[Neasis-l] Beautiful Data II - 2 Weeks Left to Apply

[Annie Erdmann]

Sorry for any cross posting out there!

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Taking place between July 6 - July 16th, 2015, Beautiful Data II represents
our second annual workshop supported by the Getty Foundation aimed at
addressing challenges and opportunities with art museum open data. Please
check our video preview of the worksop and venue
<https://vimeo.com/121883641>.

Participants will be introduced to concepts and skills necessary to make
use of open collections to develop art-historical storytelling through data
visualization, interactive media, enhanced curatorial description and
exhibition practice, digital publication, and data-driven, object-oriented
teaching.

This second annual offering of Beautiful Data will focus on “difficult
collections” poised on the edge of the digital/material divide. We’ll
address collections of things that resist ready digitization, or exist as
ephemeral and hybrid objects and events. We’ll ponder data as a medium for
art with its own curatorial and preservation challenges. And we’ll consider
ways of working with new-media artists in the context of materials and
mixed-media collections. The workshop will take place at the
recently-reopened Harvard Art Museums, in its remarkable new building
designed by Renzo Piano, where we’ll have access to reimagined facilities
for the study and exhibition of objects of abiding interest.

Intended for art historians, scholars of visual culture, and museum
professionals at all career stages, admission is on a competitive basis.
All participants will receive a stipend covering housing and travel
expenses.

Applications are due by 11:59 p.m. EST on April 1, 2015.

For more information including documentation of last year's workshop, and
to apply, please visit beautifuldata.metalab.harvard.edu.

Please direct questions to: info at metalab.harvard.edu.
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*Annie Erdmann*
Digital Assets/ eResources Librarian
Simmons College Library
Boston MA 02115
617-521-2723
erdmann at simmons.edu
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