Launched in 2009 at the École normale supérieure de Paris (ENS) by Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Artl@s is open to all researchers interested in spatial, transnational and digital approaches to history of art and visual studies. Structured around its seminar and its journal, Artl@s nourishes an in-depth reflection on digital methodologies and on the circulation of images until the digital age.
TRAINING
- Artl@s regularly initiates training workshops in digital and transnational approaches.
- The team proposes open-access data and methods for teaching Digital Humanities in a simple and effective way.
- The group regularly organizes international meetings on global art history, social art history, and the digital humanities.
PUBLICATIONS
- The Artl@s Bulletin is a blind peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary journal devoted to spatial and transnational questions in the history of the arts, published by Artl@s in partnership with Purdue Scholarly Publishing Services.
The Bulletin ’s ambition is twofold: 1. a focus on the “transnational” as constituted by exchange between the local and the global or between the national and the international; 2. an openness to innovation in research methods, particularly the quantitative possibilities offered by digital mapping and data visualization.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Artl@s oversees several research projects on artistic and cultural globalization, engaged in the decentering of sources and narratives.
- BASART produces and puts online a global database of exhibition catalogs from the 19th and 20th With its mapping and analytical tools, the database attempts to shift our sources and narratives, and to build bridges between artistic geographies.
- Since January 2021, the SNFS project VISUAL CONTAGIONS (Université de Genève) examines the global circulation of images in the print era from 1890 through the begining of the internet, using Artificial intelligence tools to extract millions of images from printed material.
- GEOMAP is a digital spacio-temporal cartography of art exhibition spaces in Paris between 1815 and 1955.
- The Directory of the Pensionnaires de l’Académie de France in Rome provides individual and collective biographies of the French Prix de Rome laureates from 1666 to 1968.
- Past Projects:
- From 2019 to 2021, the IMAGO Center (European label Center of Excellence Jean Monnet, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris) taught and federated a research and creation project on the circulation of images in Europe and their role in the construction of shared identities.
- From 2016 to 2021, Postdigital was project reflecting on what digital technology does to contemporary cultures, in partnership with contemporary artists and actors of the digital world (Ecole normale supérieure until 2019, then Université de Genève).