UChicago VRC

Creating. Sourcing. Managing. The VRC helps UChicago with all things visual.

[The Digital Library Federation @CLIRDLF]

It's Global Accessibility Awareness Day! https://t.co/oHPmJHfQd8 Join us here to discuss "Teaching Online and Accessibility" tomorrow, 5/21 @ 12p CST. #DLFTeach

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

The VRC is excited to announce graduate student Livy Snyder’s interviews on preserving and documenting digital and time-based media artworks! She’s outlined practices for caring for these materials from different perspectives, read the full interviews at https://t.co/Vo3uThul1r!

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

@profgabrielle Thank you for this doc, and for sharing it! We've added this link to our list of critical cataloging resources for describing images in the digital collection. This will be immensely helpful as we work to repair language in records

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

Important work by #CHMResearchCenter staff @ChicagoMuseum! Check out their new #DisabilityStudies LibGuide and #critcat resources

[ChicagoHistoryMuseum @ChicagoMuseum]

New on the blog: The #CHMResearchCenter just released a #DisabilityStudies LibGuide as part of our ongoing critical cataloging efforts. Learn more about this important work from our librarians. https://t.co/Y2DKtQpLVj #NationalLibraryWeek #MuseumFromHome #CritCat

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

🚨🚨🚨 Check it out!!

[Open Culture @openculture]

The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online

View and Download 480,00 Works of Art

https://t.co/o65AY7Ugid

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

We acquired two wax tablets for the Materials Collection! Write and erase using the stylus. See examples of tablets from Roman antiquity and French medieval in LUNA https://t.co/p3Y6C2fCuT

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

Thanks @Sonja_Drimmer for the inspiration and rec to Scribal Workshop!

[Smart Museum of Art @SmartUChicago]

Join Ho Tzu Nyen, Serge Alain Nitegeka, Sean Lowry, and Simone Douglas for a panel discussion on March 4 that considers global-scale issues in contemporary art and art history. Co-presented with @HoodMuseum: https://t.co/inKDq7HAsQ

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

VRC staff and student employees are reading this article today and invite you to do the same

[melissa terras @melissaterras]

Just read this impressive, important (and haunting) article, can recommend - "The Crying Child. On Colonial Archives, Digitization, and Ethics of Care in the Cultural Commons", by Temi Odumosu. https://t.co/WMQYyS4a9j

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

Shadi Habib Allah is another artist whose work bifurcates two different UChicago collections. Habib Allah’s video piece, Dag’aa, is part of the @chicagobooth Art Collection, and in 2018 the @rensoc exhibited video works alongside installations in “Put to Rights.”

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

Check out the VRC's new “Cookbook of Remote and Hybrid Instructional Strategies in Art History” at https://t.co/JOjoTtiH4i : feedback, best practices, & ideas for teaching remotely from Spring 2020 UChicago Art History Instructors

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

Say hello to Burnt Umber, one of the three main earth pigments (with ochre and sienna). See it in paintings at Lascaux and by Caravaggio and Mark Rothko

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

New to the #materials collection: Lead white! The most popular white pigment used until the 19th century, it can be found in artwork internationally to paint light and tone other colors

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

Check out the connections across campus collections: Danh Vō, featured in the @ChicagoBooth art collection and the @RenSoc archive

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

Part 2 of the Materials Collection pigment series features “Paris Green,” or emerald green pigment. Paris Green is no longer used today due to its extreme toxicity, and the Materials Collection features a reproduction.

[UChicago VRC @UChicagoVRC]

From the @sscartcenter archive: Adjoa Jackson Burrowes, “Annihilated Piscean Dreamer”, 1979.