The International Journal for Digital Art History, 2021-22
In recent years, immersive media have opened up new possibilities for the preservation of cultura... more In recent years, immersive media have opened up new possibilities for the preservation of cultural heritage. Using Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Virtuality (AV), and Mixed Reality (MxR), cultural organizations around the globe are now transporting audiences to endangered world heritage sites and generating 3D representations of those sites in the audience's physical environment. Largely untapped, however, is the unique potential of immersive media to preserve the historical experience of these spaces -that is, how people moved through them and assigned them meaning, where they went and why, and what they saw, felt, and heard -which can be as integral to a community's cultural heritage as its material objects. The following article explores this use of immersive technology through an account of the author's digital art history and cultural preservation project, Virtual Venice. Renewing the connection between presentday Venice and its rich urban past, the VR/360-video resource enables remote audiences to simulate the historical experience of the city while reaffirming its place in contemporary Venetian life.
Fifty years after Linda Nochlin published her revolutionary article, 'Why Have There Been No Grea... more Fifty years after Linda Nochlin published her revolutionary article, 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?', art historians are still grappling with the canon. Part Research Article and part Position Essay, this paper examines the problem through the lens of Thomas Kuhn's famous 'paradigm shift' theory of 1962, which offers an intriguing solution. The model suggests that although we may never eliminate the canon, we can move beyond it if we embrace our innate subjectivity and usher in a new art history guided by the principles of poststructuralism.
The paper investigates certain characteristic, innovative aspects of Trachtenberg's patterns of h... more The paper investigates certain characteristic, innovative aspects of Trachtenberg's patterns of historical inquiry, in particular his approach to pre-existing paradigms of period styles and the work of individual architects within them. Attention is given to the potentially transgressive dimension of Trachtenberg's methodological strategies in dealing with decorum's powerful but sometimes covert role, in its dual capacity as a theoretical principle that dominates Western architectural theory as well as the proprieties of argumentation used within the disciplines of art and architectural history. Trachtenberg's aggressive but often playful inversions of received paradigms, together with his skeptical and original elision of old, or generation of new terminologies, raise significant issues about the place of critical thinking within the past, present and future of the mainstream disciplines.
The International Journal for Digital Art History, 2021-22
In recent years, immersive media have opened up new possibilities for the preservation of cultura... more In recent years, immersive media have opened up new possibilities for the preservation of cultural heritage. Using Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Virtuality (AV), and Mixed Reality (MxR), cultural organizations around the globe are now transporting audiences to endangered world heritage sites and generating 3D representations of those sites in the audience's physical environment. Largely untapped, however, is the unique potential of immersive media to preserve the historical experience of these spaces -that is, how people moved through them and assigned them meaning, where they went and why, and what they saw, felt, and heard -which can be as integral to a community's cultural heritage as its material objects. The following article explores this use of immersive technology through an account of the author's digital art history and cultural preservation project, Virtual Venice. Renewing the connection between presentday Venice and its rich urban past, the VR/360-video resource enables remote audiences to simulate the historical experience of the city while reaffirming its place in contemporary Venetian life.
Fifty years after Linda Nochlin published her revolutionary article, 'Why Have There Been No Grea... more Fifty years after Linda Nochlin published her revolutionary article, 'Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?', art historians are still grappling with the canon. Part Research Article and part Position Essay, this paper examines the problem through the lens of Thomas Kuhn's famous 'paradigm shift' theory of 1962, which offers an intriguing solution. The model suggests that although we may never eliminate the canon, we can move beyond it if we embrace our innate subjectivity and usher in a new art history guided by the principles of poststructuralism.
The paper investigates certain characteristic, innovative aspects of Trachtenberg's patterns of h... more The paper investigates certain characteristic, innovative aspects of Trachtenberg's patterns of historical inquiry, in particular his approach to pre-existing paradigms of period styles and the work of individual architects within them. Attention is given to the potentially transgressive dimension of Trachtenberg's methodological strategies in dealing with decorum's powerful but sometimes covert role, in its dual capacity as a theoretical principle that dominates Western architectural theory as well as the proprieties of argumentation used within the disciplines of art and architectural history. Trachtenberg's aggressive but often playful inversions of received paradigms, together with his skeptical and original elision of old, or generation of new terminologies, raise significant issues about the place of critical thinking within the past, present and future of the mainstream disciplines.
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