Digital Art History?

Digital Art History: The creation of any art historical project using material that can be digitized, accessed, searched, processed, produced, repurposed, or analyzed in digital form.

Digital Art History: What aspects of art historical material can be

made computationally tractable?

Phase 1: DigitizationAnalogue to digital (surrogates of analogue to

digital) = (re)mediationRepositories, collections, metadata (records as surrogates)Search / use

Aggregation Individual / Institutional projects

http://collections.frick.org/

Phase 2: Data CreationMeasure Mapping Modeling

Data mining /analysis (texts and documents, cultural record) Image analysis (cultural analytics)

Documentary materials / text analysis / networks Publication formats

Patterns of Reconstruction, Kirk Martini, 1998 http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/struct/pompeii/patterns/

Bringing Pictorial Space to Life: Computer Techniques for the Analysis of PaintingsAntonio Criminisi , Martin Kemp and Andrew Zisserman http://research.microsoft.com/ antcrim/

• http://mappinggothic.org/

Phase 3: Augmentation / computationvirtual rendering and conservation

image processing for feature analysis and discovery material sciences

complex systems networks / relations augmented reality

www.lucascranach.org

Western Semitic Research Project, USC, Bruce Zuckerman

• http://what-when-how.com/digital-imaging-for-cultural-heritage-preservation/computational-analysis-of-archaeological-ceramic-vessels-and-their-fragments-digital-imaging-part-2/

http://lab.softwarestudies.com/p/research_14.html

Paris 1886-88 Arles 1888http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2011/08/style-space-how-to-compare-image-

sets.html

Dunhuang Caves, Mogao Grottoes, ALiVE, CUHK, Dunhuang Academy, http://alive.scm.cityu.edu.hk/ (Sarah Kenderdine)

• http://www.gravityroad.com/298/we-have-been-practising-this-routine-for-you/

Gunnar Liestol, Situated Simulations, Oseberg Viking Ship, 834 CE

• http://guides.library.yale.edu/content.php?pid=314218&sid=2572027

Structured data Unstructured dataNon-data

Structured dataNumericalTextualVisual / graphicalSpatialGeographicalRelational

http://dss.collections.imj.org.il/isaiah#2:20

Anne Helmreich, Goupil network analysis

Art Institute of Chicago, http://publications.artic.edu/reader/monet-paintings-and-drawings-art-institute-chicago