Bio

Nuria Rodríguez Ortega is a professor of Art History and director of the Department of Art History at the University of Malaga, where she directs iArtHis_Lab, a research, training and innovation laboratory focused on the study of artistic culture from digital, computational, and techno-critical perspectives. She was visiting scholar at The Center for Digital Visual Studies during April-May 2024.

She is the director of the Telefónica-UMA Chair, honorary president of the International Society of Hispanic Digital Humanities, and founder and coordinator of the International Network of Digital Studies of Artistic Culture (ReArte.Dix.). Since 2020, she is a full member of the European Academy in the section of Musicology and Art History. From 2007 to 2009 she was the head of the Education Department of the Museum of Municipal Heritage of Malaga, and from 2009 to 2013 she served as deputy director.

Her research addresses the convergence between computational languages, digital media and artistic culture, with special emphasis on the application of data analytics for the study of complex cultural systems, natural language processing for the analysis of artistic texts, the configuration of new visual-formal epistemologies in the field of computer vision and the exploration of alternative narratives associated with mixed reality technologies. She also investigates how artificial intelligence is reformulating the processes of categorization and ordering of cultural objects. She has also published and researched critical and post-critical museology in the context of digital culture.

She works on the design of new curricula to promote technological training, techno-critical thinking and a transdisciplinary vision. In this sense, she coordinates TransUMA, a laboratory of transdisciplinary skills at the University of Malaga and the TransUMA-Tech Teaching Excellence Network. Since 2016, she has been the academic director of the summer course Digital Art History: Data-Driven Analysis and Digital Narratives, a joint initiative of the University of Malaga, the University of Berkeley and the Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich.

Lines of research:

Critical studies on textology, narrative constructions, stories and terminologies in the field of theoretical thinking on the arts and artistic historiography.

Modeling, analysis and interpretation of complex cultural systems

Digital Humanities and Digital Art History: critical studies on cultures, digital practices, computational developments and new analysis methodologies in the field of Art History and artistic culture in general

Protocols, methodologies and procedures for the management and development of digital projects in the cultural field

Critical museology in the context of digital culture