Victoria Szabo on the Rise of Digital Humanities at Duke
Professor Victoria Szabo was interviewed by Duke Today on digital humanities at Duke and how it’s developed over time. Szabo highlights the importance of making as a learning process and the ways students can get involved.
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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…
Featured Courses
Proseminar II: Computational Media Studio in 3D & Interactive Media
Core studio practice-based course for advanced computational methods; emphasis on development of individual artistic and/or digital research practice through prototyping and critique. Introduction to key…
Constructing Immersive Virtual Worlds
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…
Proseminar I: Interdisciplinary Digital Humanities
Multimodal interdisciplinary digital humanities in theory and practice. Research, cultural heritage applications, public outreach. Theoretical and critical perspectives on humanities texts, data, images and other…
Digital Art History/Computational Media Thesis Writing Workshop
Support for the writing of the thesis paper through multiple drafts and group discussion. Writing of documentation and reflection of the MA in Digital Art…
Archives as Data
A discursive and hands-on engagement with questions of how archival materials can be transformed into data, why scholars may engage archives as data, what kinds…
New Media, Memory, and the Visual Archive
Explores impact of new media on the nature of archives as technologies of cultural memory and knowledge production. Sustained engagement with major theorists of the…
Featured Projects
Sandcastle
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…
Dictionary of Art Historians
The Dictionary of Art Historians started as a long-standing private research tool which joined the Wired! Lab in 2017. As an open-source public database, it…
World Building at Duke in an Emerging Durham: 1924-1932
This project is part of the 2023-2024 Bass Connections Duke’s Centennial popup theme. The establishment of the Duke Endowment in 1924 enabled the massive building…
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…
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