Technological Revolutions and Art History, Part Two: Jorge Sebastián Lozano & Eliseo Martínez Roig
Jorge Sebastián Lozano & Eliseo Martínez Roig
“Close and Distant Viewing of Silk Textiles. A Case Study in Online Research”
What kinds of art history would we like to put into practice, and how could digital technologies be deployed to make them possible? Such questions provide the ground for SILKNOW, a three-year research project about European silk heritage. It provides our team with the opportunity to work on traditional and new approaches to the history of textiles through online tools for visualization, discovery, individual or collaborative annotation, education, research, and outreach.
About Technological Revolutions and Art History
Historically, science and the humanities were not thought of as two separate disciplines. In the 21st century, an unusual divide in the field of art history has been created between technically savvy scholars and those for whom it seems anathema. This conference seeks to encourage art historians to connect with the computer sciences in the 21st century both by reminding them that technology has always played a significant role in the pursuit of their field, and by providing an opening for them to be a part of the conversations that need to happen between practitioners in both areas.
Presentations in Part II of the symposium will examine how the invention of photography impacted the study of art and how current technological breakthroughs have the potential to promote new developments in the field of art history.
Thursday, November 12, 2020
The Frick Art Reference Library and The Museum of Modern Art