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Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen, Hazel Gardiner - Futures Past, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

Futures Past

Thirty Years of Arts Computing

Av Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen, Hazel Gardiner

Del i serien Computers and the History of Art

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Eleven contributors to this volume reflect upon the unprecedented ways in which digital media have been transforming art practice, study and education. The authors – researchers, teachers, custodians of art collections and picture libraries, and an artist – cover a wide range of issues, arguing for a more profound understanding of digital culture. With the benefit of hindsight it is now possible to look at futures past and assess the disparities between earlier visions of the future and reality. Frank accounts are given of projects which had promised great advances but failed to deliver, and others that have not only survived but continue to flourish. Another account demonstrates how an individual can make a difference to students’ learning by applying new technologies in a very pragmatic way. One of the most exciting advancements hinted at in this volume are the ways in which communities of interest are developing shared resources and cultivating a richer use of common vocabulary and standards to transmit an abundance of knowledge and experience. A look forward to the Semantic Web promises an even wider sharing of knowledge.
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Anna Bentkowska-Kafel is imaging officer for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, United Kingdom. Trish Cashen is a member of the faculty of arts at the Open University, United Kingdom. Hazel Gardiner is senior project officer at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, Kings College, London, United Kingdom.

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"This collection is a worthy edition to any art history, digital art, or teaching practice collection." - Brett Aggersberg, The Higher Education Academy website "Futures Past clarifies part of what is at stake as the computer's effects continue to ripple through art and art-scholarship. This perspective alone justifies the book's exploration, but Futures Past goes beyond this mark raising questions that will occupy the philosophers of our fields and future historians for some time to come." - Kristina Luce, www.academici.com "The papers collected in this book are very interesting and worth pondering [... and] cover almost all possible angles on which we can imagine the relationships between Arts and Computers.[...] it is very much worth reading." - Bernardo Nicoletti, www.academici.com

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