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Sensitivity and Access: Unlocking the Colonial Visual Archive with Machine Learning
  • Jonathan Dentler
  • Lise Jaillant
  • Daniel Foliard
  • Julien Schuh
  • visual art
  • machine learning
  • archives
  • artificial intelligence
  • computer vision
  • colonial archives
  • sensitive images
  • visual culture
  • open access
  • sensitivity
  • critical artificial intelligence
  • multimodal artificial intelligence

Can AI help confront colonial photographic archives? Check out this article exploring how semi-automation can augment our capacity to produce knowledge using digital visual archives of contested pasts.

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Towards a National Data Architecture for Cultural Collections: Designing the Australian Cultural Data Engine
  • Rachel Fensham
  • Tyne Daile Sumner
  • Nat Cutter
  • George Buchanan
  • Rui Liu
  • Justin Munoz
  • James Smithies
  • Ivy Zheng
  • David Carlin
  • Erik Champion
  • Hugh Craig
  • Scott East
  • Chris Hay
  • Lisa M. Given
  • John Macarthur
  • David McMeekin
  • Joanna Mendelssohn
  • Deborah van der Plaat
  • databases
  • info architecture
  • project report
  • data analytics
  • visual art

    Cultural databases are complicated beasts: rich in their contents and yet often idiosyncratic, siloed, and precarious. This article outlines an innovative workflow and information architecture designed to harness the interoperability of digital resources/records for cultural analytics research without obliterating distinctive domain knowledges.

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    Visualizing a Series: Aggregate Compositional Analysis of Botticelli's Commedia
    • Nathaniel Corley
    • data visualization
    • manuscripts
    • visual art
    • Renaissance
    • Botticelli
    • compositional analysis
    • heatmaps

    Botticelli's drawings of Dante's Divina Commedia — an enigmatic series of works that resists standard art-historical interpretation — take on new meaning when deciphered through digital art history techniques, exposing a nuanced interplay between image and text that departs from centuries of manuscript tradition.

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    The Dangers of Disappearance, the Opportunities of Recovery
    • Sara Diamond
    • archives
    • project management
    • data curation
    • access
    • project report
    • visual art
    • sound
    • indigenous
    • media history
    • project resiliency
    • Banff New Media Institute
    • Daniel Langlois Foundation
    • Crista Dahl Library and Archive
    • Sara Diamond Fonds

    Disappearing archives

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    The case of the golden background, a virtual restoration and a physical reconstruction of the medieval Crucifixion of the Lindau Master (c. 1425)
    • Liselore Tissen
    • Sanne Frequin
    • Ruben Wiersma
    • digitization
    • history
    • images
    • visual art

      This paper presents a methodological solution of approaching the problem of restoring the medieval Crucifixion of the Lindau Master (c. 1425) by combining the knowledge of art historians, restorers and by integrating modern 3D technologies before, during, and after the restoration.

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      Simple but Beautiful: A Case Study on the ZHI Project of Traditional Craftsmanship
      • Jing Chen
      • Mengqi Li
      • Wensi Lin
      • Yinzhou Zhao
      • Mengyue Zhang
      • Han Chen
      • Qiang Hu
      • Yongqing Xie
      • project report
      • visual art
      • cultural heritage
      • collaboration
      • minimal computing
      • history
      • publishing

        This essay offers a case study of the ZHI project, a digital craftsmanship project showcasing the beauty of traditional craftsmanship at three levels: knowing, making, and intelligence.

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        Advances in Digital Music Iconography: Benchmarking the detection of musical instruments in unrestricted, non-photorealistic images from the artistic domain
        • Matthia Sabatelli
        • Nikolay Banar
        • Marie Cocriamont
        • Eva Coudyzer
        • Karine Lasaracina
        • Walter Daelemans
        • Pierre Geurts
        • Mike Kestemont
        • tools
        • music
        • images
        • machine learning
        • visual art

          In this paper, we present MINERVA, the first benchmark dataset for the detection of musical instruments in non-photorealistic, unrestricted image collections from the realm of the visual arts.

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          Deformin' in the Rain: How (and Why) to Break a Classic Film
          • Jason Mittell
          • moving images
          • images
          • cultural criticism
          • digitization
          • sound
          • visual art

            Following upon the strain of digital humanities practice that Mark Sample terms the deformed humanities, this essay subjects a single film to a series of deformations: the classic musical Singin' in the Rain.

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            Leonardo, Morelli, and the Computational Mirror
            • Alison Langmead
            • Christopher J. Nygren
            • Paul Rodriguez
            • Alan Craig
            • collaboration
            • visual art
            • machine learning
            • digitization

              Explores the value, role, and pitfalls for digitel methods of art attribution

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