11.0339 Convergence; AMICO; NEH Seminars

Humanist Discussion Group (humanist@kcl.ac.uk)
Fri, 17 Oct 1997 23:09:13 +0100 (BST)

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 11, No. 339.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
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[1] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (85)
Subject: CONVERGENCE: THE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA
TECHNOLOGIES 3:3

[2] From: David Green <david@ninch.org> (127)
Subject: AMICO Members Announced

[3] From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu> (26)
Subject: NEH Announcement--Summer Seminars and Institutes

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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:09:03 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: CONVERGENCE: THE JOURNAL OF RESEARCH INTO NEW MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES 3:3

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
October 15, 1997

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On-line Teaching in International Communication

John Byrne
The Object(ive) of Art in the Age of Digital Revolution

Bonnie Brennen and David Primeaux
Public or Private? E-mail and the Ethics of Privacy

ARTICLES

Michele White
Cabinet of Curiosity: Finding the Viewer in a Virtual Museum

Hugh Dauncey
A Cultural Battle: French Minitel, the Internet and the
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Nickianne Moody
The Representation of Disability/Special Ability in the Cyberpunk
Workforce

FEATURE REPORT

Greg Boiarsky
The Psychology of New Media Technologies: Lessons from the Past

REVIEWS

Julia Knight
Art and Activism: Engaging with Body and Space
Electronic Empires: Global Media and Local Resistance, held in
Coventry, UK, 28-29 March 1997; and Video Positive 97, 'Escaping
Gravity', held in Liverpool and Manchester, UK, 11 April-18 May
1997.

Stuart Moulthrop
Where To?
Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall, Forward Anywhere

Sid Newton
Imagined Futures: A Critical Glance
Jon Dovey (ed.), Fractal Dreams: New Media in Social Context

Robin Alston
A Machine To Think With
Nunberg, Geoffrey (ed.), The Future of the Book

Pat Brereton
Cultural Ecology: Constructing a New Language?
Danielle Cliche (ed.), Cultural Ecology: the Changing Dynamics of
Communication

Jon Tilley
New Left, New Media and New Policies?
Richard Collins and Cristina Murroni, New Media, New Policies:
Media and Communications Strategies for the Future

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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 12:09:15 -0500
From: David Green <david@ninch.org>
Subject: AMICO Members Announced

NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
October 15, 1997

ART MUSEUM IMAGE CONSORTIUM (AMICO) OFFICIALLY FORMED
22 Art Museums Form Initial Testbed Group

Following is the official announcement from the Association of Art Museum
Directors of the founding of AMICO with the list of its initial members.

David Green

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ASSOCIATION OF ART MUSEUM DIRECTORS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION, INC.
41 East 65th Street
New York, NY 10021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact:
Millicent Hall Gaudieri
212-249-4423
Maxwell L. Anderson
416-979-6613

Art Museum Image Consortium (AMICO) Founded: Collections of over Twenty
Art Museums to be Digitally Available for Educational Use

New York, NY - October 15, 1997 - The Association of Art Museum Directors
Educational Foundation, Inc. announces the formation of the Art Museum Image
Consortium (AMICO), a non-profit organization that will provide educational
access to a joint multimedia digital library documenting works of the
collections of the major North American art museums.

ìAMICO is an unprecedented collaborative effort of many of the worldís
leading art museums. It seeks to make a sustained and significant
contribution to the education of our young people about the history of art
and its usefulness in studying countless aspects of the humanities and
social sciences. The digitized text, images, audio tours and multimedia
being created in museums provide a rich source of content for on-line
curriculum, and interest in their use is growing. AMICO will offer
non-proprietary, networked access to images of the information about works
of art scattered in dozens of major collections, and allow the casual user
and scholar alike to sample and research works of art in our collective
care,î stated Maxwell L. Anderson, Director, Art Gallery of Ontario, and
Director, Art Museum Network (www.AMN.org). Both information providers
and users acknowledge that new economic and social models are required to
support the desired uses of digital information in learning, teaching, and
research.

A not-for-profit Consortium that licenses the content of museums
collectively is a means of distributing museumsí digital information he
educational community.

