Between Technology and Theory: Data and Distance
Image: Giovanni Borgherini and His Tutor, attributed to Giorgione, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
Excited to be included as one of the speakers at The Between Technology and Theory: Data and Distance workshop hosted by the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study University of London. June 8–9, 2023
Organised by Rheagan Martin (CASVA Center for Advanced Study in Visual Arts Predoctoral Fellow) and Louisa McKenzie (Warburg Institute).
Digital humanities tools are increasingly deployed as research methodologies. Each digital project brings with it its own set of challenges: the binary nature of digital platforms often forces the researcher to present subjective decisions as objective fact, which otherwise may have been moulded with metaphorical language. This workshop will emphasise on digital projects as tools for investigating interdisciplinary concepts of cultural memory.
Each panel will include brief presentations from the invited speakers of their respective projects, followed by an extended time for discussion among presenters and participants regarding the challenges and benefits of integrating digital humanities into research, allowing for an exchange of knowledge and experience, as well as facilitating new connections, both professional and intellectual.
Projects under discussion span disciplines including art history, textual history, medieval history, heritage and collections management and more. Speakers include:
Thursday 8 June
Alice Sullivan (Tufts) - Sinai Digital Archive
Matthew Westerby (Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C) - machine learning to process hyperspectral image data
Elizabeth Ashley Fox-Jensen (SAS/Malmo University) - perspectives and methods for developing a more sustainable and accessible Catalogue Raisonné
Friday 9 June
Eric Hupe and Sarah Beck (Lafayette College) - Renaissance optics and virtual reality and photogrammetry
Alice Sullivan (Tufts) and Maria Alessia Rossi (Princeton) - North of Byzantium
Dario Negueruela and Jose Ballesteros (University of Zurich) - Dialectics of light: a methodological comparison
Margaret Smith (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) – Submission Strategies: The Irish Submissions to Richard II, 1395