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ACM SIGGRAPH 2015: Special Issue of Leonardo

Victoria Szabo
August 15, 2015

leonardo2015_cover-3-1The ACM SIGGRAPH 2015 Special Issue of Leonardo is out! I was the guest editor for Art Papers and it includes six exciting essays chosen by a fantastic team of jurors. SIGGRAPH is always a great experience because it brings together a diverse range of folks from lots of different paths. I continue to hope we can grow the digital media/arts, visualization, games, and art-sci viz groups through SIGGRAPH.. This special issue ties together lots of different elements, starting with the metaphor of a quilt. Check it out on JSTOR or visit the Leonardo site (doi: 10.1162/LEON_a_01085) Also see http://siggraph.org/s2015 for more.

 

News, Spring 2015

Spring 2015 Teaching

Victoria Szabo
February 7, 2015

In Spring 2015 I am teaching two courses:

ISIS 495S: Information Science + Information Studies Research Capstone, where we create a group project together. The Spring project is Durham Stories, a website and AR app hosted in Layar.

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ISIS 268/VMS 266 Media History: Old and New. This is one of my favorite courses to teach because it looks at historic communications and informational media forms in light of their cultural “newness” as a lead-in to understanding the contemporary digital media landscape. We also discover a lot of past roads not taken that are fruitful for further development today.mediahistory__banner

 

Augmented Reality, Digital Heritage, Fall 2014, News, Teaching

Fall 2014 Teaching

Victoria Szabo
September 1, 2014

This Fall I’m teaching two fun courses. The first, “Digital Cities and the Cartographic Imagination,” is something I taught last year in Venice. It feels rich and luxurious to have all these local resources at our disposal to make Durham our “lab” once again for the hands-on bits. Venice is fantastic, but so is having direct access to Rubenstein’s archival materials, and my terrific colleagues in the Data and Visualization Services lab as we work through the details. Also very nice to have access to my personal library again too as I tweak the readings.

That is even more true for my new adventure – teaching Proseminar 1 for our new Wired! Lab MA in Historical and Cultural Visualization! This course is very hands-on, and we’ll be using “live” datasets from Durham, Venice, other Wired! Lab projects, and I hope the students themselves. This all-grad course has a mix of MA students and people from various other humanities disciplines, so I’m looking forward to seeing what we come up with together this semester…including those magic AR books and buildings I was so excited about in the Spring.

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Barcelona!

Victoria Szabo
July 1, 2014

I had the wonderful opportunity to visit Barcelona and give a two-day workshop and public presentation on digital mapping and augmented reality for the Autonomous University in Barcelona. They have a very interesting and innovative landscape and history MA program.

Flyer conference V. Zsabo_MUHBA Barcelona

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The fact that I got to see that city in person – if only for a short time – was even more inspiring after having viewed materials on Pere IV in preparation for my visit. It is very strange to feel you know one part of a place in such depth, and yet not at all until the lived experience of walking its paths. Reminds me a bit of when I went to London for the first time – after I finished my dissertation on Victorian sensation fiction!

And oh those Gaudi nights…
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News, Teaching, Visualizing Venice, Workshops

Visualizing Venice Summer Workshops 2014

Victoria Szabo
June 20, 2014

The Visualizing Venice Summer Workshops for 2014 were focused on ‘The City and the Lagoon.’ We worked on-site for two weeks at Venice International University and the Venice environs.
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Our students created videos and Neatline projects describing various aspects of that relationship. These are accessible on Vimeo and on our server.

Fortifications in the Lagoon
Lorenzo, Anna, Maria
Neatline Exhibit

 

Torcello Cathedral through the Centuries
Christine, Erica, James, Kyle

Isola La Certosa
Heike, Rachel, Stephanie, Jason

Neatline Exhibit

Public Health in the Venice Lagoon
Bianca, Haude, Michelle, Ali
Neatline Exhibit

Development of the Mose
Jesse, Carlo, Chelsea

MOSE from Media Arts + Sciences at Duke U on Vimeo.

The 2013 projects on the Venetian Ghetto are also still available to view:

http://omeka.visualizingvenice.org/

Digital Heritage, News, Research, Talks, Workshops

Padua/Padova June 2014

Victoria Szabo
June 15, 2014

I spent a couple of days in Padua between sessions of the Visualizing Venice workshops back in June, giving talks with the ever-inspiring Caroline Bruzelius on “The lives of places and cities: New models of representation and their conceptual implications for the past and present.” Saw fantastic colleagues and met students in the crossover architectural history/engineering courses being taught there. Also gave my decidedly limited Italian a workout trying to follow student presentations!

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Perhaps even more excitingly, I got to see the ancient “Goethe” tree at the Padova Botanical Gardens. Amazing!!
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