Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Whats happening in the World of Arts


Camera-Less Photography

As part of its Shadow Catchers exhibition on camera-less photography, the V&A has commissioned a short film on each of the five international artists featured in the show: Floris Neususs, Pierre Cordier, Gary Fabian Miller, Susan Derges and Adam Fuss
http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/p/photography/


Management and Business Studies Portal

The British Library has just launched its new Management and Business Studies Portal, bringing together full text research reports, summaries, working papers, videos and exclusive articles by leading researchers and consultants to help you get timely access to emerging research findings. As well as these digital documents, you'll find details of books, journal articles, reports, websites, datasets, sound recordings, videos and other resources from the British Library's collections that are relevant to your search
http://www.mbsportal.bl.uk/


As a special feature in issue 20 of their online magazine TateShots, Tate online has provided this video remembering the art and humour of the Young British Artist Angus Fairhurst who died in March 2008. Artists Gavin Turk and Mat Collishaw, as well as Tate Director Nicholas Serota, recall their memories of Fairhurst, an English artist, who worked in installation, photography and video, alongside images of his huge range of work on exhibition at the Arnolfini in Bristol. This video can be viewed online or downloaded as an MP4 on a range of media player software such as iTunes and QuickTime player. A transcript of the commentary is also available.
http://channel.tate.org.uk/tateshots-blog/?item=18099


Google Art Project
Seventeen leading art galleries and museums across the world have been announced as the initial participants in Google Art Project, a version of the idea which allows visitors to navigate corridors and pore over the minute details of canvasses from the Rijkmuseum to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. UK representatives include Tate Britain and the National Gallery.
http://www.googleartproject.com/


Ideas Factory
Launched by the National Library of Scotland, and developed in conjunction with their Writer-in-Residence, the Ideas Factory is an interactive online workshop designed to help you create and write stories. It shows how stories are put together, and takes you through the story-writing process

http://digital.nls.uk/ideas-factory/

Monday, August 22, 2011

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

Paul Rand

Steven Heller has posted a free pdf of his rare book “Paul Rand: A Designer’s Words.” Edited along with Nathan Garland and Georgette Ballance, the thin volume was created to commemorate the April 1998 Paul Rand Symposium held at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.

http://www.hellerbooks.com/pdfs/catalogs_rand_designers_words.pdf


Cinemetrics

Cinemetrics is about measuring and visualizing movie data, in order to reveal the characteristics of films and to create a visual “fingerprint” for them. Information such as the editing structure, color, speech or motion are extracted, analyzed and transformed into graphic representations so that movies can be seen as a whole and easily interpreted or compared side by side.

http://cinemetrics.fredericbrodbeck.de/

Tuesday, June 7, 2011


The Performing Arts on Film & Television
A new catalogue is now available to download, detailing film and video materials held by the archives and collections of the British Film Institute (BFI), Arts Council England, LUX and Central St Martins British Artists Film & Video Study Collection. The Performing Arts on Film & Television Catalogue is intended for use by curators, researchers, students, performers, practitioners, artists and filmmakers. It gives an account of the histories of theatre, acting, dance, music, performance art and oratory (from politics to poetry) on film and television, through references in around 3,500 titles from the collections above.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/publications/performing-arts/

About the National Jukebox

The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives.
http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/

Yale Digital Commons


Yale University has released about 250,000 images and audio files on its Yale Digital Commons platform. All content is available to use free of charge under creative commons license terms. Search across Yale's collections of art, natural history, books, and maps, as well as photos, audio and video.
http://discover.odai.yale.edu/ydc/

Genius of Photography
The BBC website has provided this gallery on the `Genius on Photography' to showcase what they describe as "some of the best photography ever taken" from 19th century photographers, such as Eadweard Muybridge and Jacques-Henri Lartigue, to 20th century photographers, Man Ray, Robert Capa, Ed Ruscha, Richard Billingham and Cindy Sherman. The gallery is organised in six sections, featuring the work of three different photographers in each section. This selection has been taken from a television series broadcast by the BBC, and the gallery features one key image representing the photographer, together with an extract from the televised programme.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/

Typographic Archives
The Typographic Archives website aims to "preserve valued web contents on typography and history of printing and writing" by archiving the contents of relevant websites that no longer exist. At the time of writing the site includes short biographies of a few of the more famous names in the history of typography, including: William Caxton; Johannes Gutenberg; and William Caslon, as well as a glossary of typographical terms and an excerpt from Beatrice Warde's lecture to the British Typographers' Guild.
http://www.typographia.org/


Robert Rauschenberg Prints
Published to accompany an exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC from 28 October, 2007 to 30 March, 2008, this website provides information about prints made by American artist Robert Rauschenberg. The website concentrates on the 1960s, with his "painterly prints filled with images he clipped from newspapers and magazines", 1970s when the artist established his own print facility, Untitled Press, and 1980s and 1990s when he traveled extensively and started to use his own photographs in his art, partly for copyright reasons.
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2007/rauschenberg/

Friday, January 14, 2011

Whats Happening in the World of Arts

The Power of Cartoons
New on TED Talks: in a series of witty punchlines, Patrick Chappatte makes a poignant case for the power of the humble cartoon. His projects in Lebanon, West Africa and Gaza show how, in the right hands, the pencil can illuminate serious issues and bring the most unlikely people together.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/patrick_chappatte_the_power_of_cartoons.html

The Global Shakespeares Video & Performance Archive is a collaborative project providing online access to performances of Shakespeare from many parts of the world as well as essays and metadata provided by scholars and educators in the field. The archive is a work in progress and currently includes a catalogue of more than 296 productions, 75 video clips, and online videos of over 30 full productions.
http://globalshakespeares.org/

Music Treasures Consortium

The Music Treasures Consortium provides online access to the world's most valued music manuscripts and print materials, held at the most renowned music archives. Researchers can search or browse materials and view digital images.

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/treasures/treasures-home.html


The Future Designer

The first of a series of ThinkTanks from the V&A Museum on future issues facing contemporary design. This ThinkTank looks at The Future Designer. Watch the videos and join in the online debate.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/thinktank1/

Syd Mead
Exclusive MP3 interview with Syd Mead, the influential conceptual designer of cinematic cult classics such as Tron, Blade Runner and Aliens. What is the role of dreaming in envisioning the future, why flying cars have not become science-fact yet, and what has Syd learned about designing for the real world from designing classic sci-fi space odysseys.
http://khotanharmon.com/audio/Syd%20Mead.mp3


Prunella Clough
Tate Online has provided this resource on the archive of the artist Prunella Clough (1919-1999). This archive was acquired by the Tate after the artist`s death and has been organised under two headings `Inspirations' and `Working Methods'. Clough wrote detailed descriptions of things that caught her eye, as well as making thumbnail sketches which later informed her work. `Working Methods' shows images she cropped to create effects, reworked postcards, materials, notes on colour, descriptions of artwork and the artist at work.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/prunellaclough/interactive.shtm