New Bass Connections Project: World Building at Duke in an Emerging Durham
Faculty and staff members of DAHVC have been awarded funding via Duke’s Bass Connections for a 2023-24 project that will examine the histories of Duke in/and Durham between 1924-1932.
About us
Duke’s Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab is a dynamic research community of faculty, staff, and students. We engage and advance critical digital methods to promote new approaches to scholarship and pedagogy in the study and interpretation of the visual arts, architecture, cultural heritage, and urban environments. Learn more…
Fall 2023 Courses
Medieval Castles of Europe
This course will examine the transition of Western Europe into a fortified landscape from the mid-11th century until the advent of large-scale artillery in the…
Duke’s Historical Landscape
This course will cover the development of the plan for Duke’s West Campus in 1924-1925. As a project-based course, students contribute historical research, 3D models,…
Digital Imaging
Photoshop and Illustrator used to introduce single and serial images for print and web output. Consent of instructor required.
Politics and Modern Architecture
Given the needs for labor, materials, and legal permissions, architects in the modern period by definition intersect with interests of power. This course explores the…
Digital Humanities Proseminar 1
Overview of topics in digital humanities and computational media, with special attention to visual media. Studies of critical digital heritage, virtuality and culture, information aesthetics,…
Digital Storytelling
Digital storytelling methodologies, theory, and practice. In-depth analysis of digital storytelling in various media forms and modes of production. Cultural impact of new media narratives.…
Featured Projects
Modeling Agency
Agent Based Modeling (ABM) serves to computationally model populations within the built environment. Agents are placed within 3D spatial simulations and navigate the modeled space…
Dictionary of Art Historians
The Dictionary of Art Historians was a long-standing private research tool which joined the Wired! Lab in 2017. As an open-source public database, it holds…
Building the Olmsted Record: Duke University’s Landscape Architecture
Building the Olmsted Record: Duke University’s Landscape Architecture documents the history of Duke’s landscape architecture from its early conception in the 1920s. The project has…
Sandcastle
The primary goal of the Sandcastle project is to enable researchers to visualize non-Cartesian, premodern images of places in a comparative environment that resembles the…
Mapping Occupied Krakow
As is well known, Krakow became a key location within the National Socialist plan for military expansion and the implementation of genocide in Eastern Europe…
Visualizing Lovecraft’s Providence
This project explores the use of historical and cultural visualization techniques to instantiate the imagined Providence, Rhode Island of author H.P. Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft famously…
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