Amanda Wasielewski

Amanda Wasielewski is Associate Senior Lecturer of Digital Humanities and Associate Professor (Docent) of Art History. Her research investigates the impact of digital technology in art, architecture, and cultural heritage institutions.

Photo credit: Göran Ekeberg

Publications

Monographs

• Computational Formalism: Art History and Machine Learning. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023.
• From City Space to Cyberspace: Art, Squatting, and Internet Culture in the Netherlands. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
• Made in Brooklyn: Artists, Hipsters, Makers, Gentrifiers. Arlesford, Hampshire: Zero Books, 2018.

Edited Books

• Critical Digital Art History. Bristol: Intellect Press. [November 2024] [eds: Amanda Wasielewski, Anna Näslund Dahlgren]

Book Chapters

• “The Latent Objective World: Photography and the Real after Generative AI.” In Virtual Photography. Edited by Ali Shobeiri and Helen Westgeest. Berlin: Transcript Verlag. [Forthcoming]'
• “Critical Digital Art History: An Introduction.” In Critical Digital Art History. Bristol: Intellect Press. [forthcoming] [eds/authors: Amanda Wasielewski, Anna Näslund Dahlgren] [forthcoming Nov. 2024]
  “Zombie Canon: Art datasets, generative AI, and the reanimation of the western canon of art.” In Critical Digital Art History. Bristol: Intellect Press. [forthcoming Nov. 2024]
• “The Growing Pains of Digital Art History: Issues for the study of art using computational methods.” In Digital Human Sciences: New Objects – New Approaches, edited by Sonya Petersson, 127-151. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2021.
• “Mining Art History: Bulk Converting Non-Standard PDFs to Text to Determine the Frequency of Citations and Key Terms in Humanities Articles.” In Digital Human Sciences: New Objects – New Approaches, edited by Sonya Petersson, 285-305. Stockholm: Stockholm University Press, 2021. [authors: Amanda Wasielewski, Anna Dahlgren]
• “‘We Have Decided Not To Decide’: The End of History and the Punk Politics of De Reagering.” In Aftermath: the Fall and Rise After the Event, edited by Robert Kusek, Beata Piątek, and Wojciech Szymański, 177-192. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2019.
• “PKP-TV: Pirate Utopias.” In Maarten Ploeg: Ploeg + Werk, 1958-2004. Amsterdam: Maarten Ploeg Trust, 2018.

Edited Journal Issue

• “The Politics of Metadata.” Special Issue, Digital Culture & Society 6, no. 2 (2020). [editors: Anna Dahlgren, Karin Hansson, Ramón Reichart, Amanda Wasielewski]

Academic Journal Articles

• “DALL-E in Flatland: Illusion, Space, and AI-Generated Images.” Media Theory [Forthcoming 2024]
• “Unnatural Images: On AI-Generated Photographs.” Critical Inquiry [August 2024]
• “The Reification of Style in AI Image Generation.” Hertziana Studies in Art History Journal [Forthcoming 2024]
• “Authenticity and the Poor Image in the Age of Deep Learning.” Photographies 16, no. 2 (May 4, 2023): 191–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/17540763.2023.2189158.
• “‘Midjourney Can’t Count’: Questions of Representation and Meaning for Text-to-Image Generators.” IMAGE: Zeitschrift Für Interdisziplinäre Bildwissenschaft 37, no. 1 (May 2023): 70–81.
• “The Museum in Quarantine: Architecture, Experience, and the Virtual Museum Tour.” Journal of Curatorial Studies 11, no. 1 (April 2022): 4-24.
• “Interfaces of Art: Meyer Schapiro, Fernand Léger, and the Role of the Art Historian in Anachronistic Artistic Influence.” Journal of Art Historiography, no. 26 (June 2022). https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/wasielewski.pdf.
• “The Digital U-Turn in Art History.” Konsthistorisk Tidskrift/Journal of Art History 90, no. 4 (October 2, 2021): 249–66. https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2021.2006774. [authors: Anna Näslund Dahlgren, Amanda Wasielewski]
• “Cultures of Digitization: A Historiographic Perspective on Digital Art History.” Visual Resources (September 30, 2021): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/01973762.2021.1928864. [authors: Anna Näslund Dahlgren, Amanda Wasielewski.]
• “Introduction: The Politics of Metadata.” Digital Culture & Society 6, no. 2 (2020): 7-17. [authors: Anna Dahlgren, Karin Hansson, Ramón Reichert and Amanda Wasielewski]
• “From Rogue Sign to Squatter Symbol.” City 23, no. 2 (March 4, 2019): 256–67.
• “Books Were Opened: The Apocalypse of Margaret of York (Ms. M.484) and Spiritual Empowerment of the Laity in the Fifteenth Century.” Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art and Architecture 5, no. 4 (Autumn 2016): 76-110.
• “Lurking Within Reach: Stereoscopic Photomicrography in the 1860s.” History of Photography 39, no. 1 (January 2, 2015): 56–70.
• “Grains of Gold in All This Shit: Web 2.0, Crowdsourcing and Participatory Art.” Hz Journal, no. 16 (March, 2011). http://www.hz-journal.org/n16/wasielewski.html.