The British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection: a resource for moving-image research

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-20
Author(s):  
David Curtis ◽  
Steven Ball
Keyword(s):  
Research Priorities ◽  
Video Study ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Digital Storage ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Film And Video

The British Artists’ Film and Video Study Collection is a small specialist collection dedicated to the history of artists’ moving images in Britain, which is based at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design at the University of the Arts London. The Collection services the needs of both academics and curators in this specialist area. Its founders describe itsraison d’êtreand collecting policy, and outline some of the challenges of working in an environment susceptible to changing research priorities and uncertain digital storage standards.

scholarly journals Video as art: collecting artists’ moving image in academic art libraries

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 5-10
Author(s):  
Gustavo Grandal Montero
Keyword(s):  
Collection Development ◽  
Art Collecting ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Practical Guidance ◽  
Development And Management ◽  
Film And Video

Video collections have been part of library holdings for several decades, but developing and managing these collections presents a number of challenges. This is the case particularly for artists’ film and video, and this article attempts to identify the issues involved and to offer some practical guidance, drawing on the experience of collection development and management at Chelsea College of Art and Design Library, and across the libraries of University of the Arts London and elsewhere.

Erin Espelie

2019 ◽  
pp. 275-294
Author(s):  
Scott MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
Lanthanide Series ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Short Films ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

Artist/scientist Erin Espelie was trained at Cornell University as a biologist, but turned down opportunities to study biology at the graduate level at Harvard and MIT in order to explore the New York City theater scene, before finding her way into independent, “avant-garde” filmmaking, first exploring her interests in biology and the history of science in a series of short films, then producing the remarkable essay-film The Lanthanide Series (2014), which explores the importance of the “rare earths” (the elements with atomic numbers 57–71) for modern communication and informational technologies. The imagery for The Lanthanide Series was recorded, almost entirely, off the reflective surface of an iPad. In her work as a moving-image artist, Espelie combines poetry, science, environmental politics, and modern digital technologies within videos that defy traditional knowledge categories. She is currently editor in chief for Natural History magazine and a director of the NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Library - Lab - Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 185-188
Author(s):  
Tabea Lurk
Keyword(s):  
Information Service ◽  
Knowledge Bases ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Work Cycle ◽  
Research And Education ◽  
The One ◽  
The University

The Mediathek of the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Basel (FHNW) is a remarkable place. It's shaped, on the one hand, by the demands it must meet in functioning as the central information hub of the Faculty of Art and Design (Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst - HGK). On the other hand its exposed location on the Campus der Künste (art campus) and its specific spatial plan determine the everyday work. Positioned between research and education, the Mediathek HGK functions as an intermediary, with the character of a laboratory: it provides access to important knowledge bases and makes content available in a way which enables experimental, creative and yet also systematic forms of research. Knowledge, in the sense of classified information, becomes a resource and raw material for the arts and design. New, digital contents must be made as available and accessible as archived (post-research) or historical material. A creative work cycle is enabled, which continually questions, implements, refines and forgets materials and resources.1Both the dynamic agility of the university itself and the focus on always questioning the adequacy, timeliness, relevance, potential, etc. of the theme of information service, results in continuous developments at the Mediathek (bibliotheca semper reformanda est).

On the Dark Side of the Love of Art

1970 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-211
Author(s):  
Philipp Fehl
Keyword(s):  
North Carolina ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University

This is a slightly revised version of a contribution to a symposium on the spiritual aspect of creativity in the arts, held at the Reform Synagogue, Durham, North Carolina, in March, 1969. The author, formerly a refugee from Vienna, who received his doctorate from the University of Chicago, is now Professor of the History of Art at the University of Illinois. He is presently engaged in the preparation of a book on the art of Paolo Veronese. His special field of interest is the history of the classical tradition in the arts. He is himself a practicing artist.

scholarly journals Follow Your Money: Who Gets it, Who Spends It, Where Does it Go? by M. Hlinka

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Patti Sherbaniuk
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Upper Elementary ◽  
University Of Alberta ◽  
Spider Web ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
The University

