CURRICULUM VITAE
Michael Greenhalgh, MA, PhD, FSA
The Sir William Dobell Professor of Art History
email: Michael.Greenhalgh@anu.edu.au
tel: 61-06-249-2701
fax: 61-06-249-2705
Web Server (ArtServe): http://rubens.anu.edu.au

BOOKS

Chapters in Books

ARTICLES 1987-1997

ELECTRONIC BOOKS & PAPERS

SOFTWARE AND INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT, 1992-7

With my continuing and developing interest in computer graphics and their impact on Art History, and the provision of machinery as a result of bids to the Major Equipment Committee, much software has been developed since late 1993, with the nascent popularity of the World Wide Web. Before that, however:

My Web server, (ArtServe: http://rubens.anu.edu.au) went live on 4th January 1994. Using monies brought in by research grants and consultancies (see below), I employed a variety of programmers to help develop software for the processing, manipulation and display of images and their associated data records. These include:

  1. salami for slicing up a datafile, with images, into Web-sized "bites";
  2. encyc re-orders textfiles into chunks suitable for Web exposition;
  3. zoom allows users to examine and download sections of large images from their web browser;
  4. thumbgif makes thumbnail GIFs of directories of large JPEG images;
  5. grabsony is a Linux program which controls a Sony video camera via the SCSI chain, allowing large-format (1.6 megapixels) images to be written to disk by using the high-quality 3-CCD device on the DX930P camera;
  6. Light-Table is a digital version of a "real" light table, allowing the user of a Web browser to retrieve images from a database, and order them for presentation (together with their data records) for lectures, seminars or printing to paper;
  7. Image-Fix is a development of Light-Table (see above), allowing for the bulk image-processing of "defective" images;
  8. The Electronic Image Revision System, quiz for short, allows a student to test knowledge of the materials in a particular database, and to set the parameters from "very easy" upwards, as well as choosing only sections of the database on which to be tested;
  9. vipic is a version of the Unix "vi" editor which, when used in conjunction with a configuration file in the current directory (called ".vipic"), allows images and their associated records to be pasted into an HTML document
  10. Laserdisk programs: sony grabs a specified range of frames from the Sony Recordable Laserdisk, digitizes them, and writes them to hard disk in JPEG or GIF formats; XLD allows frames stored on the laserdisk and referenced by thumbnail GIF images on the computer to be digitized "on the fly" and posted to the Web browser as orderd by the client;
  11. A complete suite of programs for charging for web access, using a secure web server;
  12. "Shopping" and CDROM programs: this suite allows users to select items for purchase; debits their account, allows downloading, and will write CDROMs if requested;

