At the Princeton Art and Archaeology Graduate Conference I will be giving a talk entitled “From data to knowledge. Infrastructures for understanding culture”.

“Everything about science is changing because of the impact of information technology", asserted Jim Gray. Data also forms the basis of the digital transformation in the arts and humanities. Digital Art History is an interdisciplinary field that uses statistics, data analysis, machine learning and domain knowledge to understand and analyze actual phenomena in the history of art. This talk examines the term “data” and how “digital” will change the way we think about the subject of art history. It will show examples of data infrastructures, how they can be used for research projects and how to jump start your own data-driven investigation.

I thank Mengge Cao for the kind invitation to the 2022 Princeton Art and Archaeology Graduate Conference.