Under the auspices of The City University of New York Art and Technology Group, a one-day Art & Computer Technology Conference will be held at City College this spring. The conference will be an innovative opportunity for CUNY faculty to explore the role of changing technology in academia, with an emphasis both on the way computer tools are being used in the teaching of art history and studio art, and on their dramatic potential for the future.
The conference will gather a group of CUNY faculty and computing staff who are involved in the design and development of multimedia demonstration modules within the art curriculum. The morning panel will take as its general theme the comparison of traditional and multimedia approaches to teaching. It will address the use of computer-based tools in art history and studio courses through a variety of faculty works in progress.
These include a multimedia presentation of Public Art in the Bronx geared both to college and high school use; courseware for a team-taught core "World Arts" course covering art, film and theater; and an illustrated lecture on the 19th century French artist Edouard Manet demonstrating the advantages of using images projected from CD-ROM rather than slides.
The afternoon session will focus on faculty projects in progress on the Internet, and specifically on the World Wide Web. It will also take a look at the process of digitizing images within the context of the slide library, and examine some of the increasingly stringent copyright issues surrounding such electronically processed and distributed images.
The conference will take place in early May. There is no fee. For further information about details of the program and to register, please call (212) 541-0345.
-- Marta-Lourdes Llano
The group has identified three major initiatives: an Art & Technology seminar program, an art multimedia courseware development effort, and research in digital image database technology. The campus members of the Art & Technology Seminar Group are: Claire Grandpierre of the Graduate Center; Lisa Livingston of City College; Maurice Poirier of Kingsborough Community College; and Sally Webster of Herbert H. Lehman College.