Welcome to the Digital Art History Society (the DAHS). We’re delighted you’re here, and we hope that this space will be a hub for you in discovering new digital projects, brainstorming ideas of your own, and sharing in a community of like-minded art historians and conservators. The DAHS fosters and supports the practice and publication of art historical scholarship incorporating and benefitting from digital strategies and technologies by providing a forum for presenting and advancing digital art history, examining problems confronting the field, and identifying scholarly needs and opportunities to its members.
Our organization is grateful to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation for facilitating this website as an exchange for ideas, projects, collaboration, and digital exploration of art historical topics.
EVENT: DAHS Program now LIVE – LD4 2024 Conference: Building Community for Linked Open Data, 7-10 October
Head on over to Sched to register and see the full virtual program for LD4 2024 Conference: Building Community for Linked Open Data being held October 7-11. Build your schedule with over 55 workshops, lightning talks, presentations, panels, and networking opportunities to choose from. By bringing together a broad range of perspectives, and centering diversity, equity, inclusion, and ethics […]
Continue readingEVENT: CAA DAHS Panel: Blanks No More? Digital Art History and the Unknown, Feb. 16 5:30-7 pm EST, Hilton Chicago
Join co-chairs Max Koss (Leuphana University Lüneburg) and Lynn Rother (Leuphana University Lüneburg) to explore four papers on the topics of filling in data gaps. Sponsored by the DAHS, the papers will include: The session will be in-person only. We hope to see you there! https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/12651
Continue readingEVENT: DAHS annual business meeting, Friday, 2/16, 1- 2 pm EST
We are looking forward to the Annual DAHS Business Meeting on Friday, February 16 from 2 – 3 pm EST. We will be meeting in person at this year’s College Art Association, held in Chicago. For those of you attending the conference, location information can be found here: https://caa.confex.com/caa/2024/meetingapp.cgi/Session/13638
Continue readingDigital Art(work)s: GeoLocated #LOVE (2020-2021) by Clarissa Ribeiro
Spotlight on the artwork GeoLocated #Love (2020-2021) by Clarissa Ribeiro. For a full interview with the artist see LINK Clarissa Ribeiro is a multimedia artist and researcher with an interest in cross-scale information and communication dynamics that impact human-nonhuman behavior and other macro-scale emergent phenomena. Digital Humanities is expanded in her practice in explorations that […]
Continue readingCFP: Linked Data in Art History (interest group)
Linked data (LD) has been a focus of much activity in the fields of cultural heritage, humanities and art and architectural history over the past several years, as evidenced by projects including Yale’s Lux search tool and the conversion to LD of the data in the Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance and […]
Continue readingFeatured Projects
Art of the Americas Interactive
This project is a partnership with the Nasher Museum to re-imagine the exhibition of the museum’s collection of ancient American Art, one of the best university art museum collections of work by Maya, Aztec, and Inca cultures.
Mark Olson
Duke UniversityMapping Paintings is an open-source platform that allows users to tailor-make their own individual scholarly mapping projects. The platform facilitates the realization of these types of projects with an easy uploading of data collected and assembled by scholars without the need for learning GIS or other technologies.
Jodi Cranston
Boston UniversityBecome a Member.
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