Project Groups (5) – Dutch Church Interior Paintings

[The following text is written by the project group “Dutch Church Interior Paintings”. You will find more information on their project soon on their website, which will be linked here.] The genre of church interior paintings has developed in the Netherlands in the middle of the 17th century and lasted only a few decades. It is […]

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Project Groups (4) – Meta Data Group

The topic of visualization is quite popular at Coding Dürer. We already saw an approach in visualizing interactions of photographers with an artwork as well as an attempt to show how the work of an artist moves around the world throughout time. The “meta data group” engages in a project that relates to the person who gave the Hackathon its […]

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Project Groups (3) – Tracing Picasso

Photo by @airun72 Throughout his life Picasso created a huge body of work, including paintings, drawings as well as sculptures, that travelled around the world. It seems impossible to grasp how and where the objects moved. One project group at Coding Dürer tries to solve this problem and help us understand the provenience of Picasso’s work by using digital tools. […]

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Collaborate Across Disciplinary Boundaries

Art History and Computer Science are two disciplines with different approaches in doing research. Nevertheless, the digital material on art that is increasingly provided by museums or other cultural institutions with their online collections is interesting for both sides. While art historians have new possibilities to access, use, analyze and interpret their source material, computer […]

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Open Data. Open-ended

The word “hackathon” is a blend of the words “hack” (in the sense of exploratory programming) and “marathon”. The hackathon Coding Dürer is modeled after the hackathon Coding Da Vinci organized by the Open Knowledge Foundation, Wikimedia Germany and others. Its goal is to encourage institutions to liberate their data and bring this data into […]

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