Bernard Frischer is a leading scholar in the application of digital technologies to humanities research and education. He received his B.A. (Wesleyan University, 1971) and Ph.D.(Heidelberg, 1975) degrees summa cum laude and is a Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows, a Fellow 1974-76), Resident (1996), and Trustee (2007-2010) of the American Academy in Rome, and he has won research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (1981, 1996) and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (1997).
He taught Classics at UCLA from 1976 to 2004. Since then he has been Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of Virginia, where from 2004 to 2009 he also served as Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. In 2009 he founded the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory with the mission of applying 3D software to research in the humanities. His current research, funded by over $1 million in grants from the NSF and NEH, includes a new 3D digital model of Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli, Italy); and the development of new tools for 3D data capture and digital restoration of sculpture. He is also principal investigator of SAVE, a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to create a database of 3D digital models of cultural heritage sites, monuments, and landscapes.
Frischer's research career reflects his interest in interdisciplinary approaches, and has included studies in the literature, philosophy, art history and archeology of Greece and Rome. He is the author of several books, including Shifting Paradigms: New Approaches to Horace's Ars Poetica, and The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment. Frischer directed the excavations of Horace's Villa, a project sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and the Archeological Superintendency for Lazio of the Italian Ministry of Culture. He is founder and director of the Rome Reborn Project, an international initiative based at the University of Virginia, UCLA, the University of Caen, the University of Bordeaux-3, and the Politecnico di Milano. The goal of the project is to create 3D digital models illustrating the urban development of ancient Rome from the first settlements in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1,000 BCE) to the early Middle Ages (ca. 550 CE).
In 2006 he received the Pioneer Award of the International Society for Virtual Systems and Multimedia. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Tartessus Lifetime Achievement Prize of the Spanish Society for Virtual Archaeology.
Email: [email protected]
Session topic: Data Visualizations
Presentation: "Visualizing Sculpture"
He taught Classics at UCLA from 1976 to 2004. Since then he has been Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of Virginia, where from 2004 to 2009 he also served as Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. In 2009 he founded the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory with the mission of applying 3D software to research in the humanities. His current research, funded by over $1 million in grants from the NSF and NEH, includes a new 3D digital model of Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli, Italy); and the development of new tools for 3D data capture and digital restoration of sculpture. He is also principal investigator of SAVE, a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to create a database of 3D digital models of cultural heritage sites, monuments, and landscapes.
Frischer's research career reflects his interest in interdisciplinary approaches, and has included studies in the literature, philosophy, art history and archeology of Greece and Rome. He is the author of several books, including Shifting Paradigms: New Approaches to Horace's Ars Poetica, and The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment. Frischer directed the excavations of Horace's Villa, a project sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and the Archeological Superintendency for Lazio of the Italian Ministry of Culture. He is founder and director of the Rome Reborn Project, an international initiative based at the University of Virginia, UCLA, the University of Caen, the University of Bordeaux-3, and the Politecnico di Milano. The goal of the project is to create 3D digital models illustrating the urban development of ancient Rome from the first settlements in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1,000 BCE) to the early Middle Ages (ca. 550 CE).
In 2006 he received the Pioneer Award of the International Society for Virtual Systems and Multimedia. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Tartessus Lifetime Achievement Prize of the Spanish Society for Virtual Archaeology.
Email: [email protected]
Session topic: Data Visualizations
Presentation: "Visualizing Sculpture"