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