The scholarship is already inspiring, since it is these pioneers who are setting the course we will all soon travel.ĭavid Raskin, Editor-in-Chief, caa.reviews The former seeks to assemble tremendous detail in one central location, such as every document directly tied to Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s art, while the latter seeks to make complicated time and space relationships comprehensible, such as the evolving physical plant of Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II. In her introductory essay, Fletcher identifies two existing categories of projects that are already showing potential: archival modeling and visual data analysis. Books were wonderful, but they belonged to a flat earth. The digital humanities is an emerging field that promises to merge technology with interpretative creativity, to create entirely new types of scholarly perspectives and methods for visualizing data, and to communicate these discoveries far and wide. As Pamela Fletcher, caa.reviews founding Field Editor for the Digital Humanities and Art History, writes in her following reflections: “It is the rare art historian who has not already had her or his teaching, research, and publishing significantly impacted by the technological changes referred to in shorthand as ‘the digital.’” Our challenge is not simply to react, but to embrace and innovate. On the other, STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) research has given us tremendous computational powers and capacities for information storage and dissemination. On the one hand, popular imagination and political rhetoric have increasingly figured the humanities as superfluous to the needs of civilization. In fact, immediately prior to drafting these remarks, I noticed a headline on asking, “Can an algorithm determine art history’s most creative paintings?” I was only curious enough to skim a paragraph or two, yet surely many of us sympathize with the convergence it represents.
With “Reflections on Digital Art History,” caa.reviews inaugurates a new field of coverage, since our future is now. Performance Art/Performance Studies/Public Practice.Museum Practice/Museum Studies/Curatorial Studies/Arts Administration.Drawings/Prints/Work on Paper/Artistc Practice.Digital Media/New Media/Web-Based Media.Architectural History/Urbanism/Historic Preservation.
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