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Duke University has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities for a Summer 2018 Institute for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities. Led by Victoria Szabo, associate research professor of visual and media studies, and hosted at the Franklin Humanities Institute, the Virtual and Augmented Reality for the Digital Humanities Institute (VARDHI) integrates humanities teaching and scholarship with artificial and virtual reality... read more about NEH Grant for Advanced Topics in Digital Humanities »
Jacopo de’Barbari, View of Venice, 1500, c. 1460/1470-1516 or before. Woodcut from six blocks on six sheets of paper, 52 1/4 x 109 1/4 in. (132.72 x 277.5 cm) (sheet). Minneapolis Institute of Art. The John R. Van Derlip Fund. 2010.88. Photo courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. September 7 – December 31, 2017 The Nasher Museum presents a multi-media exhibition that brings to life the city of Venice through Jacopo de’ Barbari... read more about A Portrait of Venice: Jacopo de’Barbari’s View of 1500 »
INSTALLATION ARRAY Monolithography, Or Me, my friends and ( I I - ) Laurids Andersen Sonne August 28 – September 15, 2017 Opening reception Thursday, August 31, 2017, 4 PM Fragments of summer time spent in the saddle of a faded-blue cyclepro blizzard, between; chanterelles, smoked herring on rye, birdwatching, a birthday party in a Mauritanian nomad tent, listening for the elusive... read more about Monolithography, Or Me, my friends and ( I I - ) »
This symposium intends to probe more closely into how the complex processes of current modes of cultural production and reception involve the immediate and deep pasts. Technological obsolescence, the physical archive, and the contemporary artist’s reengagement with pre-digital technologies are a few of the topics that will be explored during four panel sessions, featuring contemporary artists, whose new work exploits older or analog technologies... read more about SYMPOSIUM: Material Desire in the Digital Age »
How art history scholar Caroline Bruzelius used technology to create and improve her iconic Gothic cathedrals course DURHAM — Your mom may be cool, but did she ever strap you to her chest and carry you to the top of Notre Dame Cathedral? Caroline Bruzelius, as an assistant art history professor at Duke, did just that in 1986 when her son Anders was just three weeks old. Bruzelius had just received permission to scale the... read more about Building Better Cathedrals »
By Adam Beyer | The Chronicle | Monday, March 27 2017 When it opens in January, the new Duke Arts Center will add thousands of square feet to expand the University’s arts programming. The Chronicle got an early look at the... read more about Inside the construction zone: Exploring Duke's new Arts Center »
This fall, Elisabeth Narkin (PhD ’17) will begin a position as a post-doctoral fellow in spatial humanities at Rice University's Humanities Research Center in Houston, Texas. While at Rice, Narkin will teach a Humanities Design Studio course, advance her book project, "Constructing Dynasty: Architecture and the French Royal Family," and participate in the scholarly life of the Research Center.... read more about Humanities Research Center, Rice University »
Pinar Yoldas, The Kitty AI: Artificial Intelligence for Governance, 2016, video still Pinar Yoldas (PhD, ’17) presented the USA debut screening of The Kitty AI : Artificial Intelligence for Governance (2016) at the Upfor Gallery at Transfer, New York on May 6 and May 13, 2017. “It is year 2039. An artificial intelligence with the affective capacities of a kitten becomes the first non-human governor. She leads a politician-free... read more about The Kitty AI »
Entangled Encryptions 2, a unique multi-color woodblock print by Merrill Shatzman, professor of the practice of visual arts, has been selected for inclusion in the Hida-Takayama Contemporary Woodblock-Prints Triennale 2017 Japan. Shatzman is one of two American printmakers represented in the group of twenty artists included in the Triennale from different countries. Her woodblock print is part of the fifty-nine works that will be... read more about Hida-Takayama Contemporary Woodblock-Prints Triennale »
The Paper Hat Game, a collaboration between Raquel Salvatella de Prada, assistant professor of the practice of visual arts, and Torry Bend, associate professor of the practice of theater studies, has been nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Unique Theatrical Experience. The nomination was announced on April 27 and is based on performances that took place at The Tank/ 3-Legged Dog in New York in June and July of 2016. Nomination... read more about The Paper Hat Game »