We will create a website using css and html on a wordpress platform to make the Tessé room accessible to all visitors to the Met. We will do this by using transparent language, showing video and annotating images in order to elucidate function and usage of materials in 18th century […]
My role as copy editor will be to make sure our website’s language is consistent and captions are well-written. I will help organize the research and share files using Zotero and Google Docs. Finally, I will perform quality control for the any images used, including Encyclopédie plates.
I am going to serve as the web developer for the Materials and their Makers group. My role is to write and edit the code our website, while striving for a user friendly experience and anticipating the needs of our user. I will be working closely with the web designer in […]
Project Role I am the Web Designer for the Materials and their Makers groups. My role is to develop the aesthetic experience of our group’s webpages. My goal is to make the design as simple as possible, in keeping with the larger group goal of maintaining a user-friendly interface. I […]
Materials & Makers, as a group, has a collaborative Prezi where we have and will continue to edit(ed) a skeleton for our project goals, individual roles, and tasks we will take on. Above is a screen shot of my ‘profile’ on our Prezi. My role is Project Manager, whereby […]
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 […]
Project Proposal – Riesener Desk I have a few ideas about how I’d like to explore this object. I’m especially interested in its mechanical nature and how it operates on a level below its veneer, as that aspect of it is virtually invisible when looking at the desk on display […]
My experience thus far as a participant in Barnard’s A Virtual Enlightenment seminar has been nothing but extraordinary. All of my preceding expectations have been blown away and I feel as though I am on a rising exponential learning curve. As the image of such curve exists in my head, […]
