LECTURE SERIES SPONSORS: VINCENT ELEANOR FERGUSON ENDOWMENT WILLSON CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS
Vision and Meaning on Medieval Iberia’s Frontier: Multiple-scale Modeling of Contested Spaces
Ed Triplett, Duke University Library and the WIRED Lab digital humanities’ post-doctorate fellow
ED TRIPLETT OCTOBER 22 4:00 P.M. RM 123 JSB DR. TRIPLETT is an architectural historian at Duke University with significant research in digital humanities, 3D visualization, GIS, photogrammetry and the medieval material world. His dissertation from the University of Virginia, “A Wall of the Faithful: Spatial Analysis of Military Order Architecture on Medieval Iberia’s Religious Frontier,” a groundbreaking spatial history of the Reconquista, focuses on sight as a highly valued frontier commodity. His digital visualization projects have been wide-ranging. While a fellow at UVA’s Scholars’ Lab he digitally reconstructed the unique 14th century fortress-monastery of Montesa using a custom GIS database to produce a laboratory for 3D intervisibility experiments, a project highlighted by the Chronicle of Higher Education and the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Humanities magazine. In addition, Triplett’s projects include interactive maps and 3D models for the Chaco Canyon; Southwell Minster; Virtual Williamsburg; Plan of St. Gall; Fort Snelling; and Montpelier. Most recently, he built a 3D reconstruction of Tusculum-- a dismantled 18th-19th century plantation house-- and a dense photogrammetric 3D model of a detached joinery-shop chimney at Monticello. Dr. Triplett has taught a survey of digital methods for architectural recording and preservation and created “The Virtual Museum,” a UVA undergraduate course that allows students to experiment with exhibition creation within a 3D virtual environment. He is currently a researcher at Duke University’s Library and WIRED Lab as part of a 2-year Council on Library and Information Resources postdoctoral fellowship. For further information please go to www.edwardtriplett.com
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