Digital Art History I: New Representational Technologies

Research and study in material culture and visual arts expressed by using new visual technologies to record and communicate complex sets of visual and physical data from urban and/or archaeological sites. Introduces techniques for presentation and interpretation of visual material through a series of interpretive and reconstructive technologies, including development of web pages, timelines, Photoshop, Illustrator, Trimble SketchUp, Google Maps, GIS. Uses test cases (archaeological site or urban/architectural site) to develop techniques of interpretation and representation. Instructor consent required.