Thumbnails, or A Digitisation Wild Goose Chase

Wednesday 7 Oct 2026
Jack Hartnell

Speaker: Jack Hartnell (National Gallery, London)

As medieval manuscripts make their way into increasingly diverse parts of our digital visual ecosystem, they leave palimpsests of technologies past and the people who once operated them. This talk goes in search of a single finger, but finds instead a complex world of lost photographic labour at the boundaries of the page.