ARTH 14
The Art Historian's Digital Tool Kit Winter 2024

This is not the current course catalog

This course will provide students a thorough introduction to digital methods in art history and hands-on experience with a variety of essential tools. Through the process of curating a digital exhibition of historic photographs from the Visual Resources Center’s collection, students will learn about digital imaging and flatbed scanning, metadata creation and critical cataloging, digital exhibitions, geolocation and mapping, image annotation, timelines, and network analysis. Software and tools covered will include Photoshop, Omeka, TimelineJS, Graph Commons, and others. Working hands-on in the Visual Resources Center, students will spend about six hours per week in class learning important concepts, best practices, and tools. Short readings will be assigned on the application of digital methods to art historical scholarship. Students will present their final exhibition projects at the end of the course.