Critical Digital Art History Interface and Data Politics in the Post-Digital Era
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Amanda Wasielewski is Associate Senior Lecturer of Digital Humanities and Associate Professor (Docent) of Art History at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her recent research is on the use of artificial intelligence techniques to study and create art.
Anna Näslund is professor of Art History at Stockholm University, Sweden. She has written extensively on various aspects of photography and visual culture, the digital turn, archives and museum practices.
Digital Art History has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and associated institutional roles such as collection managers, information specialists, curators, and conservators. This emphasis on practicalities and implementation, while undeniably important, has often meant that there is little room for critical examination of the broader implications of digital technology and computational methodologies in art history.
This anthology seeks to address the dearth of critical reflection by approaching the use of digital technology in art history from a theoretical perspective and critically assessing specific case study examples. This book also considers the political dimensions associated with the large-scale digitization and the application of digital tools within museums and collection management.
A long-standing concern of the field—and also a major focal point of this book—is museum and collecting practices in the digital era. While there is a certain degree of continuity in the field, there are some important shifts and changes too. One of the key changes is the widespread uptake of artificial intelligence tools and an increased attention to both the broader historical and societal aspects of the use of digital tools within museums and collection management.
This anthology highlights emerging critical perspectives on digitization, computational methods and datafication in art history and the museum/heritage sector. The aim is to develop a deeper understanding of the theoretical and political aspects of the use of digital tools in these areas. 25b&w illus.
Foreword
- Critical Digital Art History: An Introduction
Amanda Wasielewski and Anna Näslund
- Source, surrogate, store, and search: significant sites in post-digitized art history
Nina Lager Vestberg
- Global Digital Museum Narratives: Representation, Authorship, and Audiences
Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja
- Picturing Platformization: Information Infrastructure in Picture Archives Online
Anna Näslund
- RE:Inventing the Museum: co-creation in digital space
Leah Lovett and Valerio Signorelli
- Deep Art History: Inferences between Google Arts & Culture and Art
Lotte Philipsen
- Zombie Canon: Art datasets, generative AI, and the reanimation of the western canon of art
Amanda Wasielewski
- Hyperformalism: Notes on Machine Vision and Art Historical Method
Benjamin Zweig
- What is at stake at the interface? Agents of Mediation in Digital Curation
Kitty Whittell
About the authors
Index
Digital art history has often aligned itself with the practical concerns of digital technology and the responsibilities of art institutions and associated institutional roles such as collection managers, information specialists, curators, and conservators. This emphasis on practicalities and implementation, while undeniably important, has often left little room for critical examination of the broader implications of digital technology and computational methodologies in art history.
A long-standing concern of the field – and a major focal point of this book – is museum and collecting practices in the digital era. While there is a certain degree of continuity in the field, there are also important shifts and changes to address – namely, the widespread uptake of artificial intelligence tools and increased attention to both the broader historical and societal aspects of the use of digital repositories and tools. This anthology seeks to address the dearth of critical reflection by critically assessing specific case study examples and considering the political dimensions associated with large-scale digitization and the application of digital tools within museums and collection management.
Amanda Wasielewski is an associate senior lecturer of digital humanities and associate professor of art history at Uppsala University in Sweden. Anna Näslund is professor of art history at Stockholm University in Sweden.
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Amanda Wasielewski is Associate Senior Lecturer of Digital Humanities and Associate Professor (Docent) of Art History at Uppsala University, Sweden. Her recent research is on the use of artificial intelligence techniques to study and create art.
Anna Näslund is professor of Art History at Stockholm University, Sweden. She has written extensively on various aspects of photography and visual culture, the digital turn, archives and museum practices.