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Following the success of the Cultures of the Sea: Art of the Ancient Americas virtual tour, part of the Art of the Americas Initiative, the Nasher Museum of Art has collaborated with Mark Olson to produce a virtual tour of Graphic Pull: Contemporary Prints from the Collection. Built in a customized version of Marzipano, the virtual tour is set within a series of 360 images navigable via hotspot with mouse controls for panning, zoom, and rotation. Information hotspots feature art information, digitized artworks, videos with artists, and more. Featured artists include Art, Art History & Visual Studies faculty Pedro Lasch…

On Tuesday, April 7, lab director Paul Jaskot presented “The Intersecting History of Nazi Perpetrators and Jewish Victims in Occupied Krakow: Using the Built Environment to Analyze the Holocaust” at Greensboro College’s 13th Annual Schleunes Lecture, held virtually. The Schleunes Lecture, organized by Michael Sistrom, is presented annually through generous support of Richard and Jane Levy. The series honors Holocaust scholar Dr. Karl Schleunes and focuses on topics related to the Holocaust and genocide. Abstract This lecture will explore how architecture and urban planning help us to think through central aspects of the history of the Holocaust. Taking Nazi Occupied…

The Wired! Lab for Digital Art History and Visual Culture is pleased to announce both the launch of a new website (https://dahvc.org/) and the release of our digital and analog publication Celebrating 10+ Years of Wired! (https://reports.dahvc.org/). These events coincide with the changing of our name to the Duke University Digital Art History & Visual Culture Research Lab. The launch, the publication release, and the name change emphasize our public-facing mission of advancing art historical research projects that combine digital methods with cultural challenges, from the classroom to traditional and public-facing humanities scholarship. By emphasizing research, we are highlighting the…

This Saturday, February 27, 2021, Wired! Lab Director Paul Jaskot will deliver the keynote lecture for Toward a More Inclusive Digital Art History, an initiative of Panorama, journal of the Association of Historians of American Art. Jaskot’s lecture, titled “Thinking about Visibility and Invisibility in the Art Historical Canon: The Tensions between Evidence and Data in Digital Art History,” will focus on the tensions between evidence and data in Digital Art History and argue that these tensions mark the fundamental humanistic importance of this computational work. Learn more & sign up to attend.

On Friday, 11 December, 2020, il Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali (CSAACP) will host a digital seminar featuring The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database’s project members Caroline Bruzelius and Paola Vitolo. Contact lacapraia[at]gmail[dot]com if you wish to participate. Why Make an Image Database? Digital Tools and New Perspectives in Art History Wars, natural disasters, urban expansion, and changes in taste have transformed the medieval monuments of South Italy, their interior decoration, and their relationship to the landscape. The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database was created to enhance our knowledge and understanding of the…