PUBLIC LECTURE ON VIRTUAL ROME

"Making Cultural Heritage Virtual: 'Rome Reborn' and Other 3D Modeling Projects at the University of Virginia"

Bernard Frischer
Director at Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities and Professor of Art History and Classics
University of Virginia

5:00 - 6:00 PM
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
204A East Duke Building
East Campus, Duke University

Sponsored by the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies and the Visual Studies Initiative.

PUBLIC LECTURE ON TELEMATIC ART

Shawn Brixey, Altamira, #1 of 3.

"From Simulation to Emulation: New Frontiers of Telematic Art in the 21st Century"

Shawn Brixey
Professor and Director of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS)
University of Washington

Wednesday, April 29
12:00 - 2:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240

The processes of imagination, exploration, discovery, and reflection are universal among artists, scientists, and engineers. The digital era brings with it remarkable new promise in these endeavors. To support the highest level of this promise the University of Washington has created a path-breaking new research center and autonomous degree-granting program - DXARTS. This presentation will outline some of the core thematics that underpin the unique research and pedagogy being developed at DXARTS, focusing primarily upon the emerging areas of emulation and telematic art, and the important distinction of these ideas and practices in contrast to the principle body of simulative work that can be predominantly understood as the digital arts canon.

www.dxarts.washington.edu/shawnx

For more information about this talk, please visit the ISIS Upcoming Events Page:

http://isis.duke.edu/events/upcoming.html#brixey

Sponsored by the Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS) Program, the Jenkins Collaboratory, and the Visual Studies Initiative.

WIRED! FACULTY PRESENTATION



"Wired! New Representational Technologies for Historical Materials": Lessons Learned

Professors Caroline Bruzelius, Sheila Dillon, Mark Olson, Rachael Brady, and Raquel Salvatella discuss their experiences from this spring teaching the new Wired! course and how they think the model can be extended for future courses or programs.

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
4:00 PM
Bay 11, Second Floor, Smith Warehouse (enter through Bay 12)
Duke University

FILM SCREENING AND SYMPOSIUM

From the Reel to the Virtual:
The Past and Future of the Moving Image



Opening:
Screening of films by Malcolm Le Grice. Discussion with the filmmaker and reception to follow.

5:00 PM
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Nasher Museum of Art, Auditorium
Duke University

Joseph's Newer Coat - 1998-2001, 16 minutes, 3 screens
Cherry - 2003, 2 minutes, 3 screens
Wier - 1993 and 2007, 3 minutes, 3 screens
DENISINED - SINEDENIS  - 2006, 3 minutes, 3 screens
Even the Cyclops Pays the Ferryman -  1998-2001, 17 minutes, 3 screens

Symposium Sessions:

Friday, May 1, 2009
9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
0012 Westbrook
Duke University

Held in the context of the transformation of Duke University's Program in Film Video Digital into a more capacious Program in the Arts of the Moving Image, our symposium aims to examine the relationships and tensions between cinema in its 20th century media embodiment-as film-and cinema in its 21st century "postfilmic" and it 19th century "prefilmic" embodiments.


9:30 - 11:30 AM
Session I: The Place of the Digital in Cinema Studies

Speaker: Malcolm LeGrice. Respondent: Bill Seaman
Speaker: D. N. Rodowick. Respondent: Tim Lenoir

This session will focus on the question of history and specifically on the question of whether there is continuity between the institution of cinema that arguably comprises the art form of the 20th century (film) and the institution of cinema that is taking shape in and for the 21st century.


1:00 - 3:00 PM
Session II: Programs Between Film and Digital

Speaker: Sharon Daniel. Respondent: Tom Rankin
Speaker: Shawn Brixey. Respondent: Marsha Orgeron

This session will devote attention to issues confronting film studies programs at this moment of technical and institutional change.


