This Fall I will be teaching two courses: ISS 240/VMS 288/AMI 325: Web-Based Multimedia Communications, which we are offering in a hybrid online lecture and live section format for the first time. (I will be doing the lecture parts and coordinating the sections). This course fulfills the Practice component of…
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…
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…
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,…
MA and PhD Comp Media Programs Approved and Running
Huge achievement this year: we got the interdisciplinary, interdepartmental PhD in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures approved in May by the Board of Trustees. A collaboration between AAHVS, Literature, and the Franklin Humanities Institute, and with the support of the Mellon Foundation, this is a novel and inovative program in…