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Studio Facilities: The Arts, Culture, and Technology Studios
In the Smith Warehouse
Duke University

A former Liggett tobacco warehouse on Buchanan Boulevard—across from the main entrance to Duke University's East Campus and used most recently for printing cigarette cartons—has just been transformed into the Arts, Culture, and Technology Studios: a state-of-the-art multimedia center where visual artists and composers will collaborate to create new forms of art and where faculty from a variety of disciplines will create new knowledge in the arts, including digital music, digital graphics, printmaking, artists’ books, photography, painting, drawing and a variety of new media.

The Arts, Culture, and Technology Studios are the centerpiece of a new academic focus on the digital arts at Duke, a launching pad to foster interdisciplinary collaborations among students, faculty, and visiting artists in residence. The studios will attract a new kind of student to Duke, one who is both artistically talented and technologically sophisticated, one who is equally at ease studying graphic arts, or music composition, and computer science.

The Digital Lab in the Warehouse provides digital graphic design and digital photography students with equipment that reflects industry standards, so that students can not only be adequately prepared for real-world careers, but can also render work that reflects the full potential of their creativity. Included in this hardware will be Mac G4 computers, Apple Cinema display monitors, Epson and Nikon graphic arts scanners, color and black-and-white laser printers, a network projection system, and video carts with VHS and digital tape players. The Digital Lab is equipped with 18 computer workstations that also have all of the music equipment and software students will need to do their work. Six completely soundproofed study rooms, equally well equipped with state-of-the-art computers and software, and reservable any time of day or night, are available for student collaborations and experimentation. The classroom and the individual multimedia production rooms facilitate new curricular initiatives based on collaborations between the Department of Art & Art History, the Department of Music, and Theater Studies.

Above all, the ACT Warehouse will house the Visual Arts teaching studios and programming activities of the Department of Art & Art History, including new studios for drawing, painting, bookmaking, and printmaking; a darkroom and photo/printing room; offices and faculty studios; gallery; and common space. Our new Visiting Artist Series—a special initiative supported by the Department of Art & Art History and Deans McLendon and Davis—will bring a variety of practicing artists to campus annually to install and/or discuss their own work, and conduct short seminars and workshops, or teach for a semester in our senior capstone course.


Studio Facilities: The Arts, Culture, and Technology Studios In the Smith Warehouse Duke University A former Liggett tobacco warehouse on Buchanan Boulevard—across from the main entrance to Duke University's East Campus and used most recently for printing cigarette cartons—has just been transformed into the Arts, Culture, and Technology Studios: a state-of-the-art multimedia center where visual artists and composers will collaborate to create new forms of art and where faculty from a variety of disciplines will create new knowledge in the arts, including digital music, digital graphics, printmaking, artists’ books, photography, painting, drawing and a variety of new media. The Arts, Culture, and Technology Studios are the centerpiece of a new academic focus on the digital arts at Duke, a launching pad to foster interdisciplinary collaborations among students, faculty, and visiting artists in residence. The studios will attract a new kind of student to Duke, one who is both artistically talented and technologically sophisticated, one who is equally at ease studying graphic arts, or music composition, and computer science. The Digital Lab in the Warehouse provides digital graphic design and digital photography students with equipment that reflects industry standards, so that students can not only be adequately prepared for real-world careers, but can also render work that reflects the full potential of their creativity. Included in this hardware will be Mac G4 computers, Apple Cinema display monitors, Epson and Nikon graphic arts scanners, color and black-and-white laser printers, a network projection system, and video carts with VHS and digital tape players. The Digital Lab is equipped with 18 computer workstations that also have all of the music equipment and software students will need to do their work. Six completely soundproofed study rooms, equally well equipped with state-of-the-art computers and software, and reservable any time of day or night, are available for student collaborations and experimentation. The classroom and the individual multimedia production rooms facilitate new curricular initiatives based on collaborations between the Department of Art & Art History, the Department of Music, and Theater Studies. Above all, the ACT Warehouse will house the Visual Arts teaching studios and programming activities of the Department of Art & Art History, including new studios for drawing, painting, bookmaking, and printmaking; a darkroom and photo/printing room; offices and faculty studios; gallery; and common space. Our new Visiting Artist Series—a special initiative supported by the Department of Art & Art History and Deans McLendon and Davis—will bring a variety of practicing artists to campus annually to install and/or discuss their own work, and conduct short seminars and workshops, or teach for a semester in our senior capstone course.