February 2012
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Artwork, physical vs. digital (4) - Digital...
Although the features of the National Gallery digital collection, including the virtual tour and multiple access points, are excellent, so much more could be done to manipulate the nature of the digital and to allow users to interact with the digital paintings in a way they never can with the original artworks. Benjamin argues that technology should be used in a new and original way to create new...
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Artwork, physical vs. digital (3) - Philosophy of...
As a philosophy graduate, I have to briefly share my thoughts on some philosophical theories of art, and how I applied them to my experience of Turner’s Dido Building Carthage. The main, and most important, difference in experiencing the painting digitally and physically is the difference in what Walter Benjamin terms the “aura” (The Work of Art in the Mechanical Age, 1935). On viewing Turner’s...
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Artwork, physical vs. digital (2) - Size
This is a series of blog entries summarising my thoughts on an assignment given to me while studying the Digital Resources in Humanities module at UCL. This was to compare and evaluate my experience of a digital item with its real world surrogate; and I chose Turner’s Dido Building Carthage housed at the wonderful National Gallery.
The painting itself measures 155.5 x 230cm, and is hung at eye...
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Artwork, physical vs. digital (1) - Access points
In studying the Digital Resources in Humanities module at UCL, I was given the assignment to compare and evaluate my experience of a digital item with its real world surrogate. Instead of choosing a book to write on, as you may expect, I chose to focus on my favourite painting; Turner’s Dido Building Carthage housed at the wonderful National Gallery. Due to vast improvements in image-capturing...
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Senate House Library Placement - Digitisation
What was especially great about writing the blog entries for Rare Books Revealed and Rare Books Revealed 2 for Senate House Library was being able to see digitisation in action on the books I had selected to blog about. I was shown the different scanners and cameras used to obtain varying quality pictures and also to deal with different sized and shaped items (Special Collections has many oddly...
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Senate House Library Placement - Cataloguing...
Belatedly, I have realised it would be useful to do a blog entry on my work placement at Senate House Library, which was a good few weeks ago! However, in my defence I had not yet begun this blog until after the placement had finished, and in fact it was my work placement which inspired me to create a blog in the first place. Just a warning that this will probably be in quite a few installments!
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