Timeline of Select Projects | Index of Projects
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Africa and African Art | 2005 - 2006 | Africa | Course monograph with links to Mnemosyne image portfolios and external resources |
Amiens Choral Tour | Architecture, Music | In support of the exploration of the intersection of humanities disciplines, the Media Center has augmented our virtual reality tour of Amiens to include a choral performance captured from multiple locations in the cathedral. |
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Art Humanities Teaching Resources | Architecture, Painting, Sculpture, Europe, North America | This companion site to Art Humanities serves as a repository for instructor resources and briefings. |
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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. |
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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. |
Goya: Disasters of War | Prints, Europe | Scans of thirteen of Goya's Disasters of War prints with captions, organized as a slideshow |
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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. |
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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. |
Medieval Millennium | 1999 - 2000 | Architecture, Sculpture, Europe | Early course monograph created for a class and Metropolitan Museum exhibit of the same name. |
Mnemosyne | Image Database | Before MCID, Mnemosyne was the Media Center's database for hosting all its image resources. |
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The American Southwest | 2013 - 2014 | Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, North America | Photographed in New Mexico and Arizona, this collection features a range of art and architecture, from pre-Columbian Native American settlements and Spanish Colonial mission churches to Modern Navajo architecture and contemporary Southwestern art. |
The Carol J. Mackey Archive | 2020 - 2021 | Pre-Columbian | In coordination with Prof. Lisa Trever and alumna Dr. Amanda Gannaway, the Media Center created an online interface for the archive encompassing more than 5800 images from Dr. Mackey’s slide collection of ceramic vessels and other objects from the north coast of Peru. |
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. |
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. |
What is a Sign? An Introduction to Saussure | 2007 - 2008 | Visual Theory, Europe | A series of slides explaining Saussure's theories of semiotics as they relate to Modern Art, with illustrations. |