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Dynamic Lab Brings Digital Approaches to Art History

We’re pleased to share a new video that profiles our lab & what we’re up to. You can access the video directly via Duke’s Trinity College YouTube channel here.


Spring 2024 Courses

Creative Cartography

Creative Cartography

Students learn how maps and map-making has always existed in a contentious position between art & science, culture & nature. Course combines discussion of readings…

Digital Durham

Digital Durham

Representing Durham past and present with digital media. Digitize historical and cultural materials, research in archives and public records and present information through various forms…

Historical & Cultural Visualization Proseminar 2

Historical & Cultural Visualization Proseminar 2

Core studio practice-based course for advanced computational methods; emphasis on development of individual artistic and/or digital research practice through prototyping and critique. Introduction to key…

Painting of a white man sitting with books and a door behind him. Superimposed: Dictionary of Art Historians. Image Credit: Lee Sorensen

Dictionary of Art Historians

https://vimeo.com/835706833 Hear from Dictionary co-PIs Lee Sorensen and Hannah Jacobs about the history of the project. The Dictionary of Art Historians started as a long-standing…

3D model of the Nazi architectural plan for Krakow. Model created by Davide Contiero

Mapping Occupied Krakow

As is well known, Krakow became a key location within the National Socialist plan for military expansion and the implementation of genocide in Eastern Europe…

Digitally annotated medieval city view. Image credit: Edward Triplett

Sandcastle

The primary goal of the Sandcastle project is to enable researchers to visualize non-Cartesian, premodern images of places in a comparative environment that resembles the…

Hypothetical floor plan for a setting in The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Image credit: Victoria Szabo & Cosimo Monteleone

Visualizing Lovecraft’s Providence

This project explores the use of historical and cultural visualization techniques to instantiate the imagined Providence, Rhode Island of author H.P. Lovecraft. H.P. Lovecraft famously…

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Lab Calendar

April 19, 2024
April 20, 2024
April 21, 2024
April 22, 2024
April 23, 2024
  • Graduate Reading Period

    April 18, 2024 - April 28, 2024  

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  • HOLD: Departmental Activities

    April 23, 2024  11:30 am - 1:00 pm

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  • HCVIS 581S - Proseminar 2 (Olson & Wendell)

    April 23, 2024  1:25 pm - 4:25 pm

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  • ARTHIST 306S Creative Cartography (Triplett)

    April 23, 2024  4:40 pm - 5:55 pm

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April 24, 2024
  • Graduate Reading Period

    April 18, 2024 - April 28, 2024  

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  • Undergraduate classes end; some Graduate 500-699 classes end

    April 24, 2024

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  • ARTHIST 719 - Creative Cartography (Triplett)

    April 24, 2024  10:05 am - 12:35 pm

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  • workshop prep

    April 24, 2024  1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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  • German Studies Workshop (Vic)

    April 24, 2024  2:00 pm - 6:00 pm

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April 25, 2024
  • Graduate Reading Period

    April 18, 2024 - April 28, 2024  

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  • Undergraduate Reading Period

    April 25, 2024 - April 28, 2024  

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