February 2003
Posted February 24, 2003March 4, 2002 - The Scrovegni Chapel Project
THE CENTER FOR DESIGN VISUALIZATION
AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY,
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
In collaboration with the
Geographic Information Science Center
Italian Studies Program
present
A Virtual Museum & 3D Information System for Giotto’s Masterpiece:
The Scrovegni Chapel Project
Maurizio Forte, Ph.D.
Senior Scientist, Inst. of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage (ITABC),
National Research Council (CNR), Rome, ITALY
5:00 pm, Tuesday, 4 March 2002
Shorb House, 2547 Channing Way
(map at http://www.berkeley.edu/campus_map)
About the Lecture
Considered a masterpiece of European art, the Scrovegni Chapel was painted by Giotto in the period 1303-1305. A recent restoration helped stabilize the toll the ages have taken on the delicate painted walls of this historic structure, but restricted public access. With visits limited to 20 people at a time and no more than 15 minutes, there was a pressing need to increase “musealisation” and allow the public to experience the monument. In response, the City of Padua and Institute of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage of the National Research Council (Rome) have created a virtual reality system dedicated to a spatial 3D reconstruction and re-composition of the Chapel.
The history, custom software, and philosophy behind this Virtual Museum and 3D graphical information system (of both Giotto’s paintings and the physical architecture of the monument) will be presented. A custom C++ application (with 83,000 lines of code, 3GB of textures and the ability to drive 33,000 polygons in real time) features over 500 links and 100 menus. Following the cybernetic thinking of Gregory Bateson, the author will describe his methodological and philosophical approach to digital environment as virtual ecosystem. Five multimedia installations dedicated to specific facets of Giotto’s work have been created for the new Wiegand Multimedia Centre at the Ermitani Museum, a short distance from the Chapel. With the grand opening March 25th, this lecture represents the world preview of this important multidisciplinary initiative.
About the Speaker
Dr. Maurizio Forte is Senior Scientist of the Institute of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage at the Italian National Research Council. In addition to the Scrovegni effort, his current research includes archaeological work at Aksum in Ethiopia, GIS and mapping of Bronze age landscapes in Italy and irrigation systems in Kazakhstan, and 3D VR studies of the ‘House of the Vettii’ in Pompeii and on the Ancient Appian Way. A recognized leader in the application of digital aids in archaeology, he holds degrees in Ancient History & Archaeology from the University of Bologna, and a Ph.D. in Etruscan Archaeology from the University of Rome, La Sapienza. He is the author of I Sistemi Informativi Geografici in Archaeologia (Geographic Information Systems in Archaeology, 2002) and editor of Virtual Archaeology (1997), as well as numerous papers and monographs. He serves as Vice President of the Virtual Heritage Network and is a close collaborator of the Center for Design Visualization at the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught and lectured at Siena, Pisa, Boston University, the University of Granada, and the Xian Center in China
February 24, 2003 - Resource Sharing for Humanities Research
"Resource Sharing for Humanities Research: Digitizing Japanese Classical Literature"
Shoichiro Hara,
National Institute of Japanese Literature and Editor, ECAI Japan
Monday, February 24
4 pm
2223 Fulton Street
6th Floor Conference Room
Sponsors:
The Geographic Information Science Center
The Center for Japanese Studies
Pacific Neighborhood Consortium
The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society
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Posted February 11, 2003
Silicon Valley User Group Meeting
Silicon Valley User Group Meeting
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
Santa Clara Valley Water District
5700 Almaden Expressway
Board Room
San Jose, CA 95118
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
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Register online for the Silicon Valley User Group Meeting on Wednesday, February 19, 2003 at the Santa Clara Valley Water District. If you have any questions regarding the agenda, please contact the meeting coordinator, Bill Tucker.
We look forward to seeing you there!
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Santa Clara Water District
5749 Almaden Expressway
San Jose, CA 95118
Telephone: 408-265-2607 ext. 2309 or 408-265-2600
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