RESEARCH TRAVEL

  1. December 1987: Site visits in Turkey, including Istanbul, Konya, and the South coast then back up to Izmir;
  2. November 1988: libraries, museums and galleries in London, Rome, and Venice; conference in Venice, and then to Munich, for an interview with a candidate for a position in the Department (Munich);
  3. November 1989: Visited Canada, France, W. Germany & Italy, as well as Thailand. Conference paper in Bordeaux, and seminars & lectures in British Columbia, where he was Lansdowne Visiting Professor at the University Of Victoria (November); archives and archaeological and artistic sites in France (November);
  4. Jan-Feb 1990: West and South Coasts of Turkey, visiting archaeological sites and museums; plus Istanbul;
  5. November 1990: Invited to Korea by the International Cultural Society, to lecture at various universities in Seoul, Chonjo, Kwangju, Chinju, Pusan, Kyongju, Taejon and Yusong;
  6. November 1991: Visits to UK and Turkey for research into the re-use of antique materials in mediaeval monuments;
  7. February 1992: California, to photograph modernist architecture for use in my Web-based lecture unit;
  8. July 1992: Visit to Marburg, to consult with Prof. Heusinger on The Marburger Index to Art in Germany and the digitizing of its images;
  9. August-October 1992: Second semester on OSP in England and France, especially in archives at the Service Historique de l'Armee de Terre; and, in England, consulting with co-editor (Dr. Yarrington) on work for The Making of Art; other research in the libraries of Rome and Vienna; includes four weeks spent at The British School at Rome, and invited participation (by the Austrian Academy of Sciences) in a Round Table on Digital Imaging in Art History; spent August on train travel to the galleries and museums of Germany;
  10. July 1993: to Libya, Italy, Algeria, Tunisia and Spain, in association with re-use of antiquities; to Vincennes, for the archives of the Armee de Terre;
  11. February 1994: The South Coast of Turkey, re. spolia;
  12. July 1994: Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Lebanon; second semester devoted half to OSP (research in libraries and archives in Germany (Berlin, Munich), France (Vincennes, Paris), Austria and Spain) And preparations for the CAUT Electronic Clearing House scheme, of which he was co-Director;
  13. September 1994: Lectures at Assumption University, Bangkok, devoted to the Web in Teaching & learning;
  14. July 1995: Cultural sites in Austria, Germany and California; Hoover Archives, Stanford, CA; and Archives de l'Armee de Terre, Vincennes;
  15. July 1995: Visiting Professorship at the Central European University, Budapest, lecturing on Digital Imaging and Art History;
  16. January 1996: archives in southern France (Lyon, Valence, Arles, Aix, Narbonne, Toulouse) for research into the re-use of spolia;
  17. December 1996 - January 1997: British School at Rome, for research in the libraries and archives of Rome, including BSR, Hertziana, Casanatense, Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Biblioteca Militare Centrale, Ufficio Storico e Archivio dello Stato Maggiore dell'Esercito;

RESEARCH GRANTS AND CONSULTANCY INCOME, 1987-1997

  1. 1988: $8,200 from FRF for research on Islamic Attitudes to Classical Monuments, including travel and research assistance;
  2. 1990: $3,000 from the FRF for a Computerised Database of Australian Art;
  3. 1990: $20,000 Major Equipment Committee, to investigate cheap methods of digitising, storing and manipulating images;
  4. 1990: $4,500 International Cultural Society of Korea Fellowship, for research and lecture visit to Korea;
  5. 1991 $10,000 from the Faculties Research Fund: Canberra Architecture: this material is now available on the Web at http://rubens.anu.edu.au/DETAILS;
  6. 1992: $11,000 from the Faculties Research Fund for research into the survival of antique motifs in mediaeval architecture. Part of this work available as an online book entitled The Greek & Roman Cities of Western Turkey at http://rubens.anu.edu.au/turkeybook/toc1.html; the rest in note form, and currently the subject of negotiations with Messrs Duckworth of London;
  7. 1992: $8,000 from the ANU Large Equipment Committee for the provision of hard disk storage;
  8. 1992: $2,000: DEET Consultancy (together with three other colleagues from ANU and CSIRO) on the establishment of Computerised Networks for Teaching and Learning to serve the Australian university community;
  9. 1993: $20,000 from the Sir William Dobell Foundation for CDROM imaging technology;
  10. 1993: $340,000: Appointed joint Director (with Professor Chris Bryant) of the Coordinating Centre for the CAUT Electronic Clearing House Scheme (UniServe, the bid for which was put together and driven by Michael Greenhalgh. This successful application brought this sum to the ANU over three years, to provide staffing and services;
  11. 1993: $7,500: Consultancy to the "Better Cities Project" of the Federal Department of Housing;
  12. 1994: $65,000 from the ANU Large Equipment Committee for imaging cameras and associated equipment;
  13. 1994: $18,000 from the CAUT monies (see above) to allow employment of research assistance to support Michael Greenhalgh in his part-time work as Co-Director of the CAUT UniServe venture;
  14. 1995: $85,000: Grant from the AVCC under the National Priority (Reserve) Fund Tier I(i): Information Service Provision for the provision of 10,000 images and associated tutorials: see http://rubens.anu.edu.au/imageserve;
  15. 1996: $28,000: from the AVCC for the production, in associated with colleagues at Charles Sturt University, of an entirely Web-based package for the creation, management and interrogation of Electronic Journals;
  16. 1996: $6,500 delayed contribution by Faculty of Arts to 1994 MEC grant;
  17. 1996: $2,400 from CEDAM for Digital Imaging in the Teaching of Art History (in association with Drs Esau and Grishin);
  18. 1996: $150 for advice on a Web-based image database of the collections of the Australian War Memorial;
  19. 1997 (in prospect): $9,850 to produce a Virtual Exhibition for The National Museum of Australia;
  20. 1997 (in prospect): Telstra! ...
Excluding the monies in prospect, this totals $299,250 plus the $340,000 brought into the ANU by the CAUT activities;

