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Rediscovering Aesthetics. Transdisciplinary Voices from Art History, Philosophy, and Art Practice KU Leuven
Slow Digital Art History in Action: Project Cornelia's Computational Approach to Seventeenth-century Flemish Creative Communities Hasselt University KU Leuven
This paper presents the rationale, genesis, and applications of Project Cornelia, an ongoing computational art history project developed by a cross-disciplinary team at the KU Leuven (University of Leuven). It shares practical perspectives acquired while conceptualizing and unfolding the project and discusses successes as well as challenges and setbacks. In doing so, this paper is a cautionary tale for art historians entering the digital arena. ...
Art history in the cinema : Rubens (1948) and Paul Haesaerts’s concept of cinéma critique Ghent University
In Search of Meaning: Thinking Information Visualization within Art History Research KU Leuven
This dissertation presents our work at the intersection of Art History (AH) and Information Visualization (InfoVis). In this text, we describe our efforts towards understanding the relationship between AH and InfoVis scholarship, along with conceptual and practical contributions to the growing interest in Digital Art History. More concretely, this dissertation aims to answer the following research questions: RQ1: How can we design InfoVis tools ...
Engaged Visual Art as a Tool for Normative Renewal in International Human Rights: the Case of Ariella Azoulay’s Potential History (2012) KU Leuven
In the Spring of 2012, the political philosopher, photography theoretician and artist Ariella Azoulay guest curated an exhibition at STUK Contemporary Arts Centre in Leuven (Belgium). Inside a black box, Azoulay’s video Civil Alliance (2012), was on view. This 52:36 minutes long work portrays people of mixed Palestinian and Jewish background dressed in mid-twentieth-century clothing, who gather around a circular table. The group recites short ...
Re-presenting the past: the time-based return of Belgian colonial history in contemporary art and film (1986-2016) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
In this dissertation, I map how artists and filmmakers have returned to Belgian colonial history through time-based media. Through an anachronistic approach, I develop the thesis that the studied artworks and films, through their adoption of time-based media, perform an artistic gesture that I term ‘re-presenting the past.’ Thus evoking ‘presence,’ the artists’ and filmmakers’ artistic strategies suggest that the Belgian colonial past retains ...
Signed 'PAN': Erwin Panofsky’s (1892-1968) “The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline” (Princeton, 1938) KU Leuven
In 1935 Erwin Panofsky (1892-1968) was appointed the first ‘permanent member’ of the School of Humanistic Studies (now the School of Historical Studies) at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. The famous institute was founded by the American educator Abraham Flexner (1866-1959). This essay contributes to the content and context of Panofsky’s important lecture “The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline” from 1938. The publication of ...
Images Performing History. Photography and Representations of the Past in European Art after 1989 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history
History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This book offers a discussion of contemporary art practices which question the received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe. These art practices reveal, in ...
History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This book offers a discussion of contemporary art practices which question the received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe. These art practices reveal, in ...