Revisualizing Visual Culture

Abstract

In the past twenty years digital technology has had a radical impact on all the disciplines associated with the visual arts this book provides expert views of that impact. By looking at the advanced ICT methods now being employed, this volume details the long-lasting effects and advances now made possible in art history and its associated disciplines. The authors analyze the most advanced and significant tools and technologies, from the ongoing development of the Semantic Web to 3D visualization, focusing on the study of art in the various contexts of cultural heritage collections, digital repositories and archives. They also evaluate the impact of advanced ICT methods from technical, methodological and philosophical perspectives, projecting supported theories for the future of scholarship in this field. The book not only charts the developments that have taken place until now but also indicates which advanced methods promise most for the future. Contents: Preface, William Vaughan; Introduction: making knowledge visual, Chris Bailey; Do a thousand words paint a picture?, Mike Pringle; The semantic web approach to improving access to cultural heritage, Kirk Martinez and Leif Isaksen; Resource discovery and curation of complex and interactive digital datasets, Stuart Jeffrey; Digital explorations of past design concepts in architecture, Daniela Sirbu; Words as keys to the image bank, Doireann Wallace; For one and all: participation and exchange in the archive of the future, Sue Breakell; The user-archivist and collective (in)voluntary memory: read/writing the networked digital archive, James McDevitt; Internet art history 2.0, Charlotte Frost; Museum migration in century 2.08, Jemima Rellie; Slitting open the Kantian eye, Charlie Gere; Bibliography; Index. About the Editor: Chris Bailey is Professor of Cultural History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Society at Leeds Metropolitan University. Hazel Gardiner is Editor for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland and joint-editor of the CHArt (the Computers and the History of Art) Yearbook. She was Senior Project Officer for the AHRC ICT Methods Network.