Excited to announce the new Duke STEAM Challenge, which is co-sponsored by the Office of Academic Affairs, the Digital Humanities Initiative at FHI, and Information Science + Information Studies, along with support from Innovation and Entrepreneurship, HASTAC at Duke and more. The STEAM Challenge is a competition for students to…
Digital Humanities Initiative Launch
We had a great start to the Franklin Humanities Institute’s Digital Humanities Initiative launch. Faculty, staff, and graduate students from a wide range of disciplines gave lightning talks on their work. Video coming soon. DHI Launch, “Conversations in the Digital Humanities” program DHI and PhD Lab info
Book Reviews
I recently wrote a book review for American Studies on Matthew Jockers’ Macroanalysis and on Peter Swirski’s From Literature to Literature. Very interesting juxtaposition of texts that left me simultaneously jazzed and anxious. Not a bad place to be. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2886331
ACM SIGGRAPH 2015: Special Issue of Leonardo
The 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…
Wired! and Visualizing Venice: Scaling up Digital Art History
Kristin Lanzoni, Mark Olson and I recently published an article in Artl@s about the Wired! lab projects. This gives a nice overview of the range of approaches we take, in particular how we tie together teaching and research to develop our own brand of digital art history. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/vol4/iss1/3/
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…
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…
SIGGRAPH 2011 “Tracing Home” Gallery Augmented Reality Experience
V.E. Szabo, Augmented SIGGRAPH/Vancouver (August, 2011) (Augmented Reality experience juxtaposing Art Gallery work with local Vancouver sights via an augmented reality browser). See the Layar App on iPhone/iPad and search for SIGGRAPH 2011 Art Gallery.