ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors are seeking volunteers to
author reviews for the October 2014 issue of the Society's newest online
publication.
To volunteer, choose your review topic from the list below and complete our
review form by Monday, August 25, 2014.
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
at gmail.com.
Submitted by ARLIS/NA Multimedia & Technology Reviews Co-editors:
Hannah Bennett
Emilee Mathews
Elizabeth Schaub
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. The sections in italics denote considerations for access to the
resource, or prompts that the co-editors will want the potential reviewer to
focus on when reviewing the resource.
The editors of the M&T Reviews are happy to answer questions about any of these
selections so feel free to contact them (arlisna.mtr at gmail.com). The
submission deadline for reviews is Monday, September 8, 2014.
Blek - Blek is a unique game about imagination and personality - "Perfect
representation of touch-screen play" (The New York Times). Everything you draw
keeps moving - and watching your creations move is like watching magic. The
goal is simple: shape a line that collects all colored circles avoiding black
holes on its route. There are no specific moves that you need to master. To
every level countless solutions exist, from delightfully simple to
exceptionally deep and complex, yet always elegant. Reviewer / Volunteer:
Please note that you will have to set up a trial in order to review fully.
Design Envy - Design Envy is a daily blog featuring the best in design today as
chosen by a new curator each week. AIGA, the professional association for
design, selects the curators, who are encouraged to discover and share examples
of design that's so good, they wish they had done it themselves.
EVA London: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts - The most recent conference
for this organization was just held in July 2014 with the entire program and
session papers available online. Reviewers are encouraged to assess not just
the overall theme of the conference but the directions the different panels are
suggesting to take for the related disciplines. Additionally, reviewers are
asked to consider and assess the various technologies and use of technology
addressed in the various panels.
Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library - This resource will bring
together more than 1200 hours of videos on the history of clothing and fashion
as well as the business aspects of the fashion industry and the major figures
in the field. This collection is based on the archives of the Videofashion
Library, a company that has covered the fashion industry since 1976. Future
releases will also contain 35 hours of rare, hard-to-source, black and white
public footage, compiled by Videofashion, documenting First Ladies,
celebrities, and fashion shows from 1929 to 1967. This first release includes
190 hours of content. Reviewer / Volunteer: Please note that you will have to
set up a trial in order to review fully, unless your institution already
subscribes to this resource.
Guardian Cities - The Guardian newspaper has crafted this wonderful site to
bring curious urbanologists news from Seoul to San Francisco. Supported in part
by the Rockefeller Foundation, the site offers "a forum for debate and the
sharing of ideas about the future of cities around the world." Articles on the
homepage might include pieces on investment in Detroit by Chinese corporations
or the shifting public art scene in Glasgow. New visitors may wish to start
with "An urbanist's tour of South Korea," which features the musings of Colin
Marshall on this dynamic Asian country. Moving along, the Global voices section
features an interactive map of the best city blogs around the world. The site
also contains the visually stimulating In pictures area and the
up-to-the-moment Latest on cities newsfeed.
Haunt Journal of Art - Haunt Journal of Art is a graduate student run,
peer-reviewed, open access journal from the the Department of Art at the
University of California Irvine. We believe speculative and innovative art
writing practices are paramount to the development of radical thinking and
imagination.
Interactive Digital Media Art Survey: Key Findings and Observations - In
February of 2013, Cornell University Library in collaboration with the Society
for the Humanities began a two-year project funded by the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) to preserve access to complex born-digital new media
art objects. The project aims to develop a technical framework and associated
tools to facilitate enduring access to interactive digital media art with a
focus on artworks stored on hard drive, CD-ROM, and DVD-ROM.
Kanopy Streaming Films - Kanopy is a subscription film database that offers
streaming film through purchasing packages, title-by-title, and DDA
(demand-driven acquisition). It also features video hosting and search and find
services to track down obscure titles. Reviewer / Volunteer: Please note that
you will have to set up a trial in order to review fully, unless your
institution already subscribes to this resource.
Mackintosh Architecture: Context, Making, and Meaning - This site provides an
introduction to the forthcoming major resource, 'Mackintosh Architecture',
which will be launched in July 2014. Mackintosh Architecture' will provide a
richly-illustrated Catalogue of all known architectural projects by Charles
Rennie Mackintosh. It will also provide, for the period of Mackintosh's
professional career in Glasgow (1889 to 1913) entries for projects by John
Honeyman & Keppie (from 1901 Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh) and images and data
from the office record books; as well as a catalogue raisonn? of architectural
drawings by Mackintosh and the practice and biographies of over 400 clients,
contractors and suppliers.
Seven Digital Deadly Sins - As part of a collaboration between the National
Film Board of Canada (NFB), The Guardian newspaper and digital production
company Jam3, one can now explore lust, envy, pride, wrath, gluttony, greed,
and sloth in all their digital forms. In an age when Internet use is
unavoidable, there's a good chance you're guilty of some of the Seven Digital
Deadly Sins. In terms of a review, consider how this interactive platform can
apply to the arts; is it an interesting project? Can its design likely inform
other projects and if so, how? What is unique about this project? What does
this sort of site suggest about social interaction online?
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Elizabeth Berenz
ARLIS/NA Media Relations Coordinator
media.relations at arlisna.org
(773) 930-4178
www.arlisna.org
