Art and Science in the Age of Digital Reproduction: From Mimetic Representation to Interactive Virtual Reality

Frischer, Bernard

doi:10.4995/var.2011.4544

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“…To continue with demonstrating the variety of approaches, we can see that Schmidt (2011) sees the importance of using technology to create new objects for humanistic interrogation. Frischer (2011) affirms this, and identifies the humanities' basic tasks as preserving, reconstructing, transmitting, and interpreting the human record.…”

Section: Beyond Attention To Text: Some Shared Epistemological Characteristics Of Information Science and The Digital Humanitiesmentioning

confidence: 73%

Nauka o informacji w zwierciadle humanistyki cyfrowej: kilka uwag epistemologicznych

Koltay

2014

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Purpose/thesis: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the similarities and differences between the epistemologies of information science and the digital humanities in the light of the turns of information science. Approach/methods: Numerous viewpoints, discernible from the literature, related to the epistemologies of the two disciplines have been analysed and compared. Results and conclusions: Despite differences in their disciplinary backgrounds, information science and the digital humanities have much in common. As serious self-reflection is needed for both disciplines, they may benefit from analysing the achievements and deficiencies of the each other. Research limitations: Both epistemologies are in forming, so only a snapshot could be taken on their present reflection. Originality/value: The paper intends to be an add-on to the body of knowledge about the epistemologies information science, the digital humanities and the relationship between them.

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Section: Beyond Attention To Text: Some Shared Epistemological Characteristics Of Information Science and The Digital Humanitiesmentioning

confidence: 73%

Nauka o informacji w zwierciadle humanistyki cyfrowej: kilka uwag epistemologicznych

Koltay

2014

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“…In contrast to the criticism, we did find that digital humanists express a desire to situate their methods in the context of humanist theories such as cultural criticism, feminist inquiry, and post‐Colonial critique—but we also found an important shift in these goals. In her attempt to define DH, for example, Borgman () cites Frischer () and the Digital Humanities Manifesto 2.0 to summarize her own definition: “The digital humanities is a new set of practices, using new sets of technologies, to address research problems of the discipline.” In contrast to this notion, none of our study's participants see their work this way. “Rather than take a pre‐existing computational technique and apply it to a new data subtext or the reverse (here's something that we already know but can we prove it with this new set),” one participant clarifies, “we are trying to do both at once.” Another participant adds, “I believe very strongly, I hope you can tell, the idea shouldn't just be about taking some tool and adapting for use.”…”

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confidence: 99%

Connecting theory and practice in digital humanities information work

Clement

Carter

2017

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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The omnipresence and escalating efficiency of digital, networked information systems alongside the resulting deluge of digital corpora, apps, software, and data has coincided with increased concerns in the humanities with new topics and methods of inquiry. In particular, digital humanities (DH), the subfield that has emerged as the site of most of this work, has received growing attention in higher education in recent years. This study seeks to facilitate a better understanding of digital humanities by studying the motivations and practices of digital humanists as information workers in the humanities. To this end, we observe information work through interviews with DH scholars about their work practices and through a survey of DH programs such as graduate degrees, certificates, minors, and training institutes. In this study we focus on how the goals behind methodology (a link between theories and method) surface in everyday DH work practices and in DH curricula in order to investigate if the critiques that have appeared in relation to DH information work are well founded and to suggest alternative narratives about information work in DH that will help advance the impact of the field in the humanities and beyond.

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“…5, No. 1, Publication date: June 2021 particular been presented as unprecedented innovations [Frischer 2011;Favro 2006]. To be sure, the first phase of the digital revolution in architecture entailed the remediation of representational technologies grounded in one-point perspective renderings that illusionistically transformed a twodimensional field into a three-dimensional one [Carpo 2011;Carpo and Lemerle 2013].…”

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Virtual Reconstructions in Bernardino Amico’s Treatise on the Plans and Images of the Sacred Buildings of the Holy Land

Moore¹

2021

SDH

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This essay explores the role of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land in cultivating perceptions of the Catholic pilgrimage buildings as worthy of preservation, especially by employing techniques of representation in printed books that engaged with the potential restoration of the real buildings in the Holy Land. The essay discusses the particular example of the printed book created by Bernardino Amico that was published in two editions of 1610 and 1620, with interactive perspectival renderings of the exteriors and interiors of the Christian pilgrimage churches in Palestine and Egypt, along with maps of ancient and modern Jerusalem. Centuries before the emergence of cyber archaeology, Franciscans like Bernardino Amico explored the potential for virtual reconstruction in the realm of printing to demonstrate the value of buildings as symbols of a shared history and faith, while also challenging those who actively sought to dismantle the same buildings in both real and virtual space. Bernardino Amico’s treatise exemplifies the potential of such virtual reconstructions of historical buildings to blur the boundaries between the empirically observed present, the imagined past, and a desired future.

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Art and Science in the Age of Digital Reproduction: From Mimetic Representation to Interactive Virtual Reality

Cited by 13 publications

References 15 publications

Nauka o informacji w zwierciadle humanistyki cyfrowej: kilka uwag epistemologicznych

Nauka o informacji w zwierciadle humanistyki cyfrowej: kilka uwag epistemologicznych

Connecting theory and practice in digital humanities information work

Virtual Reconstructions in Bernardino Amico’s Treatise on the Plans and Images of the Sacred Buildings of the Holy Land

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