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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Project Groups (2) – Albot

Photo from Wikimedia You’re at a museum and want to find out more about an artwork you like? Then just ask Albot, the art history chatbot. He will access the museum’s metadata for you and answer simple questions about the artwork, like: Who’s the artist? What’s the title? Which people are depicted? At least that’s the vision […]

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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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