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The Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University, in connection with the
Information Science + Studies Program and the
Wired! Lab for Digital Art History & Visual Culture, offers an 18-month
Master of Arts in Digital Art History/Computational Media.
The Computational Media track
is designed for graduate students focused on the study, creation, and use of digital media and computation in the arts and humanities.
Computational Media explores research and presentation strategies enabled by the information sciences, new approaches to computational processes, and new forms of interpreting quantitative and qualitative data.
The goals of the program are for students to understand the critical affordances and potential of digital media, to develop competencies in data-driven and computational approaches to knowledge production, and to develop a hybrid theory-practice MA thesis
that demonstrates their expertise in action around a particular subject.
The program’s skills-centered instruction, combined with the requirement for lab affiliation and collaborative research and the emphasis on theoretical analysis, will produce graduates who not only have hands-on
know-how and technical skills but who have developed a sophisticated understanding of informational globalization and our rapidly changing world.
The Digital Art History track
integrates historical disciplines and the study of cultural artifacts with digital visualization techniques for the analysis and presentation of research. The program builds on courses and well-developed strengths at Duke University, and requires 10 courses
over three semesters in addition to summer research. Students affiliate with an existing faculty research initiative, from which they will develop their own independent research project for the M.A. thesis. Common themes that unite the various projects are
the visualization of process, the representation of change over time, recontextualizing displaced objects and object biographies. The Digital Art History track prepares students for future work in such fields as public history, city planning and architectural
design, cultural heritage, museum exhibition design and visualization-based journalism, and provides a springboard for more advanced study in art history, archaeology, architectural history and visual studies. Limited funding may become available in the form
of grants and assistantships to students upon positive progress in the program.
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