Medievalist, Art Historian, PhD, Digital Projects Coordinator at National Gallery DC | Personal Account. "Danger Zone!"
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11 Oct 2023
Leaving this terrible place. Follow me on blueksy medievalben.bsky.social or LinkedIn linkedin.com/in/benjamin-zweβ¦
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11 Oct 2023
Anyone have a bluesky invite code? On waitlist but who knows how long that could take.
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9 Aug 2023
Can we please stop referring to #aiart as realistic or hyper-realistic or photorealistic, etc? @haltingproblem @LeoImpett
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26 Jun 2023
Excited to get the proof of my upcoming article on a grisly and unusual 16th century stained glass panel today in the @artinstitutechi #arthistory #medievaltwitter
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31 May 2023
It's the joy of incongruity. Having AI be a ready-made mashup machine is exciting but ultimately a sugar-rush high. @haltingproblem
iβve been struggling to put this into words for a while but i think a lot of this AI art craze comes down to these guys feeling the joy of being creative for the first time and mistaking it for something much deeper.
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31 May 2023
#dayofdh2023 Here's my instance of the Vikus viewer looking at collecting practices for the National Gallery of Art over the past three years. It's even got some fun #TensorFlow functionality. #DataVisualization #digitalarthistory
bzweig633.github.io/vikus-ngβ¦
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Itβs simple, folks.
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21 Jan 2023
Happy to announce that I'll be continuing to serve on the @iiif_io executive committee as a representative from the National Gallery of Art! Let's keep opening up cultural heritage. #openaccess #museums #iiif
iiif.io/news/2023/01/17/execβ¦
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26 Oct 2022
Some new additons to the National Gallery of Art's Open Data program! We've just included #Wikidata ids for 120K artworks and thousands of people: github.com/NationalGalleryOfβ¦
#openGLAM #museums #DigitalHumanities
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6 Oct 2022
@snelsonus @qwesterby @ngadc
I have a few thoughts about it, mostly speculative. But here it goes.
Overall, it seems to be a pretty typical Orthodox Icon of the Nativity, for the reasons below.
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6 Oct 2022
Bigger question is why was this determined to be from Ethiopia? It seems a bit...random. The provenance note on the website already throws this attribution into doubt, as does the fact that experts in Ethiopian art say they've never seen anything like it. So...
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6 Oct 2022
...probably not Ethiopian. But what, then? Hard to know for sure, or where it came from, but it strikes me almost as a homemade/hobbyist copy of the Orthodox Nativity icon tradition. Maybe made for someone's home. Maybe it was just a sourvenir.
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