The directors and representatives of the founding art museums (see below)
desire to take advantage of an emerging new educational opportunity.
ìReaching out together through new technology, we can bring our
collections closer to those who use them for research, education, and
enjoyment. This unprecedented collaboration amongst art museums will
create a rich resource, unique in its scope and depth,î said Hugh M.
Davies, President of the Association of Art Museum Directors and Director
of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego.

Working together through a six-month planning process, member museums have
defined mechanisms for the collection and distribution of a multi-media
digital library documenting and interpreting their collections.

Prior to announcing the full availability of its digital library, AMICO is
launching a year-long testbed project. The founding members wish to
validate the proposed framework for the collective licensing of museum
digital collections, and to evaluate a means of delivering this content to
the higher educational community. The university testbed project will
also increase understanding of the ways that universities are adopting
digital teaching and reference tools and enable AMICO member museums to
offer a Library that meets the needs of its users. A call for
participation in the AMICO University Testbed can also be found at
http://www.amn.org/AMICO

Working within AMICO enables members to fulfill their educational
missions. By using digital technologies museums have the opportunity to
make their cultural resource more relevant and accessible to a wide range
of educators and students. This is the first step toward using these
resources creatively to illustrate and explore history, art, and culture.
By reaching out into the community, AMICO members hope to engage more
students with art, developing a visually and culturally literate public
that, in turn, comes to the museum.

A set of agreements were drafted by Archives & Museum Informatics, who
acted as consultants and facilitators throughout the AMICO planning
process. These include frameworks for organizing the Consortium,
governing its strategic planning, developing a standards-based approach to
the distribution of the AMICO Library, and defining its products and
licenses. Key among these are the draft University and Museum licenses,
that outline the terms under which the Library will be offered to these
communities. AMICO's framework documents are available for public comment
at: http://www.amn.org/AMICO

AMICO Founding Members:

1. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
3. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
4. Asia Society Gallery, New York, NY
5. Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, AZ
6. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
7. Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA
8. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
9. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
10. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
11. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
12. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
13. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
14. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec
15. Musee d'art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
16. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
17. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario
18. National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
19. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
20. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
21. San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
22. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN

Other AAMD members are expected to join the Consortium following the initial
offering.

About the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD): The AAMD represents
170 directors of the largest art museums in the Untied States, Canada, and
Mexico. The membership meets twice a year to explore topics in the arts
and education as well as to participate in programs on professional
development and management. The President is Hugh M. Davies, Director of
the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. The Executive Director is
Millicent Hall Gaudieri. Further information about AAMD can be found at
http://www.amn.org

About Archives & Museum Informatics. Since 1986, A&MI has consulted for
archives and museums worldwide, organized conferences, workshops and
seminars and published journals and monographs that provide specialists in
archives and museum information systems with timely and challenging
opportunities for professional exchange and training. The consulting
services emphasize strategic planning, inter-institutional collaboration
and standards based solutions. Further information about their activities
can be found at http://www.archimuse.com

J. Trant
Partner and Principal Consultant
Archives & Museum Informatics
jtrant@archimuse.com
www.archimuse.com

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Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 16:33:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David L. Gants" <dgants@parallel.park.uga.edu>
Subject: NEH Announcement--Summer Seminars and Institutes

>> From: darnold@neh.fed.us

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
SUMMER SEMINARS AND INSTITUTES PROGRAM

Each summer the National Endowment for the Humanities
supports study opportunities for educators to strengthen
humanities teaching and scholarship in the nation's schools
and colleges.

Now is the time to begin planning a proposal to
direct a seminar or institute in the summer of
1999. The application deadline is March 1, 1998.

Contact a program officer now to discuss a topic for a
*seminar* or an *institute*. Seminars and institutes are
offered either for school teachers or for faculty who teach
undergraduates. The program officers listed below are
available to advise applicants on choice of topic, format,
and audience. Samples of successful proposals and
application guidelines are available upon request.

Thomas M. Adams 202/606-8396
Douglas M. Arnold 202/606-8225
Wilsonia E. D. Cherry 202/606-8495
F. Bruce Robinson 202/606-8213

Seminars and Institutes Program
Division of Research and Education Programs
National Endowment for the Humanities
Washington, DC 20506
E-mail: Research@neh.fed.us

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