Timeline of Select Projects | Index of Projects
Title | Year(s) | Field | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Columbia Image Bank on Artstor | Image Database | The Art History Teaching Collection, compiled by the Media Center for Art History from scans of slides and photographs, is accessible to anyone on Columbia's campus or with a Columbia University UNI. |
|
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. |
Goddess, Heroine, Beast: Anna Hyatt Huntington's New York Sculpture, 1902-1936 | 2013 - 2014 | Sculpture, North America | An online catalog for the Wallach Art Gallery exibit of the same name |
Goya: Disasters of War | Prints, Europe | Scans of thirteen of Goya's Disasters of War prints with captions, organized as a slideshow |
|
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. |
Illuminating Art History: Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant | 2022 - 2024 | Art History, Slides, Photograph | A two-year Digital Art History grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation enabled the digitization and online dissemination of the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology's Lantern Slide Collection. |
Luna | Image Database | Before Artstor, Luna hosted the Art History Teaching Collection images. |
|
MA in Art History Presents | 2017 - 2018 | Art History | Under the guidance of Frédérique Baumgartner, the Media Center works with student curators in the MA in Art History program to develop content and build an exhibition website. |
MCID (MDID) | 2011 - 2012 | Image Database | The Media Center Image Database (MCID) hosts the Department of Art History's teaching collections, special collections, and original photography of globally significant art and architecture. Fieldwork highlights include Istanbul, Iraq, Rome, Chicago, The American Southwest, and Japan. |
MCID Metadata Restructuring | 2024 - 2026 | Image Database | With over 110,000 new individual images added to MCID in the last couple years from digitization projects alone, MCID's reliance on collections as a primary organizational focus hinders findability of these important new resources. The Media Center has initiated an MCID restructuring project, designed to build connections across collections and increase findability of media of all types. This project is still in process and will be announced formally when available. |
Mnemosyne | Image Database | Before MCID, Mnemosyne was the Media Center's database for hosting all its image resources. |
|
Parthenon Frieze | 2001 - 2002 | Sculpture, Europe | Annotated floorplans and images of the Parthenon frieze, organized by facade. |
Robert Moses and the Modern City | 2006 - 2007 | Urban Planning, Architecture, North America | Designed as an online resource for the three-part exhibition Robert Moses and the Modern City, this website includes an interactive map of the works of Robert Moses in New York City, an extensive collection of photographs, and text on each exhibition. |
Seneca Village Project | 2011 - 2012 | Urban Planning, North America | Formed in 1998, the Seneca Village Project is focused on the study of a 19th-century African-American and Irish-immigrant community that was located in today's Central Park in New York City and on its commemoration in an educational context. |
South America Fieldwork | Architecture, South America | Two Columbia University graduate students, Rebecca Fitle and Amanda Gannaway, took these images of important archaeological and cultural heritage sites in Bolivia and Peru. |
|
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. |
The Photograph Collection: Kress Foundation Digital Art History Grant | 2020 - 2023 | Art History, Photograph | A two-year Digital Art History grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation enabled the digitization and online dissemination of the Columbia University Department of Art History and Archaeology's Photograph Collection. |
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. |
|
Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe | 2010 - 2011 | Decorative Arts, Europe | The Media Center produced the digital monograph for the 2010-11 exhibition Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, and Devotion in Medieval Europe, co-organized by the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Walters Art Museum, and the British Museum. |
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. |