Hlinka, Michael.  Follow Your Money: Who Gets it, Who Spends It, Where Does it Go?  Illus. Kevin Sylvester. Annick Press, New York, 2013. Print.Follow Your Money is a fairly basic yet informative examination of the economy and its complexities, aimed at older kids and teens. The book starts off with a quick synopsis of the “spider web” of the economy and a brief rundown of the history of money and the concept of profit.  The author then breaks down the costs of various activities (a bus ride for example) and objects (baseball caps, sneakers), from raw materials to manufacturing costs, labour, transport, store markups, profits, etc. The author (a CBC commentator on business) is clever in what he has chosen, selecting objects and activities that are of interest to older kids and teens (computers, designer jeans, chocolate, cell phones, music, etc.).  There are also a couple of pages on fuel and its importance to the economy. The book then takes a brief look at banking and the pros and cons of credit and debit cards, and then finishes with resource suggestions for additional information and an index.The cost breakdowns may be too numerous and a little dry for some readers (depending on their interest and attention level), but they are a very effective method of getting the reader to think about where things come from, how various economic factors affect prices, and who gets the profits. The author includes interesting sidebars of historical facts and trivia about particular subjects- tea, for example, or disposable bags-adding a bit of humour in the process.  The illustrations are colourful and quirky and help clarify the points the author is making.Ideal for upper elementary and teen readers.Highly recommended:  4 out of 4 stars Reviewer: Patti SherbaniukPatti is a Liaison Librarian at the Winspear School of Business at the University of Alberta. She holds a BA in English and an MLIS, both from the University of Alberta. She is passionate about food, travel, the arts and reading books of all shapes and sizes.

Philosophy and the Moving Image

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noël Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Motion Pictures ◽  
Philosophical Psychology ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Computer Generated Imagery

Philosophy and the Moving image is a collection of articles by Noël Carroll involving many of the ways in which the moving image – including cinema, television, video, and computer generated imagery – can intersect with philosophy. These intersections can include discussions of movies that do philosophy outright, and movies that illustrate philosophical themes as well as discussions various philosophical issues that moving-image practices can provoke. The book shows that movies make contact with many of the established branches of philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, philosophical psychology, ethics, political philosophy, and the philosophy of the arts, specifically music and dance. The book also includes essays on the history of the philosophy of motion pictures, discussing the work of Balász, Eisenstein, Cavell, and Danto.

Popular Science, Textbooks, and Scientists: The Periodic Law in Italy

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco Ciardi ◽  
Marco Taddia
Keyword(s):  
Popular Science ◽  
Classification Criteria ◽  
Science Textbooks ◽  
Italian Translation ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Periodic Law ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Medicine And The Arts

This essay deals with an issue that has never before been the focus of attention in the field of research on the history of chemistry in Italy: the diffusion of Mendeleev’s periodic system in our nation. In the following text we will analyze the situation in the period preceding the arrival of Mendeleev’s theory in Italy with regard to the matter of classifying elements. By doing so, it will be possible to demonstrate that—despite the superficiality and lack of accuracy of certain studies—Italian chemistry was already very willing to consider new proposals relating to the classification of elements. We will then attempt to illustrate how Mendeleev’s work not only attracted the attention of the most renowned Italian chemists, such as Augusto Piccini and Giacomo Ciamician, but also became widely used in university texts and secondary school textbooks. In order to understand the classification criteria for elements adopted by Italian chemists before Mendeleev and therefore the cultural terrain the law of periodicity was to take root in, it would be better to refer to a number of texts used widely for teaching in universities. We will examine four of these, published between 1819 and 1867. In all these texts, the term “simple bodies” appears, with the expression “simple substances” used less frequently, while Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743–94), in his 1789 Traité élémentaire de chimie (Traité thereafter), uses the same term “simple substances” or “simple substances … which may be considered as the elements of bodies.” It is interesting to note that Vincenzo Dandolo’s Italian translation (first edition 1792) uses the expression “sostanze semplici,” interpreting quite literally the Frenchman’s choice of term. Thirty years after publication of the Traité, Antonio Santagata (1774–1858), professor of general chemistry at the Pontificia Università di Bologna, published his Lezioni di chimica elementare [Lessons in elementary chemistry], derived from Lezioni di chimica elementare: applicata alla medicina e alle arti [Lessons in Elementary Chemistry: Applied to Medicine and the Arts] (Bologna, 1804), written by his predecessor in the university chair, Pellegrino Salvigni (1777–1841).

