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Credits

This project is made possible by a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Additional funding is provided by the Visual Media Center Endowment under the auspices of Columbia University

We would like to express our special gratitude to the following people without whom the project thus far would have been unrealizable:

Maxwell K. Hearn, Douglas Dillon Curator of Chinese Painting and Calligraphy, Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Deborah Seid Howes, Museum Educator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sara Leeun Huong, Web Designer, Producer, Asia for Educators (AFE), Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Kent Lydecker, Frederick P. and Sandra P. Rose Associate Director for Education, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Roberta H. Martin, Director of Asia for Educators (AFE), Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Emily K. Raferty, Senior Vice President for External Affairs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Madeleine Zelin, Professor of Modern Chinese History, Director of the East Asian National Resource Center, Columbia University


Management And Production Staff

James Conlon, Director, Visual Media Center

James Conlon’s academic and professional interests begin with the social history of the Near East in the Medieval period and extends to include the contemporary relevance of the region’s material legacy. After finishing his Master’s degree in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from Indiana University, he went on to complete a post-graduate certificate in the Conservation of Archaeological Sites and Historic Buildings from Columbia University. Mr. Conlon’s work with material culture also explores the potential of new media to facilitate the interpretation and conservation of the built environment. Mr. Conlon has complemented these interests with intensive Arabic and Persian language study, participation in heritage conservation projects across the Near East, and work on museum exhibitions. These projects have been supported by Fulbright, SSRC and Samuel H. Kress grants. His work centers on the management of change in the built environment to reassert the place of historic fabrics and local communities in contemporary social issues.


Pilar Peters, Educational Technologist

Pilar Peters is a graduate from Teachers College, Columbia University, receiving her Masters degree in Instructional Technology & Media. Her interests include the development of educational programming for art history education using a variety of web based media, and the use of technology in the classroom. As Educational Technologist in the Visual Media Center, Pilar assists faculty in their transition to digital teaching as well as working on a number of advanced grant-funded research projects. Additionally, her responsibilities span the spectrum of Web site production including: graphic design, site architecture, imaging, and coding.


Caleb Smith, Cataloger

Caleb Smith graduated from the University of New Mexico with degrees in History and Fine Arts. He has worked in libraries for almost ten years, including five years in visual collections. He began working in the Visual Media Center at Columbia in September, 2001. He is completing a Masters in American Studies at Columbia University.


Robert Carlucci, Former Director, Visual Media Center

Robert Carlucci received his Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University in 1996. His thesis, "The Arts and Public Life in Florence during the Period of the Republic, 1502-1512" relied on archival research to explore the political motivations of artistic commissions to Michelangelo and Leonardo during this period. Following this, he joined The Medici Archive Project, a non-profit American organization based in Florence. There he co-developed a database management system for the recording of archival data drawn from the documents of the Medici Grand Dukes from the early 16th through the mid-17th centuries. The database, now available in The Watson Library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the library of the Courtauld Institute, and Villa I Tatti, the Harvard Center for Renaissance Studies in Florence, offers scholars catalogue entries of archival materials dealing with the arts and humanities in early modern Florence. Following his return to the United States in 1999, Dr. Carlucci joined The Media Center for Art History at Columbia University as the Manager of Education and Research. Recently, Dr. Carlucci was promoted to the position of Director of the Visual Media Center, a new administrative unit combining the Media Center for Art History with the Visual Resources Collection. His principal responsibilities involve working with faculty of the Department of Art History and Archaeology to design and develop digital teaching tools for the undergraduate program as well as assist graduate students in integrating new technologies for their research projects.

Juliet Chou, Manager of Technology

Juliet Yung-Yi Chou completed her Master’s degree in both Arts Administration and Historic Preservation. Through interdisciplinary studies, she not only learned the fundamentals of art history but also developed her own learning pattern in combination with an intense interest in the field of architecture and interactive digital design including a wide variety of software programs. Before joining the Media Center for Art History, she had completed a one–year academic internship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and worked with several prominent art dealers on various image database projects. Ms. Chou was also a teaching assistant for the preservation and planning studio at Columbia University and helped develop a GIS-based survey and analytical protocol for historic building and site conservation. Juliet devotes much of her studio time to digital projects involving interactive