Summer 2019 was one of those summers where the timing worked out, but the sanity may have been in question. After teaching year 2 of the DAH Venice/Getty workshop, several of us headed to Padua for a Visualizing Cities Symposium where Cosimo Monteleone and I gave everyone a first glimpse…
Parameters Essay
I wrote an essay for Parameters: Knowledge Under Digital Conditions, which is published by the Social Science Research Council, on the topic of “Knowledge in 3D: How 3D data visualization is reshaping our world” – it was fun to think about how to distill some general thoughts for this context.
Apprehending the Past: Augmented Reality, Archives, and Cultural Memory
My essay, “Apprehending the Past: Augmented Reality, Archives, and Cultural Memory,” written for the Routledge Companion to Media Studies and the Digital Humanities, edited by the heroic Jentery Sayers, is now out. Truly in exalted company! If only it weren’t quite so expensive – at least there is a semi-affordable…
Starting the New Year: Two Summer Institute Deadlines
Lots of excitement as we start the new year. A couple of deadlines for applications coming up. I’m the primary PI on two Summer 2018 Institutes: JAN 5, 2018: Advanced Topics in Digital Art History: 3D Geospatial Networks, June 4-16, 2018 in Venice, Italy. Sponsored by the Getty Foundation. JAN…
FHI Open House and New PhD Lab Fellows
On August 31, 2017 we welcomed the new PhD Lab Fellows and celebrated the Digital Humanities Initiative at the most recent Open House at FHI. Our 15 new Fellows come from a range of disciplines and will help us explore a range of topics this semester, including Digital Pedagogy, Digital…
Year 2 of North Carolina Central U-Duke DHI Fellows Program
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.…
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…
Amsterdam talk on Visualizing Venice and Cultural Approaches to DH
Just back from giving a talk called “Digital Cultural Heritage: Concepts and Opportunities” in Amsterdam, where I talked about VV, Wired, and a bit about our thinking in making the version 1 of Ghett/App. I was invited by the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam program in Art and Culture and Research Institute…
NC Jukebox at HASTAC and DH2016
Looking forward to sharing the NC Jukebox project at HASTAC in Tempe, AZ and at DH2016 in Krakow! https://hastac2016.sched.org/event/6DtD/achives-alive-activating-the-north-carolina-jukebox DH2016 HASTAC is always a great experience, of course. I’m also exceptionally excited for the latter, however, both because getting conected to the international, big-tent DH community is great – and b/c…
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
