Critical Digital Art History - Interface and Data Politics in the Post-Digital Era

This anthology highlights emerging critical perspectives on digitization, computational methods and datafication in art history and the museum/heritage sector. The aim is to develop a deeper understanding of the theoretical and political aspects of the use of digital tools in these areas. 25b&w illus.

About the author

Amanda Wasielewski is docent of Art History at Stockholm University and is currently part of the Metadata Culture (metadataculture.se) project Sharing the Visual Heritage, which focuses on the impact of digital tools in cultural heritage institutions. She is the author of Made in Brooklyn: Artists, Hipsters, Makers, Gentrifiers (2018), From City Space to Cyberspace: Art, Squatting and Internet Culture in the Netherlands (2021) and Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning (forthcoming). She has previously taught art history, architectural history and media studies at institutions in New York and Amsterdam.

Contact: Art History, Department of Culture and Aesthetics (IKE), Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.

Summary

This anthology highlights emerging critical perspectives on digitization, computational methods and datafication in art history and the museum/heritage sector. The aim is to develop a deeper understanding of the theoretical and political aspects of the use of digital tools in these areas. 25b&w illus.

Product details

• Assisted by: Anna Naslund (Editor), Anna (Stockholm University) Naslund (Editor), Anna Näslund (Editor), Amanda Wasielewski (Editor), Amanda (Stockholm University) Wasielewski (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2024
• EAN: 9781835950487
• ISBN: 978-1-83595-048-7
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Theory of art, ART / History / General, ART / Criticism & Theory, ART / Digital, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Information technology: general issues, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Computer applications in the arts and humanities