Seeing Formalism or Formal Viewing: Computational Formalism for the Analysis of Visual Media Forms and Contexts

2025/10/14 by Lauren Tilton, Justin Wigard · 1 voice
Computer Science · Arts and Humanities · #Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques #Data Visualization and Analytics #Digital Humanities and Scholarship

paper · pdf · doi:10.22148/001c.144827

openalex publication_date 2025/10/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/15 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/07

Abstract

By Lauren Tilton, Justin Wigard. In this article, the authors revisit published work and explore forthcoming research to demonstrate computational formalist studies of history, culture, and context in visual media (particularly television, photography, and comics).

Citations

• Coloring in the world of others: color use in visual orientalism, 1890–1920
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Discussions

• Grateful that an article by @wilkinsp.bsky.social & I in @comicsgrid.com is cited in this new article by Lauren Tilton and Justin Wigard in the Journal of Cultural Analytics: doi.org/10.22148/001... [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]

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