((PKG)) DIGITAL ART HISTORY
((Banner: Digital Art History))
((Reporter/Camera: Elizabeth Lee))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((NATS))
((Mandatory Courtesy: NTU Singapore/Courtauld
Institute))
((Paul Jaskot, Art History Professor, Duke University))
GIS, digital mapping has been around for decades. So, it’s
quite an old technology but it’s really only been applied to
humanities relatively recently.
((Mandatory Courtesy: Nevola / University of Exeter
CICT))?
((Skype Logo))
We do have large datasets that…..
((Mandatory Courtesy: Nevola / University of Exeter
CICT))
…..because of the developments in computer science and in
regular standard computers, even laptops, have made this
kind of work much easier for art historians.
((NATS))
((Heather McDonald, Senior Program Officer, Getty
Foundation))
We look at art history across all geographic locations, all
spaces and times and across all media. So, we are
interested not only…..
((Mandatory Courtesy: Nevola / University of Exeter
CICT))?
.….in the history of art objects at the preserved in museums
or historic houses, palaces, but also architectural history,
archeology.
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((Paul Jaskot, Art History Professor, Duke University))
All of this is to help make the object itself, the historical
object, the spatial object, really much more comprehensible
and better to interpret.
((Mandatory Courtesy: Rice University/imagineRio))
((NATS))
((Heather McDonald, Senior Program Officer, Getty
Foundation))
One of the great contributions of these kinds of digital art
history projects is the ability to…..
((End Courtesy))
.….help us understand in a more rich and informed way how
those…..
((Mandatory Courtesy: NTU Singapore/Courtauld
Institute))?
.….art works that now exist perhaps in a museum were part
of a larger complex three-dimensional setting. It actually lets
you think about how people lived in these spaces, moved
through these spaces, how artworks interacted and would
have been seen and understood in relationship to one
another in their original setting.
((Paul Jaskot, Art History Professor, Duke University))
That’s a digital map where you have, you can search various
points, so you can search, say, 1000 buildings in a city
instead of one building in a city but it can also include 3D
environments where you’re actually building up those
architectural monuments. You can see…..
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.….change over time, for example, how a building was
constructed, sometimes over thousands of years. You can
see changes to the site.
((Mandatory Courtesy: Rice University/imagineRio))
((NATS))
((Heather McDonald, Senior Program Officer, Getty
Foundation))
Who lived there? What were their professions? Were there
children in the house? There is lots of really granular data
that is available in archives that can be applied to these
digital maps…..
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.….and allow users to ask very new kinds of questions that
would have been so challenging and so time consuming
using traditional archival research methods.
((NATS))
((Mandatory Courtesy: American Excavations
Samothrace and ECDS))
((Paul Jaskot, Art History Professor, Duke University))
Many of our digital humanities projects work with space.
We’re working on very complex archivally based very very
specific scholarly problems…..
((End Courtesy))
.….but they’re also trying to recreate environments that can
then be explained to a much broader public.
((NATS))
((Mandatory Courtesy: Nevola / University of Exeter
CICT))?
Augmented reality really makes that possible where you can
go into a city and you can use your phone or any kind of
device and you can start to layer historical evidence or
historical views or historical material onto that physical
environment.
((Heather McDonald, Senior Program Officer, Getty
Foundation))
I think by reflecting on the past and what these sites were
like then, what we can see today, I think it does sort of
awaken in us a deeper understanding of how our own
physical lived existence takes place amidst culture, amidst
artworks, and hopefully makes one more sensitive and
thoughtful about those experiences that surround us at all
times.
((NATS))
((Banner: Digital Art History))
((Reporter/Camera: Elizabeth Lee))
((Map: Los Angeles, California))
((NATS))
((Mandatory Courtesy: NTU Singapore/Courtauld
Institute))
((Paul Jaskot, Art History Professor, Duke University))
GIS, digital mapping has been around for decades. So, it’s
quite an old technology but it’s really only been applied to
humanities relatively recently.
((Mandatory Courtesy: Nevola / University of Exeter
CICT))?
((Skype Logo))
We do have large datasets that…..
((Mandatory Courtesy: Nevola / University of Exeter
CICT))
…..because of the developments in computer science and in
regular standard computers, even laptops, have made this
kind of work much easier for art historians.
((NATS))
((Heather McDonald, Senior Program Officer, Getty
Foundation))
We look at art history across all geographic locations, all
spaces and times and across all media. So, we are
interested not only…..
((Mandatory Courtesy: Nevola / University of Exeter
CICT))?
.….in the history of art objects at the preserved in museums
or historic houses, palaces, but also architectural history,
archeology.
((End Courtesy))
((Paul Jaskot, Art History Professor, Duke University))
All of this is to help make the object itself, the historical
object, the spatial object, really much more comprehensible
and better to interpret.
((Mandatory Courtesy: Rice University/imagineRio))
((NATS))
((Heather McDonald, Senior Program Officer, Getty
Foundation))
One of the great contributions of these kinds of digital art
history projects is the ability to…..
((End Courtesy))
.….help us understand in a more rich and informed way how
those…..
((Mandatory Courtesy: NTU Singapore/Courtauld
Institute))?
.….art works that now exist perhaps in a museum were part
of a larger complex three-dimensional setting. It actually lets
you think about how people lived in these spaces, moved
through these spaces, how artworks interacted and would
have been seen and understood in relationship to one
another in their original setting.
((Paul Jaskot, Art History Professor, Duke University))
That’s a digital map where you have, you can search various
points, so you can search, say, 1000 buildings in a city
instead of one building in a city but it can also include 3D
environments where you’re actually building up those
architectural monuments. You can see…..
((End Courtesy))
.….change over time, for example, how a building was
constructed, sometimes over thousands of years. You can
see changes to the site.
((Mandatory Courtesy: Rice University/imagineRio))
((NATS))
((Heather McDonald, Senior Program Officer, Getty
Foundation))
Who lived there? What were their professions? Were there
children in the house? There is lots of really granular data
that is available in archives that can be applied to these
digital maps…..
((End Courtesy))
.….and allow users to ask very new kinds of questions that
would have been so challenging and so time consuming
using traditional archival research methods.
((NATS))
((Mandatory Courtesy: American Excavations
Samothrace and ECDS))
((Paul Jaskot, Art History Professor, Duke University))
Many of our digital humanities projects work with space.
We’re working on very complex archivally based very very
specific scholarly problems…..
((End Courtesy))
.….but they’re also trying to recreate environments that can
then be explained to a much broader public.
((NATS))
((Mandatory Courtesy: Nevola / University of Exeter
CICT))?
Augmented reality really makes that possible where you can
go into a city and you can use your phone or any kind of
device and you can start to layer historical evidence or
historical views or historical material onto that physical
environment.
((Heather McDonald, Senior Program Officer, Getty
Foundation))
I think by reflecting on the past and what these sites were
like then, what we can see today, I think it does sort of
awaken in us a deeper understanding of how our own
physical lived existence takes place amidst culture, amidst
artworks, and hopefully makes one more sensitive and
thoughtful about those experiences that surround us at all
times.
((NATS))
