Cataloguing Computer Art
Honor Beddard, Curator, Computer Art Project, V&A
Picture This! the art of cataloguing images in the digital ageARLIS9 September, 2009
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Computer Art and Technocultures
AHRC funded project: V&A / Birkbeck College, University of London
Project duration: 3 years (August 2007 – August 2010)
Project Staff:
V&A Museum
Douglas Dodds, Project Co-investigator & Senior Curator, Computer Art
Honor Beddard, Project Curator, Computer Art
Birkbeck College, University of London
Nick Lambert, Principal Investigator
Jeremy Gardiner, Senior Research Fellow
Francesca Franco, Research Fellow
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CACHe (Computer Arts, Contexts, Histories etc )
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V&A Search the Collections (www.vam.ac.uk)
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CIS Catalogue Record
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CIS: Physical Description
Left: the ‘Physical’ page from a CIS catalogue record
Right: the results of a thesaurus search for ‘computer’ in the Techniques field
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Technology and Terminology (www.vam.ac.uk/computerart)
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Herbert W. Franke, Elektronische Grafik, 1970 (original 1954/55)
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UnitedVisualArtists, Volume, 2006