Szeemann Digital Seminar

Collaborative seminar and model for teaching art history in the digital age, centered on the work of curator Harald Szeemann

Project Details

Photograph of three people from above sitting in front of a sculpture.

Harald Szeemann interviewed next to Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass (The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even), 1983, photo by Harry Shunk. Getty Research Institute, 2011.M.30. Credit: Shunk-Kender © Roy Lichtenstein Foundation. © Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP P, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2014

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Goal

This collaborative and innovative digital seminar brought together professors from UCLA, the University of Chicago, and the Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig, to investigate the work of Swiss curator Harald Szeemann. The course pushed the limits of the traditional seminar model while preserving its emphasis on scholarly dialogue and debate. It sought to establish standards for digital teaching, and introduced Getty Research Institute scholarship, publications, and technology to a global academic forum.