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Subject: FYI: CD-ROM ART & LIFE IN AFRICA
Date: Wednesday, 16 Sept 1998
From: cdroy@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu (Professor Christopher Roy)
The Art and Life in Africa Project at the University of Iowa anounces the
completion of its interactive CD-ROM program.
It is intended to provide students (multiple levels) with text and images
that will help them understand that Africans make and use art at important
events throughout their lives to solve problems, overcome adversity, and
meet the unique challenges of life in an African environment. The CD-ROM
consists of several different sections linked together: chapters, essays,
enthographies, countries information, bibliography, and images and media
catalogues. Chapter titles include "Key Moments in Life," "Human Abundance,"
"Art and Education," "Governance and Social Order," "Death and the
Ancestors," Cultural Exchange," among others. The program is based on
images of art objects from the Stanley Collection at The University of Iowa,
the collections at the Indiana University Museum of Art, the Fowler Museum
of Cultural History at UCLA, the Seattle Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum
of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and others.
Images of objects are supplemented by field photos by prominent American,
European, and African scholars of African art history, anthropology and
other disciplines that show the same or similar objects being used in
Africa. Thirty-six of these essays have been included. The program includes
eleven chapters, with 10,000 images of 600 objects, 750 field photographs
and over 1400 pages of text. There are 128 ethnographies, twenty-eight
country maps and studies. There are also video clips of art being used in
performance, and several samples of African music provided by the Archives
of Traditional Music at Indiana University. A fully searchable Index and
Slide Show Maker permits teachers to assemble objects, text, videos, and
music to create their own presentations.
Recommended system requirements to run the Art and Life in Africa CD-ROM:
Macintosh: PowerPC or 68040, with 24 MB of RAM
Windows: Windows 95 or Windows 98, Pentium or 486, with 32 MB RAM
For more information visit our WEB site at
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/
CDROM Price: $50
Teacher's Guide: $10 (this will also be available for free electronically on
our web site)
S/H: $5 for 1-4 copies, $10 for 5+ copies
Order 10 or more CDs and receive a 20% discount (brings the cost down to
$40/CD).
Send Check, Money Order, or University/School Purchase order to:
Art and Life in Africa Project
100 Oakdale Campus, Rm N151 OH
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-5000
Attn: Order Department
phone: 319-335-4098
fax: 319-335-4097
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Christopher D. Roy
Professor of the History of Art
Project Director
"Art and Life in Africa CD"
Obermann Center for Advanced Study
Oakdale Campus
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart
Phone 319/335-4098
Fax. 319/335-4097
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