Technology and ‘the death of Art History’
CHArt ANNUAL CONFERENCE
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Technology and ‘the death of Art History’
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Tamara Ashley and Carla Cesare
Digital Shift: Developing Portfolio: an online journal of emerging research in visual culture in the digital age
The staff of Portfolio: emerging research in visual culture propose a panel session that discusses the development and approach of the journal within the context of the shifting paradigms of digital media and art history. Portfolio is an online journal based at Northumbria University and is run by a consortium of post-graduate research students in visual culture from across the UK.
We propose to explore how society’s sensibility and assumption of time informs definitions of art history and how the digital paradigm is disrupting and reconfiguring relationships between practice, preservation, dissemination and accessibility. In our development of Portfolio, we were interested in how digital documentation and preservation processes impacts upon contemporary ecologies of practice: artwork, expectations, and presentation. In light of the current trend in historicizing the present with unprecedented rapidity, this panel will ask how digital media can redefine and change relationships with dissemination, archiving and practice. We will address our specific curatorial and editorial approaches to Portfolio and the ways in which these have developed within the shifting paradigms of art practice and digital media.
As a new on-line journal funded by the AHRC Beyond Text scheme, if appropriate, Portfolio would further propose to publish selected papers from the CHart conference in an upcoming issue of its journal.