Visual Resources Center @Ithaca College

Randi Millman-Brown

"What do we do with all these slides?”

“Using Slides for Creative Projectsand Creating a Multi-useVisual Resources Center”

The VRC then…

The VRC then…

The VRC then… (dismantled 2010)

The VRC today

Uses of the VRC today

• Meeting space for faculty and students

• Reference collection of books and 50,000 “good” slides

• Make-shift photo studio

• Scanning workstation for faculty and students

• Learning area for students (Photoshop, ARTstor, InDesign etc.)

The VRC today…

The VRC today…

The VRC today…

Creative Projects –call for entries

Creative Projects – Show Poster

Turn up the Transparency

Turn up the Transparency

Turn up the Transparency

Sculpture – from the “Deaccessioned Series”

Deaccessisoned SeriesTo deaccession is to remove an artwork from a museum’s collection. The term has a specific meaning in a professional context, but it also summons up associations of faded value, obsolescence, and abandonment. When I hear the term deaccession, I can’t help but think of rusted-out, discarded naval vessels. Deaccessioned. Decomissioned. Gone. Kaput. Over.

The art is a kind of double lament. It can’t help but acknowledge the photograph’s characteristic commerce with time, memory, and ephemerality, and it extends that sense of loss to a consideration of the medium itself.

Portraits – from the “Deaccessioned Series”

Architecture – from the “Deaccessioned Series”

Art History Taught with Slides Series

Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia Portrait Detail

1571 Alonso Sanchez Coello12 x 24”

Art History Taught with Slides Series

Titian Triptych, 12 x 24”

VRC PHOTO STUDIO

VRC PHOTO STUDIO

HISTORY OF SLIDE PROJECTORS

HISTORY OF SLIDE PROJECTORS

http://www.ithaca.edu/hs/vrc/historyofprojectors/