Christopher Pietsch
List of John Benjamins publications in which Christopher Pietsch is involved.
Articles
2022 Surprise machines: Revealing Harvard Art Museums’ image collection Information Visualization, Meirelles, Isabel, Marian Dörk and Yanni Loukissas (eds.), pp. 21–34 | Article
Surprise Machines is a project of experimental museology that sets out to visualize the entire image collection of the Harvard Art Museums, with a view to opening up unexpected vistas on more than 200,000 objects usually inaccessible to visitors. The project is part of the exhibition organized… read more
2017 One view is not enough: High-level visualizations of a large cultural collection Information Visualization, Meirelles, Isabel and Katherine Gillieson (eds.), pp. 39–47 | Article
As cultural institutions are digitizing their artifacts and interlinking their collections, new opportunities emerge to engage with cultural heritage. However, it is the often comprehensive and complex nature of collections that can make it difficult to grasp their distribution and extent across… read more