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Digital Material, NUI Galway, 22 May 2015
Digital Materiality & Art Historical Research
KAROLINA BADZMIEROWSKA
Material (PHYSICAL SUBSTANCE)a physical substance that things can be made from
Material (INFORMATION)Information or ideas for use in creating a book or other work
Material (CLOTH)cloth that can be used to make things such as clothes
Materials (EQUIPMENT)equipment that you need for a particular activity
Material (PHYSICAL)Denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit
Material (IMPORTANT)formal important or having an important effect
Material (PHYSICAL SUBSTANCE)a physical substance that things can be made from
Material (INFORMATION)Information or ideas for use in creating a book or other work
Material (CLOTH)cloth that can be used to make things such as clothes
Materials (EQUIPMENT)equipment that you need for a particular activity
Material (PHYSICAL)Denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit
Material (IMPORTANT)formal important or having an important effect
material /məˈtɪərɪəl/ noun
adjective
material /məˈtɪərɪəl/ noun
adjective
Material (PHYSICAL SUBSTANCE)a physical substance that things can be made from
Material (INFORMATION)Information or ideas for use in creating a book or other work
Material (CLOTH)cloth that can be used to make things such as clothes
Materials (EQUIPMENT)equipment that you need for a particular activity
Material (PHYSICAL)Denoting or consisting of physical objects rather than the mind or spirit
Material (IMPORTANT)formal important or having an important effect
digital representations intangible material
use of digital images new methodologies
digital material needs contribution to art history scholarship
scholarly and artistic
‘materiality’ of digital / artefacts
ive research methods
material /məˈtɪərɪəl/
digital intangible representations physical material
use of digital images new methodologies
digital material needs contribution to art history scholarship
scholarly and artistic
‘materiality’ of digital / artefacts
ive research
‘materiality’ of digital objects / artefacts
Salvador DaliThe Persistence of Memory1932Museum of Modern Art, New York
24.1 x 33 cm
Photograph by Trexler (Flickr)
Pablo PicassoGuernica1937Oil on canvasMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
349 cm × 776 cm
Visitor viewing Picasso’s Guernica at the Reina Sofia Museum, MadridDenis Doyle for The New York Times
Claude MonetThe Waterlilies1920–1926Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
200 cm x 600 cm
Musee Marmottan Monet, Paris / Bridgeman Images
Jan van EyckSaint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata1430-1432Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
12.7 x 14.6 cm
Swarzenski, Hanns, Vorgotische Miniaturen. Die ersten Jahrhunderte Deutscher Malerei. Königstein, Langewiesche, 1927
Illuminated page from Gengenbach/Baden Evangelistery Landesbibliothek, Stuttgartca. 1150 AD
digital intangible representations made from physical material
Google Images search results for: ‘Vermeer Milkmaid’ (detail)
digital material needs to make contribution to art history scholarship
Willem van HaechtThe Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest1628Oil on panel100 x 130 cmRubenshuis, Antwerp
Aby M. Warburg | Mnemosyne Atlas | 1924-1929 Greek [mnɛːmosýːnɛː] memory
The Warburg Institute, University of London
The Warburg Institute, University of London
Mnemosyne. Meanderings through Aby Warburg’s Atlashttp://warburg.library.cornell.edu/
Exhibition: “MNEMOSYNE ATLAS: Aby Warburg’s Cosmos of Images” University of Tokyo, Japan15-22 December 2012
scholarly and artistic activity
Maurice JarnouxAndré Malraux amid photo reproductions for his book "Le Musée Imaginaire”ca. 1947 Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art
Dennis Adams, “Malraux’s Shoes” (2012)
Video still. Single-channel video, 42 minutes. Written and performed by Dennis Adams. Directed by Dennis Adams and Paul Colin.
Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP) 1968Designed by Lina Bo Bardi
Gerhard RichterAtlas (Städte / Cities)1968 51.7 cm x 66.7 cmAtlas Sheet: 113
Gerhard RichterAtlas (Seestücke / Seascapes)
1972 51.7 cm x 36.7 cm
Atlas Sheet: 202
Gerhard RichterAtlas (Holocaust)199751.7 cm x 71 cmAtlas Sheet: 637
Gerhard RichterAtlas (Landschaften / Landscapes)1985 51.7 cm x 66.7 cmAtlas Sheet: 433
Leila Cook Barber, member of the Art faculty, at work in the slide libraryc. 1950sVassar College, New York
Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), Columbia UniversityThe Lantern Slide in Architecture Education 2010
Theaster Gates“To Speculate Darkly”Installation2010Milwaukee Art Museum
use of digital images in creating new methodologies
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Detail comparison (1 – left; 2 – right)
Images scaled and layered in Photoshop with an adjusted opacity of the second layer (0-100%)
Two images (1, 2) compared and analyzed using Resemble.js http://huddle.github.io/Resemble.js/
The generated image (3) highlights the differences between the images (7.18 %)
1 2 3
effective research?
