Publication details
Shaping the New Era of Digital Art Historical Research with Digital Humanities and AI Art
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Expanded ’25 : Proceedings of the Conference on Animation and Interactive Art |
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| Doi | https://doi.org/10.1145/3749893.3749911 |
| Keywords | Digital Art History; Monographs; Databases; Historiographical Research; Digital Humanities; AI Art as an artistic research |
| Description | This paper presents research on the current state of the field of digital art history. It provides an assessment of research methods and writing strategies for monographs and classifies online digital art databases as fundamental sources of knowledge for historiographical research according to their mission and development policy. The author realizes that digital art historians prefer the database format to the monograph, from which generalizing conclusions are drawn: the reasons for this preference include the postmodern crisis of grand narratives, databases as a cultural form of our time, and the countercultural ethos of the field of digital art. In the last part of the paper, the author proposes paths for further development of the field based on the findings. Inspiration is recognized in methods complementary to database formats, which are developed within the field of digital humanities such as distant reading, data visualizations, pattern recognition, and in AI Art projects addressing the status of archie and database at a time when all data becomes the subject of endless remix. |
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