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June 9, 2015
A number of the members of the DH community at Pitt have put together the following list of texts that do a good job of...
June 5, 2015
Friday, October 3rd, 2014
12:30 pm Museum Tour
Location: In front of the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater.
A tour of...
June 5, 2015
Debating Visual Knowledge was made possible by the following sponsors at the University of Pittsburgh:
The Department of the...
June 5, 2015
Debating Visual Knowledge: a symposium organized by graduate students in Information Science and History of Art and Architecture ...
June 5, 2015
A discussion about various defintions of "curation," sensory experiences in front of museum objects and also in digital space,...
June 5, 2015
In Spring and Summer of 2014, Dr. Drew Armstrong worked with a group of graduate and undergraduate students in History of Art and...
May 18, 2015
Decomposing Bodies is a complex project comprised of complex data. In the past two years, we’ve digitized approximately 3,500...
May 15, 2015
I wanted to share some work from our graduating seniors that showcases alternatives to the traditional research paper.
First of...
May 13, 2015
Dr. Patrick Jagoda, Professor of English, University of Chicago
"Network Aesthetics (or: How to See Anything When Everything...
May 13, 2015
Dr. Simone Osthoff, Professor of Art and Critical Studies, Pennsylvania State University and Playing the Archive
May 13, 2015
“Visualizing Cell Behavior in 3D: a tour of biology research praxis”
Tim Fessenden
Cells serve as unending sources of...
May 11, 2015
“Instant Interferences”
Jeffrey Curran and Jocelyn Monahan
Google has recently built a number of new data centers around the...
May 11, 2015
“Which long their longings urged their eyes to see:” Emblematic Perspectives in the Early Stuart Masque
Caroline Pirri...
May 11, 2015
“Visual Agnotology: Visual Production and Maintenance of Ignorance”
Chloe Hansen
Relationships between knowledge and the...
May 11, 2015
“The Thick Black Line: Image and Objectivity in Roman Ondák's Measuring the Universe”
Catherine MacArthur Falls
As discussed by...
May 11, 2015
“To Trust or Not to Trust: Telescopic (mis)Information on the Early Modern Stage”
Vivian Appler
Galileo Galilei’s Siderius...
May 6, 2015
“Post-studio Sublime: Southern California Art and Technology after Earthrise”
Ginger Elliott Smith
In December 1968, the...
May 6, 2015
"The Representation of Intersex Bodies in Klonaris/Thomadaki's Multimedia Practice" by Laura Giudici
“The representation of intersex bodies in Klonaris/Thomadaki’s multimedia practice”
Laura Giudici
The core of my research is...
May 6, 2015
“Drawings from the other side”
Alicia Puglionesi
Researchers in psychology and the cognitive sciences often look to the...
May 6, 2015
“Stripped Bare: Dissecting Wax, Print, and Paper Bodies in Antebellum America”
Juliet Sperling
The visual culture of 1840s...
April 30, 2015
““Divine Truths Photographed Upon the Soul”: The Holy Land through the Stereoscope (1900)”
Jeff Richmond-Moll
In 1900,...
April 30, 2015
“Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: History, Networks, Knowledge”
Dr. Christopher Warren, Dr.
Raja Sooriamurthi,
Ivy Chung,
Sama...
April 30, 2015
“The World, as it is Written on the Wall”
Patricia K. Guiley
Throughout history artists have incorporated or used graffiti as...
April 30, 2015
“Equivocating Diagrams: the many epistemic virtues in C H Waddington’s images and arguments”
Matthew Allen
The argument has...
April 15, 2015
Today is my last day working on the Itinera database until my presentation tomorrow. While gearing up for the end of the semester...
April 14, 2015
PhD Student in History of Art and ArchitectureBotany Hall is situated in a corner of the second floor of the CMNH, accessible...
April 8, 2015
We reworked Itinera because it was glitching on some tour stops for agents. Now that it's been updated, all the tour stops are...
April 1, 2015
Last week, I got into the story surrounding Thomas Bruce and the Parthenon Marbles. Now, let me tell you about the controversial...
March 26, 2015
With generous support from the Dean of Graduate Studies, ten HA&A graduate students (Maria Castro, Nicole Coffineau, Clarisse...
March 25, 2015
I'm still inputting data about the Elgin Marbles (now we're calling them the 'Parthenon Marbles') into Itinera. For your...
March 20, 2015
On March 18, Shirin and I introduced our thoughts for the Methods course we are planning to teach this fall and opened up a lively...
March 18, 2015
As I mentioned in a previous post, my next step in Itinera is to input my Elgin Marbles-related information into the database. So...
March 17, 2015
CAA has produced the pamphlet, "Code of Best Practices for Fair Use for the Visual Arts." It is clear, concise, and direct. Do read...
March 4, 2015
This week, just about all of the known Elgin Marbles have been submitted into a spreadsheet as preparation for Itinera. However,...
March 1, 2015
Here is what I have constructed so far for Rivera's Detroit Murals!
February 25, 2015
For the time being, I know where the Elgin Marbles have been and how they traveled around Europe for all research purposes. This...
February 19, 2015
Last week, I attended the conference of the College of Art Association in NYC, and I was struck by the level of enthusiasm that...
February 18, 2015
Here's my second attempt at the Itinera abstract, after some comments from Jen:
The humanities are ingrained in the history of our...
February 11, 2015
A particularly confusing component of our Decomposing Bodies research has concerned the inconsistent and seemingly illogical...