vra 2012, emerging new roles, “the oxford experience”
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Presented by Victoria Brown at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 18th - April 21st, 2012, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Session: Emerging new roles for VR professionals: research into and beyond the arts At a time of international financial instability, with positions constantly under threat, analogue collections facing forced closure and space at a premium, this session will hear from VR professionals who are reinventing themselves and evolving roles in changing landscapes, pushing into new disciplines and spaces.Each speaker will discuss the new roles they have taken on, either by accident or design and how their experiences are shaping their view of the VR profession in “the tens”. In many cases this has meant working across disciplines; making their professional presence felt in the classroom and the boardroom; developing new skills but in all cases, broadening their horizons through collaboration.Speakers will discuss supporting courses beyond traditional visual arts, design and art history; collaborating with libraries, IT and faculty in course development and delivery; working with artists and archivists to preserve and expose their work, collections and archives; building repositories; involvement in project funding applications; working in arts research and coordinating non-traditional research outputs.ORGANIZER: Stephanie Beene, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, ORMODERATOR: Victoria Brown, University of OxfordPRESENTERS:1: Stephanie Beene, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR2: Victoria Brown, University of Oxford, UK3: Jodie Double, University of Leeds, UK4: Catherine Worrall, University College Falmouth, UKTRANSCRIPT
Vicky Brown, Visual Resources Curator
Visual Resources Centre, History of Art Department
April 18, 2012
Emerging new roles for VR professionals: research into and beyond the arts
“The Oxford Experience”
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
Albert Einstein
Why new roles?
Training, advice and support in the use of digital images and associated technologies
Building local collections & developing a platform to support teaching and learning
Managing visual and material culture archives & working with groups: learning new skills
Adapting existing roles
A bit of background
Training: new places, new spaces
Subscription databases
Training: new places, new spaces
Image sourcing more generally
Training: new places, new spaces
Image creation, manipulation & management
Hosting local content
Building collections outside the norm
Building audio materials to support teaching
Building text resources to support teaching
Supporting teaching and learning: WebLearn
Building a departmental presence in New WebLearn
Supporting teaching and learning: WebLearn
An exemplar for the Humanities Division
Supporting teaching and learning: WebLearn
Using WebLearn to create a public face for the VRC
Managing Visual & Material Culture Archives
History of Art archival collections
William Cohn Collection
Cohn and Jewish émigrés in Oxford
Working and collaborating in groups
Groups in Oxford
Groups in the UK
Groups outside the UK
To summarise…
Change & adapt New spaces, new skills Beyond the arts
Sources and references
ARTstor: www.artstor.org
Bridgeman Education: www.bridgemaneducation.com
Treasures of the Bodleian website: http://treasures.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/discover-treasures
OUCS ITLP course: http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/itlp/courses/detail/TIMY
Oxford University WebLearn: https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal
WebLearn Guidance site: Showcase: History of Art Case Study:
https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/access/content/group/info/cases/Historyof%20Art.pdf
Oxford University Humanities Division: http://www.humanities.ox.ac.uk/
History of Art Visual Resources Centre:
https://weblearn.ox.ac.uk/portal/hierarchy/humdiv/histfac/history_of/hoa_visual
Archaeology Archives Oxford blog (Jacobstahl):
http://archaeologyarchivesoxford.wordpress.com/paul-jacobsthal/
Digital Humanities Oxford: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/
ACADI (Association of Curators of Art and Design Images): http://acadi.wordpress.com/
Stock.xchng: http://www.sxc.hu/
Flickr Commons: http://www.flickr.com/commons
Picture credits
Quick Change Artist Board Game © Bridgeman Art Library
Daniel Buren, Photo-Souvenir, From three windows, 2006, photo Stephen White, © MAO & the Artist
Screens Row © Alx Sanchez, stock.xchng
Braun photographs, photo © Vicky Brown
Linked Hands © Julia Freeman-Woolpert, stock.xchng
Giving a Hand © Johnny Nyberg, stock.xchng
Students walking beneath Bridge of Sighs, Oxford © PA Photocall
Department of the History of Art plaque, photo © Vicky Brown
Student in Balliol College Library, © PA Photocall
Planetary Nebulas, Smithsonian Institution, Flickr Commons
Scanning Negatives, © Julian Spencer, stock.xchng
Sculpture of a pig, Villa Cimbrone, Ravello (Salerno), Oppenheimer Collection © HoA Dept
mp3 players, © yasin öztürk, stock.xchng
Open and Read, © Sanja Gjenero, stock.xchng
Selected images from the Cohn Collection, HoA Dept, VRC