Been there, done that: Art history as a model for the effect of technology on disciplinary development
Posted: July 29, 2012 Filed under: Essays, History, Notes, Reading, Reviews, Universities, Visionary Cross | Tags: 3D scanning, anglo-saxon studies, art history, digital humanities, disciplinary development, photography, technology, Visualisation Leave a comment »Evidence of why it is useful to read outside your main areas of disciplinary interest…
I’ve been reading my way through Revisualizing visual culture (Ashgate 2010), on a number of titles I bought from the Ashgate stand at the the recent DH 2012 conference in Hamburg. Most of the chapter thus far have been relevant to work we are doing with the Visionary Cross project, especially now that we are starting to get usable 3D meshes (as time allows, I hope to post some other small posts about the various chapters in this and my other recent reading). Read the rest of this entry »
Visionary Cross Project
Posted: April 29, 2012 Filed under: Projects and Societies, Research, Visionary Cross | Tags: 3D scanning, old english, ruthwell cross, visionary cross Leave a comment »The “Visionary Cross” is an international, cross-disciplinary project directed by Catherine Karkov of the University of Leeds, Daniel Paul O’Donnell of the University of Lethbridge (Principal Investigator), Roberto Rosselli Del Turco of the Università degli studi di Torino, with James Graham (Multimedia, University of Lethbridge) and Wendy Osborn (Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Lethbridge).
The goal of this project is to draw together a number of recent developments in the Digital Humanities and use them to produce an innovative and intellectually significant study of a key group of Anglo-Saxon texts and monuments. Read the rest of this entry »