Timeline of Select Projects | Index of Projects
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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 and Architecture in Puglia: SIIA Research Trip | 2020 - 2020 | Architecture, Painting, Europe | In coordination with Prof. Michael Cole’s Spanish Italy & the Iberian Americas project, the Media Center was able to join the research group on a trip to the Puglia region of southern Italy. |
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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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. |
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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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. |
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. |
Mnemosyne | Image Database | Before MCID, Mnemosyne was the Media Center's database for hosting all its image resources. |
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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. |
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 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 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 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 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. |