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Miranda Hynes is a second-year Master’s student in art history at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on contemporary American artists who explore technology, surveillance, and racial capitalism through their installations and multi-media projects.
Current and past projects
Who Guards the Art?
A project that explores contemporary artist Fred Wilson’s Guarded View (1991) and the discussions it generates about the racialized labor of present-day museum security guards.
Docile Bodies: Surveillance and the Senses in Julia Scher’s Security Landscape of the Year
A paper that explores the power of surveillance to impact the bodies and senses of museum-goers through an installation by Julia Scher.
Digital Archiving: The Center for Teaching and Learning at UT Austin
A digital archiving project made with Omeka for the Center for Teaching and Learning at The University of Texas at Austin.
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Art History and Mapping
October 4th, 2026 “How do art historical questions and evidence intersect with geographic concepts and digital mapping methods?” This question opens Paul Jaskot and Anne Knowles’s article about their work mapping and spatially visualizing concentration camps during the Holocaust. Over the course of the article, the authors give us a look into how their own…
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Getting Permission: Who has the right to make archives public?
How we obtain images and what we do with them
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Collection User Interfaces and Artificial Intelligence
“Digitization is a laborious and often boring process. That being said, it is a process that is completed by interns, students, and volunteers, alongside professional archivists with library science degrees. I fear that what is at stake here is not the use of AI to make those laborers’ jobs easier and more impactful, but rather,…