E-Newsletter
Recent Posts
Latest News
-
Paul DeMarinis “A Noisy Archaeology”
|
"Firebirds" (2004) credit: Roman März PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] – On Tuesday, April 17, 2012, Brown University will host the fifth and final speaker of the Digital Arts & Humanities 2011-2012 Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage and the Brown University Library. Paul DeMarinis will give a talk entitled “A Noisy Archaeology” at 5:30pm in the Lownes Room, John Hay Library, followed by a reception in the lobby. This event is free and open to the public.
The Digital Arts and Humanities Lecture Series kicked off on October 3, 2011 with “Remembering Networks: Agrippa, RoSE and Network Archaeology” by renowned digital scholar, Alan Liu. Since October, Brown has hosted Richard White, Jeffrey Schnapp, and Tara McPherson.
As series organizers Steven Lubar and Harriette Hemmasi explained at the outset of the series, they hope “to engage Brown faculty and students in the digital arts and humanities by revealing the power of new digital approaches to transform traditional scholarship.”
Portrait of Paul DeMarinis credit: Rebecca Cummins Paul DeMarinis is a Professor of Studio Art at Stanford University. He specializes in electronic media art production, and is a pioneer in the use computers for performance art. He has performed internationally, at The Kitchen, Festival d’Automne a Paris, Het Apollohuis in Holland and at Ars Electronica in Linz. His interactive audio artworks have been exhibited at the I.C.C. in Tokyo, Bravin Post Lee Gallery in New York, The Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and the 2006 Shanghai Biennale. He has received major awards and fellowships in both Visual Arts and Music from The National Endowment for the Arts, N.Y.F.A., N.Y.S.C.A., the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation and was awarded the Golden Nica for Interactive Art at Ars Electronica in 2006.
The John Nicholas Brown Center helps connect academic communities and the broader public through history, art, and culture. We support people and organizations that explore, preserve, and interpret cultural heritage. Our programs explore the ways in which the humanities enrich everyday life.
The Brown University Library is home to more than 6.8 million print items, plus a multitude of electronic resources and expanding digital archives serving the teaching, research, and learning needs of Brown students and faculty, as well as scholars from around the country and the world.
Contact: Jennifer Braga | 401-863-6913
###
-
The Shakespearian Advertiser
|
The charming Shakespearian Advertiser printing blocks collection (Ms.2011.044) has recently been cataloged. The Shakespearian Advertiser was published by Harlen P. Boyce in Providence, RI in 1871. The preface to the booklet states its purpose: “It combines information as to where our wants of all kinds may be supplied in the best manner, and at the fairest prices; with illustrations of a higher class of humor than is usually presented to the public by the so called comic papers.” The “higher class of humor” was composed of comic illustrations based upon quotes from plays by William Shakespeare. The illustrations were interspersed between advertisements for Rhode Island and Massachusetts businesses. The publishers hoped the comic illustrations would entice people to look through the entire booklet and pass it along to friends. A clever promotional tool of the 19th century still employed today. To see the finding aid go to the RIAMCO website.
Wood block #18, The Shakespearian Advertiser printing blocks collection (Ms.2011.044), 1871. -
New Health Sciences Librarian Hired
|
Erika Sevetson is our new Health Sciences Librarian. Erika comes to us from the Ebling Library for the Health Sciences at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where she has worked since 2000. She was a Senior Academic Librarian there, with liaison responsibilities in Medical Education, Public Health, and Global Health, and also served as Ebling’s statewide Outreach Librarian.Her other library experience includes a reference assistantship at Harvard’s Schlesinger Library.
Prior to her time at UW, Erika worked at Brown as Course Coordinator in the Office of Medical Curriculum Affairs, and before that in the Office of Alumni Relations and as Administrative Assistant for the Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences.
She has a Bachelor’s Degree from Mount Holyoke College and a Master of Science in Library Science from Simmons College.
Erika’s office will be in the Champlin Library at the Alpert Medical School.