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Material Culture at RIT
Conservation and Analysis of Art
Interactive Museum Design and Games
myMuseum
| myMuseum first prototype debuts at Imagine RIT, May 2010 |
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Medieval Panel Painting and the History of Pigments
An art history course offered during winter quarter, students learn medieval panel painting and the history and technology of pigments.
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Applying the ink under drawing to gessoed panels | Water gilding applied over bole |
19th Century Photographic Processes
This spring quarter course combines lecture and lab components in order to explore the materials and technology behind printing and photographic processes of the 19th century. Students study and attempt to recreate early photographic processes and experiments. The processes recreated are: anthotypes, photogenic drawing, salted paper prints (plain, gelatin and arrowroot), albumen, VanDyke, cyanotype and camera obscuras.
| Planning the first experiment for photogenic drawing |
| Measuring out the salt |
| Evaluating the results |
News
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