Changing Light: a plethora of digital tools as slides gasp their last?

Gramstadt, Marie-Therese (2011) Changing Light: a plethora of digital tools as slides gasp their last? Technology and ‘the Death of Art History', CHArt twenty-six annual conference British Computer Society, London, 10–11 November 2010.

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Gramstadt, Marie-Therese

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The title 'Changing Light' reflects the enormous changeover from analogue slides to digital images, both a cultural shift and a physical shift down to the change in light from the smoky beams of dual slide projectors piercing the dark of a classroom, to the bright white classrooms of the digital age.

The evidence for the 'death of slides' has been mounting for a number of years and reported by visual resources curators in the US and the UK. In 2005 JISC funded AHDS Visual Arts to report on 'the effects of the digital image revolution on the UK arts education community'; the Association of Curators of Art and Design Images (ACADI), the Association of Art Historians (AAH), and the Art Libraries Society (ARLIS/UK & Ireland) contributed significantly to the Digital Picture initiative. However some of the issues highlighted by the final report are yet to be addressed such as provision of copyright-cleared digital images for use in education.

This paper considers what arts education stands to lose from the 'death of slides' in the context of digital images and the plethora of digital presentation tools. As well as a change in light, there is a change from the physical tangible slide technology to the virtual digital image and computing in the cloud.

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http://www.chart.ac.uk/chart2010/papers/gramstadt....

Date:

2011

Funders:

University for the Creative Arts Learning and Teaching Research Fund 2010-11

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Embedding innovative image presentation technology within existing visual pedagogic practice

Uncontrolled Keywords or tags :

35mm slide, slide library, art education, slide projection, digital image, image presentation software, PowerPoint, visual arts pedagogy