Cataloguing artists’ videos

Race and Genre in the Use of Sexual Objectification in Female Artists' Music Videos

Video Cataloguing and Browsing

Videos contain rich information. Until recently, information within a video had been largely left under-utilized, with fast forward/rewind as the most popular method of accessing video content. This is no longer sufficient however, as more and more users demanded the flexibility and ability to access video content selectively. Unlike textual information however, video bits do not convey same le...

Mental Rotation in Artists and Non-artists

This research was conducted to compare visuospatial skills in male and female artists and non-artists. Twenty artists (10 males and 10 females) and 20 non-artists (10 males and 10 females) were tested for accuracy and reaction time in a lateralized three-dimensional mental rotation task. Males had significantly fewer errors than females, which is consistent with previous research, but this main...

Artists' impressions

The recent fuss over one man's ambition to 'make Man in his own image' lends poignancy to Multiplicity, the current exhibition at the Wellcome Trust in London. Timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the arrival of Dolly the cloned sheep, the exhibition presents the reactions of 24 artists to cloning and genetic engineering. Some of the pictures, like Dave Roberts' mixed media 'Blueprin...

Cataloguing in the Digital Age

Some fundamental changes are happening, or will have to happen, to adapt our catalogues to cope with what I call the Digital Age an age in which we have to meet our users’ requirement to find the information they want irrespective of whether it is in print or digital form and whether it is held locally or on the Web. This is posing some huge challenges indeed it is forcing a radical rethink of ...