Opening Remarks
Description
The Ontario Cultural Heritage Research Exchange (OCHRE) is a collaborative exchange between curators, historians, conservators, scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, and artists focusing on the physical evidence inherent in an artwork or artifact. Technical art history (or art and culture technology) offers collaborative approaches for enhanced understanding of a work of art or artifact. New information about the materials, fabrication, history and condition of the physical object is obtained through state-of-the-art scientific analysis and collaborative technical study by a cross-disciplinary team of experts.
This multi-institutional organization has been founded to i) Raise awareness of technical art history and make its practice and research more visible in both academic and museum settings ii) Provide a network that meets regularly to accomplish this first goal and support additional initiatives, especially in Canadian museums iii) Develop annual conferences, workshops, lectures, discussion groups, exhibitions, publications to support the group and its goals.
Opening Remarks
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The Ontario Cultural Heritage Research Exchange (OCHRE) is a collaborative exchange between curators, historians, conservators, scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, and artists focusing on the physical evidence inherent in an artwork or artifact. Technical art history (or art and culture technology) offers collaborative approaches for enhanced understanding of a work of art or artifact. New information about the materials, fabrication, history and condition of the physical object is obtained through state-of-the-art scientific analysis and collaborative technical study by a cross-disciplinary team of experts.
This multi-institutional organization has been founded to i) Raise awareness of technical art history and make its practice and research more visible in both academic and museum settings ii) Provide a network that meets regularly to accomplish this first goal and support additional initiatives, especially in Canadian museums iii) Develop annual conferences, workshops, lectures, discussion groups, exhibitions, publications to support the group and its goals.
