Harald KlinkeSep 19, 2024
Exciting to see our journal mentioned in „Distant Viewing: Computational Exploration of Digital Images“ by Taylor Arnold and Lauren Tilton! Their innovative approach bridges computer vision with visual culture studies, offering new insights for digital humanities. A must-read!
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262546133/distant-viewing/
📚✨ #DigitalHumanities #DistantViewing #ComputationalAnalysis #DigitalArtHistory
Distant Viewing

MIT Press
GVogelerMay 31, 2023
After several meetings on DH #infrastructure (e.g. how to organise shared access to GPU-clusters?), supervising two #PhD candidates (on #distantviewing #Newsreels and on interdisciplinary #digitalScholarlyEditions, preparing for a presentation on #srmanticweb and #regesta if #medieval #charters (#diplomaticsrulez), teaching #Persona methods to a DH course on the example of #endangeredlanguages #digitalarchives and conversion of book #indices into #factoid #prosopography I finally conclude my #dayofdh2023 #dayofdh with bottle of beer ...
Marian DörkMay 10, 2023

the New York Times have this #scrollytelling series called Close Read—maybe in contrast to #DistantViewing?—presenting a nice spread of artworks for each carefully stepping through key aspects. they are implemented with minimal zoom and pan animations gently guiding the eyes across the images:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/arts/close-read.html

i think they are really well crafted. has anybody worked on any templates or libraries for something like this? it deserves imitation and refinement…

#ArtHistory #InterfaceDesign

Close Read

To see what’s really going on, it helps to get close.

The New York Times
Show threadJan HorstmannMar 17, 2023
Das großartige Ziel des Projekts ist ein #scalableviewing (Mischung aus #distantviewing und #closeviewing) 🥳