Exhibition Studies and Digital Approaches

17-11-2023 14:00 - 16:00 GMT+1 || Join us on Zoom|| Back to the programme

Speakers:

• Nuria Rodriguez, Málaga university

• Marta Edling, Södertörn University

Nuria Rodriguez

Nuria Rodríguez Ortega holds a PhD in Art History and a Master's degree in Cognitive Sciences. She also holds the title of Specialist in Digital Humanities from the University of Castilla La Mancha. She is Professor of Art History and Director of the Department of Art History at the University of Malaga where she directs iArtHis_Lab, a research, training and innovation laboratory focused on the study of artistic culture from digital, computational and techno-critical perspectives.

She is the director of the Telefónica-UMA Chair, honorary president of the International Society of Hispanic Digital Humanities, founder and coordinator of the International Network of Digital Studies of Artistic Culture (ReArte.Dix.). Since 2020, she has been a full member of the European Academy in the section of Musicology and Art History. From 2007 to 2009 she was head of the Education Department of the Municipal Heritage Museum of Malaga, and from 2009 to 2013 she was deputy director. In 2023 she was appointed member of the Andalusian Commission of Museums.

Her research addresses the convergence between computational languages, digital media and artistic culture, with special emphasis on the application of data analytics to the study of complex cultural systems, the processing of natural language for the analysis of artistic texts, the configuration of new visual-formal epistemologies in the field of computer vision and the exploration of alternative narratives associated with mixed reality technologies. He also investigates how artificial intelligence is reformulating the processes of categorisation and ordering of cultural objects. She has published and researched on critical and post-critical museology in the context of digital culture.

He works on the design of new curricula to promote technological training, techno-critical thinking and a transdisciplinary vision. In this sense, she coordinates TransUMA, the transdisciplinary skills laboratory of the University of Malaga and the TransUMA-Tech Teaching Network of Excellence. Since 2016, she is the academic director of the summer course Digital Art History: Data-Driven Analysis and Digital Narratives, a joint initiative of the University of Málaga, the University of Berkeley and the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.

Marta Edling

She has been Professor of Art History and Theory at Södertörn University, Stockholm, since 2012. Often starting from sociology, her research includes critical readings of the Swedish art field, the history of art education and art research in the 20th century, art academies and art theory before 1500, and the history of photography.  As part of the research project Exhibiting Art in a European Periphery? International Art in Sweden during the Cold War, funded by the Swedish Research Council 1918-2021, she has researched exhibition collaborations focusing on the role of Swedish and Nordic artistic networks and cross-border contacts within and outside the Nordic region 1945-89.