I make my first visit to Oklahoma in early March, where I participated in the CLIR 3D/VR Symposium. It was a wonderful opportunity to hear from a disparate range of speakers thinking about 3D/VR in higher ed. My talk was kind of meta, “Collaborative Approaches to Modeling the Past in…
Psychasthenia 3 at the Hygienic Gallery, Feb 14-17, 2018
We got to show Psychasthenia 3 at the Hygienic Gallery in New London, CT in the Future Perfect show curated by Nadav Assor as part of the Intersections Colloquium. New London is such an interesting city too. I’d love to do an historical “Ghosts” project there at some point. Guess…
Starting the New Year: Two Summer Institute Deadlines
Lots of excitement as we start the new year. A couple of deadlines for applications coming up. I’m the primary PI on two Summer 2018 Institutes: JAN 5, 2018: Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D Geospatial Networks, June 4-16, 2018 in Venice, Italy. Sponsored by the Getty Foundation. JAN…
Spring 2018 Teaching
In Spring 2018 I will be teaching two classes. The Information Science + Studies Capstone, the culminating course of the ISS Certificate is always one of my favorites because we usually do a group project on a topic of shared interest amongst the students.App projects are often popular; I look…
Interdisciplinary, International PhD Academy at VIU
I recently had the opportunity to co-teach a workshop on “The Importance of Interdisciplinary Collaboration to Tackle Societal Challenges” at Venice International University. It took place from September 18 to 22, 2017 and brought together a fascinating group of faculty and students. I joined a team who developed an idea…
Augmentality with the Incoming MA and PhD Students
On Wednesday, August 30, 2017, we visited Durham’s new Augmentality Labs arcade as a welcome/welcome back event for our graduate students in the MA in Digital Art History/Computational Media and the PhD in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures. After a trip to Bull City Burgers, we tried a number of…
FHI Open House and New PhD Lab Fellows
On August 31, 2017 we welcomed the new PhD Lab Fellows and celebrated the Digital Humanities Initiative at the most recent Open House at FHI. Our 15 new Fellows come from a range of disciplines and will help us explore a range of topics this semester, including Digital Pedagogy, Digital…
Fall 2017 Teaching
This Fall I’m teaching two courses. The first, Foundations of Web-Based Multimedia Communications, a core offering in the Information Science + Studies Certificate, is a lecture-section course targeted at students interested in learning HTML/CSS/JS from scratch. Students will acquire the building blocks to code their own site, and then finish…
New Getty Grant for Advanced Topics in Digital Art History
Great news for friends of our Visualizing Venice Workshop series! Wired and the Visualizing Venice team have been awarded a grant by the Getty Foundation for a new worksop on “Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D Geospatial Networks.” We are especially excited to work side by side with our…
DH2017 in Montreal
Trudi Abel and I participated in a digital pedagogy workshop at on August 8, 2017 at the Digital Humanities 2017 in Montreal, Quebec. We were part of the Innovations in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Local, National, and International Training (2017) mini-workshop. We talked about NC Jukebox and different Archives Alive based projects.
