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.
It will be DH Friday on October 11 when we host Smith College’s Andrew Maurer who will give two hands-on workshops on 3D Visualization for the Humanities: Photogrammetry Basics (9:00am-12:00pm) – Photogrammetry, the process of using still images to produce digital 3D models, provides new possibilities for visualizing and interpreting cultural objects. In this hands-on…