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.
CFP for CAA Session 2027: Tools, Texts, and Images — Reframing Visual Culture in the Digital Age
The Digital Art History Society (DAHS) is delighted to have a call for proposals at next year’s 115th annual CAA conference in NYC. The Panel, entitled Tools, Texts, and Images — Reframing Visual Culture in the Digital Age, will be chaired by DAHS members Isabel Taube and Jennifer Henel. Instructions for submission (a 250-word abstract and […]
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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 readingJOB: Librarian for Visual Studies at Duke University
Duke University is pleased to post the position for the Librarian for Visual Studies. This position actively engages with faculty, students, researchers, and staff in the department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, supporting additional areas of study, including architecture, photography, digital art, computational media, material culture, and museology. For more information, please see […]
Continue readingJOB: Visual Resources Curator, University of Kansas
The Visual Resources Curator provides professional leadership for the University of Kansas History of Art Department’s visual resources facility and digital image collections. The position oversees the development, organization, preservation, and delivery of visual materials in support of the department’s teaching, research, and service mission. In addition to managing established visual resources operations and supervising […]
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This site is a data-driven visual glossary of Dutch Textiles, which examines the economic data of the Dutch East and West India Company archives, providing downloadable data and dynamic visualizations, alongside the visual and material record of historic trade.
Created by Carrie Anderson and Marsley Kehoe, this resource is an ever-changing and evolving data source on the Dutch Textile Trade.
Carrie Anderson
Middlebury UniversityThis project documents the study of ground layers in Dutch and Flemish paintings of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. This database was designed by Moorea Hall-Aquitania and Paul van Laar and developed by Paul van Laar for the DttG project in 2022.
For more information, see the Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art‘s Issue 17.2.
Moorea Hall-Aquitania
RKD (Netherlands Institute for Art HistoryBecome a Member.
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