Beres seeks to make the humanities more public—facing, collaborative and impactful through the use of digital technologies.
Utagawa Hiroshige (1797–1858), Plum Garden at Kamata (detail), woodblock print, 1857
Insight Asian Art
Founder of this free online calendar that aims to be a resource for anyone who is interested in the art, culture, and history of the world’s most populous continent. Launching Fall 2022.
Virtual Symposium: Modern & Contemporary Chinese Ink Painting
Spring 2022
Organizer and technology specialist for this two-day online international symposium and scholarly gathering with 12 speakers and over 400 registered audience members in partnership with the Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland and The Mozhai Foundation.
Virtual Graduate Research Colloquium
Winter 2021
Organizer for the UC San Diego Department of Visual Art’s Graduate Research Colloquium for the PhD Program in Art History, Theory, and Criticism. Due to Covid, this formerly in-person event became a virtual one and live-streamed on youtube.
Asia Society’s Museum Webinar Series
Fall 2020
Moderator for an online discussion on the future of art festivals and large art events in reaction to the pandemic. Part of a series of webinars by the Asia Society to bring the humanties online.
Contributor to SmartHistory
Ongoing
Smarthistory is a radical collaborative of more than five hundred art historians, curators, archaeologists, and artists committed to rewriting the colonial legacies of art history, making the global history of art accessible to more people in more places than any other publisher. It is a free online resource used by hundreds of thousands of people everyday.
MOPA Winescapes
Summer 2020
First participant in the Musuem of Photographic Arts’ (MOPA) Winescapes, a weekly virtual dialogue series with artists and scholars. This educational platform emerged during Covid to engage communities and bring exhibitions to the public in an online format.
Podcasting the Humanities
Summer 2020
Participated in the National Humanities Center and Digital Humanities Center at San Diego State University’s program to provide hands-on training, translate research, commentary, and community-sourced narratives into podcast episodes.
Collection Space Grant
Summer 2015
Awarded a grant to work with Lyrasis and The Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) to implement the premium Collections Management Software (CMS) CollectionSpace for the San Diego Chinese Historical Museum (SDCHM). This CMS technology helped us to successfully catalog the museum’s collection.