Our press release is live…… See the schedule here and get proposing here!
“Histories of art and visual arts practices are now–and will be in their future iterations–inextricably interwoven with the digital. What does this mean for our scholarship, innovation, research, knowledge production, and teaching? Join the conversation, discussion, and exchange of ideas on the digital + art + histories at THATCamp (The Technology and Humanities Camp) at CAA 2014.
Because THATCamp is an unconference, the agenda will be decided through discussion in the conference participant community. Attendees brainstorm online before the conference dates through blog posts, and propose sessions in advance. The agenda will be set collaboratively in the first hour of the event on Monday, February 10. In this way, all THATCamp CAA 2014 attendees are active participants in setting the program, and proposing, leading, and documenting sessions. We strongly encourage involvement in the process via the Proposals page on the THATCamp CAA 2014 website.
We are pleased to announce that, in addition to the agenda decided on the day, there are a number of invited presenters who will engage the THATCamp CAA 2014 community in participatory and reflective discussions and workshops.
Piotr Adamczyk, Program Manager, Google Cultural Institute (will participate via Google Hangout) // “What’s Google up to? … and is there a catch? The Open Gallery Project”
JiaJia Fei, Digital Marketing Manager, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY // “The Museum & Social Media”
Amanda French, National THATCamp Coordinator, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, George Mason University, VA // Omeka Workshop
Charlotte Frost, Visiting Assistant Professor of contemporary/digital art histories and digital literacies at City University of Hong Kong // Digital Publishing workshop
Dene Griger, Creative Media and Digital Culture Program, Washington State University Vancouver // “Participatory apps and founding a digital publishing house to publish digital artist’s books”
Kevin Hamilton, Associate Professor, New Media Program, School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois and students Jessica Landau and Melissa Seifert // “Learning to See Systems: addressing the role of vision in new technologies”
Liz McDermott, Managing Editor, Getty Research Institute Web and Communications // “Bridging the Gap: Presenting Scholarly Content on Social Media Platforms”
Renee McGarry, Senior instructional designer at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York // “Beyond Tools and Tips: Manifestos about Teaching Digitally”
Michelle Moravec, Associate Professor, Rosemont College // “Visualizing Schneemann explores the production of histories of art using multiple digital tools”
Nancy Ross, Assistant Professor of Art History at Dixie State University in St. George, Utah // “Students Respond to Teaching Twentieth Century Art History with Gender and Data Visualizations”
ArtAndFeminism Wikipedia Meetup/Chicago // Wiki Workshop & live edit-a-thon led by Jacqueline Mabey (The office of failed projects, New York) Siân Evans (Coordinator of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLiS/NA)’s Women and Art Special Interest Group), Melanie Emerson, (Head of Reader Services at the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, The Art Institute of Chicago), Holly Stec Dankert (Head of Research and Access Services at the John M. Flaxman Library, School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Prof. Michael Mandiberg (Associate Professor at the College of Staten Island/CUNY and a member of the Doctoral Faculty at the CUNY Graduate Center) and Amy Ballmer, (Art Librarian, The CUNY Graduate Center Mina Rees Library).
THATCamp CAA 2014 is pleased to announce the support of emerging voices in the field of digital art history. This year, THATCamp CAA 2014 has committed to providing a platform for early-career scholars and students in the field of digital art history. The participants below will join the roster of confirmed THATCamp speakers, and will lead discussions around key themes, ideas, and practical applications in the broad field of digital art history.
Francesca Albrezzi, University of California, Los Angeles and Tom Scutt, Getty Research Institute) // “Getty Scholars’ Workspace: Developing tools, methods, and standards for conducting and publishing original research in digital form”
Desi Gonzalez and Liam Andrew, MIT // “HyperStudio: Collaborating with Colleague and Cultural Institutions”
Meredith A. Brown, Metropolitan Museum of Art and A.L. McMichael, The Graduate Center, CUNY // “Upcycling:” Building a Professional Online Presence Through Digital Publishing”
Nathalie Hager, University of British Columbia // “Case Study on WHAM – World History of Art Mashup”
Tara Zepel, University of California, San Diego // “Visualization in digital art history”
The participants listed above have been identified as THATCamp CAA 2014 Kress Fellows with costs related to their attendance defrayed by generous support from the Kress Foundation. Their presence at THATCamp CAA 2014 will encourage dialogue around the mutually beneficial and fruitful connections between “old” and “new” art histories, “traditional” and “avant garde” digital tools, and working practices between students, emerging scholars and professionals, and senior scholars and professionals in the visual arts disciplines. Head over to the THATCamp CAA 2014 blog to find out more about their upcoming presentation topics and research interests.
Logistics
Following the successful realization of the inaugural THATCamp CAA at the College Art Association’s Annual Conference in New York in February 2013, the second THATCamp CAA 2014 will take place Monday, February 10 (11.45am – 5.15pm) and Tuesday, February 11 (9.30am – 5pm), 2014 at Columbia College Chicago (the days immediately preceding the CAA 2014 annual conference). There will be a follow up “reflection” session on Thursday, February 13 (9.30am – noon) at the Chicago Hilton, the CAA conference hotel in the Marquette room (3rd floor).
All THATCamps are free to register for and free to attend, but space is limited and filling up fast. Further information can be found on the THATCamp CAA 2014 website: caa2014.thatcamp.org.
THATCamp CAA 2014 is organized by Anne Swartz and Michelle Millar Fisher. The advisory board includes Suzanne Preston Blier, Pamela M. Fletcher, Hussein Keshani, Elizabeth Neely, and Christine L. Sundt.
For further information, please contact THATCamp CAA Project Manager Michelle Millar Fisher: michellemillarfisher [at] gmail [dot] com.”
