DAHJ is excited to announce two additions to our editorial team!
Sabine Scharff (left) and Francesca Albrezzi (right)
Sabine Scharff
joins the team as Assistant for Development. DAHJ is constantly evolving; however, transforming a vision into reality takes time, wo/man power, and money; thus, project management and proposal writing for funding opportunities is a key element. There is no one better to bring a vision into words than Sabine, who already managed many successful research projects.
She is a philosophical researcher and writer based in Munich. She holds a MA in philosophy, art history and literature from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich and is currently completing a Ph.D. on Nietzsche’s Political Philosophy at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg.
For several years, she has worked as a researcher and coordinator at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe, focusing on international, transdisciplinary projects set up in the fields of game design, visual communication and censorship in digital media resulting in exhibitions in Barcelona, Budapest, Prague, Reykjavik, Seoul and Wuhan. For over ten years, she is contributing her research to the Institut für Wirtschaftsgestaltung in Berlin and since recently to the visual database-navigation tool kubun.io.
Francesca Albrezzi
joins the team as Editorial Lead for Social Media and Assistant for Development. The vision behind DAHJ was always to become more than a Journal, but a platform for the DAH community – to connect people, projects, and institutions. A sound social media strategy is essential to make this happen. With Francesca, we found an expert as well as an active member in the DAH community.
She is an art historian, curator, and digital humanist. She completed her PhD in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at the University of California - Los Angeles (UCLA). She also holds a Digital Humanities Graduate Certificate through UCLA's Digital Humanities Program. Her research interrogates modes of publishing, display, and information capture in museums and archives that illustrate a break from “traditional” models, and argues that digital modalities provide a distinctly different paradigm for epistemologies of art and culture that produce greater contextualized understandings. Specifically, she is interested in spectrums of immersive experience within GLAM organizations as offered by technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and 360 photo and video capture.
For over a decade, she has worked with museums including the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (Washington, D.C.), the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (Paris, France), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Getty Research Institute (Los Angeles, California). Francesca has garnered significant experience in developing and teaching digital tools for art historical practice and humanistic research, such as The Getty Scholars’ Workspace™, a platform for conducting collaborative arts research and preservation. She currently works as a Digital Research Consultant at UCLA’s Institute for Digital Research and Education.
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