Lecture at Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland MA in Digital Humanities 2014/2015 AFF601: Digital Humanities - Theory and Practice

1. Visual thinking with Images
Karolina Badzmierowska

3. Lascaux, France

5. Gua Tewet
the tree of life
Borneo
Indonesia

7. André Malraux
reviewing the
photographs
selected for
The Voices of
Silence
(c.1947)

8. Dennis Adams, “Malraux’s Shoes” (2012).
Video still.
Single-channel video, 42 minutes. Written and performed by Dennis Adams.
Directed by Dennis Adams and Paul Colin.

9. Malraux’s idea of an imaginary museum,
a “museum without walls”
(which he first announced in 1947),
is a prescient manifesto of the digital age
that enacts the displacement
of the physical art object and the museum
by photographic reproduction.

10. Aby M. Warburg, ‘Mnemosyne-Atlas’, 1924 – 1929
Mnemosyne-Atlas, Boards of the Rembrandt-Exhibition, 1926

11. Aby M. Warburg, ‘Mnemosyne-Atlas’, 1924 – 1929
Mnemosyne-Atlas, Boards of the Rembrandt-Exhibition, 1926

12. Museu de Arte de São Paulo (MASP), 1968.
Designed by Lina Bo Bardi.

13. Google Images
http://images.google.ie/

14. Google Images
http://images.google.ie/
Visually similar images
The same image but
different sizes and
sources

17. Edmund Waller
(1605-1687)
If it was painted by
Godfrey Kneller it
would have to be
after 1676 - Kneller
arrived to England

18. this is not a portrait Edmund Waller…
it was not painted by Kneller…
or
Kneller painted it back in Germany/the
Netherlands

21. Robert Bolling
(1646–1709)
left London/ moved
from London to US
in 1660 – he was 14
years old. Could it
be possible that
painting 1 is his
portrait before he
left?

23. Edmund Waller
(1605-1687)
By John Riley (1646–
1691)

26. Michael Mapes

27. Michael Mapes

30. badzmiek@tcd.ie
http://www.tcd.ie/History_of_Art/
Department of History of Art and Architecture,
Trinity College Dublin
Karolina Badzmierowska