What’s Happening

Victoria Szabo and Kristin Huffman will be presenting at Temple University Libraries’ Beyond the Page public programming series. In their talk, they will be discussing the Wired! Lab’s approaches to art historical and cultural research and pedagogy through uses of visualization and other digital technologies.

[av_textblock] Visualizing Venice: The City and the Lagoon Projects Read more about the workshop. [/av_textblock] [av_one_half first] [av_textblock] Fortifications in the Lagoon Lorenzo, Anna, Maria Neatline Exhibit Torcello Cathedral through the Centuries Christine, Erica, James, Kyle Public Health in the Venice Lagoon Bianca, Haude, Michelle, Ali Neatline Exhibit [/av_textblock] [/av_one_half][av_one_half] [av_textblock ] Isola La Certosa Heike, Rachel, Stephanie, Jason Neatline Exhibit Development of the Mose Jesse, Carlo, Chelsea MOSE from Media Arts + Sciences at Duke U on Vimeo. [/av_textblock] [/av_one_half]

At the 28th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Professor Victoria Szabo will be discussing “augmented reality systems as a way to place historical and cultural annotations in dialog with real-world spaces on the one hand, and with historic and/or critical texts on the other.” She will be offering as case studies Wired! Lab research on Venice, Italy, and Durham, North Carolina. The complete conference schedule can be viewed here. Abstract: This paper explores the implications of location-based and marker-based augmented reality for digital humanities practice, focusing on augmented reality systems as a way to place historical…

Duke Today has published an article on the Wired! Lab’s latest activities. Read the article here. Photo collage courtesy of Duke Today.

UPDATES: View the 2014 workshop projects. 10-24-2014 – Read one student’s reflections on her experience.   What is it about? This course will teach a range of digital skills in 3D modeling, visualization, and mapping technologies to enable participants to engage historical questions with emerging digital tools. As in the previous editions of the workshop, the technologies will be taught through the use of a theme: in 2014 the focus will be on Venice and its islands. Participants will use the city and the lagoon as a “laboratory” through which to examine questions such as change over time and dynamic…