The annual DH/DX Salon is a retrospective of recent projects produced by BGC students that illustrates the inventive and diverse ways digital tools are being used in their research. The event represents a cross-section of the digital work developed in classes and for exhibitions as part of BGC’s Digital Literacy Initiative, a curricular program designed to provide BGC students with a set of digital experiences and training which they can leverage in their academic and professional careers.

This year’s salon features several offerings from the Approaches to the Object course’s Object Interventions website, an ongoing project that looks to situate BGC Study Collection objects in existing museum installations; multiple virtual exhibition designs from Curatorial Thinking: From Object to Exhibition; an interactive bookshelf created in Modern Prometheus: 19th-Century Design through the Gothic Novel; a sneak peak at the website being designed and developed for In Search of the Good Place; two in-progress projects from Digital Archaeological Heritage: an experimental reconstruction of a Study Collection object and a mapping project focused on the community of Weeksville, Brooklyn; research projects undertaken by students in the Digital Objects: Meditations in Algorithmic Culture course; and a first look at the two Digital QP projects that were completed this year: Mérida Mehaffey’s A Partnership Ethic: Indigenous Artist-Led Collaborations in Museums and Gabby Valencia’s, Remembering and Performing Mexico: A Transnational Exploration of Women’s Baile Folklórico Costumes Representing Chiapas, Jalisco and Veracruz.

Digital QP
Mérida Mehaffey, A Partnership Ethic: Indigenous Artist-Led Collaborations in Museums

Object Interventions
Esmé Read, Electrolux Vacuum Cleaner at the Met
Natalie Livingston, Napkin Rings at MoMA
Ayaka Bize Kitagawa, Women’s Bustle at MoMA

Modern Prometheus
Lexi McKelvy, project interface design + The Night Circus
Tedde Brown, The Viy

(No) Good Place
Ana Orobio Pinzón, project interface design

Curatorial Thinking I
Ana Orobio Pinzón, A Taste for Chocolate in New Grenada
Abigail Kosnik, Reinterpreting the Quarter Row at Hermitage Plantation

Digital Archaeological Heritage
Abigail Kosnik and Katelyn Yang, Ball Player Resurrected? Digital Reconstruction of a Fragmented Artifact
Tenesha Carter Johnson, Walking Weeksville: Exploring the Neighborhood’s African American Heritage and Architectural (after)Life

Curatorial Thinking II
Alex Calloway, Last Words: Meditations on the Time Capsule
Debaleena Bagchi, Indigo Alive: The craft and colonial legacy of making true indigo in colonial South Asia

Digital Objects
Sam Simons, Livia Foldes: An Exploration of Archival Silences + Interventions
Maria-Nefeli Panetsos, Algorithmic Materiality / Material Algorithms
Lexi McKelvy, Digital Relations: Conversational AI Chatbots

Digital QP
Gabby Valencia, Remembering and Performing Mexico: A Transnational Exploration of Women’s Baile Folklórico Costumes Representing Chiapas, Jalisco and Veracruz