Sunday, May 22, 2016

Reviewers Needed for ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews

ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Needs You!
 
ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors are seeking volunteers to author reviews for the August 2016 issue. To volunteer, choose a resource from the list below and complete our review form by Wednesday, June 1, 2016.
 
Initial draft submissions are due Friday, July 1, 2016.
 
Contributing to ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews is a great opportunity to get involved with the Society, learn about interesting new resources, and help shape the publication. Please feel free to read the complete review guidelines and direct comments and questions about the reviews to arlisna.mtr@gmail.com.
 
Submitted by ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors:
 
Melanie Emerson
Gabriella Karl-Johnson
Emilee Mathews
 
Resources for Review: We seek reviewers for the following resources.
**The snippets below are taken from each resource's web page and are not necessarily the opinions of the M&T Reviews Co-Editors.
 
ACI Online Art Books http://www.aci-iac.ca/art-books/ "The Art Canada Institute is a non-profit research organization based at Massey College, University of Toronto. Founded in 2012, the ACI is the only national institution whose mandate is to promote the study of an inclusive multi-vocal Canadian art history to as broad an audience as possible, in both English and French, within Canada and internationally. The ACI works with more than 50 of Canada's leading art historians, curators, and visual culture experts who are dedicated to the creation of authoritative original content on the people, themes, and topics that have defined Canadian art history."
 
Anno Tate https://anno.tate.org.uk/#/ "AnnoTate is a transcription tool developed to enable volunteers to read and transcribe the personal papers of British-born and émigré artists, including Josef Herman, Barbara Hepworth and Kurt Schwitters. Drawn from the world's largest archive of British Art - Tate Archive - participants can help to provide full text transcriptions of handwritten documents, helping to reveal the inspiration and stories behind some of the greatest works of the past century."
 
ArchiteXX http://architexx.org "ARCHITEXX is an independent, unaffiliated organization for women in architecture that seeks to transform the profession of architecture by BRIDGING THE ACADEMY AND PRACTICE.  We are a cross-generational group of academics and practitioners.  We believe that seeds established in the academy and adopted in practice, are outdated models which perpetuate myths and unsustainable trends in the personal, private, and workplace group experience and public, client perception."
 
Black Contemporary Art http://blackcontemporaryart.tumblr.com/ "a place for art by and about people of african descent. this tumblelog does not claim the rights to any of these images. this tumbelog was initiated by museummammy in 2011 and features posts by whitedevilsophistry, xaymacans, ranaa, lurkinglate, and others."
** The editors would like the reviewer to have (or create) a Tumblr to interact with this resource within Tumblr
 
Creativz creativz.us "CREATIVZ is a conversation about how artists in the United States live and work and what they need to sustain and strengthen their careers. It's part of a research project from the Center for Cultural Innovation and the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Surdna Foundation. Overall research and online strategy by Helicon. Online strategy and production by We Media. "
 
Display at Your Own Risk http://displayatyourownrisk.org/ "Display At Your Own Risk (DAYOR) is a research-led exhibition experiment featuring digital surrogates of public domain works of art produced by cultural heritage institutions of international repute. The project includes a Gallery Exhibition as well as an open source version of that exhibition intended for public use."
 
LA Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org "The Los Angeles Review of Books is a nonprofit, multimedia literary and cultural arts magazine that combines the great American tradition of the serious book review with the evolving technologies of the Web. We are a community of writers, critics, journalists, artists, filmmakers, and scholars dedicated to promoting and disseminating the best that is thought and written, with an enduring commitment to the intellectual rigor, the incisiveness, and the power of the written word."
 
UnattendedVaporware http://onchanneltwo.com/CH2-unattendedVaporware "Attention international travelers! UnattendedVaporware is the world's largest geolocation-based augmented reality network of site specific public artworks. See UnattendedVaporware inside every international airport on the planet. Download the free UnattendedVaporware app on The App Store or Google Play. Waiting in the security line? Flight delayed? Use your mobile device to reveal UnattendedVaporware."
** Reviewer will need to download the app for iOS or Android and be in an international airport at least once during the time of writing in order to analyze the resource
 
 
Emilee Mathews
Research Librarian for Visual Arts
Liaison to Art, Art History, Film & Media Studies, and the Visual Studies Program
 
University of California, Irvine
PO Box 19557 Zot 8100
Irvine, CA 92623
 

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