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 Lunch & Learn: Yale University’s LUX Collections Discovery Platform at the Yale Center for British Art (or how a small museum can meaningfully contribute to a large online platform)
Please join the DAHS (virtually) on Monday, 31 March at 1200 EDT for our inaugural Lunch & Learn with Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass, Head of the Collections Information Access Department at the Yale Center for British Art. LUX, Yale University’s collections discovery platform, offers seamless access to millionsof records from Yale’s cultural institutions. Using IIIF and Linked […]
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Digital 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 readingANNOUNCEMENT: Launch of The Emamzadeh Yahya at Varamin: An Online Exhibition of an Iranian Shrine
An online exhibition, exhibition catalog, and academic edited volume in one, this website offers an alternative museological space for exploring the Emamzadeh Yahya’s many looks, functions, resonances, and stories over the last 700 years. The mirrored website in English and Persian includes six thematic galleries with over 70 contributions, including essays, films, digital interactives, and […]
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EVENT: CAA DAHS Panel: Digital Methods for Difficult Hidden Art Histories, Feb. 14 11:00AM – 12:30PM EST
If you’re attending this year’s College Art Association’s annual convention in New York, please join our DAHS-sponsored session (New York Hilton Midtown, 2nd floor, Morgan Suite), as our co-chairs Paul B. Jaskot (Duke University), Mark J.V. Olson (Duke University), and Victoria E. Szabo (Duke University) address challenging topics and the approach of digital art history […]
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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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