Exhibit
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Coming to Terms with the Past
Created by Sean Kulaga Coming to Terms with the Past: Confronting Relics of the Third Reich is an exhibit that walks visitors through a critcal view of what it means to posess Third Reich. Using a case study, the project examins the purchasing of actual Nazi artifacts, contextualizes them, and then presents users with the…
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Saida: A City’s Urban History through its Inscriptions
Created by Khalil Sawan Saida: A City’s Urban History through its Inscriptions explores the history of Saida’s urban history by deciphering and analysing the historic inscriptions found on and in the old city’s historical buildings. The majority of inscriptions are door inscriptions found on the entrances of mosques, hammams, cafes, sufi lodges, and even residential…
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Late Antique Egyptian Textiles at Boston College
Created by Alexander D’Alisera Late Antique Egyptian Textiles at Boston College is an open-access digital catalog of the McMullen Museum of Art’s Tellalian Collection, a stunning assemblage of more than 30 late antique textiles from Egypt. Created with public access in mind, the project’s creator sought to provide a digital space in which anyone, regardless…
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Mapping Manifestos
Created by Catherine Enwright Mapping Manifestos focuses on the attributes and scope of primarily European artistic manifestos, especially in the early twentieth century. Among other things, the project provides an explanation of the genesis manifesto, visualizations of the temporal and geographical scope of manifesto production, and a searchable manifestos database. This project is in the…
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Analyzing The Rime of the Ancient Mariner with Coleridge and Doré
Created by Catherine Enwright This digital exhibit and mapping based project exploresThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s seminal poem, through the eyes of three interlocutors: the engravings of Gustav Dore, John Livingstone Lowe’s mammoth 1927 commentary on Coleridge’s work, and David Jones’ 1963 commentary on The Rime. This project is in the…
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Human Experience in the Battle of the Somme
Created by Ariel Donnelly Human Experience in the Battle of the Somme was a digital project that explored the advancement of weaponry during World War I and its use in the Battle of the Somme. The project’s major components included a timeline that contextualized the war; a collection of weaponry photographs that illustrated the war…