Digital
projects
Charles Dickens
Deciphering Dickens is a V&A Research Institute (VARI) project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The aim is to reveal the author's mind at work, using crowd-sourcing methods and online collaboration with Dickens scholars, fans, students, coders and those working at the cutting edge of digital humanities and interactive design. The team is busy untangling the dense thicket of Dickens's revisions, allowing us to see his first thoughts, changes of mind and innumerable refinements of expression. Texts examined include Barnaby Rudge, Little Dorrit and A Christmas Carol.
William Godwin
Earlier literary projects include digitising the V&A's manuscripts of William Godwin's best-known works, Political Justice (1793) and Caleb Williams (1794). Both are now included in the Shelley-Godwin Archive.
Degenerate Art
The Museum also holds a unique inventory of so-called "degenerate" artworks that were confiscated from German museums by the Nazi regime. Following the discovery of the
Gurlitt Collection , the two typescript volumes were initially made available as PDFs in January 2014. High-resolution page images of the entire "
Entartete Kunst " list can now be viewed on the V&A website, along with the earlier PDFs (
Volume 1 and
Volume 2 ) from 2014.
SIGGRAPH and the V&A's digital art collection
The SIGGRAPH Art Show Archives now include a curated collection highlighting artworks exhibited at SIGGRAPH that also feature in the V&A's permanent collection . The selection includes some 40 artworks by around 30 different artists.
History of computer art
Computer Art & Technocultures was a major three-year project to study the history of computer-generated art. The project was supported by the UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council and based jointly at Birkbeck and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The main focus was the Patric Prince Collection and Archive. One of the outcomes was the V&A's Digital Pioneers display (2009/10).
