Robert P. Taylor's JuryDuty: reflections on a trial 

Links to Related Taylor websites

Visiting the four websites described and linked below can broaden the context for interpreting JuryDuty, in several respects. Building the earlier Webbery and TCFolks provided many formative ideas that contributed to JuryDuty. The third site, Praha, done immediately prior to JuryDuty, provided specific experience with the idea of using digitized images of drawings as information to create a web record of a formal meeting. And Musicians explored both the concept of drawing to record meetings (rehearsals and performances of music) and the use of multiple drawings of the same subject to demonstrate the power of a "population" of images to artistically represent people.

webbery opened 1996, last update 1998; 300 images; first Taylor "web-gallery" or drawing site, conceptualized and implemented ways to use the web to exhibit large numbers of images in various "virtually simultaneous" concurrent exhibits; images represented a wide range of subjects; generated ideas that shaped the sites that followed.

tcfolks opened1996, updated and expanded through 1999; 175 images; reflects interactions among faculty, colleagues, and academic visitors at Teachers College, Columbia University during professional meetings of various sorts at the institution; informal but first "meeting" site, generated ideas refined and expanded later in other sites.

praha opened 1997, unupdated; 53 images; created an image-based record of an international telecommunications conference, TET97, in Prague, in May 1997; formalized idea of drawing-based web record of meetings; contributed to later "meeting" sites which reflected meetings in Bahrain, Chile, Prague, Puerto Rico, and elsewhere.

musicians opened summer 2001, unupdated; 330 images; a silent visual reflection of the making of music, across hundreds of hours of rehearsals and performances, in a variety of settings, covering the years 1996 through 2001; spawned by the "musicians" exhibit in Webbery, but reflecting extensive developments beyond that site.

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