PUBLIC ART AND DIGITIZATION PRACTICES

The course is retained fundamental in the graduate program for those wishing to approach the study and practice of digital and/or public art, as well as the processes of digitisation and public accessing of visual arts. The temporal scope of considered topics is focussed on the art of the 19th and 20th centuries until the last decades of the 21st century, while the geographic range is set in Western societies (Europe and North America). It shall allow to understand the principle theories, practices and processes of digitisation and public accessing in the field of visual arts.

1. Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of correct terminology; knowledge of main digitisation and public accessing in the field of visual arts; understanding of widespread techniques for digital archiving in the field of visual arts;
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: knowledge of how to use a specific terminology and ability to recognise relevant digitisation and public accessing in the field of visual arts upon the classes and bibliography; acquiring an interdisciplinary view on the development of the sector;
3. Ability to understand: capability of analysing a digital and/or public artwork referring the previous to a correct temporal and cultural scope; being able to discuss topics referring to digitisation and public accessing in the field of visual arts with due language and correct formal analysis;
4. Communication skills: adequate knowledge of linguistic habits and theoretical paradigms required for digitisation and public accessing in the field of visual arts; producing a written analysis or presentation that expresses a critical and well-founded opinion on the course's topics;
5. Learning abilities: learning to access and critically explore digital and public resources on the visual arts of the last two centuries, both online as well as at an institutional (museums, galleries, collections etc.) and bibliographic level (magazines, exhibition catalogues etc.).

A preliminary knowledge of the field of digital and public visual arts, both at an art historical level with regard to Western art of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as at an institutional level of the considered sector.

Theory and practice of digital and/or public art, as well as of the processes in digitisation and public accessing of visual arts referred to the 19th and 20th centuries until the last decades of the 21st century in Western societies (Europe and North America).

Selected chapter from the following volumes:
- Cameron Cartiere and Martin Zebracki (ed.): The everyday practice of public art : art, space, and social inclusion. London : Routledge, 2015.
- Cher Krause Knight and Harriet F. Senie (eds.): A companion to public art. Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley 2016.
- Christiane Paul (ed.): A companion to digital art. Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
- Gronlund, Melissa (2017): Contemporary Art and Digital Culture. London: Routledge.
- Giovanni Schiuma and Daniela Carlucci: Big data in the arts and humanities : theory and practice. Boca Raton, FL : Taylor and Francis, 2018.
- Erik T. Mitchell: Metadata standards and Web services in libraries, archives, and museums : an active learning resource. Santa Barbara, California ; Denver, Colorado : Libraries Unlimited, An Imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2015.

The exam consists of three parts:
- group presentation of a scholarly reading concerning the course's topics;
- written short essay to analyse a case study concerning the course's topics;
- oral examination with the discussion of the short essay and questions on the course's topics.

The course is designed in a blended methodology consisting of:
- Lectures on relevant topics in the field of digital and/or public art, as well as of the processes of digitisation and public accessing of visual arts;
- Presentation and comment on examples and solutions of digitisation and public accessing of visual arts;
- Exercises of standards and practices in the digital archiving with IT systems for the visual arts.
- Seminars on specific case studies or readings presented by the students and discussed in class.

English

written and oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Cities, infrastructure and social capital" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development