Teaching Innovation Project: Application of new technologies (ICT) to the study of the processes of creation, conservation and restoration of the artwork

As a first step, we must think that the development of the digital society has led to the birth of the digital scholarship era, that is, academic research thought from the digital paradigm and developed with and through digital media. The Digital Humanities and the History of Art constitute concrete manifestations that implicitly lead us towards a review of our research and cultural practices, and new interpretive models that can be applied both in the creation, conservation and restoration processes of the work of art. For this reason, the proposal for this teaching innovation project (PIIDUZ_19_353) was carried out with the coordination of Professor Dr. Carlota Santabarbara, within the Degree in Art History at the University of Zaragoza. Although it is true, this project followed in the wake of the "Heritage and New Technologies" workshop developed within the Artistic Techniques course during the 2018-2019 academic year, which generated a lot of interest among students thanks to the topics covered that covered the formative void and of vital importance in their training, thus favoring the knowledge and learning of ICTs in their use and application in the field of Art History. Therefore, and given the need to advance in the application of these new technologies in the processes of creating a work of art, this Teaching Innovation Project was proposed for the academic year 2019-2020, as a complement to three subjects of the Degree of Art History: Artistic Techniques, Conservation and Restoration and Instruments for Art History. Undoubtedly, the project has had a great quantifiable impact in different aspects: it had a high degree of involvement of the students; a debate and exchange of ideas on research and heritage protection was generated; The importance of technological development applied to Art and the reformulation of artistic practices was manifested.