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Network analysis and art history: using “bigger” data to retrace the recent past

Although networks have long been part of our social imaginary, the concept gained greater prominence at the turn of the millennium. From then on “the network” took on a myriad of different meanings: it is used to explain countless different social, financial, biological, cultural and technological phenomena, and it can be used to describe processes, as well as objective things in the world. In this lecture I will discuss the use of the term in art history, and discuss how and if the paradigm changes when the network simultaneously designates the subject and method of research. Including an overview of advantages and drawbacks of using network analysis and data-based research in (digital) art history, the lecture introduces the network as an inherent structure of the visual arts scene, the analysis of which offers insight into the self-organizing mechanisms of the scene’s actors.

digital art history, digital humanities, network analysis

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