[NetBehaviour] How Art History is Failing at the Internet.
marc
marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Wed Nov 21 12:16:03 CET 2012
How Art History is Failing at the Internet.
By JAMES CUNO.
Keeping up with the pace of change in the digital world is
challenging, and harnessing its potential can be frustrating. But the
biggest mistake many of us in the arts and humanities academy can make
is thinking of that potential only in terms of how we can use the new
technology to more quickly and broadly disseminate information. The
promise of the digital age is far greater than that. It offers an
opportunity to rethink the way we do, as well as to deliver new research
in the arts.
The history of art as practiced in museums and the academy is sluggish
in its embrace of the new technology. Of course we have technology in
our galleries and classrooms and information on the Web; of course we
are exploiting social media to reach and grow our audiences, by tweeting
about our books, our articles, including links to our career
accomplishments on Facebook and chatting with our students online.
But we aren't conducting art historical research differently. We aren't
working collaboratively and experimentally. As art historians we are
still, for the most part, solo practitioners working alone in our
studies and publishing in print and online as single authors and only
when the work is fully baked. We are still proprietary when it comes to
our knowledge. We want sole credit for what we write.
more...
http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/art-history-failing-internet/
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