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Congratulations to Professor Elina Gertsman, who was awarded a large Expanding Horizons Interdisciplinary grant for her project that aims to build a series of interconnected mixed-reality spaces -- spaces that would provide multisensory, embodied experiences for its users. Entitled "Immersive Realms and Cognition: Multisensory Approaches to Teaching with The HoloLens,"...
Please join us for the Julius Fund Lecture in Medieval Art, to be delivered by Prof. Jeffrey Hamburger (Harvard University) on April 3 at 5 PM. Prof. Hamburger will speak about the striking painting by Pietro Lorenzetti; his talk, titled "Flesh and Fabric," will take place at 5 PM...
We're delighted to announce that Professor Benay has won an Expanding Horizons Initiative grant in Social and Racial Justice for her collaborative project with Cleveland Public Library: "Karamu House in Context: Prints and Power in WPA-Era Cleveland." Karamu House is the oldest and one of the most important Black community...
Case Western Reserve University’s Art History Department and the Interactive Commons wowed at the Medieval Academy of America’s annual conference, held this year at the University of Notre Dame. Prof. Elina Gertsman and Reed O’Mara organized a session on the use of immersive technologies in teaching, and in addition staged a HoloLens demonstration with the help of the incomparable Peter Gao and Karen Rhoad from the Interactive Commons. The demonstration focused on Prof. Gertsman’s Gothic Chapel and Prof. Elizabeth S. Bolman’s Red Monastery apps, while the session itself also included a presentation by Sonya Rhie Mace, the curator of Indian and Southeast Asian Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art, which discussed the uses of HoloLens at her recent Revealing Krishna show. Several PhD students and an undergraduate student traveled from CWRU to take part in the conference. It was a riveting show of what may result from the collaborative interdisciplinary projects between university units and between institutions, and with how much excitement these projects are welcomed by the broader academic world.
GAMS will be gathering at BottleHouse Brewery on Wednesday, March 20 at 6:00 PM to discuss Umberto Eco’s acclaimed novel: The Name of the Rose. Please come prepared to discuss the book!
