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.
Beginner/intermediate Geographic Information System (GIS) course designed to help students learn how to investigate history spatially. Emphasizes perspectives, procedures, and tools that are relevant to…
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…
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,…
Theory, practice, and creation of 3D virtual worlds. Hands-on design and development of online collaborative simulation environments. Introduction to graphics workflow for creating virtual world…
How do we build knowledge about computational, aesthetic, product and spatial experience? What tools and methods enable our work in the design of these interactions?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Mechanism will also be shown at the David Collection in Copenhagen on 14 September 2022 – they have an amazing collection of trade porcelain from merchants featured in the film!
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Thrilled that we have received a new grant, $12K to support undergraduate research from @DukeTrinity! Students eligible for funding will be working toward their graduation with distinction projects as part of a lab research team. https://dahvc.org/2022/07/18/dahvc-aahvs-receive-trinity-research-enhancement-awards/ @DukeStudents
1/16 Photographs of castles and towns along Portugal’s border with Spain from May and June. Each photo is paired with a corresponding drawing from the “Livro das Fortalezas” by Duarte de Armas in 1509-1510. Thanks to @NEH_ODH & @duke_dahvc. First up is Bragança from the SE & W