Modelling a Museum of AI Cultures

I am Principal Investigator on the AHRC funded project ‘Modelling a Museum of AI Cultures’ (2025–27). You can find out more about the project by clicking the link below.

Museum of AI Cultures

Recent publications on AI and Art include:

Artificial Intelligence and Art History: Looking at Images in an Algorithmic Culture, edited by Kathryn Brown, Proceedings of the British Academy (forthcoming 2026).

‘Humanist-in-the-Loop: Machine Learning and the Analysis of Style in the Visual Arts’ in Modeling Visual Aesthetics, Emotion, and Artistic Style, edited by James Z. Wang and Reginald Adams (Springer, 2024)

‘After Art History? Artworks as Data’, The Art Bulletin (2024)

Digital Humanities and Art History

In 2020 I published an edited collection with Routledge: A Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History.

The volume focuses not only on new computational tools that have been developed for the study of artworks and their histories, but also debates the disciplinary opportunities and challenges that have emerged in response to the use of digital resources and methodologies. Chapters cover a wide range of technical and conceptual themes that define the current state of the field and outline strategies for future development. The book offers a timely perspective on trans-disciplinary developments that are reshaping art historical research, conservation, and teaching.

Related publications and Presentations:

Keynote: Digital Art History Study Day, Paul Mellon Centre/Cambridge University

(co-authored with Elspeth Mitchell), ‘Feminist Digital Art History‘ in Companion to Digital Humanities and Art History, ed. Kathryn Brown, Routledge, 2020.

‘Interactive Digital Books and Interpretive Play’ in Reproducing Images and Texts, edited by Kirsty Bell and Philippe Kaenel (Brill), 84–96.

The Digital Artist’s Book: From Object to Event, International Association of Word & Image Studies Annual Conference, Lausanne, July 2017.

‘Contingent Texts: Playing with Digital Artists’ Books’, Engaging with Screens: Art, Archive, Book, Loughborough, May 2017.

‘Computer Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination’, (ed.) K. Brown, Interactive Contemporary Art: Participation in Practice (I.B. Tauris), 37–56.