复制的回响:数字艺术史与作者论危机

The Copy Writes Back:Digital Art History and the Crisis of Authorship

数字化进程在引发本体论危机并激化学科话语之辩的同时,作为一种方法论框架和生成性力量,正在重塑知识生产的本质及历史书写的方式。本文探讨了艺术史数字化过程中涌现的多元实践,包括数据库迁移、计算辅助分析、文本与话语的流动以及日益影响学术生产的算法重写与人工智能生成。在数字技术生成海量细节的同时,算法运作却使话语游走于解体的边缘,从而对长期以来的学术范式与等级体系形成挑战。本文以“复制”作为隐喻线索,深入探讨在数字艺术史中重构真实性与主体性的必要性。通过重新定义谁拥有书写的权利,谁在新的数字范式下掌握知识生产的权威,历史叙述如何建构与重构,以及知识通过何种机制得以生产、传播和合法化,本文指出,数字艺术史正逐渐脱离传统史学的轨迹。最终,从学者与学术机构到算法与数据基础设施,人与非人的交织互动,将从根本上重塑围绕艺术、媒介、技术与信息展开的协商机制。

Digitization process,while provoking ontological crises and fueling debates over disciplinary discourses,has simultaneously become a methodological framework and a generative force for reshaping the nature of knowledge production and the writing of history.This paper examines the diverse practices emerging in the digitization of art history,encompassing database migration, computationally assisted analyses,the mobility of texts and discourses,and the algorithmic rewriting and AI generation that increasingly shape scholarly production.As digital processes generate vast amounts of detail while simultaneously fragmenting discourse through algorithmic operations, they challenge long-standing scholarly hierarchies and established structures of authority. This study employs the concept of “copy” as a metaphorical cue to explore the critical necessity of reconfiguring authenticity and subjectivity in the history of digital art.By redefining who has the right to write,who holds epistemic authority in the digital paradigm,how narratives are constructed and reconstructed,and through what mechanisms knowledge is produced,disseminated,and legitimized,this paper argues that digital art history is gradually distancing itself from historiographical traditions.Ultimately,the entanglement of human and non-human agents ranging from scholars and institutions to algorithms and data infrastructures will fundamentally reconfigure negotiations surrounding art,media,technology,and information.