DAHJ is excited to announce two new additions to our team!
Emily Lawhead
Bárbara Romero Ferrón
Emily Lawhead
joins the team as Editorial Assistant. Emily is a PhD candidate in the History of Art & Architecture and member of the New Media and Culture graduate certificate program at the University of Oregon. Her research explores intersections of contemporary art and technology with an emphasis on Japanese new media artists and collectives. Her dissertation considers interactivity in digital art practices, including virtual reality, interactive installations, and social media art, particularly where these areas of inquiry intersect with long-term preservation strategies when acquired in museum collections.
Previously, Emily earned an MA in Museum Studies from the University of San Francisco and has worked with curatorial, collections, and publications departments at institutions including the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Eugene, Oregon), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York), Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco, California), and the National Japanese American Historical Society (San Francisco, California). In 2018, she curated a solo exhibition featuring Japanese installation artist Yasuaki Onishi at the Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Bárbara Romero Ferrón
joins the team as Organizational Assistant. Bárbara is a PhD Candidate at Western University in Canada. She works as a research assistant at the Cultureplex Lab at Western University. She is also a member of iArtHislab at Malaga University, Spain. Her work focuses on Art Exhibition Data, specifically Spanish Art Exhibition in the Nineteenth Century. She has organized international conferences and the annual summer school on Digital Art History (DAHSS).
She is interested in digital art history, cultural networks, information visualization, art exhibitions, museums and design. She is currently working on a variety of cultural network projects within both Canada and Spain. She has previously worked at education and conservation departments for Colección Museo Ruso, Centre Pompidou, Revello del Toro Museum, in Málaga, Spain.