CONFERENCE PAPERS 1987-1997

  1. Rome 1987: Antiquities in 12th Century Italy: Rome and the North (Rome: Tradition, Innovation & Renewal, Canadian International Art History Conference, 8-13 June. Paper read in my absence);
  2. Cambridge 1988: Terminology for Museums (2nd Conference of the Museum Documentation Association): A user view of art databases, Proceedings, MDA Cambridge 1990, 526-532;
  3. London 1988: Classicism in the 19th& 20th Centuries, invited paper presented to the symposium on The New Classicism, London, Tate Gallery, 9th July 1988;
  4. The re-use of antique sculpture in the Middle Ages: Venice & Northern Italy, invited paper presented to the International Comngree on Venezia e l'Archeologia, University of Venice, 25-29th May 1988; and published as The Rediscovery of Roman Sculpture in the Middle Ages: Venice & Northern Italy, in Rivista di Archeologia, Supplementi 7, Rome 1989, 157-64;
  5. Darwin 1988: Attitudes to "Primitive" art, 1600-1900, invited paper to the First Australian Rock Art Research Association Congress, Darwin, 29th August - 2nd September, 1988;
  6. Bordeaux 1989: Graphical Data in Art History and the Humanities: their Storage and Display at the Fourth International Conference of the Association for History in Computing;
  7. 1990: organised a whole-day conference and seminar in Canberra devoted to Database + Image: Recent Advances in Collection Management;
  8. Berlin 1992: (Confederation Internationale de l'Histoire de l'Art, Meeting XXVIII): (a) invited paper on "Image Processing in Art History"; (b) Session Panel devoted to Computer Applications in Visual Resources Collections, Wwednesday 15th July 1992;
  9. Krems 1992: (International Round Table on Image Processing in History, Austrian Academy of Sciences): discussion paper on image databases (unpublished);
  10. London 1992: invited participant for The Getty Art History Information Program to The Census of Antique Works of Art Known to the Renaissance, Warburg Institute; no proceedings;
  11. Tuebingen 1992: (Second International Conference on the Classical Tradition): chaired two sessions; discussion by me, but no presented paper;
  12. Bologna 1992: (International Conference on History & Computing): paper on "Image Databases in Art History", and chaired two sessions in French, Italian and English;
  13. Bangkok 1994: Imaging and the Internet (International Conference on Internet Technology and Applications, Assumption University, September 1994); published in International Journal of Computer and Engineering Management, 2.3, Sept-Dec 1994, 13-26;
  14. Prague 1994: Mosaic, the World Wide Web and Networked Multimedia as a Learning Tool (INET/JENC Web Conference), published Reston VA, 1995, 121.1-121.6; keynote speaker;
  15. Santa Barbara 1995: Art History & the Internet (Association for Literary & Linguistic Computing, Santa Barbara 1995, 39-43; invited speaker;
  16. Bangkok 1995: Imaging and the Internet to the Third Meeting of the Pacific Neighbourhood Consortium, Bangkok;
  17. Graz 1995: World Conference on Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (no formal papers presented);
  18. Melbourne 1996: ArtServe and the Teaching of Art History (AUUG/Web Conference, September 1996), Proceedings, Melbourne 1996, 172-184; as invited keynote speaker: Imaging in Bulk for the Internet, Proceedings, 159-171;
  19. Academy of the Humanities, Canberra 1995: invited speaker: presentation published as "Setting up and exploiting Humanities resources on the World Wide Web", in Creative Investigations, ed. M. Stoljar, Canberra 1995, 69-86 ,and reprinted with additions in Australian Academic & Research Libraries 27.2, June 1996, 95-106;
  20. Sydney 1997: invited speaker to Information Online and on Disc, Sydney 21-3 January 1997: ArtServe and the Teaching of Art History;

