Art History in Quarantine: Digital Transformations, Digital Futures
Original Conference Date: April 10, 2020
From DAHJ: In the age of shelter-in-place, digital literacy is no longer optional. In just a few weeks, we have seen an unprecedented infrastructural shift to video conferencing, online pedagogy, and project management software. What presents itself as a challenge to everyday art history is also digital art history’s greatest opportunity—for experimentation, learning, and moving forward, together. With this in mind, we hope to pose a number of pressing questions to our global community: What does a civilization in “social distancing” mean for art history, museums, teaching, and infrastructure? What are the challenges right now? What are the opportunities today? What proven tools are available? What can we expect from the future? Physical separation need not warrant intellectual isolation. Be part of the global exchange.
With an international audience of about 300 people from over 30 countries it has been a huge success with enormous reverberations on social media. You can read reports about the event here and here. Due to popular demand, videos of all presentations are now available. The fee for viewing videos is 7 € (the same fee as the conference, which covers organizational costs).