Presentations
Jacopo de' Barbari's View: Visualizing Venice, Past, Present and Future
Kristin Love Huffman, Lecturing Fellow in Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University
March 31, 2022 | 5:32pm | HRG 126, Herring Hall
Huffman shared 3D models, macro photographs, and animated video clips created for an exhibition of Jacopo de’ Barbari’s large multi-panel engraved View of Venice of 1500. As Huffman pointed out, this complex reproduction was in its own time the pinnacle of advanced image technology in the service of cultural heritage.
How to Make Maps: Edition 2022
David Heyman, Managing Director, Axis Maps Ltd | February 3, 2022 | 11:00am | HRG 126, Herring Hall
The democratizing technologies of the web have brought the tools and raw-materials required to make a map to a wider audience than ever before. This proliferation of mapping has redefined modern Cartography beyond the general practice of “making maps” to the purposeful design of maps. Purposeful Cartographic design is more than visuals and aesthetics; there is room for the Cartographer’s design decisions at every step between the initial earthly phenomenon and the end map user’s behavior. This talk will cover the modern mapping workflow from collecting and manipulating data, to combining traditional cartographic design with a contemporary UI/UX, to implementing these maps through code across multiple platforms. This presentation examines how these design decisions are shaped by the purpose of the map and the desire to use maps to clearly and elegantly present the world.
Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas
Wright Kennedy, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in History, Columbia University | January 25, 2022 | 11:00am | HRG 126, Herring Hall
Mapping Historical New York: A Digital Atlas visualizes Manhattan’s and Brooklyn’s transformations during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Drawing on 1850, 1880, and 1910 census data, it shows how migration, residential, and occupational patterns shaped the city.
The Digital Atlas breaks new ground by locating each person counted in the Census at their home address, sometimes before the street grid was even established. To do this work we used preserved historical maps and city directories, and even traced census takers’ steps, to locate residences. The Atlas is a living project that will expand to include all five boroughs up to the 1940 census.
Digital Mappa
Lisa Fagin Davis, Professor of Practice in Library and Information Science, Simmons University
December 2, 2021 | 9:30am | HRG 126, Herring Hall
The premise of Digital Mappa is simple: if you have a collection of digital images and texts, then you should be able to develop a project where you can identify specific moments on these images and texts, annotate them as much as you want, link them together, generate searchable content, collaborate with your friends, and publish your work online for others to see and share.
IIIF Research and Presentation Tools
Martim Passos, Technical Assistant in Photography, Instituto Moreira Salles | November 11, 2021 | 9:30am | HRG 126, Herring Hall
IIIF is a way to standardize the delivery of images and audio/visual files from servers to different environments on the Web where they can then be viewed and interacted with in many ways. There are tools available for working with IIIF resources in various ways–such as creating exhibitions, annotating images, and more–and often only require a link to one or more IIIF Manifests to use.
Urban Cartography in the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Empire
Sibel Zandi-Sayek, Associate Professor of Art History, William & Mary | March 12, 2020 | 4:00pm | HRG 126, Herring Hall [CANCELLED]
This talk explores the particular manifestation of urban maps in the Ottoman Empire during the long nineteenth century. Identifying general patterns as well as specific exemplary instances of urban maps, it traces the cartographic practices and activities of representing urban places in the region.
The Ottoman Enlightenment: Cartographic Knowledge and Imperial Power in the Seventeenth Century Ottoman Empire
M. Pınar Emiralioğlu, Associate Professor of History, Sam Houston State University
January 23, 2020 | 4:00pm | Lantern Studio 201, Moody Center for the Arts
This presentation investigates the close relationship between cartographical productions and articulation of imperial power in the seventeenth century Ottoman Empire. The end of the sixteenth century saw a radical transformation in the character and use of maps. After Ptolemy’s Geography was translated into Latin in the early fifteenth century, humanist scholars in Europe were exposed to a set of new techniques.