This Spring I taught two courses. The first, Media History: Old and New, is a favorite because I get to delve back into all sorts of historic media in the process of talking about cultural resonances between c. 19 exhibition culture and the contemporary digital context. The repeated utopian/dystopian narratives…
MLA 2014 “Getting Starting with DH” and “Evaluating Digital Scholarship”
I am at MLA 2014 teaching a workshop on “Digital Mapping and Augmented Reality” for DHCommons. Slides here. I am also convening a workshop for the MLA Committee on Information Technology on “Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Candidate Success Stories.” This is my last year on the committee but I hope to…
MA in Historical and Cultural Visualization Approved!
Great news! Our proposed MA in Historical and Cultural Visualization has been approved by the Board of Trustees. I am one of the core faculty members and will be teaching Pro-Seminar II: Duke will begin accepting applications now for Fall 2014 enrollment. DRAFT COURSE DESCRIPTION: Historical and Cultural Visualization Proseminar…
Chicago Bound: January 2014
I am headed to Chicago for a double-header: MLA 2014 and then a visit to the University of Chicago where I’ll join colleagues and graduate students in Art History & English talking about how historical and cultural visualization techniques can enhance research.
Teaching at VIU in Fall 2013
I had a great time teaching at Venice International University. Amazing set of colleagues and students from around the world. Plus, I took Italian! My courses were called “Digital Cities and the Cartographic Imagination” and “Foundations of Web-Based Multimedia Communications.” Check out the final student project demo video on Vimeo!
Digital Heritage International Congress 2013
Tim Senior, Florian Wiencek and I did a short paper describing our experiences with the Digital Cities course co-located between Duke and Jacobs University in Germany. Tim is going to deliver it for us at the Digital Heritage International Congress 2013 in Marseille. Sadly, I need to be back in the…
SIGGRAPH 2013: XYZN: Scale
The XYZN: Scale gallery went up at SIGGRAPH 2013 in Anaheim! Catalog is available as a special issue of Leonardo. The works are also visible online on the SIGGRAPH site for that year. I gave a guided tour video on-site for the press. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l26Mx1T2z08 I was pretty proud of the video…
ACM SIGGRAPH July 2013 – XYZN: Scale Gallery
I organized the XYZN: Scale gallery at the ACM SIGGRAPH conference held in Anaheim CA in July. The catalog is published as part of a special issue of MIT’s Leonardo. Check out the Promo Video for the gallery as well as the Media Tour I did after it was set up!…
Summer Visualizing Venice Workshops
In June 2013 I co-taught a workshop on historical and cultural visualization techniques for an international set of graduate students interested in art, architectural, and urban history. (We also did a workshop in 2012 on the Waters of Venice.) Our final projects were presented as video, interactive timelines, websites, and…
Fall 2013 Teaching
In Fall 2013 I will be teaching at Venice International University in Venice, Italy. Please see the VIU site for details: http://www.univiu.org/shss/globalization-program/fall-2013-semester
