Timeline of Select Projects | Index of Projects
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Ajanta Cave | Painting, Asia | Stitched photographs of cave wall murals with image detail hotspots |
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Angkor: Architecture in Cambodia | 2012 - 2013 | Architecture, Asia | Late Media Center Director Caleb Smith photographed this rich collection of temple architecture from the Khmer Empire in Angkor, present-day Cambodia. |
Architecture of North Korea | Architecture, Asia | This collection of photographs of government-sponsored architecture in Pyongyang, the Demilitarized Zone, and other sites of interest was taken by Columbia Art History student Lorenzo Vigotti. |
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ArchMap | Architecture, Asia, Europe | This architecture mapping database was the predecessor to Art Atlas |
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Arg-e Bam: Before and After | Architecture, Asia | This website presents a collection of photographs, panoramas, and aerial views of The Citadel of Bam (Arg-e Bam), Iran taken in 2003 and 2004, before and after a large earthquake devastated most of the medieval city. |
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Asian Art Humanities | 2002 - 2003 | East Asia | Course monograph with links to Courseworks, Mnemosyne, CLIO, and other Media Center sites. |
Computational Tools for Modeling, Visualizing and Analyzing Historic and Archaeological Sites | 2002 - 2004 | Architecture, Africa, Europe, North America | This project aimed "to create new computational tools" for for studying historic structures and archaeological sites, then to compile the data into a database and educational website. Featured locations include Amheida, Egypt; Monte Polizzo, Italy; Thulamela, South Africa; Beauvais Cathedral, France; and St. John the Divine, New York City. |
Delight in Design: Silver for the Raj | 2008 - 2009 | Decorative Arts, Asia | Delight in Design was created as an online resource for an exhibition of South Asian silver at the Wallach Gallery in 2008, curated by Vidya Dehejia, Barbara Stoler Miller Professor of Indian and South Asian Art. |
Documenting Japan | 2010 - 2011 | Architecture, Asia | During an Artstor-sponsored fieldwork campaign in May 2010, the Media Center documented significant architectural sites in Japan from the 8th to 21st centuries and gained unparalleled access to some of the nation's most famous monuments. |
Exploring Chinese Painting: A Test Module for Undergraduate Teaching | Painting, Asia | Interactive timeline of masterworks of Chinese painting 900-1750 CE. Users can compare multiple works along the timeline or view individual pieces in detail, including four long scroll paintings. |
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Great Vista Peak, Mount Taishan, Shandong | 2007 - 2008 | Sculpture, Asia | Animation of the rock inscriptions on Great Vista Peak disappearing in reverse chronological order of creation to reveal the mountain face as it likely appeared pre-inscriptions |
History of Architecture - Real Virtual, Representing Architectural Time and Space | 1998 - 2005 | Architecture, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America | This History of Architecture Web site is designed to support undergraduate education by focusing on interactive panoramas as a method of expanding the options for classroom presentations of architectural subjects. |
Kangxi Emperor's Southern Tour: Scroll Seven | Painting, Asia | Digitized, stitched images of Chinese scroll paintings with annotations and translations. One of four digitized. Also part of the Exploring Chinese Painting site. |
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Kangxi Emperor's Southern Tour: Scroll Three | Painting, Asia | Digitized, stitched images of Chinese scroll paintings with annotations and translations. One of four digitized. Also part of the Exploring Chinese Painting site. |
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Qianlong Emperor's Southern Tour: Scroll Four | Painting, Asia | Digitized, stitched images of Chinese scroll paintings with annotations and translations. One of four digitized. Also part of the Exploring Chinese Painting site. |
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Qianlong Emperor's Southern Tour: Scroll Six | Painting, Asia | Digitized, stitched images of Chinese scroll paintings with annotations and translations. One of four digitized. Also part of the Exploring Chinese Painting site. |
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Recording the Grandeur of the Qing / Nanxuntu: Southern Inspection Tour Scrolls | 2005 - 2009 | Painting, Asia | These monumental scrolls, commissioned by the Kangxi and Quinlong Emperors of the Qing Dynasty to record their multiple inspection tours, provide a unique and vivid glimpse into the grandeur of late imperial China and are the focus of this web site. The site has been updated to a new version by Asia for Educators |
Rock-cut Architecture of India | 2010 - 2012 | Architecture, Asia | This photographic survey features just some of India's more than 1,500 rock cut structures, ancient and medieval buildings that represent amazing achievements of structural engineering and craftmanship. |
Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Safavid Shah Tahmasp (The Feast of Sadah) | Painting, Asia | This site features a high-resolution, zoomable image of the "Feast of Sadah" page of this 16th-century Iranian illuminated manuscript, along with descriptions of the iconography, history, and historical figures found therein. |
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South Asia Cultural Heritage Sites | Architecture, Asia | Using a Flash-based map with cultural site, cities, elevation, languages, population, etc. overlays, this site highlights important architectural sites in the India subcontinent. Each site contains floorplans, a description and history of the site, and links to image portfolios and panoramas. |
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Tarim: Community and the Built Environment in Yemen | 2001 - 2007 | Architecture, Asia | Created by the late Media Center director James Conlon, this website primarily contains information and data about the conservation of ornate mud-architecture houses in Tarim, Yemen, along with a collection of original photographs and panoramas. |
Tarim: The Image Database of the Tarim Documentation Project | Architecture, Asia | An image database for the "Tarim: Community and the Built Environment in Yemen" website. |
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The Asian Art Digital Teaching Project | 2004 - 2008 | Architecture, Painting, Asia | This teaching module showcases Media Center projects and image collections relating to Middle, South, and East Asian art and architecture in order to better serve the faculty and students of Columbia University. |
The Great Mosque of Mopti | 2008 - 2009 | Architecture, Africa | Created by late Media Center Director James Conlon following the Terra 2008 conference in Bamako, Mali, this site features panoramas and images of this classic African Islamic mud monument dating from 1935. There is also a brief history and bibliography of the region and building. |
Thulamela: Computational Tools for Modeling, Visualizing, and Analyzing Historic and Archaeological Sites | Architecture, Africa | Part of the "Computational Tools for Modeling, Visualizing and Analyzing Historic and Archaeological Sites" project, "Thulamela" is the most completed subproject with its own separate website. |
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Treasures Rediscovered: Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collections at Columbia University | Sculpture, Asia | Featuring still images, rotational object photography, and curator's texts, this Media Center site was built to serve as a digital catalog for an exhibit of Chinese sculpture from Dr. Arthur M. Sackler's large donation of Asian artworks to Columbia University. |