Our collective piece for the Getty Blog has appeared! “Shaping the Discipline of Digital Art History: A recap of an advanced summer institute on 3-D and (geo)spatial networks.” Lots of info about our summer institute, the projects people have undertaken, and the continuing trajectory of our work together!
Decomposing the Disciplines at Jacobs University
On November 9, 2018 I had the distinct pleasure of returning to Jacobs University to present during a colloquium called “Bildung Beyond Boundaries, Part II: Beyond the Discipline. Academic Innovations and the Role of Inter and Trans Disciplinarity.” Duke has had a connection to Jacobs for number of years through…
Contested Histories and Cultural Heritage at Ursinus College
At the invitation of Associate Dean Meredith Goldsmith, former FHI Fellow, I had the opportunity to visit Ursinus College in PA from October 30-31, where I spoke on “Contested Histories: Cultural Heritage and the Digital Archive” as well as conducted a workshop and got to meet a number of dedicated…
“Origins + Journeys” Online exhibition debuts at SIGGRAPH 2018
This year the Digital Arts Community partnered with the SIGGRAPH Art Gallery to create an online exhibition, “Origins+Journeys,” that extends the conversation of the physical exhibition. I worked with curator Andres Burbano to create a call for proposals and the DAC team worked with the artists to create a juried…
Parameters Essay
I wrote an essay for Parameters: Knowledge Under Digital Conditions, which is published by the Social Science Research Council, on the topic of “Knowledge in 3D: How 3D data visualization is reshaping our world” – it was fun to think about how to distill some general thoughts for this context.
Fall 2018 Teaching
This Fall I will be teaching two courses: ISS 240/VMS 288/AMI 325: Web-Based Multimedia Communications, which we are offering in a hybrid online lecture and live section format for the first time. (I will be doing the lecture parts and coordinating the sections). This course fulfills the Practice component of…
Psychasthenia Studio and the Gamification of Contemporary Culture
Yay! My essay about gamification and my longstanding collaboration with Joyce Rudinsky in Psychasthenia Studio is now online! Take a look in Media and Communication!
Wrap-Up of the DAH Venice 2018 Summer Institute
We just finished up the Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D Geospatial Networks Institute in Venice! Sponsored by the Getty Foundation and undertaken in collaboration with the University of Padua and Venice International University, we came together to talk about how DAH advances both Art History and transforms it.…
Apprehending the Past: Augmented Reality, Archives, and Cultural Memory
My essay, “Apprehending the Past: Augmented Reality, Archives, and Cultural Memory,” written for the Routledge Companion to Media Studies and the Digital Humanities, edited by the heroic Jentery Sayers, is now out. Truly in exalted company! If only it weren’t quite so expensive – at least there is a semi-affordable…
Executive Committee of the Academic Council
Well, I’ve been elected to ECAC – the Executive Committee of the Academic Council – for a two year term. I’m honored to participate in faculty governance in this way – it is going to be a lot of work, but also quite rewarding and interesting to learn more about…