3:30 - 5:30 PM
Session III: The Future of Cinema Studies

Speaker: Tom Gunning. Respondent: Negar Mottahedeh
Speaker: Garrett Stewart. Respondent: Mark Hansen

This session will turn to the question of why we might want to retain "cinema" as a logic for organizing a program and, more generally, what its value is for thinking the future of media studies.   

Sponsored by the Program in Arts of the Moving Image, Information Science + Information Studies (ISIS), the Jenkins Collaboratory and the Visual Studies Initiative.

FACULTY EXHIBITIONS

A selection of pieces by Fatimah Tuggar, Bill Seaman, and William Noland

Bill Seaman, still from Architecture of Association


Fatimah Tuggar, Nebulous Wait, 2005, photomontage

William Noland, still from Occulted

Opening reception:

Friday, May 1, 2009
6:00 - 8:00 PM
East Duke Building Corridor Gallery (1st floor)

WORKSHOP

Visual Thinking:
How Do Visual Communication Technologies Affect Learning and Knowledge Retention in the Sciences and Humanities?



May 4 - 5, 2009

Monday, May 4, 2009
3:00 - 8:00 PM
CIEMAS Auditorium and Breakout Rooms

Tuesday, May 5, 2009
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
CIEMAS Auditorium and Breakout Rooms

The explosion of visually rich computer tools has empowered educators and researchers to explore their data and communicate ideas using a visual language as well as a text-based language. The ease of use of these tools means non-experts can be creators as well as consumers. The time is ripe to seriously examine how we evaluate the effectiveness of incorporating visualization in all its forms (drawings, images, illustrations, videos, interactive games, 3D worlds, virtual reality) in teaching concepts in the sciences and humanities. How should we revise tests to reflect the strengths of visual communications? How important in the creation vs. consumption of materials in knowledge retention? How do we justify these activities when seeking federal funding?

This 1-1/2 day workshop will explore these questions by brining together individuals who are willing to experiment with visually rich methods of teaching. By the end of the workshop, we hope participants will develop (1) a set of visual teaching strategies that may help students learn principles in an alternative manner to the typical textbook experience and (2) a set of strategies to evaluate learning with visualizations.

The format of the workshop will include invited presentations and small-group working sessions.

Please see: http://cit.duke.edu/events/event.do?eventid=2001&occurid=3811.

SMITH WAREHOUSE ARTS EXHIBITIONS

April 24 - May 12, 2009
Smith Warehouse, Duke University

Amy Benzyk & Catherine Nelson: Senior Distinction Students
Paintings, Artists Books, and Prints
Bay, 1st Floor

Work Selections by Senior Students from Capstone Course
(ARTSVIS 200/Noland)
Painting, Photography, Installation, Video, & Other Media
Bay 12, 2nd Floor & Media Lab

Work Selections by Students from Intro to Visual Practice
(ARTSVIS 54/Fick-Lasch)
Various Media
Bay 12, 2nd Floor & Media Lab

Work Selections by Students from Intro to Photography (ARTSVIS190b/Bogaert)
Photo Projects and Prints
Bay 11, 2nd Floor

Ashwin Kulothungun & Christopher Neo Chung: Senior Students
Interactive Media Work
Bay 11, 2nd Floor

Fatimah Tuggar: International Artist-in-Residence
Large-scale Digital Prints and Interactive Works
Bay 11, 2nd Floor


Fatimah Tuggar, Plain Veracity, 2008, photomontage

Please see: http://sites.google.com/site/vpexhibitionsevents/

FALL 2009 ISIS FOCUS CLUSTER ON VIRTUAL REALITIES

Virtual Realities: Digital Media, Imagined Worlds, and Immersive 3D Environments



Within the past half century, a powerful new paradigm has emerged in the ways in which we produce and consume information. The idea of an immersive "virtual reality" space for intellectual inquiry and exploration encompasses education, engineering, industry, and the arts. While the idea of a virtual reality goes back to the earliest human storytelling and pictorial practices, technology has helped establish these in increasingly flexible forms. Fueled by decades of growth in computational processing power, these new modes of knowing are transforming the foundations of the arts, sciences, and humanities by providing new experimental, rhetorical, and experiential interfaces to information.

