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Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts
Reconfiguring Knowledge in the Digital Age
John J. Taormina • Duke University
VRA 2013
Reconfiguring Knowledge in the Digital Age
Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts
Colloquium 2009-10, 2010-11
6 Original Co-conveners:
• Rachel Brady (computer science: visualization)
• Caroline Bruzelius (art and architectural history: medieval)
• Sheila Dillon (art history/archaeology: classical)
• Mark Olson (visual studies: new media)
• Raquel Salvatella de Prada (visual arts: computer graphics)
• John Taormina (visual resources: image management)
Reconfiguring Knowledge in the Digital Age
Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts
Colloquium 2009-10, 2010-11
Mission of Colloquium:
Expand and develop our collaborations, conversations, and reflections on the implication of new technologies for the field of material culture. The colloquium theme would focus on rethinking teaching with new technologies in both undergraduate and graduate programs.
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Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts
Logistics
• Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) Discussion Group Grants
• Group met every two weeks at lunchtime
• University faculty, staff, and students were often invited
• Outside speakers for public lectures and group discussions
• A number of themes for discussion were decided early on
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Invited Guests
• Faculty and graduate students from Art, Art History & Visual
Studies and Classical Studies
• Deputy director of IT in Duke Libraries
• Fine arts librarian, GIS librarian
• Scholarly communication officer in Duke Libraries
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Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts
Invited Guests
• University’s digital strategist
• Computer scientists from Visualization Technology Group
• Editor of Duke Press
• Faculty from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, NC State
University, and NC Central University
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Public Lectures
Maurizio Forte, University of California-Merced (now at Duke)
“Experiencing the Past: Cyber-Heritage, Research and Education”
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Public Lectures
Arnie Flatten, Coastal Carolina University
“Pixels, Paint and Pylons: Integrating Teaching, Technology and
Training in Art History”
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Spring 2009: Wired! New Representational Technologies for Historical Materials
• Precipitated application
for FHI Discussion Group Grant
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Wired! Visualizing the Past
2009 Course Project: Classical (Instr: Sheila Dillon)
“Reconstructing the Past: The Statue Landscape of the Hadrianic Baths at Aphrodisias”
—Elizabeth Baltes, Umberto Plaja, Akara Lee, Catherine Stanley
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Wired! Visualizing the Past
2009 Course Project: Medieval (Instr: Caroline Bruzelius)
“San Francesco a Folloni, Campania, Italy”
—Michal Kosinski and Rebecca Wood
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Technologies + Humanities
• Training and assumptions about how knowledge is organized
and taught are being shattered by the possibilities of new
technologies
• The evolution of a site/building could be represented over time
• Topics could be taught in new and more effective ways
• Potential of new technologies to communicate scholarly
research
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Technologies + Humanities
• Student acquire new technical skills while engaging with
primary research materials to create new interpretations of
the data
• By engaging in hands-on reconstructions of a site/building,
students become active rather than passive learners
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Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts
Duke Visual Studies Initiative (2007-2012)
“Visual Studies at Duke operates at the interface of science, social sciences, and the humanities.”
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Topics Considered for Discussion
• Digital literacy
• Pedagogical practices
• Spatial history (movement through time)
• Evidence and attribution
• Learning the technical tools
• Participatory learning
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Topics Considered for Discussion (continued)
• Public colloquia
• Entertainment vs. scholarship
• Collaborative teaching and research vs. single engagement
• Presentation of the product
• Scholarly validity and viability
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Year 1: Final Topics for Discussion
• Digital literacy (fall)
• Pedagogy (winter)
• Scholarly viability (spring)
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Digital Literacy
In attendance:
• Co-conveners
• Computer science faculty who teach in Information Science +
Information Studies (ISIS) Program
• Deputy director of IT in Duke Libraries
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Digital Literacy (continued)
• What level of competence and/or understanding of theories
behind the tools is required?
• Is there a specific set of skills we can identify that we want
students to have?
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Digital Literacy (continued)
• Mapping: Google Maps, Google Earth
• Timeline: Flash, Final Cut, AfterEffect
• 2D: layer-based software, Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch-Up,
coloring and modeling softare
• 3D: SecondLife, Croquet, VirTour, Sketch-Up, Maya, AutoCad,
Foto-3D
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Pedagogy
In attendance:
• Co-conveners
• Faculty and students from Art, Art History & Visual Studies and
Classical Studies
• Scholarly communication officer from Libraries
• Fine arts librarian
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Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts
Pedagogy (continued)
• The “transparency of digital constructions”
• What is the evidence? How can it be displayed?
• What are the aesthetic issues?
• Citation and the nature of evidence and display
• Spatial history and archaeography: transparent, documented, and
scholarly viable new medium
• Building in interactivity and its implications
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Pedagogy (continued)
Working with different media requires different tools:
• Sculpture, in situ or displaced (placement, modeling, coloration)
• Architecture (reconstruction, depicting change over time)
• Painting (in situ frescoes, altarpieces)
• Cities/urbanism/urban spaces (mapping)
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Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts
Pedagogy (continued)
• How to solve training issues:
—Baseline set of IT skills and literacy
—Build an online repository of discipline-specific tutorials that
integrate with other training modules such as Lynda.com
—Public workshops
• Equilibrium between traditional learning (chronology, style, theory)
and what is possible with new media technologies
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Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts
Scholarly Viability
In attendance:
• Co-conveners
• Other faculty and students (from Duke, UNC-CH, NCSU, NCCU)
• University’s digital strategist
• Editor of Duke Press
• Scholarly communication officer from Libraries
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Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts
Scholarly Viability (continued)
• Can digital projects be considered for tenure and promotion?
• Is there an expectation that they are ancillary to the written
document?
• What is a “good” product?
• Issues around “collaborative work” for tenure and promotion
• Scholarly communication and new media journals
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2013: Wired! Visualizing the Past
www.dukewired.org
Original Wired! Group:Rachel Brady, Caroline Bruzelius, Sheila Dillon, Raquel Salvatella de Prada, Mark Olson
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Wired! Visualizing the Past
“On with Their Heads: Creation, Destruction and
Recontextualization”
—Iara Dundas, Elizabeth Narkin, Tim Prizer
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Wired! Visualizing the Past
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Wired! Visualizing the Past
The Wired! Group is committed to engaging digital technologies in courses and long-term research initiatives, training students at all levels in order to ask research questions about material culture in the man-made environment. Our courses fuse technologies with the study of sculpture, architecture, urbanism, and painting in order to prepare our students for the 21st century.
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Wired! Visualizing the Past
Wired! is also committed to communicating research knowledge to a broad public. Our integration of visualization technologies into the regular curriculum represents structural and systemic change in the way knowledge is interrogated in teaching and research.
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Wired! Visualizing the Past
Wired! projects fuse questions in the Humanities (as traditionally construed) with social, economic, and political issues. Our work engages the viewer in novel ways that revolutionize the role of learning in relation to the public. We are committed to making scholarship available and engaging to a broad audience.
Reconfiguring Knowledge in the Digital Age
Digital Technologies and the Visual ArtsThe Wired! Lab
• Half million dollar grant from the
Office of the Provost
• Lab, hardware and software,
one IT support staff person
• Opened November 2011
Reconfiguring Knowledge in the Digital Age
Digital Technologies and the Visual ArtsThe Wired! Lab
Reconfiguring Knowledge in the Digital Age
Digital Technologies and the Visual ArtsThe Wired! Lab
Digital Technologies and the Visual Arts
Reconfiguring Knowledge in the Digital Age
John J. Taormina • Duke University
VRA 2013
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