Thamm researches computational technologies and their applications in art history as the head of education and communications at HPF Innovations gGmbh (Navigating.art). She builds on her ongoing research into ecological thought and industrial practices in modern and contemporary European design. These investigations answer questions about the production, use, and circulation of objects and technology within the contexts of coloniality and environmental history.
"Digital Stewardship of Audiovisual Collections: Workflow Adaptation and Platform Development in Art Historical Research," Journal of Digital Media Management 15 (2026) with Dana Anderson and Samantha Rowe.
“Context-Aware and Participatory Design for Computational Practice in Art History: A Case Study,” Digital Journal for Arts & Cultural Studies 3 (2026).
“Chain of context: ethical use of AI technologies in art history publications,” an EU Horizons report, November 2025, supported by the Wundercut Project.
“Misunderstanding Familiar Objects in an Imagined Future: A Critical Method for Discovery.” On_Culture: The Open Journal for the Study of Culture 15 (2023).
Touching: Material as a Research Method. The Hague: Royal Academy of Art, 2022. (Contributing editor)
“Book Review: Stephanie Schwartz, Walker Evans: No Politics.” History Network Review, January 2022.
“Book Review: Chris Millington, A History of Fascism in France.” History Network Review, March 2021.
“Practicing Utopia: The Mensch Meier Collective in the Time of COVID-19.” Platform, April 5, 2021.
“Politics and Politicization of the Chaises Sandows,” RADDAR, no. 3 (Autumn 2021): 80-101.
“Object as (Obscured) Archive: The Chaise Sandows.” In Fugitive Archives, edited by Sandy Isenstadt and Martin Brückner, Chapter 8. Newark, Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 2021.
“Review of Une Aventure Moderne: The Union des artistes modernes. Le Centre Pompidou, Paris,” Design
and Culture 10, no. 2 (Autumn 2018): 139-141.
2026AI and Artworks: Object Detection, Image Classification and Iconographic Analysis, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. "Embedding-Based Image Analysis for Art Historical Research"Electronic media and Visual Arts (EVA) Berlin. “When AI falls short, we recalibrate the social and technical: a case study in context-aware innovation for art historical research”
2025Association of American Appraisers Annual Conference, “Materials, Politics, and Industry of Art Deco”DAC Summer School: “AI will sort it…out?,” University of Krems. “The perils and potential rewards of AI in digital catalogues raisonnés”Fourth International Artefacta Conference: Resolutions. “Resolving Material Conflicts in Contemporary Museums and Future Homes” with
Georgina McDowall, Konservator, Kystmuseet i Sogn og Fjordane
2024Elegies of waste, surplus, and excess, Technical University of Denmark. "Bewildering Things and Material Legacies: Recontextualizing Quotidien Objects in Stories
from a Likely Future”
2023Terms of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth. “Leveraging the Authority of Labels to Align Design with Diverse Audiences”Society of Architectural Historian Annual Conference. “Uncovering Histories of Environmental and Social Impact”KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. “A conversation with Karen Lamassonne about memorializing moments”
2022Design History Forum, Drexel University. “Investigating Colonial and Immigration Histories of 1930s France through Steel and Rubber"Society for French Historical Studies. "Style Paquebot: Ocean Liners, the Steel Industry, and National Identity in Interwar France”College Art Association. "Reconsidering the Chaises Sandows: Materials, Makers, Industry, and Environments”
2021Victoria & Albert Museum, Furniture History Society. “The O.T.U.A.’s Use of Chaises Sandows within Modern Publicity Practices”
2019Historicising Masculinities Conference, Newcastle University. “The Men of L’Union des artistes modernes: sustained productivity of a particular homosociality across the twentieth century”
2018Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies, London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research. “Mass Production as Nature and Nature as Mass Production”Berkeley/Stanford Symposium, SF MoMA. “Integration According to Herbst: Mass Production as Nature”College Art Association. “Masculine Comfort: Physical Culture, René Herbst, and the Chaise Sandows”Osher Lifelong Institute, Wilmington, DE. “Sport, Design, and Politics”
2017Graduate Student Forum, University of Delaware. “Institutional/Cripp/Queer Time at St. Elizabeths”Art History Graduate Student Symposium, Rutgers University. “Material, Structure, and a Queer Temporality at the Government Hospital for the Insane”
2016The Refuge of Objects/Objects of Refuge Symposium, Universität Mainz. “The Chaises Sandows, René Herbst, and Psychological Repose”UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium. “Temporality and Structure at the Government Hospital for the Insane”