TY - JOUR AU - Lughi, Giulio PY - 2020/07/18 TI - Digital Visualization in Cultural Heritage Studies JF - DigitCult - Scientific Journal on Digital Cultures; Vol 4 No 2 (2019): Digital Art and Humanities for Cultural Heritage [special issue]DO - 10.4399/97888255301487 KW - N2 - This paper is related to other interventions that appeared in the DigitCult magazine, focused on the possibility of developing new forms of academic writing, and more generally of critical and scientific writing; we note, however, that often even the most innovative proposals somehow discount a sort of dependence on centrality of writing. Certainly it is recognized that digital paradigm offers great possibilities for expanding written textuality (e.g. with multimedia and the possibility of adding images, sounds and videos; or with the possibility of intervening directly on the code; or with the semantic management of the text through keywords and ontologies): but always, and in any case, the guiding role of the argumentation pertains to the writing. This paper instead aims to propose a different point of view, entrusting the visual component, and in particular the interactive video, with the leading role. For this purpose, interesting historical precedents are examined; some software tools are considered that allow the production of texts focused on the visual; and finally an interactive webdoc experiment - centered on the visual - is proposed, describing a complex site specific installation by the italian artist Giuseppe Penone. UR - https://digitcult.lim.di.unimi.it/index.php/dc/article/view/166