Students in the Virtual Realities Focus take two of the four courses listed below, plus participate in the collective Interdisciplinary Discussion Course once a week. The cluster is highly collaborative and project oriented and welcomes students from all academic backgrounds and interests (humanities, sciences, engineering). No gaming or programming experience required, although gamers and programmers are welcome!

ISIS 110FCS
Authoring Digital Media: The Victorian Crystal Palace and Virtual Exhibition Spaces
Instructor: Victoria Szabo

ISIS 170FCS
Constructing Immersive Virtual Worlds
Instructors: Julian Lombardi and Mark McCahill

CLST 85FCS.01
Good and Evil in Imagined Worlds
Instructor: Clare Woods

VISUALST 192FCS.01/ISIS 108FCS.01/FVD 137.01
Virtual Form and Space
Instructor: Raquel Salvatella de Prada

FOCUS 99FCS.12
Special Topics in Focus: Virtual Realities (the Interdisciplinary Discussion Course or "IDC")
Instructors: Richard Lucic and Victoria Szabo

Please see: http://isis.duke.edu/curriculum/virtualrealities/

SUMMER COURSE

Summer Term I
ARTHIST 177C-01
Minimalism and the American West
Instructor: Karen Gonzalez Rice


Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Running Fence, 1972-76, Sonoma and Marin Counties, California

This seminar is designed for students interested in exploring the relationship between the cultural, social geography of a specific region-the American West-and the set of varied yet related aesthetic practices loosely defined as Minimalist, including painting, sculpture, land art, and earth art. Students will develop art historical knowledge of art works and artists working in the West and will examine the social, political, and economic contexts of art production in these spaces, considering critical responses, viewer experiences, and impact on communities. No prior knowledge of art history is necessary for this course, although an understanding of the history of modern and contemporary art is helpful.

NEW AAHVS COURSES FOR FALL 2009

ARTHIST 155
Michelangelo in Context
Instructor: Sara Galletti


Michelangelo, Study for a Nude, 1504, pen and ink over black chalk. Casa Buonarroti, Florence


ARTHIST 283S
Topics: Picasso: Art, Language, and Culture
Instructor: Patricia Leighten


Pablo Picasso, Dice, Packet of Cigarettes, and Visiting-Card, 1914, painted and printed paper, graphite, watercolor. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, CT


ARTHIST 395.01
Topics: Interpretation of the Classical Style in Greek Sculpture
Instructor: Sheila Dillon


The Tyrannicides (Harmodius and Aristogeiton), Roman copy of 5th century BCE, marble. National Archaeological Museum, Naples


ARTSVIS 173
Gaming the System
Instructor: Casey Alt




VISUALST 192
Virtual Form and Space: Bodies of Code
Instructor: Casey Alt




VISUALST 260S. 01
Topics: Stereotype
Instructor: Richard Powell


Edward W. Clay, Back to Back, 1830s, lithograph. American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA


VISUALST 260S.02
Post-Communist Visual Culture
Instructor: Pamela Kachurin


Dubossarsky and Vinogradov, Au Plein Air, oil on canvas. Collection of the Artist.


VISUALST 260S.04
Art and Literature in the Digital Domain
Instructors: Katherine Hayles and Bill Seaman

VISUALST 266S
The Body as Electrochemical Computer:
Toward a New Computational and Aesthetic Paradigm
Instructor: Bill Seaman


VISUALST 270S.01
New Media, Memory and the Visual Archive
Instructor: Mark Olson


Christian Boltanski, Reserve-Detective III, 1987

Please refer all relevant departmental information for inclusion in our weekly announcement to John Taormina, Director, Visual Resources Center, at taormina@duke.edu.