Presentation at the Congress of Digital Humanities in Portugal

1. Congress Digital Humanities in Portugal
Lisbon, 8 October 2015
Digitally, more accessible and humane
Maria Vlachou

2. The "wireless authorities" are
doing "devilish work".
Thomas Beecham, conductor (1879-1961)

3. Access
•physical
•social
•intellectual

4. Google Art Project

5. Google Art Project

6. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters

7. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Harvesters
(detail)

8. Tate | After Dark
2014

9. De Young Museum, San Francisco

10. The Metropolitan HD Live

11. National Theatre Live

12. Metropolitan Museum of Art

13. New York
Hall of Science

14. “I am feeling the painting
down to the detail of
each fingernail.”
Touching the Prado

15. Brooklyn Museum

16. Brooklyn Museum

17. www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere

18. 125 questions for the Van Gogh Museum

21. Rijksmuseum – Late Rembrandt exhibition

22. Mauritshuis – The Girl with a Pearl Earring in a
Reproduction of your Home (contest)

25. Wellcome Collection

26. “If museums can deliver snacks, why
not three-course meals?”
Danny Birchall, Digital Manager,
Wellcome Collection

27. Rijksmuseum – Rijksstudio

32. • Don’t do it just because
everybody else does!

33. • Don’t do it just because
everybody else does!
• Know yourself and the
medium!

34. Thank you
mariavlachou.pt@gmail.com
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