VOA常速英语2019--艺术的数字技术历史

GIS, digital mapping has been around for decades. So it’s quite an old technology but it’s really only been applied¹ to humanities relatively² recently.

GIS，数字地图已经存在了几十年了。这是一项很古老的技术，但只是在最近才被应用到人文学科中。

We do have large datasets that because of the developments in computer science and in regular standard computers, even laptops, have made this kind of work much easier for art historians.

我们确实有大量的数据集，由于计算机科学的发展和普通标准电脑，甚至笔记本电脑的发展，使得艺术历史学家的研究工作更加容易。

We look at art history across all geographic³ locations, all spaces and times and across all media.

我们跨越所有地理位置、所有空间和时间，跨越所有媒体，研究艺术史。

So, we are interested not only in the history of art objects as preserved in museums or historic houses, palaces, but also architectural history, archaeology⁴.

因此，我们不仅对保存在博物馆或历史建筑、宫殿里的艺术品的历史感兴趣，而且对建筑史、考古学也感兴趣。

All of this is to help make the object itself, the historical object, the spatial⁵ object, really much more comprehensible and better to interpret.

所有这些都是为了让对象本身，包括历史对象、空间对象，更容易理解，更好解释。

One of the great contributions of these kinds of digital art history projects is the ability to help us understand in a more rich and informed way how those art works that now exist perhaps in a museum were part of a larger complex three-dimensional setting.

这些数字艺术历史项目的一大贡献是帮助我们以更丰富和更有见地的方式，理解那些现在存在于博物馆中的艺术作品是如何成为更大的复杂三维环境的一部分。

It actually lets you think about how people lived in these spaces, moved through these spaces,

它实际上让你思考人们如何在这些空间中生活，如何在这些空间中移动，

how artworks interacted and would have been seen and understood in relationship to one another in their original setting.

艺术作品是如何相互作用的，以及在它们最初的环境中，人们是如何看待和理解它们之间的关系的。

That’s a digital map where you have, you could search various points, so you could search, say, a thousand buildings in a city instead of one building in a city,

这是一张数字地图，你可以搜索不同的点，比如，你可以搜索一个城市的一千栋建筑，而不是一个城市的一栋建筑，

but it can also include 3d environments where you’re actually building up those architectural monuments.

但它也可以包括3d环境，在那里你可以建造那些建筑纪念碑。

You can see change over time, for example, how a building was constructed, sometimes over thousands of years. You can see changes to the site.

你可以看到随着时间变化也在发生，例如，一个建筑是如何建造的，有时是几千年。你可以看到网站的变化。

Who lived there? What were their professions? Were their children in the house?

谁住在那里?他们的职业是什么?他们的孩子在房子里吗?

You know, there’s lots of really granular data that is available in archives that, you know, can be applied to these digital maps,

你知道，在档案中有大量的粒状数据，你知道，可以应用到这些数字地图上，

and allow users to ask very new kinds of questions that would have been so challenging and so time-consuming using traditional archival research methods.

并允许用户提出非常新颖的问题，这些问题使用传统的档案研究方法是非常具有挑战性和耗时的。

Many of our digital humanities projects work with space.

我们的许多数字人文项目都与空间有关。

We’re working on very complex, archivally-based, very, very specific scholarly problems,

我们正在研究非常复杂的、基于档案的、非常、非常具体的学术问题，

but they’re also trying to recreate environments that can then be explained to a much broader public.

但他们也试图重建环境，然后可以向更广泛的公众解释。

Augmented⁶ reality really makes that possible where you can go into a city,

增强现实技术使你进入一个城市成为可能，

and you can use your phone or any kind of device,

你可以使用手机或任何设备，

and you can start to layer historical evidence or historical views or historical material onto that physical environment.

你可以开始把历史证据，历史观点或者历史材料放到那个物理环境中。

And I think by reflecting on the past and what these sites were like then, what we can see today,

我认为通过回顾过去这些网站当时是什么样子的，我们今天看到的，

I think it does sort of awaken⁷ in us a deeper understanding of how our own physical lived existence takes place amidst culture, amidst artworks,

我认为它确实唤醒了我们对我们的物质生活是如何在文化中，在艺术作品中发生的更深层次的理解，

and you know, hopefully, you know, it makes one, you know, more sensitive and thoughtful about those experiences that surround us at all times.

你知道，它使人对那些时刻围绕着我们的经历更加敏感和深思。

1 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

2 relatively   

adv.比较...地，相对地

参考例句：

• The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
• The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。

3 geographic   

adj.地理学的，地理的

参考例句：

• The city's success owes much to its geographic position. 这座城市的成功很大程度上归功于它的地理位置。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Environmental problems pay no heed to these geographic lines. 环境问题并不理会这些地理界限。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法

4 archaeology   

n.考古学

参考例句：

• She teaches archaeology at the university.她在大学里教考古学。
• He displayed interest in archaeology.他对考古学有兴趣。

5 spatial   

adj.空间的，占据空间的

参考例句：

• This part of brain judges the spatial relationship between objects.大脑的这部分判断物体间的空间关系。
• They said that time is the feeling of spatial displacement.他们说时间是空间位移的感觉。

6 Augmented   

adj.增音的 动词augment的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• 'scientists won't be replaced," he claims, "but they will be augmented." 他宣称：“科学家不会被取代；相反，他们会被拓展。” 来自英汉非文学 - 科学史
• The impact of the report was augmented by its timing. 由于发表的时间选得好，这篇报导的影响更大了。

7 awaken   

vi.醒，觉醒；vt.唤醒，使觉醒，唤起，激起

参考例句：

• Old people awaken early in the morning.老年人早晨醒得早。
• Please awaken me at six.请于六点叫醒我。