Birkbeck College
project: Weaving communities of practice. Textiles, culture and identity in the Andes: a semiotic and ontological approach.
Grant Holder: Dr Sven Helmer
Research in Bolivia, Peru and Chile,
combined with museum research there and in the UK, focuses on Bolivia,
Peru, and Chile on the basis of previous ethnographic, archaeological
and museological knowledge and contacts, and three time horizons:
Tiwanaku, the Inka-early colony, and the contemporary. [read more]
project: Colonial Film: Moving Images of the British Empire
Grant Holder: Professor Colin MacCabe
The Colonial film project catalogues all films documenting and representing aspects of the British empire held by the British Film Institute, The Imperial War Museum, and the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. The final catalogue will identify over 6000 films and some 10% of the collection will have enhanced entries bringing a wealth of detailed knowledge to illuminate particular films. A number of these films are analysed in detail, and around 30 hours are digitized and made freely available. The project mainly spans the years 1896-1965. [read more]
project: The National Inventory Research Project
Grant Holder: Dr Francis Ames-Lewis
The National Inventory Research Project is involved in researching and documenting pre-1900 European paintings in UK public collections. It aims to: Add new research to museum holdings of pre-1900 European paintings; Make up-to-date information about these collections more readily available. The 'NICE Paintings' database gives access to newly researched information about 8,300 pictures in public collections throughout the UK. [read more]
project: British printed images to 1700, a digital library
Grant Holder: Professor Michael Hunter
‘BRITISH PRINTED IMAGES TO 1700’ (bpi1700) is a project funded by the AHRC under their Resource Enhancement scheme. It represents a collaboration between Birkbeck, University of London, and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (King’s College London). The other partners are the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum. It currently makes over 5,000 printed images from early modern Britain available online in fully searchable form. [read more]
project: Collected Works of Thomas Middleton
Grant Holder:
The Oxford Middleton, prepared by seventy-five scholars from a dozen countries, follows the precedent of The Oxford Shakespeare in being published in two volumes, an innovative but accessible Collected Works and a comprehensive scholarly Companion. Though closely connected, each volume can be used independently of the other.
The Collected Works brings together for the first time in a single volume all the works currently attributed to Middleton. [read more]
project: 19
Grant Holder:
19 is the first scholarly, refereed web journal dedicated to advancing interdisciplinary study in the long nineteenth century. [read more]
project: Nineteenth Century Serials Edition
Grant Holder: Prof Laurel Brake
A three year Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project, ncse seeks to achieve two key objectives:
First the ncse project responds to the pressing need to republish these fragile printed items in ways which maintain their integrity. As physical collections are often incomplete, and deteriorating quality hampers access, electronic editions offer new opportunities to re-present such material in a way that is, for the first time online, comprehensive and freely available meaning that the material can be used in entirely novel ways. [read more]
project: Computer Art and Technocultures (CAT): evaluating the Patric Prince Collection in the Digital Age
Grant Holder: Drs Nicholas Lambert; Douglas Dodds
The partners will examine the development of computer-based art from the late 1970s to the 1990s. The basis of our research will be the collection of artworks, publications and ephemera assembled by Patric Prince, an American art historian who comprehensively chronicled the nascent Computer Art scene. Project staff will document and evaluate the Patric Prince Collection’s contents, using it to establish a framework for understanding the medium in its art historical, cultural and technological context. [read more]
project: Relics and selves : institutions of cultural nationalism in Argentina, Brazil and Chile
Grant Holder: Professor William Rowe
"Historians, literary critics, anthropologists and art critics from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the US and Europe have collaborated in this unique text-image show of the national iconographies of three Latin American countries in the final decades of the nineteenth century - a moment of accelerating modernization and the emergence of new, centralized and disciplinary, state formations. The exhibition asks how this process affected representations of the people, the past, and the space of the nation. [read more]
project: The digital and computer-based arts in the United Kingdom from their origins to 1980
Grant Holder: Dr Charles Gere
CACHe is a major research project into the origins and history of British computer arts.
We are based at the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck, University of London and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board. The substantial government funding for our project indicates the level of interest in creating an historical framework for this period. CACHe began its work in 2002.
CACHe is investigating the early days of the computer arts in the UK from their origins in the 1960s to the 1980s, when the first personal computers began to be used. [read more]