Digital media

Pure mathematics

Mathematics

Digital art

Performance art

History

Aesthetics

World Wide Web

Visual arts

Humanities

Political science

Digital humanities

Computer science

Art history

Field (mathematics)

Reading (process)

This article responds to two issues affecting the field of contemporary art history: digital technology and the so-called computational turn in the humanities. It is divided into two parts: the first connects problems with “digital art history,” an offspring of digital humanities, to neoliberal metrics; the second suggests how digital art history’s“distant reading” might nevertheless be deployed critically in the analysis of contemporary art.

Against Digital Art History