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art history or digital art history?
16.01.2024
Since the 1980s, the “digital turn” has continued to raise questions and reshape our disciplines, particularly following the massive diffusion of digital technologies in research. The existence of a genuine “history of digital art” raises questions, particularly as regards the relevance of the adjectivation of disciplines from the humanities and social sciences, such as “digital humanities”. Drawing on our experience in the digital research department of theInstitut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), we will explore these themes from an open, international perspective. Without claiming to be exhaustive, this conference will explore these issues, while defining the specific contributions of digital technology to art history. Particular attention will be paid to approaches for monitoring the lifecycle of research data; in the face of the proliferation of so-called artificial “intelligences”, our aim will also be to identify “forms of scientific data intelligence” capable of ensuring ongoing control of the integrity and quality of our documentary and digital productions, which are shaped, in the first instance, by collective human intelligences.
INTERVENANT
Federico Nurra is Head of the Digital Research Service at theInstitut national d’histoire de l’art, where he has been, since 2018, in charge of documentary and digital resources. An archaeologist with a PhD in “Architecture and Planning”, he has worked at the Institut national de recherches archéologiques préventives (Inrap) as head of scientific mediation for the NEARCH project and development of the ARIADNE project. He was also a research associate at the University of Sassari. His main research interests concern digital development and database management applied to the protection and enhancement of cultural heritage. He is author or co-author of several publications related to his research topics.
WINTER SCHOOL
The aim of the Winter School “L’œuvre d’art augmentée – Entre passé et futur” is to test and promote the initial results of the research project “Analyse de l’œuvre d’art augmentée” (Analysis of the augmented work of art) run by France’s Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) & Luxembourg’s Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR). The Winter School aims to: (i) train PhD students in visual semiotics and digital art history from a perspective of digital hermeneutics of the image; (ii) develop and test methodologies for augmenting graphic images.
Practical information
January 16, 2024 6pm Free Admission subject to availability In French As part of the Winter School, in partnership withAcademia Belgica
With : Federico Nurra
