This project is a Humanities Writ Large funded initiative between Prof. Caroline Bruzelius and Prof. Carlo Tomasi, Chair of Computer Science. It focuses on capturing data on medieval chisel marks through photography in order to analyze chisel marks and process in … Continue reading
VMS551 invites you to: Communicating Archaeology Bringing the sites, stories and science to the public Friday 19th April in the Wired! Lab refreshments from 3.15 short student presentations and interactive digital projects
Abstract: The Dazu Thousand-hand Bodhisattva Statue is located at Baoding Mountain in Chongqing. The statue was first carved in the early Tang Dynasty and during the Song Dynasty. This Statue is 7.7 meters in height and 10.9 meters in width; … Continue reading
A workshop in two parts to be run in the Wired! lab by Sarah Goetz and Rebecca Bennett (with guests), which introduces various technologies, walks lecturers through an example of their use and incorporates syllabus planning to ensure smooth integration … Continue reading
Due to an overwhelming response, all workshops are full and waitlist capacity has been reached. Please contact katherine.jentleson@duke.edu with questions about the workshops or kick-off event. Thursday, May 2 @ 5:00 pm Roundtable discussion at the National Humanities … Continue reading
Beginning with Napoleon’s forced entry into the city in 1797 and the fall of a more than 1000 year old Republic, the urban landscape of Venice experienced notable change. Significant intervention included the destruction of many Renaissance monuments and, therefore, … Continue reading
The Alife Arch project interrogates the provenance and function of several stone fragments in the Brummer Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The project follows the lives of these fragments from their original contexts in antiquity … Continue reading
This project follows the complex cultural biographies of two sculptural fragments in the Brummer Collection at Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art. In analyzing the Head of a Virgin from the choir screen at Chartres’ cathedral and a Virtue from the north transept portal … Continue reading
Visitors to this site will be able to learn about the remnants of ancient Athens that were discovered in very recent excavations, made necessary for the construction of the Athens Metro System. These excavations were very successful; they led to … Continue reading
Wired!
Wired! at Duke University is an initiative by innovators in the digital humanities, including art history, archaeology, data visualization, and architectural history. We explore the application of 3D modeling, laser scanning, photogrammetry, geo-refrenced mapping, databases, 3D printing, virtual reality, augmented reality, and non-linear web-publishing technologies for their use in both research and teaching.
