Collaboration and Connections, 2004
Editor: Rose Peel
AICCM Paper, Books and Photographic Special Interest Group Symposium, Sydney 1-3 April 2004, Art Gallery of NSW.
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Foreword
The third symposium held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales from 1 – 3 April 2004 explored the theme of collaboration and connections. The interrelationships between the object and those who connect with it, whether artist, curator, librarian, archivist, photographer, scientist, historian, papermaker, framer or conservator, expands the viewer’s understanding by investigation and interpretation brought through their various disciplines. Conservators not only endeavour to preserve objects from the past but are attempting to capture transient electronic knowledge. The speed of technological change produces new challenges for us all as the profession becomes less tactile and more theoretical. Traditional and contemporary methods of recording information and their preservation through digitisation are some of the areas discussed in the papers. Paper, books and photographic materials and, for the first time, conservation framing as a special interest group, raised pertinent issues and brought another dimension to our profession.
I would like to thank Ian Kiernan AO for opening the Sydney Symposium and our keynote speaker, artist Bea Maddock AM, as well as all the other speakers for sharing their passions and projects. In particular I thank the committee who committed their expertise, energy and goodwill, ensuring we all had an enjoyable and instructive time.
Rose Peel, Convenor
Collaboration and Connections: Postprints of the AICCM Paper, Books and Photographic Materials Special Interest Group Symposium, Sydney 1-3 April 2004, pp. 87-92 Abstract Periodicals of Camera Work were published in the USA between 1903 and 1917, generally in quarterly editions with occasional special editions in some years. Each edition comprised articles concerning the photographic arts […]
Collaboration and Connections: Postprints of the AICCM Paper, Books and Photographic Materials Special Interest Group Symposium, Sydney 1-3 April 2004, pp. 131-139 Abstract The University of Melbourne’s Middle Eastern Manuscript Collection contains approximately 200 manuscripts that date from the 15th-19th Centuries. Muslim devotion was expressed in fine binding, calligraphy and illumination and the collection is […]
Collaboration and Connections: Postprints of the AICCM Paper, Books and Photographic Materials Special Interest Group Symposium, Sydney 1-3 April 2004, pp. 141-150 Abstract The National Gallery of Australia has a small but significant collection of Aboriginal drawings from the 19th century, the majority being by Tommy McRae. The works are drawn in a variety of […]
Collaboration and Connections: Postprints of the AICCM Paper, Books and Photographic Materials Special Interest Group Symposium, Sydney 1-3 April 2004, pp. 47-50 Abstract State Records NSW has a significant collection of records relating to Aboriginal people. The records document the business of government in NSW and its interaction with Aboriginal people. One of the most […]
Collaboration and Connections: Postprints of the AICCM Paper, Books and Photographic Materials Special Interest Group Symposium, Sydney 1-3 April 2004, pp. 7-16 Abstract This illustrated talk examines the challenges encountered in an ongoing collaborative project to document and electronically publish a selection of Wellington book trade business histories, print products, and oral interviews from 1840 […]
Collaboration and Connections: Postprints of the AICCM Paper, Books and Photographic Materials Special Interest Group Symposium, Sydney 1-3 April 2004, pp. 17-21 Abstract International contemporary art practice over the last thirty years has increasingly been researching and utilizing the new media technologies, ranging from video to interactive computer based installations and internet applications. Such artworks […]
Collaboration and Connections: Postprints of the AICCM Paper, Books and Photographic Materials Special Interest Group Symposium, Sydney 1-3 April 2004, pp. 79-86 Abstract The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in O_wi_cim established on the site of the former Nazi concentration and annihilation camp commenced its work in 1947. The historical objects made of paper and leather are […]
Collaboration and Connections: Postprints of the AICCM Paper, Books and Photographic Materials Special Interest Group Symposium, Sydney 1-3 April 2004, pp. 51-56 Abstract On his death in July 1907, David Scott Mitchell left to the people of New South W ales his extraordinary collections of books, documents, maps and pictorial works. The year 2007 marks […]
Collaboration and Connections: Postprints of the AICCM Paper, Books and Photographic Materials Special Interest Group Symposium, Sydney 1-3 April 2004, pp. 115-124 Abstract ‘Portrait of Diddy’ is a pastel and charcoal drawing on paper by the renowned Australian artist Grace Cossington Smith (1892-1984). The work dates from circa 1920 and is in the collection of […]
Collaboration and Connections: Postprints of the AICCM Paper, Books and Photographic Materials Special Interest Group Symposium, Sydney 1-3 April 2004, pp. 99-104 Abstract For ten very short months during the years of 1854 to 1855, an Irish marine botanist Dr William Harvey visited the shores of Australia. From Rottnest Island in Western Australia to Newcastle […]