From Artstor: Looking back at 2020, a year like no other – New resources for remote teaching and learning Get started with Artstor Gathered the resources to get librarians, faculty, and students started using our collections and tools. Teaching remotely with Artstor Everything faculty need to know to start enhancing their remote courses with…
Efstratios Stylianidis, Assoc. Professor, School of Spatial Planning and Development at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, has written a book, Photogrammetric Survey for the Recording and Documentation of Historic Buildings (Chambridge: Springer, 2020), that (from the publisher) “…provides state-of-the-art information on photogrammetry for cultural heritage, exploring the problems and presenting solutions that are applicable under…
Join the Frick Library’s Digital Art History Lab in a webinar series – “Technological Revolutions and Art History” – that explores the role technology has played in the development of the field of art history. Historically, science and the humanities were not considered two discrete disciplines: the separation of these two branches of knowledge developed…
From The Art Newspaper Blog: Before Google Street View, there was Ed Ruscha. In 1966, the Los Angeles artist first drove along the Sunset Strip with a motorised camera mounted to the back of his truck, using it to photograph the entire street in a manner that uncannily predicted today’s online mapping technology. He compiled…
Mark your calendar: “Identifiable Individuals and Reality: What Do We Describe and Why” Dr. Martin Doerr, from Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) A talk from the Center for Spatial Studies Fall 2020 series, Knowledge Representation and GeoHumanities Tuesday, September 17 | 11:00 am The virtual talk will argue “that only a smaller…
Check out Polygrid, a developing image search & discovery engine powered by deep learning and PowerDP. Try out a demo via the Rijksmuseum, who has put over 400,000 of their works as hi-res images in the public domain; Polygrid has captured more than 200,000 of them from the Dutch Rijksmuseum Open Data Collection and arranged…