This is the sponsored session of the Digital Art History Society (DAHS).
Chairs
Carey Gibbons, Isabel Taube, and Justin Underhill
Deadline for Submissions
September 16, 2020
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About
This CAA session will critically examine the digital art history article by considering current trends and best practices in digitally-born, online journals. Art historians are increasingly seeking to make their work more accessible and innovative through publication online, as online journals are exploring the potential for digital tools—including images with zoom capability, streaming video, audio components, visual essays, interactive maps, and 3-D reconstructions of spaces—to engage readers while not abandoning existing models and standards for art-historical publication. We seek proposals for a session (15-minute presentations followed by discussion) that addresses best practices, innovative approaches, and concerns about art historical research and its presentation online from representatives of online journals and authors of already published articles. We hope this session will explore practical concerns of access, archiving, review/publication workflow, and reader engagement, as well as the theoretical challenges of narrating and sharing novel forms of data, the double nature of the art history article as case study and archive, linear versus non-linear formats, and the impact of aesthetic choices. Topics for investigation might address any stage in the production and publication of the article and might include negotiating the role of the digital tool and its interaction with the scholarly article; the pros and cons of specific article formats and whether a linear narrative is a necessity; establishing a productive workflow, including peer review; the engagement of the reader; aesthetics and user-friendliness; archiving, sustainability, and data access; and tenure and promotion.
Submissions
Please submit the following via email to the chairs of the session, Carey Gibbons, Isabel Taube, and Justin Underhill, at CAADAHS2021@gmail.com:
2. A shortened CV (close to 2 pages).
3. (Optional) Documentation of work when appropriate, limit to five images as a single PDF.
Guidelines
PLEASE NOTE: CAA GUIDELINES FOR PARTICIPANTS
1. A paper that has been published previously or presented at another scholarly conference may not be delivered at the CAA Annual Conference.
2. You may submit to multiple sessions but may give only one presentation during the conference. If you have multiple accepted presentations you must withdraw all but one by notifying the Chair(s).
3. Three ways to participate at CAA: all session participants may take part in the conference in up to three ways each year. They may serve as a: 1) Session Chair; 2) Paper/Project Presenter; and 3) Session Discussant. Each member may not, however, serve in any single role more than once in a particular conference year.
4. If your Individual Paper/Presentation proposal was accepted during CAA's spring submission call, you may still apply to this session. However, if accepted you must withdraw all but one accepted presentation from CAA 2021.
CAA REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION
Individual Membership - in order to be added to the session and to participate in the Annual Conference, accepted participants, including presenters, Chairs, and discussants, must be current individual members of CAA through February 13, 2021. Inactive members will be removed from session listings after November 30, 2020.
Registration - All session participants must register in some capacity for the conference. Early full conference registration opens online in November 2020.