VICTORIA SZABO |
Program Director Information Science + Information Studies 114 S Buchanan Blvd, Bay 12-A221 Duke University Box 90766 Durham, NC 27708 919-668-1932 (phone); 919-681-1378 (fax) victoria.szabo@duke.edu |
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In 2009 Szabo was appointed as an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies. She joined Duke University in August 2006 as Program Director for Information Science + Information Studies. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, and a member of the Duke Visual Studies Initiative Steering and Executive Committees, where she works primarily on curriculum development and infrastructure, including the new Visual Studies Initiative interdisciplinary space in the Smith Warehouse, Bay 11-12. As a Victorianist and as a digital media specialist, Szabo is especially interested in emergent media forms and their impact on conventional forms of authorship, in theory and in practice. She has received with her collaborators CIT Visualization and Strategic Initiative Grants, as well as funding from the Duke Digital Initiative, to support her projects. Her avatar, Ouida Basevi, manages the Duke ISIS Oasis and Duke Metaverse islands in Second Life. Her most recent projects focus on spatial media and new forms of collaborative knowledge-production in maps and virtual worlds. The ISIS Mapping Project partners with Duke Global Health researchers and DukeEngage/WISER students to develop layered, multimodal, geo-located, map-based representations of a rural region in Kenya for research and discovery. This project also has a Durham historical dimension to be developed in Spring 2010 in ISIS 200, and in Summer through DukeEngage links. The Virtual Crystal Palace Project, begun in Fall 2009 in the Virtual Realities Focus Cluster, encourages students to consider virtual exhibition spaces within the context of nineteenth-century practice as well as contemporary immersive virtual world environments. This project is one element of a more sustained inquiry into the relationship of digital media authorship to critical textual and cultural studies in the humanities. Outside of Duke, she has also served on the juries and on-site committees as a technical director for the annual SIGGRAPH conference Art Galleries "Global Eyes" in 2007, and "Slow Art" in 2008. In 2009 she developed a new curated and juried gallery on "Information Aesthetics" that exhibited at the SIGGRAPH 2009 conference in New Orleans. She is also the co-organizer of a student digital media show at the "Collaborations: Humanities, Art, and Technology (CHAT) Festival" at UNC to take place in February 2010. Before coming to Duke, Szabo worked at Stanford University as the Academic Technology Manager for the Office of the Vice-Provost for Undergraduate Education and Academic Technology Specialist for the Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) Program, where she also taught, and the University Libraries. She has also worked at Grinnell College as an Instructional Multimedia Specialist. She holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in English, from the University of Rochester, as well as a Graduate Certificate from the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Research on Women and Gender. She also holds an M.A. in English from Indiana University, Bloomington and a B.A. in English from Williams College. Recent and Upcoming Presentations:
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