used GIS software to layer spatial datasets (i.e. maps), to derive maps of topography, streams, and eventually species and ecological community types.” While the project explores the transition from an undeveloped to an urban landscape, it hope to inspire people to consider ways of living that are “compatible with wildlife and wild places and that will sustain people and planet Earth for the next 400 years.”
Tags: ecology, enviornmentalism, landscape, Manhattan, New York, NYC, urban planning
Posted by Joan Winter on October 29, 2009 in GPS, maps | No Comments »
7,200 images of works of South Asian and Cuban art and architecture donated by leading South Asian Islamic art and architectural historian Alka Patel and 500 images of Japanese art, architecture, and festivals created by David Boggett are now available in ARTstor. In addition, over 80,000 photographs of high-quality photographs of major world events and personalities, 1,000 images of works on paper by Mark Rothko, and 1,400 images of medieval stained glass windows from the 12th through 16th centuries have also been made available.
Tags: Alka Patel, architectural history, architecture, art, ARTstor, David Boggett, image presentation, images, Islamic architecture, Japanese architecture, Japanese art, Mark Rothko, photographs, photography, South Asian architecture, visual resources collection
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 28, 2009 in ARTstor, architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images, landscape, photography | No Comments »
The Benedictine abbey church of Sainte-Marie-Madeleine at Vézelay in Burgundy, a destination for pilgrims in the 12th century, is one of the better preserved examples of Romanesque architecture. Images from the University of Pittsburgh’s Digital Library include plans and photographs of the buildings exterior as well as its elaborate sculptural program.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon have created a prototype, Bungee View, to help users gain a sense of the image collection as a whole and identity patterns – such as what materials were more prevalent in a particular period of the abbey’s history.
You can also view images of Chartres Cathedral in the Bungee interface.
Tags: abbey, cathedrals, Chartres, digital_collections, Medieva, Pitt, religion, Romanesque
Posted by Joan Winter on October 27, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, image presentation, images | No Comments »
VideoSurf is a metasearch for video that bases its search on visual identification filtering through videos on Hulu, CNN, ESPN, Comedy Central, and MetaCafe to render the best results. The site features a number of search tools including sorting options, faceted searching, results embedding, permalinks, and a lot more.
To read more visit the Librarian in Black.
Tags: search tool, videos, VideoSurf
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 26, 2009 in images | No Comments »
Last Sunday, The New York Times featured a rather architectural crossword to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Puzzle designer, Elizabeth Gorski developed the puzzle entitled “Ahead of the Curve” around Frank Lloyd Wright’s design for the building, incorporating themes relating to the museum, its purpose and its Golden Jubilee within an irregular spiral situated onto the grid (organized according to the parameters established to define Wright’s building).
Visit the Guggenheim website for more information about the 50th Anniversary and exhibits and events associated with its celebration. For more information about solving the puzzle read the Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle blog.
Tags: crossword puzzle, Elizabeth Gorski, Frank Lloyd Wright, games, Guggenhei, Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Museum 50th Anniversary, New York Times, The New York Times, The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 25, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, blog, words | No Comments »
Spezify is a search tool that presents textual, graphic, and photographic results in a visual format. Blogs, videos, microblogs and images, couple with web-based versions of more traditional print media to give comprehensive search results.
Tags: digital images, search tools, Spezify, visual search tools, web 2.0, Web resources
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 24, 2009 in architectural history, architecture, art, blog, image presentation, images, landscape, maps, photography | No Comments »
The California Museum of Photography explores photographic media through exhibition, collection, publication, and the web to examine the history of photography and showcase current practice in photography and related media. The museum’s online search tool allows the browser to search through nearly 55,000 records including images of industry, science and nature, portraits, photographic equipment, and much more.
Tags: art, art history, California Museum of Photography, database, photographs, photography, University of California Riverside
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 23, 2009 in architecture, art, images, photography | No Comments »
TED conferences and its subsidiary the TEDTalks video website “has a love affair with buildings.” Featuring over 21 conference videos on its Architectural Inspiration page, TED has assembled thematic discussions from Moshe Safdie, Nathaniel Kahn, Daniel Libeskind and more focusing on sustainability, historicism, food culture, and uniqueness as it relates to the built environment and design inspiration.
Tags: architectural history, architecture, criticism, food culture, historicism, modern architecture, modernism, planning, romanticism, streaming video, sustainability, TED, urban design, urbanism, videos
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 22, 2009 in architectural history, architecture | No Comments »
The world’s first radio arts station, London’s Resonance 104.4fm promotes a cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural dialogue about the arts, history and society. Resonance fosters experimentation in visual and sonic arts, and functions as an invisible gallery collecting and reflecting upon works of art that are new, undiscovered, forgotten or even impossible in order to discover meaning in human-object, human-human relations.
Tags: art, Contemporary Art, experimental art, London, London Musicians’ Collective, radio art, Resonance 104.4fm
Posted by Ashley Chadwick on October 21, 2009 in art | No Comments »
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