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Introduction | Questionnaire Summary | Field Agenda | Readings /Websites
Welcome to the Visual and Media Studies Field Area The Building Blocks Visual and Media Studies Field Committee includes representatives of four Learned Societies:
Two other members represent additional professional arenas within the visual fields: Kirk Alexander, Managing Director, Educational Technologies Center, Princeton University, and Miriam Stewart, Associate Curator of Drawings, Fogg Art Museum. Each of these Societies and professional arenas has in common a fundamental commitment to the availability, use, and interpretation of images (pictures, monuments, and objects of various sorts) in teaching and research. While our time together in Washington, D.C., will include field specific meetings focused on a shared visual agenda, the interdisciplinary organizational framework of the Building Blocks Workshop also acknowledges the degree to which professionals with primary affiliations to the Visual and Media Studies fields sustain productive relations with other fields as well. Most "art historians," for example, would almost as quickly identify themselves as "historians," though that research identity is rarely reflected in the departmental structures of educational institutions. In addition, Cyberculture Studies, which we understand to fall within Visual and Media Studies, is a new field still in search of an institutional disciplinary home. It is not surprising, then, that Questionnaire respondents in Visual and Media Studies frequently selected multiple categories from the series of possible classifications to describe themselves. Despite this variety, however, there was almost unanimous agreement on the need for
We look forward to meeting you all and to thinking hard and well on these issues. Sally Promey & Catherine Hays In these pages you will find:
PARTICIPANTS Kirk Alexander, Managing Director, Educational Technologies Center, Princeton University Field Committee Murtha Baca, Head, Getty Standards Program, Research Institute for the History of the Arts &Humanities, J. Paul Getty Trust Howard Besser, Associate Professor, School of Education and Information Studies, UCLA Roger Bruce, Director of Interpretation, George Eastman House: International Museum of Photography and Film Chiu-Shui Chan, Associate Professor of Architecture, Iowa State University Jeffrey Cohen, Director, Digital Media and Resource Center, Bryn Mawr College Field Committee Catherine Hays, Coordinator, Digital Technology & Electronic Media, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Maryland Field Committee Virginia Kerr, Digital Technology Librarian Preservation Dept. Northwestern University Library Field Committee Elaine Koss, Deputy Director, College Art Association Stephen Mamber, Professor & Vice Chair, Dept. of Film and Television, UCLA Katherine Poole, Librarian, Rotch Visual Collections, M.I.T. Field Committee Sally Promey, Professor of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland Field Committee Bernard Reilly, Director of Research and Access, Chicago Historical Society David Silver, Director, Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies, University of Maryland Miriam Stewart, Associate Curator of Drawings, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums Field Committee Timothy Wardell, Senior Editor, Smithsonian American Art Museum |
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