Evidence and Narrative in Digital Art History:

Abstract The essay introduces MapTap, a research project that zooms in on the ever-changing social networks underpinning Flemish tapestry (1620 – 1720). MapTap develops the young and still slightly amorphous field of Formal Art Historical Social Network Research (FAHSNR) and is fueled by Cornelia, a custom-made database. Cornelia’s unique data model allows researchers to organize attribution and relational data from a wide array of sources in such a way that the complex multiplex and multimode networks emerging from the data can be transformed into partial unimode networks that enable proper FAHSNR. A case study revealing the key roles played by women in the tapestry landscape shows how this kind of slow digital art history can further our understanding of early modern creative communities and industries.

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Slow Digital Art History and KUbism

The Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History ◽

10.4324/9780429505188-7 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 58-70

Author(s):

Koenraad Brosens ◽

Bruno Cardoso ◽

Fred Truyen

Keyword(s):

Art History ◽

Digital Art

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Documenting Media Art: An Archive and Bridging Thesaurus for MediaArtHistories

Leonardo ◽

10.1162/leon_a_01482 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 52 (5) ◽

pp. 435-441

Author(s):

Oliver Grau ◽

Sebastian Haller ◽

Janina Hoth ◽

Viola Rühse ◽

Devon Schiller ◽

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Keyword(s):

Art History ◽

Significant Loss ◽

Digital Art ◽

Media Art ◽

Innovative Strategy ◽

International Media ◽

Traditional Art ◽

Art Form ◽

Art Community ◽

Art Research

While Media Art has evolved into a critical field at the intersection of art, science and technology, a significant loss threatens this art form due to rapid technological obsolescence and static documentation strategies. Addressing these challenges, the Interactive Archive and Meta-Thesaurus for Media Art Research was developed to advance an Archive of Digital Art. Through an innovative strategy of “collaborative archiving,” social Web 2.0 features foster the engagement of the international media art community and a “bridging thesaurus” linking the extended documentation of the Archive with other databases of “traditional” art history facilitates interdisciplinary and transhistorical comparative analyses.

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Born Digital: Early Career Researchers Shaping Digital Art History

Visual Resources ◽

10.1080/01973762.2019.1553448 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 35 (1-2) ◽

pp. 171-179 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sophie Hatchwell ◽

Fern Insh ◽

Hana Leaper

Keyword(s):

Art History ◽

Early Career ◽

Digital Art ◽

Early Career Researchers

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Digital Art History: A Community Assessment

Visual Resources ◽

10.1080/01973762.2013.761108 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 29 (1-2) ◽

pp. 14-21 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Diane M. Zorich

Keyword(s):

Art History ◽

Digital Art ◽

Community Assessment

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The Digital Platform of D.I.R.A.A.S. (UNIGE)

Studies in Digital Heritage ◽

10.14434/sdh.v3i2.27441 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 156-169

Author(s):

Martina Massarente

Keyword(s):

Art History ◽

Central Element ◽

Digital Art ◽

Virtual Communication ◽

Communication Platform ◽

Digital Platform ◽

Woman Professor ◽

The University ◽

The Relationship

This project studies photography as an instrument for artistic and historical teaching in relation to the didactic traditions of the Humanities at the University of Genoa. This research was initially based on an analysis of the corpus of glass diapositives and phototypes mostly owned by Giusta Nicco Fasola, Genoa’s first art history professor, and currently stored by D.I.R.A.A.S. (Dipartimento di Italianistica, Romanistica, Antichistica, arti e spettacolo). The corpus contextualizes Fasola's scientific and didactic interests in relation to her complex biography as a woman, professor, and political combatant in the Resistance in Fiesole and Florence. The central element of this analysis is the project for a prototype of a digital art history photo library, intended as a place of study and research and as a virtual communication platform. The overall goal of this work is to investigate the relationship between photography, history, and art critique.

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