Navigating Future of Digital Art History with Artificial Intelligence tools
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Conference abstract |
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| Description | This paper presents research on the current state of the field of digital art history. The author claims that digital art is preserved rather in format of database that of the monograph, from which several generalizing conclusions are drawn: a) The preference of database over narrative is an expression of the postmodern crisis of grand narratives; b) The database has become a cultural form of our time penetrating all kind of cultural fields, and formats, historiography included; c) The countercultural ethos of the field of digital art gravitates towards open, non-hierarchical format of database. In the second part of the paper, the examples of database-based historiographical projects in the field of digital art are listed and analyzed. Shared inspiration of these projects is recognized in methods complementary to database formats, which are developed within the field of digital humanities, such as distant reading, data visualizations, pattern recognition; as well as in AI Art projects addressing the status of history in the age of database. |
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