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College art Association (CAA) annual conference
Digital Art History sessions at the 110th College Art Association annual conference.
This session, sponsored by the Digital Art History Society and featuring two of the Digital Art History Journal’s editors, addresses possible futures for the publishing of scholarly articles in art history.
Digital Art History sessions at the 109th College Art Association annual conference.
There are nearly 30 digital art history sessions during the last day of CAA2020. Share your experience of the conference with DAHJ News.
DAHJ’s own Justin Underhill and Francesca Albrezzi are presenting on Friday, February 14.
The second day of CAA has over 30 digital art history sessions to choose from and several hands-on workshops to get you started in the field.
Welcome to the first day of CAA2020! Find out more about registration, WiFi, and what digital art history session are happening.
announcements
Apply by 12pm ET on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 to be a Networked Curator Fellow with the AAMC Foundation. As part of this professional development initiative, nonprofit art curators will advance their digital skills and vocabulary, receive exposure to sector resources, and be empowered to collaboratively participate in related conferences and gatherings.
Re-released on January 7, 2020 with updated object information, the open-access exhibition catalogue on ancient carved ambers is now under Creative Commons license.
Call for Papers
Submission regarding the entanglement among images, living bodies, environments, and apparatuses are due by September 4, 2023.
CFP for the Digital Art History Society’s Panel at CAA: “Beyond Tidy Data: Critical Use of Museum Collections Information”
CFP for the Digital Art History Society’s Panel at CAA: “Beyond Tidy Data: Critical Use of Museum Collections Information”
The Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC) 2022 will be held in Amsterdam from 24-27 August. The VSAC invites all people that connect visual perception and the arts (e.g., empirical, experimental, philosophical, phenomenological, computational approaches).
The Art Museum in the Digital Age – 2022 International Online Conference Monday, 17 January - Friday, 21 January 2022
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submission of proposals for its annual conference, July 25-29, 2022 at Toshi Center Hotel, in Tokyo, Japan.
The Belvedere Research Center is continuing its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums with its fourth event on the topic. The COVID-19 pandemic, and our resultant inability to experience proximity to people and objects, has given the matter additional ‘virulence’ in museums.
Scholars are invited to submit for a second call for papers due to the rescheduling of the in-person conference in the face of Covid-19. Submissions are due by February 14, 2021.
Sponsored by the Digital Art History Society (DAHS), this session addresses challenges and opportunities of digitally-born, online journals. Deadline for proposals is September 16, 2020.
Conferences
The Belvedere Research Center is continuing its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums with its fifth event on the topic.
This symposium organized by the IMAGE+ Platform for Open Art Education focuses on two interconnected failures of present-day art institutions. Register to join in person in Vienna or watch via the live stream.
Digitising, Cataloguing, Searching and Sharing the Medieval and Early-Modern Image: On going Projects & Different Methodologies. One day workshop on methodologies of Iconographic Indexations
Registration is now open for Digital Approaches to Art History and Cultural Heritage, an online conference.
Register for free to attend the Digital Humanities Now conference, convening January 27 - 29, 2020.
Please join the Frick Art Reference Library's Digital Art History Lab and The Museum of Modern Art on Thursday, October 15, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. EDT for the first of a four-part webinar series that explores the role that technology has played in the development of the field of art history.
Held via zoom on October 31, 2020 from 4-7pm CET, this conference is dedicated to the structural and institutional shifts towards a carbon zero arts sector.
Get now the videos to the online conference “Art History in Quarantine: Digital Transformation, Digital Futures”, with keynote speaker Paul B. Jaskot.
Data
The Getty Vocabularies OpenRefine Service now available and allows users to compare their local data to values in the Getty Vocabularies in order to map to them more easily using the data wrangling tool OpenRefine.
The National Gallery of Art shares the museum's entire collection of 53,000 open-access images on Wikimedia Commons and it plans to release the museum's basic art object collection data of 120K artworks to Wikidata soon.
Grants
Candidates should apply by December 15, 2019 to propose a project to be funded for two to three years (predoctoral) or one to two years (postdoctoral) for the department of Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky.
ACLS invites applications for ACLS Digital Extension Grants, which are made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Deadline: Jan 8, 2020.
Jobs
Application for Assistant Director, Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton University
Assistant Professor of Photography & Video, Department of Art & Design - California State University San Bernardino
The Getty is looking for a Head of Digital Imaging. In the position, the ideal candidate would provide the vision & guidance for sustainable, strategic digitization, bridging technical expertise, communication skills, and collaborative efforts. Applications are accepted until the position is filled.
Candidates should apply by December 15, 2019 to propose a project to be funded for two to three years (predoctoral) or one to two years (postdoctoral) for the department of Prof. Dr. Tanja Michalsky.
Brock University in Canada is looking for a Digital Humanities Project Coordinator. Applications are due by December 5, 2019.
The Austrian Archaeological Institute offers a one-year internship in the field of digital archaeology. Applications are due December 2, 2019.
