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Call for Manuscripts #4 - Digital Transformation of Institutions

   

    Digital Art History is often described as a methodological addition to

    Art History. Moreover, it includes a profound transformation of its

    institutional framework: server rooms replaced the slide libraries as

    the former center of art historical departments, museums are concerned

    with digitizing their collections and making them accessible via virtual

    exhibitions, and conservators facing challenges preserving digital art

    with its soft- and hardware.

  

The transition from analog to digital pictorial transcription has

    transformed art history and its archives in profound and unexpected

    ways. The objects of our study, once physically circumscribed by the

    walls of the slide library, are now widely available. The advent of

    image retrieval platforms like ArtStor and Google Image Search, not to

    mention countless museum databases, present new challenges and

    opportunities for cataloguing and visualizing data. The photographic

    practices of museum visitors have likewise been transformed by the

    integration of digital photography, cellular phones, and social media.

    Additionally, art historical publishing and pedagogy continue to be

    mostly constrained (in the English-speaking) world by antiquarian

    protocols governing copyright and image clearance.

   

    For the upcoming issue of the DAH-Journal we ask for contributions on

    the following topics:

    - How are analog institutions transforming and which digital tools steer

    this transformation? What practices persist, which one are eliminated?

    - What nascent digital methodologies do museums and archives utilize to

    engage visitors, organize metadata, and document collections?

    - How might digital publishing, art-making, and experimentation

    challenge and change art-historical research?

    - What are digital opportunities to develop and document archives of

    underrepresented, neglected, or ephemeral traditions of image-making?

   

    The fourth issue's featured author will be Johanna Drucker, who is

    currently the Martin and Bernard Breslauer Professor in the Department

    of Information Studies at the Graduate School of Education and

    Information Studies at UCLA.

  

 

We welcome articles from art historians, curators, conservators,

    artists, information scientists, and authors from other related

    disciplines who are concerned with questions around this topic. To send

    in articles, please register first at

    http://dah-journal.org/register.html and then submit articles by May 31,

    2019 (6,000 words max.). For more information please visit "Information

    for Authors" on our website http://www.dah-journal.org/authors.html

    http://www.dah-journal.org/call_04.html

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    We have some exciting news at the DAH-Journal! From now on we will be

    publishing articles on a rolling basis. Authors no longer have to wait

    for an entire issue for their research to be released. With this in mind

    we have decided to extend the deadline for our fourth issue until the

    end of May 2019. Contact us—abstracts, manuscripts, and artwork welcome!

    http://www.dah-journal.org/call_04.html

   

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