Project description
Performing arts historiography in the digital age
In the field of performing arts historiography, dealing with digital traces presents a challenge. Documenting Europe’s post-WWII mise-en-scène and creative processes amid this vast sea of data has proven exceptionally demanding. Funded by the European Research Council, the STAGE project will fuse culture analytics, actor-network theory, data modelling and computer vision to pioneer the nascent field of performing arts analytics. At the crossroads of history, epistemology, and digital humanities, STAGE aims to bridge traditional and data-driven approaches, opening new vistas for historians, art historians, and interdisciplinary research. By shedding light on the hidden intricacies of artistic creation, STAGE seeks to redefine performing arts studies and demonstrate the profound importance of digital traces in preserving and analysing our cultural heritage.
Objective
Digital sources are one of the most significant challenges facing performing arts historiography. At the intersection of history, epistemology, and digital humanities, STAGEs key goal is to move performing arts studies into a digital context to establish a new historiography of mise en scne and their creative processes in Europe since WWII. It proposes a groundbreaking theoretical and methodological framework merging culture analytics, actor-network theory, data modeling, and computer vision to challenge conventional approaches to the paradigm shift of digital traces in performing arts studies. I call this new field performing arts analytics. STAGE will allow a Copernican revolution of our methodologies combining close reading with distant reading and distant viewing; hypothesis-driven with data-driven analysis; hermeneutics with artificial intelligence, computer vision, and digital humanities; qualitative interpretation with quantitative evidence. STAGE will build from the Avignon festival collection before opening to larger corpora to scale up our results and expand our analysis. Through the two prisms of influence and collaboration, STAGE will reveal creation contexts and networks, aesthetic influences, and creative process models in an unprecedented way. It will make it possible to test new algorithms for medium-sized corpora; to develop a new approach to studying collaborations over time through digital traces; to demonstrate the potential of a data-driven approach and interdisciplinary research in humanities; to create accessible corpora for future research; to demonstrate the importance of digital traces for cultural heritage and research projects. STAGE is transferable in that it will create widely open science tools, methodologies, and theoretical frameworks. It will be of value to historians and art historians who explore digital traces of the past, promising a potential impact beyond performing arts studies.
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- humanities history and archaeology history
- humanities arts
- social sciences political sciences political transitions revolutions
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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35043 Rennes Cedex
France
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