Recent Views on Tragedy Ancient and Modern

Traditio ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 443-448
Author(s):  
Virginia Woods Callahan
Keyword(s):  
Focal Point ◽  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Classical Philology ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Tragic Drama ◽  
Contemporary Painting ◽  
University Of Bristol ◽  
The University

In 1958 the American Council of Learned Societies devoted its thirty-ninth annual meeting to a consideration of ‘the present-day vitality of the classical tradition.’ The focal point in the two-day program was the persistent influence of certain aspects of Greek tragedy upon the arts in our time: two versions of the Antigone (Sophocles’ and Jean Anouilh's) were presented on the same evening; there were lectures on ‘the tragic sense’ in Picasso's Guernica and in contemporary painting and music; but the most striking affirmation of the theme was a lecture on ‘The Vitality of Sophocles’ by Professor H. D. F. Kitto of the University of Bristol. One of the most distinguished of modern classical scholars, Mr. Kitto is well known among American students for his book, Greek Tragedy, published in 1939. In addition to his work on tragic drama here considered there appeared in print last year a small volume by him on Sophocles as dramatist and philosopher. In 1957 Harvard University published a long-awaited, monumental study of Aristotle's Poetics by Professor Gerald F. Else of the University of Michigan, and in 1958 The Johns Hopkins Press published in book form six lectures delivered in Baltimore by Professor Richmond Lattimore on The Poetry of Greek Tragedy. That these classical scholars should have, during recent years, made such varied contributions to an understanding of Greek tragedy — a field to which each of them has devoted a major portion of his academic life — is noteworthy but scarcely surprising, since the Greek theatre and the Greek tragedians have been a perennial subject in the history of classical philology.

Devine Intervention: Collaboration and Conspiracy in the History of the Royal Court

2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 363-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taryn Storey
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Royal Court ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
English Stage ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Post War ◽  
The University ◽  
Phd Thesis ◽  
The Relationship

Taryn Storey believes that a series of letters recently discovered in the archive of the Arts Council of Great Britain (ACGB) makes it important that we reassess the genesis of the English Stage Company at the Royal Court. Dating from November 1952, the correspondence between George Devine and William Emrys Williams, the Secretary General of the ACGB, offers an insight into a professional and personal relationship that was to have a profound influence on the emerging Arts Council policy for drama. Storey makes the case that in 1953 Devine not only shaped his Royal Court proposal to fit the priorities of the ACGB Drama Panel, but that Devine and senior members of the ACGB then collaborated to ensure that the proposal became a key part of Arts Council strategic planning. Furthermore, she puts forward the argument that the relationship between Devine and Williams was instrumental to new writing and innovation becoming central to the future rationale for state subsidy to the theatre. Taryn Storey is a doctoral student at the University of Reading. Her PhD thesis examines the relationship between practice and policy in the development of new writing in post-war British theatre, and forms part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Giving Voice to the Nation: The Arts Council of Great Britain and the Development of Theatre and Performance in Britain 1945–1995’, a collaboration between the University of Reading and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

scholarly journals University Faculty Describe Their Use of Moving Images in Teaching and Learning and Their Perceptions of the Library’s Role in That Use

2014 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Johnson Otto
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
University Faculty ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Video Information ◽  
Moving Images ◽  
Crucial Component ◽  
Teaching Faculty ◽  
Film And Video

The moving image plays a significant role in teaching and learning; faculty in a variety of disciplines consider it a crucial component of their coursework. Yet little has been written about how faculty identify, obtain, and use these resources and what role the library plays. This study, which engaged teaching faculty in a dialogue with library faculty, revealed a gap between faculty’s film and video information retrieval needs and provision of access by the library. Ultimately, the findings of this study can inform and transform library practices to make more moving images available for use in coursework and research.

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