31. Vernetzungstreffen: Slow Digital Art History Revisited

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Am Dienstag, 29.4.2025 um 18 Uhr findet das 31. Vernetzungstreffen im Belvedere Research Center und online via Zoom statt. Koenraad Brosens (KU Leuven) wird in seinem Vortrag “Slow Digital Art History Revisited“ von seinen Forschungen berichten. Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt.

Koenraad Brosens will critically reflect on a data driven art history project that resulted in four PhD dissertations, a number of publications and talks, and – last but not least – a better understanding of the do’s and don'ts of slow digital art history, i.e., Project Cornelia. The project aimed to shed light on the interplay between artistic developments in Flemish baroque art on the one hand, and socio-economic realities on the other. It was fueled by ‘big data’ – (more data than usual but also ambiguous data), conflicting data and missing data. During the funding period they drank data and danced with data like there was no tomorrow. But then tomorrow came.

Koenraad (Koen) Brosens is professor of early modern art at the Research Unit of Art History. He was Chairperson of the Research Unit (2018–2022). As a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Flemish Science Foundation, he broadened his scope by including the 17th-century French tapestry production apparatus and the dynamics of the European art markets (1600–1800). As a result, Koen Brosens became embedded in two international networks. One that groups scholars focusing on European tapestry and decorative arts, and one that groups art market scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds, such as cultural economics, economics and sociology. Meanwhile, he started to explore digital methods and (emergent) tools, as he was trying to find efficient ways to aggregate, visualize and analyze the archival data fueling his research. This curiosity led to Project Cornelia. Koen Brosens was visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania (fall 2007), the Peter Paul Rubens Chair at the University of California Berkeley (fall 2013), and J. Paul Getty Museum Scholar (summer 2019). He was Laureaat of the Royal Academy of Belgium for the Sciences and the Arts (2010) and he won the 'Pioneer Award' of the Humanities & Social Sciences Group, University of Leuven (2019). In 2019, Koen became a member of the Royal Academy of Belgium for the Sciences and the Arts.

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Wann: Dienstag, 29.4.2025, 18 Uhr

Wo: Belvedere Research Center (Rennweg 4, 1030 Wien) und Online via Zoom. Allen angemeldeten Personen wird der Zoom-Link zeitgerecht zugesendet.

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