For individuals – at all stages of professional achievement – who are engaged with the theory and practice of Digital Art History (DArtH?) in academic and museum contexts
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Birk Weiberg deposited The Paradigm of Streaming in Contemporary Arts in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 1 week, 1 day agoLive video streaming as a technique became political with the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement. To see images in real time and without the mediation by journalists affected many people not because they shared the same space with the various protesters but the same time. In the last years, artists have started to adopt streaming as a technical…[Read more]
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Jasmine Burns deposited Virtuality as Aura: The Digital Afterlife of Medieval Books in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 2 weeks, 3 days agoThe open access movement has taken a strong hold within cultural heritage institutions, as large-scale digitization efforts are becoming increasingly popular in most libraries, museums, and archives. These initiatives have had a particular effect on the status of rare and unique materials through the provision of high-quality images and…[Read more]
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Allison Levy deposited Playthings in Early Modernity: Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 3 weeks agoWhy do we play games—with and upon each other as well as ourselves? When are winners also losers, and vice-versa? How and to what end do we stretch the spaces of play? What happens when players go ‘out of bounds,’ or when games go ‘too far’? Moreover, what happens when we push the parameters of inquiry: when we play with traditional narrative…[Read more]
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Jasmine Burns deposited Digital Facsimiles and the Modern Viewer: Medieval Manuscripts and Archival Practice in the Age of New Media in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 5 days agoThrough an engagement with theory from the fields of art history, anthropology, and sociology, this article examines the archival existence of medieval manuscripts and facilitates an understanding of archival practice and its effects on user experience from the perspective of the researcher, rather than from that of the archivist or information…[Read more]
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Jasmine Burns deposited The Aura of Materiality: Digital Surrogacy and the Preservation of Photographic Archives in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 3 weeks, 5 days agoThrough a discussion of the materiality of photographic documents and the inherent qualities of digital objects, this article examines the viability of digitization as a method of archival photographic preservation. By exploring notions of surrogacy, originality, and aura, the author presents and deconstructs the popular argument that digital…[Read more]
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Allison Levy deposited Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 1 week agoReview of Pontormo, Bronzino, and the Medici: The Transformation of the Renaissance Portrait in Florence by Carl Brandon Strehlke
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Christina Spiker deposited At the Limits of Visibility: Noritaka Minami’s Past Won’t Pass (Catalog #52) in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoA brief essay about the work Past Won’t Pass (Catalog #52) by artist Noritaka Minami.
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Allison Levy deposited “Strange Bedfellows,” Introduction to Sex Acts in Early Modern Italy: Practice, Performance, Perversion and Punishment in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks agoEmphasizing the peculiar, the perverse, the clandestine and the scandalous, this volume opens up a critical discourse on sexuality and visual culture in early modern Italy. Contributors consider not just painted (conventional) representations of sexual activities and eroticized bodies, but also images from print media, drawings, sculpted objects…[Read more]
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Allison Levy deposited Sesso nel Rinascimento in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 1 month, 4 weeks agoQuesto volume propone un discorso critico sulla sessualità e sulla cultura visiva dell’Italia rinascimentale. I saggi raccolti tentano di fare luce su una serie di zone d’ombra, dando spazio a tutte quelle pratiche o preferenze considerate in genere come alternative o anomalie, e a un’ampia varietà di scenari “scandalosi”. Particolare attenzione…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate started the topic Call for Papers: Digital Art History – Where Are We Now? in the discussion
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 3 months agoSpecial issue of Visual Resources
http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/ah/gvir-cfp-digital-art-history-1q2017
In 2013, Visual Resources published a special issue devoted to Digital Art History. We recognize that since that date considerable activity has taken place in this area, which was then still in a phase of relative infancy. We feel that now…[Read more]
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Max Marmor started the topic Digital Art History/DH at the RSA 2017 annual conference in the discussion
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 3 months agoThere will be several Digital Art History/Digital Humanities sessions at the 2017 Renaissance Society of America annual conference (Chicago, March 30-April 1).
Program (keyword searchable) at https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/rsa/rsa17/ .
Especially noteworthy:
Digital Humanities and Art History 1: Geomapping (Thursday 5/30…[Read more]
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Jim Coddington started the topic Picabia Digital Publication from MoMA in the discussion
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 1 week ago*Francis Picabia: Materials and Techniques*
This online publication features twelve richly illustrated essays by an
international group of conservators and curators and is now
available for free download here:This publication builds on the unique opportunity for technical study
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Matthew Lincoln deposited The Temporal Dimensions of the London Art Auction, 1780–1835 in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 3 months, 2 weeks agoThe rush of activity among London’s auction houses in the first few weeks of summer has long been a familiar occurrence that persists even today. However, this intense seasonal concentration of sales was not always so. This paper draws on quantitative methods to explore the gradual emergence of a tightly scheduled auction season in London at the t…[Read more]
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Laura Castro Royo deposited El fenómeno del mudejarismo y sus debates (ss. XIX-XX) in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 5 months agoAdjudicado a un momento histórico concreto, tras la conquista cristiana de Toledo (1085) y su incorporación a los reinos cristianos, el mudéjar se ha utilizado al mismo tiempo como sustento de la idea de convivencia entre musulmanes y cristianos y como definición de un «estilo nacional» dentro del arte español. Durante el redescubrimiento de al-…[Read more]
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Laura Castro Royo deposited La legitimación del poder en la Persia medieval a través del Šāh-nāmeh, «El Libro de los Reyes» in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 5 months agoLa literatura ha estado desde siempre asociada al poder, y en la Edad Media oriental esto no es una excepción. Cuando Abu’l-Qāsem Ferdowsī terminó su gran obra, el Šāh-nāmeh, en 1010, esta se transformó en un elemento legitimador de las dinastías que durante los siglos medievales pugnarían por el dominio de Persia. A través de sus versos y de…[Read more]
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Laura Castro Royo deposited El erotismo de Oriente y los escritos del Cannibal Club in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 5 months agoAbstract: El impacto del colonialismo y del recién descubierto Oriente provocó que el continente europeo proyectase en aquellas tierras lejanas, llenas de exotismo, leyendas y sensualidad, sus propias pasiones prohibidas y sus más oscuros deseos. El erotismo que las culturas indígenas despertaban en la sociedad victoriana llevó a la creación de so…[Read more]
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Laura Castro Royo created the doc El fenómeno del mudejarismo y sus debates (ss. XIX-XX) in the group
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Anke Finger deposited ReMEDIAting Flusser in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 5 months, 2 weeks agoView video here: https://vimeo.com/156304605
The video serves as an introduction to the forthcoming _Flusser 2.0_ on Scalar, edited by Anke Finger and Britta Meredith, with Katherine Riedling (2017). -
Max Marmor posted an update in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 6 months, 1 week agoCFP for special issue on #DigitalArtHistory of the “Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy” now posted: https://jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu/call-for-submissions/
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Matthew Lincoln deposited Digital art history: the American scene in the group
Digital Art History on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks agoAn interview with three American historians of art on the the past, present, and future of digital art history.
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