Unlearning without Deskilling

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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.)

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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

T-Shaped People

@that_j

@dblockdotorg

http://artsy.net