We recently broke down our roles within our team. We organised ourselves as follows: Project manager: Samina (me) Web developer: Jake Copy Editors / User Experience Designers: Heather / Jordan With these roles as well as our personal projects in mind, we discussed how we wanted to divide our time. […]
By using WordPress, the group will identify a theme by CSS editor and input their information relating to their topic. I will be the Project Manager, my role will be planning and defining scope of the project, develop schedules, estimating time for the project, managing risks and issues evolving the […]
1. What major historical point does your project make? I am interested in intellectual property and its dispersion. The idea of sharing information with the masses first emerged in the Enlightenment era, and now in the Information age, we have an extraordinary ability to continue this ambition. Specifically, I see […]
As a graduate student digital fellow for A Virtual Enlightenment, I will be assisting students who are working on the Uses of Space project. The seminar’s approach to the Tessé room in the Metropolitan Museum as a space where bodies moved–both laboring bodies and bodies that resided in the Hôtel–is […]
I will be working in a group focused on recontextualizing and bringing life to the Met’s exquisite secrétaire and commode commissioned by Marie Antoinette. Our goal is to highlight both the form and function of these lacquer furniture pieces, exploring their materiality, modes of production, daily functionality, and sentimental value. My personal […]
Alexander Lange said it well in the New Yorker when she addressed how The Cooper Hewitt had taken time to make its ornate rooms “sing”. We as a class will make the Met’s new digital approach sing. We will keep the aesthetic and grandiose accents of the Met but propose […]
Given my taste for Asian art, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that I was immediately drawn to the Riesner furniture set, with its Japanese lacquer. However, as I spent more time with the works, I realized that what I was truly interested in was the unique blend of cultures […]
My contribution to my group’s digital project is to hopefully give viewers a more authentic idea about the daily routines that took place in rooms like the Tesse. Scholarship thus far seems to have explored predominantly the wealthy class and how they spent their time in these types of spaces. […]
In thinking about our class objective, I began to focus on the importance of Diderot’s encyclopedie plates to the Tésse Room in terms of the greater understanding of and about 18th Century French decorative arts. The more I focused on ideas surrounding linking plates of the encyclopedie to, say, the […]
On digital technology & our seminar Digital technology has the potential to make visible to all art historians and to their audiences, as well as to all museum audiences, what until now has been experienced only by a few dedicated curators and dealers. Details from high-resolution photography, rotational images, digitally […]
