prometheus is a distributed digital image archive that currently makes more than 3,913,000 images of over 125 databases from institutes, research facilities and museums researchable on a common user interface.
Situated at the Institute of Art History of the University of Cologne, prometheus is supported by the non-profit association prometheus e.V. which promotes the ongoing developments of the digital media for science and research.
Image series of the week
Daniel Spoerri
Fallenbilder – Tableaux Pièges – Daniel Spoerri, the Swiss artist of Romanian origin, became famous as the founder of Eat Art and for his ‘tableaux pièges’.
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News
15 years of Prometheus meant 88 integrated databases, over 1.5 million images, nearly 10,000 personalised accesses and 159 licensing institutions. We celebrated this in 2016 at the conference ‘In, above, below, beyond and in between – levels of digital images’.
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