prometheus is a distributed digital image archive that currently makes more than 3,496,000 images of over 120 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.
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If you click on the individual thumbnails in the current image series, you will be taken to prometheus, provided you have access via one of the three access points, to … a black screen. If you click on the black screen, you will be taken to the second zoom level of the “image” and you can watch a video, for example “Eric Lanz. La pâte, Der Teig, Ausschnitt, 2000, 1-channel video, loop, color”. In total, you will find around 1,200 videos by various artists in the research database “Video Archive, imai – inter media art institute, Düsseldorf”.
Another type of media you may encounter in the image archive is a GIF, such as “Ouroboros by Diana Domingues” in the research database “Archive of Digital Art”.
And “Kompakkt” from the Institute for Digital Humanities at the University of Cologne provides interactive 3D objects such as “Phaistos Disc”.
