unlearning without deskilling
DESCRIPTION
A case study of Art Historians and Engineers on an impossible mission. What can you achieve when you give Engineers and Art Historians an impossible mission – to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an internet connection? These two professions have rarely crossed paths. How will they collaborate? Will the former speak incomprehensible futuristic code, while the latter obsesses about obscure details from ancient literature? For the past two years at Artsy has been working on precisely this mission. In building “The Art Genome Project,” they have had to overcome the many challenges of working together, and in the process have learned new ways of thinking that have allowed them to invent a completely new experience for browsing art. (They have also built a business with a successful online marketplace and hundreds of partnerships by bridging the commercial and the not-for-profit art worlds.)TRANSCRIPT
Jessica Backus
@that_j
an Art
Historian
Daniel Doubrovkine
@dblockdotorg
an Engineer
Millions of Artworks
The Art Genome Project
Art Historian
Engineer Designer
Gallery Specialist
Institutional Specialist
We Don’t Know Anything
Preserving History by Archiving
Engineering for the Sake of Engineering
Gravity
Mass
Inertia
Heat
Partition
Wavelength
Diffraction
Torque
Energy
Eigen
Optics
Flux
Velocity
Quark
Force
Capacity
Impulse
Entropy
Friction
Deep Black
3 Week Sprints
Daily Standups
Sprint Demos
LOL
ROFL
RTFM
TL;DR
AFAIK
BBQ
BSOD
FOAF
IANAL
IMHO
Social Practice art
Generative Art
Deconstruction
Relativism
Post-Structuralism
Post-Modern Pastiche
Palimpsest
Institutional Critique
Body Art
Hegemony
Psychogeography
Discursivity
Transnational Identities
Object Oriented
Ontology
Psychogeography “Maps and Networks”
Post-Modern Pastiche “Multiple Styles”
Palimpsest “Layered Images”
What’s a cache?
Artwork.first
Salon
Make Art By Writing Code
https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/new
https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/kitteh/986254775
Jared Tarbell's "Substrate"
http://www.complexification.net/gallery/machines/substrate
T-Shaped People
@that_j
@dblockdotorg
http://artsy.net