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LECTURE ON FRIDAY, 13\/11\/2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Christian Huemer, Los Angeles, talks about:<\/p>\n

Exploring Art Markets of the Past: Tools and Methods in the Age of Big Data<\/strong><\/p>\n

Date: <\/strong>25\/04\/2016, 6:15 p.m.
\nVenue: <\/strong>Room H 1035, Main Building of the TU, Stra\u00dfe des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin<\/p>\n

Evening Lecture of the international workshop Artists on the Market<\/a><\/p>\n

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The recent proliferation of data and the emergence of new computational techniques are not only influencing decision making processes in contemporary culture; they also have an increasing impact on our understanding of the past. Big data analytics, defined as the process of examining large amounts of information to uncover hidden patterns and unknown correlations, lend themselves to the study of art markets. Yet, contrary to more quantitatively inclined disciplines such as cultural economics (which usually focus on contemporary data), art history has barely started to endorse this new opportunity. The presentation will discuss examples of how larger datasets from the Getty Provenance Index\u00ae (GPI) have been used to analyze networks of buyers and sellers on the European auction market around 1800, as well as the pricing strategy of a major 19th<\/sup> century Parisian art gallery. The GPI, a collection of databases offering free online access to source material for research on the history of collecting and art markets, currently contains 1.5 million records transcribed from widely dispersed source documents such as archival inventories, sale catalogs, and dealer stock books. To facilitate \u201cbig data\u201d methodologies for art market studies, the Getty Research Institute is currently working on a complete conceptual and technical overhaul of the Provenance Index which will increase its use as a tool for understanding, not only the lineage of individual masterpieces, but also the aggregate behavior of agents on the art market, shifting tastes and values, and the flow of objects through time and space.<\/p>\n

Dr. Christian Huemer<\/strong> is head of the \u201cProject for the Study of Collecting and Provenance\u201d at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, where he has recently overseen international research, database, and book projects, such as \u201cLondon and the Emergence of a European Art Market, c. 1780-1820\u201d and \u201cThe Business of Art in the \u2018Third Reich\u2019.\u201d Trained as an art historian at Vienna University, the Paris Sorbonne, and the City University of New York, he is interested in exploring methodological models derived from the social and natural sciences. His CUNY dissertation, \u201cParis-Vienna: Modern Art Markets and the Transmission of Culture (1873-1937)\u201d, earned him fellowships at the Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna and at the \u00c9cole des Hautes \u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Huemer teaches history of art markets for the Sotheby\u2019s Institute of Art at Claremont Graduate University. He serves as editor-in-chief of a book series entitled \u201cStudies in the History of Collecting & Art Markets\u201d (Brill) and as section editor for France, Switzerland, Austria, and Liechtenstein of the \u201cArt Market Dictionary\u201d (De Gruyter).<\/p>\n

No registration required and free\u00a0admission.<\/p>\n

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