Béatrice Gauvain
Assistant / PhD candidate
Assistant / PhD candidate
Spalenberg 65
4051
Basel
Schweiz
Profile
Béatrice Gauvain completed her Masters in Art History and Image Theory at the University of Basel, specializing in the mediality of sacred objects. She collaborated on the exhibition project “Das Basler Münster im Wandel” at the Museum Kleines Klingental and further pursued her interest in curation when joining the Kunstmuseum Winterthur in 2019. Working closely with the curators, she became aware of the challenges of transitioning collections into the digital space. As PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Digital Humanities Lab, she focuses on digital collections, in particular knowledge management and curation.
Research areas
- Cultural Heritage
- Digital Art History
- Knowledge Management, Curation and Mediation
- Democratization of Cultural Heritage Data
Talks
| Title | Conference | Date | Place |
Genese eines digitalen Schaudepots – nachhaltige Daten und digitale Kuration | 5. Schweizerischer Kongress für Kunstgeschichte, Sektion II Narrative digitaler Objekte: Kunstgeschichte und Digital Humanities | 22. - 24. 6. 2022 | Zürich, Schweiz |
| An art historian reflection on digital curation | CIDOC 2021, Symbiosis of Tradition and Digital Technology | 23.5.2022 | Tallinn, Estland |
| Digitales SchauDepot - Digital curation of cultural heritage | Human Factors in Digital Humanities, EPFL | 2. - 3.12.2021 | Lausanne, Schweiz |
| Storytelling in digital space; New approaches for digital curation | DHCH 2021 | 7. - 9.6.2021 | Rom, Italien |
| Digital Curation | DHCH 2020 | 4.12.2020 | online |
Courses