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Author: jkorns

“Digital Art History in Practice” Panel, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, NYCDH Week, February 11, 2016

These presentations focused on a number of DH methods used in art-historical projects. Emily L. Spratt presented on digital reconstructions of world heritage sites after their destruction and the use of computers in analyzing aesthetic preferences in art. Dr. Louisa Wood Ruby presented a tool that uses linked data to facilitate access to images of art from different photo archives and a tool that mimics the functionality of a table for arranging and sorting images in the digital environment. Samantha Deutch’s presentation focused on data scraping tools. Ellen Prokop presented on the use of GIS technologies for art-historical research.