Digital Renaissance

Digital Renaissance

Curation

Deanna Shemek’s article is about how our current push in new digital technologies is bring about a “digital renaissance”. With the introduction of Geographic Information Systems, Augmented Reality, Virtual reality and things like a cloud or sound cloud: the term of what constitutes as art has changed. Our art is now online, between the use of Adobe cloud products and games, art is not just what we create on paper or on a canvas. Shemek’s research began as a simple preservation paper evolved to a “multimedia, online environment for study of the Italian Renaissance” that is constantly changing. With the collaboration of many countries, the Isabella d’Este Archive is a great example of the Digital Renaissance according to Shemek. Smemek then goes into and explains how archives that typically acquire and focus on early modernity materials and objects differ from archives focusing on the new and complex forms of the digital world. Shemek goes into the Teamwork, Reference Resources, Databases, Author Resources Site and Digital Editions, Visualization Projects, Mapping and Network Visualization, Big data and Machine Learning and Immersive Experience and Virtual Reality.
Shemek gives the reader the run down as to how archives are and will be adjusting and adapting to an ever-changing digital world. Shemek proposes an interesting way of adapting to these new digital forms.

Deanna Shemek

I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance

2019 Fall

Abbygail Dees

Journal Article

Shemek, Deanna. "Digital Renaissance," I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 22, no. 2 (Fall 2019): 383-391. https://doi.org/10.1086/705488