OTHER LECTURES 1987-1997

  1. 1987: Lecture (unpublished) to The Dante Alighieri Society in Canberra on The Monuments of the City of Rome;
  2. 1987: Lecture Series (4, unpublished) at The Australian National Gallery on The Architecture of Greece and Rome (devoted to temples; basilicas and baths; churches and baptisteries; palaces and villas);
  3. 1989: lectures on An Approach to Quattrocento Art and Renaissance Architecture at the Canberra College of Advanced Education;
  4. 1989: "Courbet, Millet and the 1848 Revolution" in our own series of Public lectures on the theme Art & revolution, to celebrate the Bicentenary of the French Revolution;
  5. 1989: Visit to Thailand: lectures in Bangkok and Chang Mai; on Art during the French Revolution at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, and on David, Napoleon and the French Revolution at Chiang Mai;
  6. 1989: Lectures on classical architecture at the Canberra College of Advanced Education;
  7. 1989: Lecture at Canberra School of Art on The Classical Tradition;
  8. 1990: Visit to Korea under International Cultural Society of Korea Fellowship, 1990: lectures at universities in Seoul, nd throughout the country (detials above in section on Research Travel;
  9. 1991: The Politics of the Museum in Revolutionary France to The Art Association of Australia Conference, canberra;
  10. 1992: Two tours of the Australian National Gallery exhibition devoted to Rubens and the Italian Renaissance;
  11. 1992: Lecture on Rubens and the Classsical Tradition at the National Gallery;

IMAGING CONSULTANCIES

  1. J. Paul Getty Trust: 1982-4; 1990; 1992;
  2. Warburg Institute, London: 1980-1987 (in connection with The Census of Antique Works of Art known to the Renaissance);
  3. Museum of Victoria: 1994 to present;
  4. Australian Federal Department of Housing: 1994-5 (paid);
  5. Australian War Memorial: briefly, late 1996 (paid);
  6. New Parliament House, Australia: under discussion 1997;
  7. Universities of Padua & Glasgow: joint unpaid imaging project in 1993;
  8. National Museum of Australia: consultancy in prospect for 1997;

REVIEWS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS 1987-1997

WORK IN PROGRESS

  1. Study of the display of classical sculpture in mediaeval structures, for a Web-based book;
  2. Project commissioned by the British School at Rome for the digitising of J.M. Reynolds & J.B. Ward Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome 1952; this includes large images, records and text. See preliminary trials at http://rubens.anu.edu.au/IRT, with the current 443Mb of data;
  3. Implementation of a system for the design, setup, population, editing and mounting of electronic academic journals, using exclusively a Web interface (funded by the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee). This project is on a password-protected part of http://rubens.anu.edu.au, but can be demonstrated if so desired;
  4. Implementation of a clearing house on graphics techniques & software, exemplified in 10 online tutorials and 10,000 images of Australian & European art (funded by the Australian Vice-Chancellors' Committee); the last elements of this, at http://rubens.anu.edu.au/imageserve, will be completed in 1997;
  5. It is hoped that items 2-4 above will be prosecuted from a Web Research Centre, to be created in the course of 1997;
  6. Digitising of the Faculty's London Collection of Ashanti Artefacts (cf. The Australian, 12th March 1997; cf. http://rubens.anu.edu.au/african/ashanti for the current 62Mb of data;
  7. Digitising of the Faculty's Museum of Classical Art; cf. http://rubens.anu.edu.au/new/classics.museum for the current 355Mb of data;

AWARDS & STATISTICS for ArtServe (http://rubens.anu.edu.au)

COMMITTEES

UNITS TAUGHT 1987-97

NB All computing units count for 50% more EFTSUs that ordinary Arts later-year units, because of the extra work involved in their preparation and in their laboratories. For the Computer Applications unit, the laboratories were designed and discussed with the tutor, and presented by the tutor. For the Database & Graphics unit, laboratories were usually shared 50-50 with a tutor. For the current Web Strategies unit, I take both lectures and laboratories;