New Bass Connections Project: World Building at Duke in an Emerging Durham
Students: Apply by August 23!
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
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…
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.
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…
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
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…
Dictionary of Art Historians
https://vimeo.com/835706833 Hear from Dictionary co-PIs Lee Sorensen and Hannah Jacobs about the history of the project. The Dictionary of Art Historians started as a long-standing…
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…
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…
Art of the Americas Interactive
This project is a partnership with the Nasher Museum to re-imagine the exhibition of the museum’s collection of ancient American Art, one of the best…
News
Lab Calendar
- August 30, 2023
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- August 31, 2023
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ARTHIST 390S - Duke's Historical Landscape (Triplett & Jacobs)
August 31, 2023 10:05 am - 12:35 pm
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ARTHIST 227 - Medieval Castles of Europe (Triplett)
August 31, 2023 3:05 pm - 4:20 pm
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- September 1, 2023
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- September 4, 2023
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- September 5, 2023
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ARTHIST 227 - Medieval Castles of Europe (Triplett)
September 5, 2023 3:05 pm - 4:20 pm