Anna Brzyski, Art History
The impact of digital technologies on the discipline of art history has not been simply that of new ways of accessing and storing old images of artworks. The shift from the analogue world of the slides to the digital world of visual information has expended exponentially not only the range of image types at art historians' disposal, it has fundamentally changed how we deal with those images and ultimately how we think about art and about visual culture past and present. This paper will explore that shift and identify some of its short and long term consequences for art history research and pedagogy.