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New York Public Library, Billy Rose Theatre Collection photograph file / Productions / Don Quijote (cinema 1915)
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...
Friday, October 3rd, 2014 12:30 pm            Museum Tour Location: In front of the Carnegie Museum of Art Theater. A tour of...
Debating Visual Knowledge was made possible by the following sponsors at the University of Pittsburgh: The Department of the...
Debating Visual Knowledge: a symposium organized by graduate students in Information Science and History of Art and Architecture ...
A discussion about various defintions of "curation," sensory experiences in front of museum objects and also in digital space,...
In Spring and Summer of 2014, Dr. Drew Armstrong worked with a group of graduate and undergraduate students in History of Art and...
Decomposing Bodies is a complex project comprised of complex data. In the past two years, we’ve digitized approximately 3,500...
I wanted to share some work from our graduating seniors that showcases alternatives to the traditional research paper.   First of...
Dr. Patrick Jagoda, Professor of English, University of Chicago "Network Aesthetics (or: How to See Anything When Everything...
Dr. Simone Osthoff, Professor of Art and Critical Studies, Pennsylvania State University and Playing the Archive  
“Visualizing Cell Behavior in 3D: a tour of biology research praxis”  Tim Fessenden Cells serve as unending sources of...
“Instant Interferences” Jeffrey Curran and Jocelyn Monahan Google has recently built a number of new data centers around the...
“Which long their longings urged their eyes to see:” Emblematic Perspectives in the Early Stuart Masque Caroline Pirri...
“Visual Agnotology: Visual Production and Maintenance of Ignorance” Chloe Hansen Relationships between knowledge and the...
“The Thick Black Line: Image and Objectivity in Roman Ondák's Measuring the Universe” Catherine MacArthur Falls As discussed by...
 “To Trust or Not to Trust: Telescopic (mis)Information on the Early Modern Stage” Vivian Appler Galileo Galilei’s Siderius...
“Post-studio Sublime: Southern California Art and Technology after Earthrise” Ginger Elliott Smith In December 1968, the...
“The representation of intersex bodies in Klonaris/Thomadaki’s multimedia practice” Laura Giudici The core of my research is...
“Drawings from the other side” Alicia Puglionesi
 Researchers in psychology and the cognitive sciences often look to the...
“Stripped Bare: Dissecting Wax, Print, and Paper Bodies in Antebellum America” Juliet Sperling The visual culture of 1840s...
““Divine Truths Photographed Upon the Soul”: The Holy Land through the Stereoscope (1900)” Jeff Richmond-Moll In 1900,...
Six Degrees of Francis Bacon
“Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: History, Networks, Knowledge” Dr. Christopher Warren, Dr.
 Raja Sooriamurthi, 
Ivy Chung, 
Sama...
“The World, as it is Written on the Wall” Patricia K. Guiley Throughout history artists have incorporated or used graffiti as...
Waddington's epigenetic landscape
“Equivocating Diagrams: the many epistemic virtues in C H Waddington’s images and arguments” Matthew Allen The argument has...
Today is my last day working on the Itinera database until my presentation tomorrow.  While gearing up for the end of the semester...
Botany Hall, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
PhD Student in History of Art and ArchitectureBotany Hall is situated in a corner of the second floor of the CMNH, accessible...
We reworked Itinera because it was glitching on some tour stops for agents.  Now that it's been updated, all the tour stops are...
Last week, I got into the story surrounding Thomas Bruce and the Parthenon Marbles.  Now, let me tell you about the controversial...
With generous support from the Dean of Graduate Studies, ten HA&A graduate students (Maria Castro, Nicole Coffineau, Clarisse...
I'm still inputting data about the Elgin Marbles (now we're calling them the 'Parthenon Marbles') into Itinera.  For your...
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...
As I mentioned in a previous post, my next step in Itinera is to input my Elgin Marbles-related information into the database.  So...
CAA has produced the pamphlet, "Code of Best Practices for Fair Use for the Visual Arts." It is clear, concise, and direct. Do read...
This week, just about all of the known Elgin Marbles have been submitted into a spreadsheet as preparation for Itinera.  However,...
Here is what I have constructed so far for Rivera's Detroit Murals! 
For the time being, I know where the Elgin Marbles have been and how they traveled around Europe for all research purposes.  This...
Last week, I attended the conference of the College of Art Association in NYC, and I was struck by the level of enthusiasm that...
Here's my second attempt at the Itinera abstract, after some comments from Jen: The humanities are ingrained in the history of our...
A particularly confusing component of our Decomposing Bodies research has concerned the inconsistent and seemingly illogical...