Winter's the time to stay home and look at pictures!

Brighten up your winter with some Canadian content! The Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art's Canadian Art Database Project is full of images, multimedia content and documents to assist you with your research. (*Please note that the images in the CCCA Database are for private study only.)

http://www.ccca.ca/index.html?languagePref=en&

Enjoy!

Ways of Seeing

The BBC Documentary, Ways of Seeing, created by John Berger, is available at UbuWeb. The documentary, which is not yet available on DVD, has been viewed by art and media students for decades, as an introduction to the art of looking.

http://ubu.com/film/berger_seeing.html

New! Visual Resources Collection Campus Guide

Wondering what we've been doing all summer? Well, along with our continuation of the digitization project of images and video, we have been adding to our NEW Visual Resources Collection Campus Guide, available for all to use.

Some highlights include:

Video and Film lists
Guides to our Digital Image Collections
Essential copyright information


Please check it out, and provide feedback and any suggestions you have:

NSCAD Visual Resources Campus Guide

Presenting: Ten Boxes, by Ashley Hicks, our fantastic
student assistant. Ashley created this work from the
slide boxes we have used for decades to circulate our
collection. Analogue times lead to high concept digital
photography, who knew??

TEN BOXES

Database of Virtual Art

For a terrific survey of contemporary digital installation art and documentation, please check this
out:

Database of Virtual Art

Back to basics

For those of you who are not yet familiar with the basics of digital images and their use, I'd like to point out this page to you: Understanding Digital Images, presented by the University of Reading:

http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/using-images/UnderstandingDigitalImages/img-understandhome.aspx

Welcome Back! Here's how to find us.

Greetings, and welcome back to NSCAD for the Fall 09 semester. If you're new to NSCAD, and haven't yet checked out the Visual Resources Collection, please come in for a visit. We're located on the 3rd floor of the Duke Street building, just left off the elevator.

We've got lots of new additions to our DVD library, including a full run of the films of Andrea Dorfman, a set of early Robert Frank films, and a well rounded selection of French New Wave films. Among other new additions, we have a set of documentaries by Aboriginal Canadian filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin, (read about her ), and a set of 4 films by British dramatic-documentarian Peter Watkins.

Highlights of our digital resources include, of course, our newly-acquired access to the million plus image collection ARTstor, available on and off-campus, (http://www.artstor.org) and the Wilson Art Museum Image Gallery (available here: Wilson Art Gallery )

Other new additions to our image research links are the fantastic Victoria & Albert Museum image collection: http://www.vandaimages.com/index.asp , and the site 'Imaging The French Revolution (http://chnm.gmu.edu/revolution/imaging/), which is an excellent resource for those of you enrolled in 19th Century Art History.

Take a few minutes and come visit us, we look forward to meeting you!