(Digital) Art History at CAA 2020
February 10, 2020
Here are a few of the Duke- and digital art history-related presentations happening this week at the College Art Association’s annual conference:
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
What is Lurking Underneath Notre Dame’s Roof? Visual Heritage and VR Ethics in the Digital Age
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C – Yellow Table
Host: Vasile Prejmerean
Hands-On to Eyes-On: From Material Collections to Digital Exhibitions
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Wilford C
Visual Resources Association (VRA)
Chair: Bridget Madden – University of Chicago
Presentations:
- Materials in Context: Experiential Learning in Art History–A Collection Curator’s Perspective Allan Tyler Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
- Materials in Context: Experiential Learning in Art History–A Faculty Perspective Jessica M. Dandona, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
- Materiality Made Visible Melanie E Emerson, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Exhibition in Practice: A Perspective from the Classroom Leslie Wilson, University of Chicago
- Exhibition in Practice: Execution in the Museum Berit Ness, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D (Geo)Spatial Networks
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Hilton Chicago – 8th Floor – Lake Ontario
Chair: Victoria E. Szabo – Duke University
Discussant: Edward Triplett – Duke University
Presentations:
- ‘Firenze Scomparsa’: the challenge of digitally reconstructing and disseminating Florence lost buildings Chiara Capulli and Cristina Mosconi, University of Exeter
- Towards a web-based representation of spatial change over time at San Julián de Samos Estefanía López-Salas, Universidade da Coruña
- Living Beings and Movement in Historical Space:Opportunities in Agent-based Modeling Burcak Ozludil Ph.D, Albert Dorman Honors College and Augustus Wendell, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Visualizing Cities: Augmented Reality as a Critical and Creative Medium for Digital Cultural Heritage Victoria E. Szabo, Duke University
Beyond the Algorithm: Art Historians, Librarians, and Archivists in Collaboration on Digital Humanities Initiatives
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Hilton Chicago – 8th Floor – Lake Ontario
Art Libraries Society of North America
Chairs: Maggie Joe Mustard – The New Museum of Contemporary Art
Amye McCarther – New Museum
Presentations:
- Activating the Digital Archive: A New Platform for the ICAA Documents of Latin American and Latino Art Liz Donato, ICAA/MFAH and Arden Decker, The International Center for the Arts
- Preservation and Engagement of the Archive: Frick Art Reference Library Digital Art History Initiatives Louisa Wood Ruby, The Frick Collection and Art Reference Library and Sumitra Duncan, Frick Art Reference Library
- Mapping Senufo: Rethinking the Art-Historical Monograph in the Era of Digital Publication Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi, Emory University and Constantine J. Petridis, Art Institute of Chicago
- Capturing Scholarship and Datasets in Contemporary Art: the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base Barbara Clausen, UQAM, Deena Engel, New York University and Glenn Wharton, The Getty Leadership Institute
Creating Digital Humanities Projects in Art and Art History
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-8
Workshop Leader: Anthony F. Mangieri – Salve Regina University, Newport, RI
Anthony F. Mangieri is Associate Professor of Art History and Coordinator of the Women’s Studies program at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. He holds a Ph.D. in Art History from Emory University. Mangieri is the author of Virgin Sacrifice in Classical Art: Women, Agency, and the Trojan War (Routledge).
Workshop Details: This workshop offers participants a “road map” of how to create their own digital humanities projects. Topics to be covered include conceptualizing, implementing, and maintaining digital projects, and the tools to create them. Group activities provide opportunities for brainstorming and idea building that will help participants conceptualize their own projects.
From Knowledge to Data in Art History
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-7
Workshop Leaders: Nancy A. Um – Binghamton University
Nancy Um is Professor of Art History at Binghamton University.
Stephen Whiteman – The Courtauld Institute of Art
Stephen Whiteman is Senior Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Workshop Details:
In this workshop, we will discuss the process of understanding art historical research materials as data, working with the software Tableau. It is aimed at art history faculty and graduate students who do not possess experience working with humanities datasets, but wish to visualize or map aspects of their research.
This workshop is a hands-on session. All participants should bring their laptops, fully charged. Please download software and documents before arriving at the session. Information about software downloads, equipment, and other workshop preparation can be found here: http://nancyum.com/caa-2020-workshop-from-knowledge-to-data-in-art-history/
Lost in Translation: Early Modern Global Art History and the Digital Humanities
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Wilford C
Digital Art History Society
Chairs: Meredith J. Gill – University of Maryland
Paul B. Jaskot – Duke University
Presentations:
- What Lies Beneath: New Tools for direct exploration of Peter Paul Rubens’s “The Fall of Phaeton” E Melanie Gifford, National Gallery of Art and Jennifer Henel, Digital Art History Society
- Priorities, Concepts and Directions: Weaving Some Digital Accounts of Early Modern Textiles Jorge Sebastián Lozano, Universitat de València
- Outside the Perspectival Paradigm: (Re)-Constructing Pictorial Space in Early Modern China and Contemporary Digital Environments Stephen Whiteman, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Friday, February 14, 2020
Undergraduate Research and Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Art and Art History – Poster Presentations
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Lower Level Lobby
Chair: Alexa K. Sand – Utah State University
Presentations:
- A Self-Defined Sex Being: Self Portraiture as Black Feminist Fantasy for the Purpose of Black Feminist Liberation Ashleigh Cheryl Elizabeth Smith, Duke University
- Political History of Prisons: The Architecture of People in Raleigh’s Central Penitentiary Paloma J Rodney, Duke’s Wired! Lab
Undergraduate Research and Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Art and Art History – Poster Presentations(Part 2)
2:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Lower Level Lobby
Chair: Alexa K. Sand – Utah State University
Presentations:
- Mapping Social and Spatial Encounters in Eighteenth-Century Venice Noah Scott Michaud, Wired! Lab
Lines of Flight, Lines of Sight: Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s Flying Carpets
Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Lower Level Lobby
Presenter: Jess Chen – Duke University
Mapping Social and Spatial Encounters in Eighteenth-Century Venice
Hilton Chicago – 3rd Floor – Wilford C
Presenter: Noah Scott Michaud – Wired! Lab
Political History of Prisons: The Architecture of People in Raleigh’s Central Penitentiary
Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Lower Level Lobby
Presenter: Paloma J Rodney – Duke’s Wired! Lab
A Self-Defined Sex Being: Self Portraiture as Black Feminist Fantasy for the Purpose of Black Feminist Liberation
Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Lower Level Lobby
Presenter: Ashleigh Cheryl Elizabeth Smith – Duke University
Saturday, February 15, 2020
Digital Art History and the Getty Vocabularies
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-8
Digital Art History Society
Workshop Leaders: Anne L. Helmreich – Getty Research Institute
Anne Helmreich is Associate Director for Digital Initiatives in the Getty Research Institute and is engaged with the intersection of art history and the digital humanities.
Patricia A. Harpring – Getty Research Institute
Patricia Harpring is Managing Editor for the Getty Vocabularies, expert in standards and documenting art and architecture for research and discovery.
Workshop Details: Today, art historians have unprecedented access to digitized resources and approaches. Working in this arena requires structured and standardized data, making the Getty Vocabularies essential resources. In this workshop, learn more about the Getty Vocabularies, how they can advance scholarship, and how to use the new OpenRefine Vocabulary Reconciliation Service.
Additional digital art history events are listed on the International Journal of Digital Art History blog.