Art History and the Digital World

Abstract

On June 8–9, 2006, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles hosted a workshop, “Art History and the Digital World,” cosponsored by the GRI and the College Art Association. The workshop, organized by Murtha Baca, head of the Getty Vocabulary Program and Digital Resource Management at the GRI, and William Tronzo of the CAA Board of Directors, assembled a group of over a dozen speakers and panelists to consider a wide range of questions at the intersection of the practice of art history and the rapidly evolving digital environment. The territory thus defined was large, and one of the virtues of the workshop was that, in negotiating relevant issues, it did not follow exclusively a single track. Rather it brought together participants with different fields of expertise and points of view in order to create a dynamic and thought-provoking conversation that crossed boundaries.