Emily Pugh
Digital Humanities Specialist, Getty Research Institute
February 4, 2019 | 2:00PM
Ahmanson Lab | LVL 301 (Map)
The Digital Art History Program at the Getty Research Institute sponsors and advises collaborative art-historical research and publication projects that facilitate access to and analysis of digitized objects, particularly those in the Institute's collections. Emily Pugh, who oversees the program, will provide an overview of the DAH at the GRI, detailing the kinds of projects the program undertakes and the skills represented in the DAH team. In doing so, she will highlight two DAH projects in particular: Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles archive, and PhotoTech, which focuses on digitizing a significant portion of the GRI’s Photo Archive.
Emily Pugh is the Digital Humanities Specialist at the Getty Research Institute, where she oversees the GRI’s Digital Art History Program. Prior to her time at the GRI, Emily served as the first Robert H. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate, with special responsibilities for digital humanities projects, at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC. She is a specialist in digital art history but also in architectural history, having received her PhD in Art History from the CUNY Graduate Center in 2008.