{"id":1669,"date":"2017-07-10T13:22:42","date_gmt":"2017-07-10T13:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2017-07-10T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-10T14:37:13","slug":"women-in-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinking.is.ed.ac.uk\/melissa\/2017\/07\/10\/women-in-art\/","title":{"rendered":"women in art"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Looking very GLAM. Wikipedia editathon for Art & Feminism 2016 at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh<\/figcaption><\/figure>Looking back at my original\u00a0 plans for the Playfair Steps equality and diversity initiative in ISG<\/a>, one of my hopes was that we would take the opportunity afforded by the move to Argyle House to display more artwork created by women artists.\u00a0 I’m pleased to say we have done some of that.<\/p>\n

If you have ever visited our meeting rooms on Floor E you will have been immersed in an installation by Fabienne Hess<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This installation of images on the glass walls of our meeting rooms in Argyle House is a whole work by\u00a0 Hess, she was commissioned as part of the refurbishment the office spaces to create a work featuring images of existing objects of University collections. Her work\u00a0 exploring the University of Edinburgh\u2019s Collections has spanned across several years and she features in current displays at The Talbot Rice<\/a>.\u00a0 The process of digitizing, which started in the summer of 2012, has involved photographing almost 25,000 diverse items, from ancient manuscripts to musical instruments, anatomical drawings to historic maps. Throughout the process Fabienne has also created a series of \u2018sub-collections\u2019- these groupings, put together in arbitrary themes such as those images containing a red dot, those featuring a person raising an arm, a triangular shape, a certain shade of blue, create a fascinating set of \u2018new\u2019 collections. One of these new collections is the installation you are in.\u00a0 Did you notice?<\/p>\n

In the past year our teams of enthusiastic Wikipedia editors have participated in a number of targeted events aimed at improving coverage of women artists. Including one at The National Portrait Gallery to support their Modern Scottish Women exhibition<\/a>. On the day we created 6 new articles, and improved 8.<\/p>\n

In addition to more editing and inspired by Kirsty, I am also looking forward to hosting an intern, in conjunction with colleagues in Centre for Research Collections<\/a> to look at the metadata which describes our images so that the women ( and others) are more easily found!<\/p>\n

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