- To speak and write intelligently about digital art history, including current research and your own engagement in the field.
- Awareness of the potential biases and pitfalls as well as opportunities of working digitally.
- Basic familiarity with fundamental tools and methods, including mapping, network analysis, visual data analysis, and 3D modeling.
- Insight into how digital tools can supplement traditional research methods and allow for different approaches and new questions about art and art history.
- To evaluate digital art history research with a critical eye.
- To imagine new possibilities for art history.
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Art historians can benefit from most of the innovations in Digital Humanities. This short course will discuss approaches that are most specific and relevant for our discipline, focusing on maps, image data analysis (‘distant viewing’), and 3D reconstructions. You will be acquainted with the gathering and interpretation of data; the use of digital tools; and will develop a sense of how working digitally changes the scope and potential of the questions with which art historians approach their material.
The course includes a practical foray into the visualisation of the geographical movement and network of a historical actor of your choice. From here you will explore more advanced mapping tools and the concomitant ‘spatial turn’ in art history. You will furthermore be confronted with the possibilities offered by visual data analysis in regard to Technical Art History and 3D reconstructions. At the end of the course, you will propose how digital tools and methods could be applied in an art historical topic of your choice.
N.B. This course should be seen as a pendant to the course Trends and Shifts in Art History (GKRMV16048).
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