A MITH Digital Dialogue
Tuesday, March 4, 12:30-1:45
MITH Conference Room, McKeldin Library B0135
“Making Culture Virtual: Recent 3D Modeling Projects at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities”
by BERNARD FRISCHER
Podcast available!
This talk will discuss methodologies and technologies used to digitize 3D cultural property such as pottery, statues, buildings and even entire cities. Current projects at IATH will be used as examples, including Virtual Williamsburg, the Digital Forma Urbis Project, and Rome Reborn. In the conclusion, new directions and challenges in this field will be discussed, including populating models of buildings and cities with people and their activities; using models as tools for discovery (and not simply as illustrations of previous knowledge); and the online collection and dissemination of real-time 3D models on the Internet.
Links: http://graphics.iath.virginia.edu/, http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu, http://www.iath.virginia.edu/save/
BERNARD FRISCHER is a leading scholar in the application of digital technologies to humanities research and education. Frischer has overseen many significant projects, including a virtual recreations of sites such as the Roman Forum and Roman Colosseum. The works of Frischer and the Lab have received international acclaim and have been featured on the Discovery Channel, the RAI, German Public Radio, the BBC, in Newsweek, Scientific American, Business Week, the New York Times and many other magazines and newspapers around the world. Professor Frischer is the author, or co-author, of seven printed books, three e-books and many articles on virtual heritage and on the Classical world and its survival. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Digital Roman Forum web site. He received his B.A. in Classics from Wesleyan University in 1971 and his Ph.D. in Classics from the University of Heidelberg in 1975. He taught Classics at UCLA from 1976 to 2004. Since then he has been Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of Virginia, where he also serves as Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). He has been a guest professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1993), the University of Bologna (1994), and held the post of Professor-in-Charge of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (2001-02).
Coming up @MITH 3/11: KEN PRICE(Nebraska), “Edition, Project, Database, Archive, Thematic Research Collection: What’s in a Name?” Presented for the Rosenzweig Forum on Technology and the Humanities, 4:00 pm, McKeldin Special Events Room (6th floor, room 6137).
View MITH’s complete spring Digital Dialogues schedule: http://www.mith2.umd.edu/programs/mith_speakers_spring_2008.pdf
All talks free and open to the public!
Contact: Neil Fraistat, Director, MITH (www.mith.umd.edu, mith@umd.edu, 5-8927).
