The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art
Canadian Art Database Project
http://www.ccca.ca
About: The Canadian Art Database Project, housed in the Faculty of
Fine Arts at York University in Toronto, is a work in progress. It is
the prime web resource that focuses on contemporary Canadian art
production and the recent history of Canadian art. For the past
several years, The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art has been
assembling a growing collection of previously inaccessible or
hard-to-find, information on Canadian art in all media [images, texts,
media works, and related ephemera] from a variety of sources across
Canada into a fully searchable, bilingual, database. The ongoing
project is documenting some important Canadian art institutions and
organizations that have helped shape the Canadian art scene since the
1960s, along with the careers of some of Canada's leading professional
artists, designers, art writers and curators.
The Canadian Art Database Project currently holds:
more than 54,000 images and 650 media clips by over 600 prominent
Canadian visual, media and performance artists;
more than 1,200 images by 40 leading Canadian graphic designers;
more than 3,000 texts on art by 190 Canadian writers;
a searchable Canadian Art Bibliography [currently holding 9,000+ references];
a searchable Canadian Art Chronology [currently holding 6,000+ references];
a developing series of Video Portraits profiling artists, graphic
designers and art personalities;
several related projects that complement the core archive.
Contact: Bill Kirby, Director, Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art;
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Visual Arts, York
University. Telephone: 416.533.4810; E-mail: ki...@ccca.ca
The Canadian Art Database has become an essential interactive teaching
resource about Canadian visual culture in secondary and post-secondary
classrooms across Canada and abroad. It is attracting a large and
varied international audience – receiving daily averages of some 2,300
visits [60,000+ per month], and 100,000 hits [3 million+ per month].
There are more than 30,000 unique visitors per month from visitors in
more than 100 countries.
The CCCA employs a unique ‘artist-empowered’ copyright model in which
the copyright on all materials included in the Canadian Art Database
project is retained by the individual creators and authors. Additional
materials have all been cleared by the respective copyright holders.
The Database is housed in the MIMSY Information Management System,
which has been specially customized for the CCCA.
Users of the Canadian Art Database are able to freely view and use
[but not alter] the material housed in the Canadian Art Database
solely for educational and research purposes.
The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art would welcome enquiries from
any other researchers who might wish to work with The Canadian Art
Database
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