What’s Happening

Professor Ed Triplett will be hosting a photogrammetry workshop at Smith Warehouse on March 18th. Attendees will learn how to capture and process scaled orthographic photos and 3D models of building facades from overlapping photos. The workshop will take place Monday March 18th, 3:30 PM in Smith Warehouse, Bay 12. Participants are encouraged to bring a DSLR camera, but a phone camera will also work.

The Dictionary of Art Historians — a resource sponsored by DAHVC — has a new website. The new site includes a few updates, including the ability to include more imagery and the addition of under-documented historians, specifically female and African American art historians. For more information about The Dictionary of Art Historians, click here.

We are excited to announce that Assistant Professor Ed Triplett will join UNC Libraries Wednesday, February 21 at 2 pm to discuss the project Cartographic and Digital Misfits: Early Modern Chorography and Modern Cartesian Software. This is an online event, and registration is required. To register and for more information, please visit the event page. by Alex Brown

The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database Project—founded at Duke in 2011 by Caroline Bruzelius—is now housed at the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History. The database, as well as more information about the project, is available here. Read more about the project below: The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database was developed in 2011 at Duke University with a Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its objective was to collect and make available to scholars, students, travelers, and local communities the rich patrimony of historical images scattered throughout Europe and the United States in museums,…

Kristin Huffman (art historian and DAHVC collaborator), Hannah Jacobs (Digital Humanities Specialist for DAHVC), & David Zielinski (Innovation Co-Lab technology specialist) have a newly published article in the 6th issue of The International Journal for Digital Art History. You can access the article, titled Representing Early Modern Venice: Augmented Reality Experiences in Exhibitions, here.