2011 Second International Conference on Culture and Computing The art-space of a global community: the network of Baroque paintings in Hispanic-America Juan Luís Suárez Fernando Sancho Caparrini The CulturePlex Lab Dpt. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence University of Western Ontario University of Seville London, Ontario, Canada Seville, Spain
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[email protected] Abstract— This paper presents the results of a multi- volumes accompanying the exhibit are written by art disciplinary collaboration in Digital Humanities that focuses on historians, it is important to note that in different ways some the multi-scale analysis of the network of Baroque paintings in of the essays included in the publications point out at some the territories of the Hispanic Monarchy from the 16th through important issues of cultural transfers, the evolutionary role of the 18th centuries. We apply graph analysis and visualizations art, or the relationships between religion and pro-sociality as well as natural language analysis over a database of over that are being studied in other sciences: What is a cultural 11,000 artworks in order to address three types of questions area? [3] Is it different from a political one? How does a related, respectively, to the formation and sustainability of community stay together? Can a political entity of almost large cultures, the semantic content of the network we analyze, global dimensions last? Do symbols and art foster the and the role of art as an institution that contributes to sustain sustainability of large-scale societies? What are the patterns large-scale societies.