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May 17, 2016
When tasked, along with others, to survey attendees of the International Congress on Medieval Studies (2016) in Kalamazoo, Michigan...
May 16, 2016
PhD Student in the School of Computing and InformationOver the coming months, Colleen O'Reilly and I (and other guest bloggers)...
May 10, 2016
This week, my advisor, three courageous graduate students, and I will be attending the International Congress of Medieval Studies...
May 9, 2016
I’m thrilled to report progress of the museum studies students + staff experiment underway here at the Carnegie Museums of...
May 4, 2016
The Visual Media Workshop has continued to be a thriving hub for the department’s Graduate Students and Faculty Members. Lead by...
April 29, 2016
Museum Studies Intern at the University Library System - Spring 2016
I made a video to discuss my Special Collections exhibits...
April 29, 2016
Museum Studies Intern at The Andy Warhol Museum - Spring 2016I’m currently a Curatorial Intern at the Andy Warhol Museum. My...
April 28, 2016
Museum Studies Intern at the University Art Gallery - Spring 2016As a University Art Gallery Intern, I am working to update and...
April 8, 2016
Museum Studies Intern at the Archives Service Center, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh - Spring 2016My job as an...
March 14, 2016
It has been a couple of years in the making, but we've finally arrived…. the Digital Graduate Scholars Group!! As a cohort of PhD...
March 10, 2016
My previous field report on the museum studies students + staff experiment underway here at the Carnegie Museums and University...
March 9, 2016
In our far from post-racial world, museums are increasingly feeling the pressures of demographic change and urgent new campaigns...
February 29, 2016
Once a heat-swollen, record-setting producer of iron for US Steel, Pittsburgh’s Carrie Furnaces is now a bony relic of the American...
February 16, 2016
Today’s museums strive to be increasingly relevant, ethical, and responsible public-facing institutions by engaging with issues...
January 31, 2016
A very big hearty thanks to Mary and Ron Zboray from the Department of Communication for taking two and a half hours of their day...
January 22, 2016
Here are some of the terms and resources we covered today in today's VMW Toolshop: Making Your Own Website.
Domain Names
A...
December 28, 2015
Boston report
Now that the semester has finally come to an end, I’ve had a chance to recover and wanted to bring you all up to...
December 14, 2015
Below please find a curated list of the digital tools I am currently recommending to people when they come to me with particular...
November 10, 2015
This semester the Methods Visual Knowledge affinity group attended the South Eastern College Arts Conference (SECAC) held this year...
November 6, 2015
On October 24-26, 2015, we had the pleasure to participate as presenters, panel chairs and attendees in the Southeastern College...
November 6, 2015
This blog post was created in the context of our Methods class in which we (Sarah, Jackie, Clarisse) are working on the notion of...
October 27, 2015
For a general introduction to network analysis, start with Scott Weingart's work here:
Weingart, Scott. “Demystifying...
October 14, 2015
The early stage of engaging with a new project is largely a process of establishing context. This is, in many ways, easier to do...
September 23, 2015
During the Visual Media Workshop’s tool shop on organizing images for research and teaching, some questions arose regarding the...
September 16, 2015
Hello all!
Contemporaneity co-editors in chief invite you to submit to the department's journal Contemporaneity. The new deadline...
August 22, 2015
I just returned to Pittsburgh after a month-long trip to Australia. I've spent the past week sorting notes and images and making...
August 13, 2015
Please read this article, "An Undergraduate's Love Letter to Digital Humanities Research," by Tiffany Chan...and let me know your...
August 13, 2015
See the PDF here and below for the (draft) syllabus for this Fall Term's PhD seminar, "LIS 3600: The Digital and the Humanities...
June 17, 2015
This is the poster that Alison Langmead and I presented at iConference 2015! The abstract is also available at the IDEALS@Illinois ...
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...