“Digitizing the Ephemeral: Reconstructing Museum Exhibitions Attended by Jane Austen”

Professor Janine Barchas, University of Texas

 

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“DIGITIZING THE EPHEMERAL: RECONSTRUCTING MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS ATTENDED BY JANE AUSTEN”

 

Wednesday, April 19, 2017

4:30 PM

USDAN 108

 

Professor Barchas will take us through the making of a major digital humanities project, the digital gallery What Jane Saw, which offers a room-by-room reconstruction of two public art spectacles witnessed by Jane Austen.  The site allows a modern visitor to walk through the Shakespeare Gallery as it looked in 1796 or tour the Sir Joshua Reynolds retrospective held in 1813.  Professor Barchas will give a curator’s tour of both digital exhibitions and explain the method and research behind the gallery and its historical reconstructions.  She will also discuss her team’s current work with Virtual Reality.

 

 

Refreshments served