Efstratios Stylianidis, Assoc. Professor, School of Spatial Planning and Development at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, has written a book, Photogrammetric Survey for the Recording and Documentation of Historic Buildings (Chambridge: Springer, 2020), that (from the publisher) “…provides state-of-the-art information on photogrammetry for cultural heritage, exploring the problems and presenting solutions that are applicable under…
Join the Frick Library’s Digital Art History Lab in a webinar series – “Technological Revolutions and Art History” – that explores the role technology has played in the development of the field of art history. Historically, science and the humanities were not considered two discrete disciplines: the separation of these two branches of knowledge developed…
From The Art Newspaper Blog: Before Google Street View, there was Ed Ruscha. In 1966, the Los Angeles artist first drove along the Sunset Strip with a motorised camera mounted to the back of his truck, using it to photograph the entire street in a manner that uncannily predicted today’s online mapping technology. He compiled…
Mark your calendar: “Identifiable Individuals and Reality: What Do We Describe and Why” Dr. Martin Doerr, from Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH) A talk from the Center for Spatial Studies Fall 2020 series, Knowledge Representation and GeoHumanities Tuesday, September 17 | 11:00 am The virtual talk will argue “that only a smaller…
Check out Polygrid, a developing image search & discovery engine powered by deep learning and PowerDP. Try out a demo via the Rijksmuseum, who has put over 400,000 of their works as hi-res images in the public domain; Polygrid has captured more than 200,000 of them from the Dutch Rijksmuseum Open Data Collection and arranged…
Today Google and Google Art & Culture are highlighting Heritage on the Edge – 5 heritage sites with 1 common threat: climate change. Researchers worldwide are using technology to protect cultural sites against climate change and advocate for saving the world’s shared cultural heritage.