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🧵In our research project – Browser Art - Navigating with style (NwS) – we analyse artistic browsers in their aesthetic expression as well as their techno-historical setting. We are an interdisciplinary team @KITKarlsruhe
NwS | As art historians, computer scientists, artistic researchers we approach the works from multiple angles:
NwS | comparing their visual output with conventional browsers, the source code, visualisations of the discovered processes and we can draw from enriching and interesting conversations with the artists.
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The National Gallery of Art now has a public #OpenData program: Most of the NGA's collection data is now on Github and released under a CC0 license!
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#DigitalArtHistory #DigSMus #CulturalAnalytics #CC0 @medievalben @ngadc
nga.gov/open-access-im…
Now let's see: 1st there is a documentation as docx (thanks), then a folder of sql tables (interesting) and one with zipped csv files. Let's pick objects.csv and see what's inside...
@janecalexander
github.com/NationalGaller…
Ah, there are 28 columns (properties) with 135,715 rows (objects). Great!
Creation date is split in begin and end date, the oldest -490, i.e. b.c. Median: 1933, Mean: 1868.
"accessioned" is always "1".
@nealstimler
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Border Crossing, the biennial symposium of the Historians of Islamic Art Association, is happening Oct 25–27 at @Yale. Zainab Bahrani of Columbia U. will keynote. @HIAA_art Image
More details here: hiaa2018.yale.edu
#medievaltwitter : check out this panel on 'Medieval Translations,' including papers Toledo's choir screen panels, Ethiopian rock-cut churches, and Islamic textiles in 13th-c. England Image
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