Call for Papers – DAHJ Issue #9, “The Art Museum in the New Hybridity,” explores the convergence of analog and digital media, focusing on the art museum in the new hybridity. Articles published on a rolling basis. Possible topics to be addressed: New assumptions of hybridity (in provision, visitation, and operation) on which curatorship can…
The Selected Datasets Collection in the Digital Content Management Section at the Library of Congress was publicly launched June 2020 as part of the Library’s ongoing efforts to support emerging data-driven styles of research. Since then, their initial offering of twenty datasets has grown to nearly 200 unique items, and they’ve continued to refine the…
Online (via Zoom): Belvedere Research Center, Jan 17–21, 2022 Registration Deadline: Jan 16, 2022 The Belvedere Research Center is continuing its conference series on the digital transformation of art museums with its fourth event on the topic. During the COVID-19-lockdowns, the digital presence of museums was no longer merely one possible extension of exhibition spaces,…
Recent projects used machine learning to resurrect paintings by Klimt and Rembrandt. They raise questions about what computers can understand about art. In 1945, fire claimed three of Gustav Klimt’s most controversial paintings. Commissioned in 1894 for the University of Vienna, “the Faculty Paintings”—as they became known—were unlike any of the Austrian symbolist’s previous work.…
Call for Papers – DH Unbound 2022 in English, Spanish, or French. Submit your proposal by January 15, 2022. Reviving a collaboration that began with the Joint CSDH/SCHN and ACH Conference in 2015, DH Unbound 2022 (May 17-19, 2022) facilitates connections between ACH, CSDH/SCHN, and other organizations sharing our commitment to creating virtual and hybrid…
Just launched: The web interface “Vasari Diagram” – an open access tool for data visualization, designed to make accessible and easy to study the networks and semantic connections of old masters in Wikipedia. Painters are not only present in Wikipedia by their own pages but also by numerous other pages, referring to them. Who mentions…