Application Deadline [extended]: June 15, 2022
Acceptance Notification: July 7, 2022
Summer School Dates: August 29-September 3, 2021 (Málaga)
The International Digital Art History Summer School (DAHSS) is a joint initiative of the University of Málaga and the UC Berkeley for the organization of training activities in the field of Digital Humanities and Digital Art History.
2022 Theme: Collapse, Creativity, and Imagination
The ideas of progress, growth and expansion, which for a long time defined the visions about the future in Western cultures, and marked the action strategies (social, economic and political) undertaken have been replaced in the last few years by the idea of “collapse”. Recent events (pandemic, invasion of Ukraine, etc.) and systemic facts (global warming, resource depletion, etc.) lead us to believe that the world, as we have known it up to now, is heading towards a total collapse. Different authors have defended in recent years the need to articulate a debate on collapse that helps us to think about how such collapse could be triggered and what its implications would be (Servigne and Stevens, 2015). Within the framework of DAHSS22, we propose to think about creativity as a mechanism to ameliorate the causes that lead us to a collapse and to imagine possible alternative futures. Thus, the DAHSS22 five tracks will revolve around the following central question: How can creativity and imagination, in alliance with contemporary digital, technological and computational developments, become an asset to replace the idea of collapse with that of rebirth for thinking and making a new future?
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