Arts and Humanities Data Service

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- *Support Centres* ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following organisations offer support and advice for Visual Arts research. See also [Funders] . ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

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*[3D Visualisation in the Arts Network (3DVisA)] *
3DVisA is a JISC-funded UK Network, hosted by King's Visualisation Lab in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. It is an integral part of a wider UK Visualisation Support Network, VizNET, spanning the UK academic research community.
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*[AHRC Centre for British Film and Television Studies] *
The Centre, created in October 2000 with five years funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (now renamed AHRC), aims to enhance and extend the recent growth in high level academic research on British Film and Television.
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*[AHRC Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies] *
The Centre is a collaboration between the University of Essex, University of Manchester and Tate, which has one of the world's most important collections of dada and surrealist art. The Centre will promote research excellence in studies of dada and surrealism and their impact on modern thought and culture.
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*[AHRC Centre for Textile Conservation and Textile Studies] *
Based at Southampton University's Winchester School of Art, the Research Centre's aim is to improve the care and interpretation of historic textiles by enhancing knowledge and understanding of textiles and textile conservation (2002-2007).
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*[AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior] *
The Centre pursues research into the changing appearance and layout of the rooms in a range of buildings: from tenements to palaces; the objects that furnished those rooms; the ways rooms and objects were depicted; the manner in which people used them; and how they thought about them.
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*[Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre] *
The Arts and Humanities e-Science initiative is jointly funded by the AHRC, EPSRC and JISC. The initiative aims to enable research practitioners to embed the advanced use of ICT in their research and teaching practices. It will also facilitate collaboration across traditional subject and discipline boundaries.
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*[AHRC ICT Methods Network] *
The Methods Network is a multi-disciplinary partnership providing a national forum for the exchange and dissemination of expertise in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for arts and humanities research.
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*[The London Charter] *
The London Charter for the use of 3D visualisation in the research and communication of cultural heritage, looks to establish internationally-recognised principles for the use of three-dimensional visualisation by researchers, educators and cultural heritage organisations.