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In 2018-19 the Getty Foundation supported an Institute on Advanced Topics in Digital Art History focused on 3D(Geo)Spatial Networks. Teams selected for the Institute reflect an international and interdisciplinary set of collaborators focused on scaling up an existing Digital Art History project, with special attention to projects focused on the intersection of mapping and modeling, and those thematized around Visualizing Cities. The Institute members met in Venice in Summer 2018 and 2019, as well as through regular videoconferences and at other events. Over the last two years of work together we have shared project milestones, best practices, new discoveries, and critical insights into our collective work. We have both furthered our own projects, and collaborated on new ones.

Over the course of the workshop and our follow-up activities, we have also explored some of the key “hard questions” that arise for digital art history, both as a sub-discipline with art history, and as part of an emergent set of interdisciplinary digital humanities practices. We have been especially interested in critical approaches to the digital representation of material objects, systems, and phenomena, and in how engagement with those representations leads to new knowledge in the field of art history. We were also interested in the insights partners from outside of the Art History realm, including engineers, computer scientists, and media arts practitioners, could bring to bear upon our activities. The panel presentations reflect both upon development of individual projects and larger lessons learned from our individual and collective engagements.