Africana Archives: Making Art at the Schomburg

Critique of Research Books (Art)/ The Art Economics of Art: A Look at Contemporary Art Economics; Markets, Strategies, and the Star-making Systems, Marzieh Eftekhari

Galois Connections: Mathematics, Art and Archives

Évariste Galois (1811–1832) has been increasingly recognised as an important mathematician who despite his short life developed mathematical ideas that today have led to applications in computer science (such as Galois connections) and elsewhere. Some of Galois’ mathematics can be visualised in interesting and even artistic ways, aided using software. In addition, a significant corpus of the hi...

Digitalkoot: Making Old Archives Accessible Using Crowdsourcing

In this paper, we present Digitalkoot, a system for fixing errors in the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) process of old texts through the use of human computation. By turning the work into simple games, we are able to attract a great number of volunteers to donate their time and cognitive capacity for the cause. Our analysis shows how untrained people can reach very high accuracy through th...

Doing science making art

It is a challenge to balance doing both science and art, but I attempt both because each provides unique insight into perception and cognition, often to mutual benefit. The techniques I use in visual neuroscience (psychophysics, fMRI, microelectrode recording) are different from those I use in visual art (etching, watercolor and oil paint, glass and silk), but the process is always empirical, t...

Digital Archives at the University of Pisa

At the end of the '90s, the Library System Centre of the University of Pisa began to create a system of digital archives in order to enhance and promote the Institution activities regarding teaching, research and administration: 1. ETD (Electronic Thesis and Dissertations); 2. UnipiEprints.