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September 9, 2014
I took the idea of creating a reading chart exercise from an essay on team-based learning at arthistoryteachingresources.org. I...
September 9, 2014
As my colleague, Aisling, describes in detail here, we in the Visual Media Workshop have been transcribing Bertillon cards for the...
September 6, 2014
I took four undergrads to the Flight 93 Memorial today, three of them TAs in my 1010 course and one of them my daughter. The fields...
September 4, 2014
I will be giving a brown back talk on visualization as a tool in the humanities tomorrow, September 5th at noon. All are invited...
September 3, 2014
Doctoral, masters, and undergraduate students are collaborating in the Visual Media Workshop, transcribing the ever-inconsistent...
September 2, 2014
Are you a Facebook user? If so, visit the Facebook page for the Debating Visual Knowledge symposium. Expect updates!
August 28, 2014
Mark your calendars for the University of Pittsburgh's Debating Visual Knowledge Graduate Student Symposium on October 3-5....
August 8, 2014
The Artl@s Bulletin (http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/artlas/) recently came to my attention. This is a peer-reviewed online...
August 6, 2014
I will be teaching a PhD seminar this fall in the digital humanities at the iSchool here at Pitt. The draft syllabus is done for...
August 1, 2014
Cornell University Library has started a project. funded by the NEH, to investigate how best to preserve born-digital art objects....
July 28, 2014
For any of you interested in time-and-space-based visualizations of photography in America, Yale has put out their Photogrammar...
July 21, 2014
This summer has seen any number of "digital art history" institutes going on, from Middlebury to UCLA. Miriam Posner, from UCLA,...
July 15, 2014
Thursday July 17, 2014 3:45 PM
Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh
Reception and Light Refreshments to Follow
The...
July 5, 2014
After experimenting with photomatch multiple times, I realized it may not be the best method for assembling this venue because it...
July 2, 2014
June has been a relaxing month for me, but I must admit that I have not been focusing on the SEP project this month! This is why I...
June 11, 2014
On Monday, June 9th, Alison Langmead, Alexandra Oliver, Isabelle Chartier, and I embarked on a roadtrip to Columbus, Ohio. Towing...
June 2, 2014
I have constructed the second and third stories of the SEP. Before I start placing the murals for the third story in the project, I...
June 1, 2014
One wouldn't think that when searching for images that a singular word could make a difference in the search results---but it does...
May 30, 2014
The mission of the Encounters Project is multifaceted and involves three different groups of participants that each benefited in...
May 30, 2014
The Encounters Project unfolded in three phases over the course of one semester. The first, involved us, the undergraduates,...
May 30, 2014
The Met recently made available a number of digital images of objects their collection for download on their website. They are "...
May 30, 2014
The first phase of the project for the undergraduate teaching mentors was to learn how to teach art history lessons. These are the...
May 30, 2014
January 23rd What is "Art"?
Students defined “art” and worked collaboratively to rank works based on their definition.
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May 30, 2014
We started the teaching portion of the class at a very basic level because we were unsure how familiar and confident students were...
May 30, 2014
Site visits were an important component of the program because they allow students to confront the monuments and works that they...
May 30, 2014
Although physical trips to a local sites were a major component of the class, we included examples of public art from other areas...
May 30, 2014
The Encounters Project exhibition is the culminating point where all of the goals of the program come together to celebrate the...
May 30, 2014
Each of the final projects can be connected to an artist, site, or voice that was studied earlier in the Encounters Project. I have...
May 14, 2014
The VMW graduate researchers (Alex and me) and the director, Alison Langmead, convened a two-day retreat at the end of Spring Term...
April 30, 2014
Criminal identification is kind of like Hegel: once you start studying it, you see it everywhere. Most recently at the Queens...
April 29, 2014
The fantastic scholar David Berry recently drew attention to a number of issues surrounding facial recognition and the impact of...
April 18, 2014
Fascinating article: LAPD Crime photographs on exhibition at Paris Photo in LA. Crime + photography - a long, weird marriage.
April 18, 2014
From 4:30 - 6 pm yesterday, the WPU Assembly room was a zoo: 240 students, 51 faculty mentors, all their posters, laptop computers...
April 15, 2014
During the spring of 2014, five undergraduate teaching mentors from the University of Pittsburgh implemented a program called The...
April 14, 2014
...FIVE of the grants went to projects incorporating computing. ("The digital humanities community responded to NEH’s call for...
April 14, 2014
Our colleagues over at 4humanities.org have brought our attention to an "idea comparison" engine that they have set up to talk...
April 11, 2014
This is my last time in lab before our presentations next Thursday. (Everyone should totally come to the WPU Assembly Room to see...
April 11, 2014
Humanities, usually has the the bad rep of being easy and lacking in innovation and necessary mental capabilities. Society...