***apologies for cross-posting*** ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Needs You!
ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors are seeking volunteers to author reviews for the February 2016 issue. To volunteer, choose your review topic from the list below and complete our review form by Monday, December 9, 2015. Initial draft submissions are due Monday, January 4, 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 [email protected]. Submitted by ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors: Hannah Bennett Emilee Mathews Gabriella Karl-Johnson Topics for Review We seek reviewers for the following resources. The snippets are taken from the resource's web page and are not necessarily the opinions of the M&T Reviews Co-Editors. ACI - Scholarly Blog Index - "Founded in 2004 as Newstex, today ACI Information Group is the world's leading aggregator of editorially selected and curated social media publications." *note: reviewer will need to set up a trial. Invaders - "[The Space Invaders project is] about liberating Art from its usual alienators that museums or institutions can be. But it is also about freeing the Space Invaders from their video games TV screens and to bring them in our physical world." Miller House and Garden - "New online archival collection for the Miller House and Garden, one of the nation's most highly regarded mid-century Modernist residences. The Miller House was designed by Eero Saarinen, with interiors by Alexander Girard and landscape design by Daniel Urban Kiley. The robust digital collection spans 50 years and contains 17,699 downloadable images, including architectural drawings, material samples, photographs and administrative documents related to the history of the property. The 3-year digitization project was made possible by a $190,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded to the Museum in May 2012." Project Reveal - "Project REVEAL has been a year-long project designed with the three-fold purpose of increasing access to the Ransom Center's [University of Texas at Austin] manuscript and archival resources, enhancing the online user experience for the Center's researchers, and creating workflows and institutional best practices for future large-scale digitization projects at the Center." Sketch by Bohemian Coding - "Sketch is built for modern graphic designers, and it shows in every fibre of the app. From a flexible workflow with support for Multiple Pages and Artboards. Powerful features like Symbols and Shared Styles are there to make reusing elements quick and easy." *note - user will have to set up a trial. This software is only compatible with Mac. Slides - "If you're looking for a great way to create and share beautiful presentations at no cost, you should give Slides a look. The program gives visitors the ability to use the software on many devices, add audio to each slide, import PDF files seamlessly, and much more. Presentations will be publicly available, unless visitors elect for the paid version, in which case they can be kept private. This version is compatible with all operating systems." VIRCONA - "VIRCONA is a database of Native North American visual artists. It is a web-accessible subset of the Native American entries in the electronic catalog to the collections of over 300,000 35mm slides in the Bainbridge Bunting Memorial Slide Library (now Bunting Visual Resources Library, BVRL) at the University of New Mexico (UNM). VIRCONA was created to be a shared resource on the Internet for the nonprofit use of educational, research, scholarly, and cultural institutions." YSL - "Saint Laurent is a biopic in short, narrowing its scope to 1967-1976 and using flashbacks and flash-forwards to touch on other periods of its subject's life. Viewers are introduced to Yves Saint Laurent (Gaspard Ulliel) at a tender thirty-one, already extremely successful: head of a fashion house that bears his name; involved in a romantic and business partnership with the stable, extremely wealthy Pierre Bergé (Jérémie Renier); generally recognized and lauded as a creative genius. But Saint Laurent is barreling towards crisis. 'I'm thirty-three and I feel one hundred,' he laments. And so, in the stereotypical manner of aging child prodigies, he rebels." *note - YSL is available streaming on Netflix and Amazon video. It is also owned by several libraries. Please ensure you have access before volunteering. 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 (949) 824-6672 [email protected]
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