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Public Lecture
"Experiencing the Past: Cyber-Heritage, Research and Education"
Maurizio Forte
Professor of World Heritage
University of California, Merced
Professor of Virtual Environments for Cultural Heritage
University of Lugano
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
4:30 PM
108 East Duke Building
East Campus, Duke University
Maurizio Forte, PhD, has coordinated research projects in Italy, India, Turkey Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria, Kazakhstan, Peru, China, Oman, and Mexico. He is editor and author of several books including Virtual Archaeology and Virtual Reality in Archaeology, and two hundred scientific papers on the topics: virtual reality in archaeology, spatial technologies, 3D documentation, and virtual reconstruction of archaeological landscapes. His awards include: Best Paper Award, VSMM2002; 2005 E-content Award; Best Paper Award, VSMM2008; 2008 E-content Award, E-learning; 2008 E-content Award, Italy, E-culture; 2009 Tartessos Prize.
Major funding for this lecture is provided by the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute. Sponsored by the JHFHI Working Group on Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts: Reconfiguring Knowledge in the Digital Age.
East Duke Corridor Video Display: Arts of the Moving Image
Currently being presented on the East Duke Corridor Gallery video screen are thirteen videos, including animation, by current or past students in the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI). The video montage, totalling over 1-1/2 hours of run time, was assembled by Josh Gibson, Associate Director of AMI.
A Journey to the West, Lawrence Chen (6 min)
On the Trail of Gnicche, Zane Shannon, Sarah Goetz, Charlie McSpadden, Julia Aronson, Dani Potter (10min 37 secs)
Elephant's Foot, Michael Faber (4 min 45 secs)
The Collector, Shang Gao (4 min 43 secs)
Good in My Hood, Eric Holljes (3 min 23 secs)
Side Effects, Lawrence Chen (8 min 53 secs)
La Vita Dell Pozo, (The Life of the Well) Jessica Dreyfus, Matt Tolson, Nick Weisner, Ian Howland, Alex Ripley (13min 5 secs)
Didn't Get It, Anthony Watkins (2 min 58 secs)
Attack of the Cephalopods, David Logan, Eric Bramley (22 min 8 secs)
As Good as it Gets, Varun Lela (3min 21 secs)
Conjuring Billie Holliday, Margo Joffe (12 min 4 secs)
Dance For Camera, Jessica Dreyfus (4 min 24 secs)
Pure Evil, Sam Cieply (3 min 13 secs)
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New Book: Religion and Material Culture
David Morgan, Professor of Religion with a secondary appointment in Art, Art History and Visual Studies, edited Religion and Material Culture: The Matter of Belief (Routledge 2009).
Routledge describes the book as follows:
Religious belief is rooted in and sustained by material practice, and this book provides an extraordinary insight into how it works on the ground. David Morgan has brought together a lively group of writers from religious studies, anthropology, history of art, and other disciplines, to investigate belief in everyday practices; in the objects, images, and spaces of religious devotion and in the sensations and feelings that are the medium of experience. By avoiding mind/body dualism, the study of religion can break new ground by examining embodiment, sensation, space, and performance. Materializing belief means taking a close look at what people do, how they feel, the objects they exchange and display, and the spaces in which they perform, whether spontaneously or with scripted ceremony. Contributions to the volume examine religions around the world - from Korea and Brazil to North America, Europe, and Africa. Belief is explored in a wealth of contexts, including Tibetan Buddhism, the hajj, American suburbia and the world of dreams, visions, and UFOs.
Trent Foundation Grant
Reconstruction of San Francesco at Folloni by Michal Koscyski and Rebecca Wood.
Caroline Bruzelius, Anne M. Cogan Professor of Art History, received a $3,000 grant from the Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation. The grant will be used to develop visualizations of medieval abbeys.
The Trent Foundation was established in 1977 by Mrs. Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans to honor the memory of Dr. Josiah Charles Trent. Twice a year, in the spring and the fall, the Trent Foundation assists faculty and staff members of Duke University by providing modest grants for projects whose funding might be difficult to obtain from other sources.
Word & Image Article
Gino Severini, The Dynamic Hieroglyphic of the Bal Tabarin, 1912, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Zoë Marie Jones, Ph.D. candidate, had her article, "Spiritual Crisis and the 'Call to Order': The Early Aesthetic Writings of Gino Severini and Jacques Maritain, published in Word & Image A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2010): 59 - 67.
Teacher Training in Cambodia
Sarah Jones Dickens, Ph.D. candidate, will return to Cambodia from November 22-December 9 to work on the second round of teacher training with the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) and the Ministry of Education's Genocide Education Project. The program will train over three hundred teachers in the provinces to implement a textbook on Khmer Rouge history. Dickens will be in Battambang, Cambodia facilitating the training process. She will also pursue research on the DC-Cam Archive as a site of (re) constructing memory post-trauma. Dickens received funding from USAID and DC-Cam for this project.
AAHVS Alumnus Featured on Duke Website
A video of Charles Sparkman (B.A. '09) is featured on the Duke website highlighting "Inquiring across Disciplines" in the revolving screen on the front page. The Sparkman video is titled, "Seeing across boundaries: visualizing the 3D details of a medieval cathedral" in which he discusses transforming his 2D design project from his class on Gothic Cathedrals, working with Prof. Caroline Bruzelius, to a 3D virtual environment in the DiVE (Duke Immersive Virtual Environment), working with Prof. Rachel Brady.
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