We just launched year 2 of the North Carolina Central University/Duke University Digital Humanities Fellows program. This project is sponsored by the Humanities Writ Large initiative at the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, and supports the ongoing effort to connect with and support faculty in Historically Black Colleges and Universities.…
SIGGRAPH 2017
July 30-August 3, 2017 was my first SIGGRAPH annual conference as Chair of the ACM SIGGRAPH Digital Arts Community. This year we set up an on-site exhibition screen for the Immersive Expressions online show.Our next show, Designing Knowledge, just opened up a CFP. We will continue to share information through…
NEH supported Virtual and Augmented Reality for the Digital Humanities
Duke University has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for our Summer 2018 Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities, HT-256969 Virtual and Augmented Reality for the Digital Humanities Institute (V/AR-DHI). PI: VIctoria Szabo, Art, Art History & Visual Studies and Information Science + Studies Co-PI: Philip Stern,…
Video Game Art Reader and Gallery
I’m pleased to have joined the Video Game Art Reader Editorial Board last Fall, and to have been a backer for the recent Kickstarter to support the new Video Game Art Gallery in Chicago. The two initiatives are helping to further the collective conversation around videogames as art, something I have…
Psychasthenia 3 at EVA London
I presented the latest art-game in Joyce Rudinsky and my Psychasthenia 3 series, “Dupes,” at EVA London on July 12, 2017. This version of the game explores the relationship of contemporary HR practices to an increasingly gamified experience of contemporary culture. For the session I presented a walk through of…
Visualizing Cities in Barcelona
On July 5, 2017 I gave a talk sponsored by the City Museum of Barcelona and the Autonomous University of Barcelona’s Landscape Intervention and Heritage Management MA Program. The talk, “Smartscapes: Urban Heritage in the Era of the Digital Society,” explored a range of possible approaches augmented reality offers to…
NC Jukebox visits Western North Carolina
On April 22, 2017 Terry McKinney and his band hosted a special concert at the Orchard’s at Alta Pass. The NC Jukebox team, led by Trudi Abel from Rubenstein Library and myself, were the featured guests. Our students presented some of the research they had done on the singers and songs…
Coding Dürer
I was selected to participate in Coding Dürer: International Hackathon for Art History and Information Science. It was held at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. Munich, Germany from March 13-17, 2017. My team explored the gap between computer vision technology’s analysis of art images and what curators found in them. Our resulting project,…
Back to Rochester!
I had the pleasurable opportunity to return to my alma mater, the University of Rochester, March 3-5, 2017, to give a talk on “Cultural Approaches to Digital Heritage” as a guest of Mellon Digital Humanities Fellows program, an engaged group of graduate students from various programs. I also gave an…
Digital Durham: Past, Present, Future Rebooted!
Great News! Digital Durham: Past, Present, Future – a reboot of the now “historic” Digital Durham website and project – has been funded by Bass Connections: Information, Society & Culture + the Education and Human Development tracks, along with the Franklin Humanities Institute, for 2017-18! Trudi Abel and I will…
