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Art History

Digital Arts & Humanities

Researching art and architecture with the aid of technology is one means to explore human culture.  Here are examples that document artistic endeavour, conservation, and preservation.

Specific Artists

Jan Breughel : Complete Catalog

Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Interwar Paris

Closer to Van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece
Asessment of the structural condition using high-resolution images and digital macrophotography.

Warhol Timeweb
Fifty Warhol artworks used to map connections within socio-cultural history.

Whistler's Peacock Room
Dgital archive and virtual environment to see the objects, places, and peopl eassociated with the room.

Architecture and Archeology

Mapping Gothic France

Floor plans, images and 360-degree panoramas of Gothic architecture in France.

Babylon 3D
3D reconstruction of the ancient city of Babylon created in 2013 for the Mesopotamia exhibition of the Royal Ontario Museum.

Cyark
Interact with 3D models and geo-located media for over 100 cultural heritage sites worldwide.

Contemporary Digital Humanities: Provies an introduction:

  • What are the Digital Humanities?Digital Scholarship Brief History 
  • Digital Humanities AreasExamples From the Digital Classics and Digital History
  • Introduction To ComputationComputer OrganizationBinary Numbers and Boolean Logic
  • Computational Techniques Relationship Between Tools and Methods
  • Close And Distant Reading In The Digital HumanitiesText Mining Workflow
  • Basic Text Processing – N-GramsThe Internet and The Web
  • Major Projects in The Digital HumanitiesArchives, Digital Archives, And Web Archives
  • Criticism of the Digital HumanitiesPossible Futures of The Digital Humanities

Queen's Projects

Locating the Materials of Italian Renaissance Sculpture  

A virtual exhibition curated by Queen's students usees interactive maps to explore the materials and techniques of 17 colourful sculptures made in Tuscany from ca. 1300 –ca. 1550.

The Diniacopoulos Collection  

 A project of MUSC156 (Introduction to Digital Audio Recording, Editing and Mixing), in collaboration with CFRC Radio and Queen’s University Library to capture this art collection. Podcast production overseen by MUSC156 instructor Matt Rogalsky.

World Projects

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Getty Digital Humanities Projects and Resources

Virtual Museum of Images and Sounds

Debates in the Digital Humanities: "brings together voices from across the field in a series of volumes that track the development of DH, as well as the tensions and possibilities around it. The volumes take two forms: general volumes that highlight current issues, methods, and practices within DH, and special volumes that focus on topics of pressing interest to the field." Online.