Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega

Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega is Full Professor of Digital Art History at the University of Málaga (Spain), where she teaches courses in digital humanities, digital cultural heritage and digital art history. She is the founder and director of the iArtHis_Lab Research Group, an international laboratory focused on studies of cultural analytics and complex systems; 3D modeling and immersive reality; and spatial narratives using GIS. Since 2018, she is also Deputy Director of the Cátedra Picasso Fundación Málaga, where she coordinates the analysis of Picasso's graphic production using Artificial Intelligence technologies.
Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega has vast experience leading international digital humanities projects. Among them, worthy of note are the pioneering project Digital Mellini: Exploring New Tools & Methods for Art-historical Research & Publication, in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute; and the Exhibitium Project, devoted to enhancing studies on art history exhibitions from data science and cultural complex network perspectives. Together the research projects, she has written extensively about Digital Humanities from a critical perspective, with emphasis in the unbalances, neocolonial practices and new epistemological hegemonies embedded in the digital and postdigital culture.
Nuria Rodríguez-Ortega is also engaged with the design of new curricula to promote digital training and interdisciplinary thinking among students and scholars. One of the main outcomes is the Digital Art History Summer School (DAHSS), a joint initiative of the University of Málaga, UC Berkeley and LMU Munich, that she coordinates since 2016.
Since 2017, she is the President of the Sociedad Internacional de Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas (HDH).