Critical digital art history : interface and data politics in the post-digital era / edited by Amanda Wasielewski and Anna Näslund.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wasielewski, Amanda, editor.

Näslund Dahlgren, Anna, 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer art--History.

Computer art.

Art criticism.

Art.

Physical Description:

vii, 200 pages : illustrations, map, charts ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2024.

Summary:

"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."--from publisher

Contents:

Preface

1. Critical digital art history: an introduction / Amanda Wasielewski and Anna Ñslund

2. Source, surrogate, store, and search: significant sites in post-digitized art history / Nina Lager Vestberg

3. Global digital museum narratives: representation, authorship, and audiences / Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja

4. Picturing platformization: information infrastructure in picture archives online / Anna Ñslund

5. RE:Inventing the museum: co-creation in digital space / Leah Lovett and Valerio Signorelli

6. Deep art history: inferences between Google Arts & Culture and art museums / Lotte Philipsen

7. Zombie canon: art datasets, generative AI, and the reanimation of the western canon of art / Amanda Wasielewski

8. Hyperformalism: notes on machine vision and art historical method / Benjamin Zweig

9. What is at stake at the interface? Agents of mediation in digital curation / Kitty Whittell.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN:

1789389763

9781789389760

1835950485

9781835950487

OCLC:

1430498419