The College of Arts & Letters at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for a professor of digital humanities and pre-modern studies at any rank. Deadline: November 15, 2019.
The Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) seeks to hire a full-time (100%, 9-month), tenure-track faculty. Deadline Nov. 15, 2019.
The Digital Technology and Culture program at Washington State University in Pullman invites applications for an Assistant Professor, Data Visualization starting August 2020. Deadline: Nov 1, 2019
The Department of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a tenure-track position in Digital Studies with a focus on the historical and contemporary U.S. Deadline: Nov 15, 2019
Denison University seeks to hire a tenure-track faculty member to further develop its new interdisciplinary program in Data Analytics to start in the Fall of 2020. Deadline: Oct 1, 2019.
Dartmouth College invites applications for an open rank tenure-track position in Digital Humanities and Social Engagement (DHSE). Deadline: Oct 1, 2019.
The University of California, Riverside (UCR) seeks applications for an innovative and dynamic librarian to work collaboratively to support the scholarly and research activities of UCR faculty, researchers, and students. Deadline: Oct 20, 2019.
DAHJ is looking for a volunteer web editor to take on routine editorial tasks on a continuous basis. DAHJ has very high, international standards, and welcomes perfectionists from all corners of the world where art matters.
Open Access Publications
Re-released on January 7, 2020 with updated object information, the open-access exhibition catalogue on ancient carved ambers is now under Creative Commons license.
Cornelis van Lit explains what happens when manuscript studies meets digital humanities in his new book Among Digitized Manuscripts.
Professional Development
New Technologies for Performance Art Part 1: An Introduction to the Extended Reality (XR) Spectrum and related Performance Work with Francesca Albrezzi
The summer school will focus on visualizing open access in Germany (Open Access Bundesländer-Atlas) and beyond to raise awareness of this transformation in academic publishing.
Apply now for the VI International Summer School on Digital Art History (DAHSS). Classes will be held online from August, 30th - September, 4th.
DAHJ is looking for a volunteer editorial assistant to take on routine tasks on a continuous basis. DAHJ has high, international standards, and welcomes playful perfectionists from all corners of the world where art matters.
Art History Teaching Resources is an online open educational resource and peer-populated platform.
The Digital Art History Society (DAHS) is an online hub and network for discovering new digital projects, brainstorming ideas, and sharing in a community of like-minded art historians and conservators.
A virtual network for museum publishers interested in how emerging digital platforms and processes impact their work.
Apply now for the International Summer School on Digital Art History (DAHSS). Classes will be held online from September 1-5, 2020.
DAHJ is looking for a volunteer editorial assistant to take on routine tasks on a continuous basis. DAHJ has high, international standards, and welcomes playful perfectionists from all corners of the world where art matters.
Query
Tables of Content
This issue is a collaboration between The International Journal for Digital Art History and H-ART. Revista de historia, teoría y crítica de arte.
An issue coordinated by Olivier Bonfait (Université de Bourgogne, LIR3S, CNRS), Antoine Courtin (Institut national d’histoire de l’art / université Paris-Nanterre), and Anne Klammt (Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art)
Tools
The IIIF community is comprised of and driven by libraries, museums, archives, software companies, and other organizations working together to create, test, refine, implement, and promote the IIIF specifications.
A freely available, open-source, geospatially-enabled cultural heritage data management platform.
Tropy is free open-source software that allows you to organize and describe photographs of research material.
Use Artsteps to create custom virtual exhibition venues and populate them with 2D and 3D content.
4th Wall is a free, augmented reality (AR) public art platform exploring resistance and inclusive creative expression.
The Getty Vocabularies OpenRefine Service now available and allows users to compare their local data to values in the Getty Vocabularies in order to map to them more easily using the data wrangling tool OpenRefine.
websites
Launching April 6 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, this multi-part transmedia artwork explores the informational qualities of the campus inspired by new developments in artificial intelligence, collaborations with a multidisciplinary team of MIT faculty and students, and Sir Francis Bacon's 1626 unfinished utopian science fiction story, New Atlantis
View the first solo exhibition by the artist collective VOLNA, presenting a virtual reconstruction of their major works since 2016.
The Royal Collection Trust, in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts, has released a database and 3D visualization project based on the lost collection of British King Charles I.
The By the People project launched by The Library of Congress invites users to transcribe, review, & tag digitized images of manuscripts & typed materials from the Library’s collections.
The archives of three institutions have been digitally joined to provide online access to collections material covering Judy Chicago’s life and work.
The Victorian Illustrated Shakespeare Archive is an online open-access resource that contains over three thousand illustrations taken from the four major editions of Shakespeare’s Works in the Victorian period.
The Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art has just released a special issue that features a number of exciting implementations of the OpenSeaDragon viewer.
Workshops
Apply for the Understanding Digital Culture Institute Workshop to work with interdisciplinary scholars using digital tools to research internet culture and resulting phenomena. Applications are due December 15, 2019.