Astrid J Smith

Rare Book and Special Collections Digitization Specialist. ✋📸📖📃📜👌✨💻

[Astrid J Smith @astridjsmith]

I can barely believe it! 🥹 My book is now available for you to read! It’s a mix of research, theory, and very cool (+ slightly spooky) objects. 📖 I’m SOOO grateful to @ArcHumanities, @ETreharne, and @Calthalas, among others, and truly can’t *wait* to hear what folks think! ♥️

[Arc Humanities Press @ArcHumanities]

{New Book} Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age by Astrid J. Smith https://t.co/zpwyd6I1SE

[John McCafferty @jdmccafferty]

Coat of arms box, 1583 It contains the coat of arms of Archduke Ferdinand II, framed by the collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece and flanked by two griffins. (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

The 1924 sketchbook of Sonia Delaunay, Ukrainian-born French artist & textile/fashion designer #WomensArt

[Astrid J Smith @astridjsmith]

Thank you so much to Jen Hoyer of @NewBooksNetwork for our conversation about my recently published book! 📖 Such insightful and fun questions, it was a delight. (See Transmediation and the Archive, late 2024 via @ArcHumanities!)

[Arc Humanities Press @ArcHumanities]

{New Interview} Jen Hoyer interviewed Astrid Smith on her new book with us Transmediation and the Archive. @NewBooksNetwork @astridjsmith https://t.co/Bcqu2rglNX

[Julia Walworth @JuliaWalworth]

Original Kunstkammer cabinets in the Archbishop’s residence in Salzburg, complete with corals, seashells, animals etc #curiosities

[Dr Paula Del Val Vales @paula_delval]

What a brilliant evening at the opening of the
@britishlibrary exhibit 'Medieval Women: In Their Own Words' —absolutely unmissable! Honoured to have contributed to the companion book alongside @MedievalFemina. Superb work from @BLMedieval
bringing this amazing project to life.

[BramCaers @BramCaers]

Books have layers! Book printed in black and white (1484), rubricated, woodcuts coloured and initials flourished by hand, damaged, repaired in handwriting. And still going strong today @ubleiden
Dutch translation of the Gesta Romanorum, 21219 B 15: 2.

[Astrid J Smith @astridjsmith]

@Calthalas This sounds fabulous, congrats! Looking forward to reading it!

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874) gathers real swaths of poisonous arsenic wallpaper sourced from stores across Michigan. Originally printed in a run of 100 copies, only 6 remain due to recipients fearfully destroying their copies: https://t.co/DqgJhLuFzu

[Stephanie J. Lahey, PhD 🇨🇦 @SJLahey]

And thus one of my weirder childhood fantasies has been fulfilled: I am a sorceress, a necromancer. I wrest utterances from the void. I raise the dead. 📜🔬🪄👻😜 #OBNS_MISHA #BookScience #MedievalManuscripts

[Elisabeth Carr ACR @enminubeazul1]

✨ Exciting news! We’ve successfully opened the glazing of the St. John’s fragment, mounted over 20 years ago. Thankfully, it hasn’t adhered to the glass as we feared. Now, it's ready for re-glazing to ensure its continued preservation! 📜

#TheJohnRylands #Conservation #Papyrus

[Astrid J Smith @astridjsmith]

@ETreharne @lisafdavis @BLMedieval I can almost imagine “ughhhh…I really should have made them bigger…ehh I’m doing it” (ie. 1)

[Arc Humanities Press @ArcHumanities]

{New Book} Disrupting Categories, 1050–1250: Rethinking the Humanities through Premodern Texts by Elaine Treharne https://t.co/dh24i6Mm2d

[Astrid J Smith @astridjsmith]

@keri_thomas @ArcHumanities @ETreharne @Calthalas Ahh thank you! Please let me know what you think, I’m so eager to hear! (You’re mentioned about 1/4 in!)

[Astrid J Smith @astridjsmith]

I can barely believe it! 🥹 My book is now available for you to read! It’s a mix of research, theory, and very cool (+ slightly spooky) objects. 📖 I’m SOOO grateful to @ArcHumanities, @ETreharne, and @Calthalas, among others, and truly can’t *wait* to hear what folks think! ♥️

[Arc Humanities Press @ArcHumanities]

{New Book} Transmediation and the Archive: Decoding Objects in the Digital Age by Astrid J. Smith https://t.co/zpwyd6I1SE

[Astrid J Smith @astridjsmith]

@keri_thomas 😘 lol Thank you!!!

[Astrid J Smith @astridjsmith]

@chrystalml @ArcHumanities It is.. 😅 I know they’re a small press. Thank you for spreading the word!

[Astrid J Smith @astridjsmith]

@chrystalml @ArcHumanities @ETreharne @Calthalas I’d be so curious to hear your response from your archeology perspective!

[Astrid J Smith @astridjsmith]

@chrystalml @ArcHumanities @ETreharne @Calthalas Thanks Chrystal! ♥️

[Astrid J Smith @astridjsmith]

@ChadiCongreso @chrystalml @ArcHumanities @ETreharne @Calthalas Thank you so much! Let me know what you think, if you end up reading it!