As a class, I feel strongly that we learned, we created, and we conquered. I grew exponentially as a student and a young art historian, as well as nurtured a passion for the digital humanities. As my final blog post for A Virtual Enlightenment I would like to re-cap my experience […]
During our in class presentation of our work so far, my group presented a prepared powerpoint of our short and long term goals for our website. Some of these goals are understandably more realistic than others in terms of their potential for completion before the final submission date on Monday the […]
Because of this class, I am now interested more than ever about the role of servants in 18th century France, but more broadly, underrepresented groups in art history generally. Groups who have been denied a voice – like servants – continue to be lost in a narrative defined by those […]
This past weekend, our group reserved rooms on campus from 10 – 5 on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday and spent time working on our website together and getting it into a form that we are satisfied with. While we still have some text edits to do, we have finally reached […]
My initial interest in taking this course was the technological component. I have never before studied interiors, and my only experience with the concept of space comes from a class entitled “Anthropology of Cities.” I was intrigued with the intersection of the humanities and the digital world. I firmly believe […]
This week, we’re trying to focus in on our research materials for our individual projects so we can start drafting the content that’ll ultimately be on each of our webpages. Our goal is to be ready to put information on the website next weekend, when we’re going to have a […]
This past week we have worked on designing and integrating our home page of our website. This included drawing an image of the Tésse Room floor plan and editing it in Illustrator, coding the color bar using Digital Color Meter and PhotoShop, brainstorming on our logo for our website, setting […]
During our two sessions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art lead by the curator Jeffrey Munger, we focused on porcelain and lacquer boxes and silver goods. Although those two topics were not necessarily as pertinent to my group (Uses of Space) as it might have been to the two groups […]
There is usually a very sharp divide between my school life and my home life. Being an art history major, I go to class and learn about art, or I go to a museum and look at art, but very rarely do I experience art without having to seek it […]
