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INFO: Virtueller Gastvortrag von Stuart Dunn "Digital Art History: The Role of Annotation" Universität Hamburg (D)
Im Rahmen des neu gegründeten Cross-Disciplinary Lab Digital Humanities (CDL-DH) an der Universität Hamburg ladet diese zum virtuellen Gastvortrag von Stuart Dunn (King’s College London) am 03.02.21 um 18 Uhr c.t. auf Zoom ein. Der Titel des Vortrags lautet: Digital Art History: The Role of Annotation.
Ein kurzes Abstract finden Sie unten. Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen, sich wegen des Zoom-Links an Julia Nantke oder Heike Zinsmeister zu wenden.
Digital Art History: The Role of Annotation (Stuart Dunn, King’s College London)
There has been much discussion in recent years about the role of digital methods and tools in the realm of art history. Some (e.g. Johanna Drucker) have argued that a new age of "digitalized" art history is ushering in new forms of understanding and insight into the history, discourse and practice of visual art. Others on the other hand have argued that such techniques are reductionist and overly positivist. The crunching of numbers, it is argued, cannot elucidate questions of taste, institutional history, connoisseurship and the forming of collections. This talk will seek to reaching beyond this dichotomy. It will offer a brief overview of the history of quantification in art history, and proceed to argue that a particular quantitatively-based method familiar from other areas of the Digital Humanities, annotation, holds valuable potential for both addressing art historical questions, and for challenging orthodoxies in the humanities about quantification itself.