{"id":11110,"date":"2019-09-24T03:07:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=11110"},"modified":"2019-09-24T03:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T07:07:16","slug":"furnace-fugue-levy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/furnace-fugue-levy\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Weekend Forum | Furnace &amp; Fugue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/Levy-Allison-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Allison Levy headshot\" class=\"wp-image-11113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/Levy-Allison-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/Levy-Allison-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/Levy-Allison-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/Levy-Allison.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Allison Levy, Digital Scholarship Editor<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>On <strong>Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 11 a.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library<\/strong>, join Allison Levy of the Brown University Library\u2019s Digital Publications Initiative for an engaging look at the changing face of 21<sup>st<\/sup>-century scholarship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Q&amp;A period will conclude the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Furnace &amp; Fugue<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Family Weekend Forum | Furnace &amp; Fugue\" width=\"1778\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fugehqZbMDk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Demoing the Initiative\u2019s pilot project, <em>Furnace and Fugue<\/em>, alongside <em>Atalanta fugiens<\/em>, the rare and elegantly illustrated alchemical book that inspired it, Levy will show how Brown Professor of History Tara Nummedal has turned to innovative digital tools to create new and more dynamic scholarly experiences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/furnacefugueimage-1024x642.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/furnacefugueimage-1024x642.png 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/09\/furnacefugueimage-300x188.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Screen capture of an interactive page from <em>Furnace &amp; Fugue<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Re-rendering a multimedia 17<sup>th<\/sup>-century text as an online publication, <em>Furnace and Fugue<\/em> allows readers to hear, see, manipulate, and investigate a work in ways that were perhaps imagined when it was composed but were simply impossible to realize in full before now. Whether through interactive visualizations of modern notation or a multifunctional space that allows users to curate, save, and share their own selection and arrangement of alchemical emblems, <em>Furnace and Fugue<\/em> makes possible the capabilities implied by this early modern book with digital tools and features that also clarify and\/or advance the arguments of the eight scholarly essays included in the work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Allison Levy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Allison Levy is Digital Scholarship Editor at Brown University Library. An art historian educated at Bryn Mawr College, she has taught in the US, Italy, and the UK. Allison has published widely on the visual culture of early modern Italy and serves as General Editor of the book series <em>Visual and Material Culture, 1300\u20131700<\/em>, published by Amsterdam University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: Saturday, October 19, 2019<br><strong>Time<\/strong>: 11 a.m.<br><strong>Location<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/brown.edu\/Facilities\/Facilities_Management\/maps\/index.php#building\/ROCKLIB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, Providence, RI (opens in a new tab)\">Patrick Ma Digital Scholarship Lab, Rockefeller Library, Providence, RI<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, October 19, 2019 at 11 a.m. in the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Rockefeller Library, join Allison Levy of the Brown University Library\u2019s Digital Publications Initiative for an engaging look at the changing face of 21st-century scholarship. Free and open to the public. A Q&amp;A period will conclude the program. 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