Prezi Overview of Digital Assets Management Planning

I have created a Prezi to help my colleagues understand where I am at and what my thoughts for the future are concerning Digital Assets Management for University Relations and Creative Services at Georgia State University. We are in the early stage of consulting with clients and content creators as we move forward with this implementation process.  I think my personal challenge is to foment a cohesive vision for this system with my colleagues. It has been a great lesson in patience and persistence. I am hoping this presentation will help get everyone on the same page. Continue reading Prezi Overview of Digital Assets Management Planning

Pink!

In celebration of Valentine’s Day the VRC has cataloged 12 images from Pink: The Exposed Color in Contemporary Art and Culture. These images are available to the SCAD Community in the Digital Image Database with your active MySCAD log-in. Images clockwise from top-left: Bachhuber, Liz. (2005). Heart. PVC tubing, steel brackets, branch forks, plastic drop. 60 x 30 x 20 cm. Collection of the artist. Gette, Paul-Armand. (1989) La Turgescence de la Nymph. Video still with rose petals. Niitsu, Adoka. (2005). Sentimental Vein. Interactive installation, sofa, pink felt. 180 x 90 x 90 cm. Collection of the artist. Yamashita, Mai … Continue reading Pink!

The Body in Contemporary Art

“The body in contemporary art is a bewilderingly vast subject. There are as many bodies as there are artists and viewers, after all. In fact, if you think about it, it seems improbable that there is any art that does not involve the body, since making art and relating to it are rooted in the material world of encounter. And if we take the mind to be the seat of intellect, the body is our interface with the world, and our senses its line of communication, so that even the most dematerialized, conceptual work must take the body into account … Continue reading The Body in Contemporary Art

Signs of the Apocalypse / Rapture

“On a psychological level, such visions and prophecies are closely allied to the processes of dreaming. Indeed the repetition and insistent recycling of a significant theme, over several episodes or nights, each time cloaked in slightly varying symbols, is also a feature of the important cycles of dreams. (Fogelson, [10])” The title Signs of the Apocalypse / Rapture represents a exhibition that utilized writing, visual art and sound to explore themes of oblivion and transcendence. The VRC has cataloged 16 images from this title in the Digital Image Database. Continue reading Signs of the Apocalypse / Rapture