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Mark Olson

Mark Olson

Associate Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0766
114 South Buchanan Blvd, A292 Smith Warehouse, Bay 9, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours Tuesdays, 1:00 - 3:00 PM, and by appointment.  

Scholarly Works

The art of imaging methods—using cutting edge radiological technology to uncover the secrets of ancient anatomical figurines

Journal article Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences · May 1, 2021 Ivory anatomical figurines are thought to have been carved in Germany in the seventeenth or eighteenth century. While it is speculated that these figurines were used for the study of medical education, little is known about their origins. A precise underst ... Full text Cite

Spectral Seas

Fine art · 2021 Arts and the Anthropocene was a year-long interdisciplinary teaching project at Duke University that explored how visual, theatrical, and sonic arts can play a role in educating various publics, provoking action, and prefiguring resilient futures in the er ... Link to item Cite

Visualizing Venice

Book section · October 4, 2017 Full text Cite

Interactive exhibitions

Book section · October 4, 2017 Full text Cite

Interactive Exhibitions

Book section · 2017 Curated exhibitions have long been the primary means by which the work of historians of urban and material culture has interfaced with the public. They are sites of translation, where the relatively specialized knowledge of experts meets an engaged public, ... Full text Link to item Cite

Manifest Data: A Kit to Create Personal Digital Data-Based Sculptures

Journal article Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures · November 2015 Full text Cite

The Lives of Things

Fine art · November 2015 The Nasher Museum has one of the most important collections of medieval art in an American university. These objects are mounted against the white walls of the Nasher Museum with short labels by way of identification. Yet how many of the visitors to the mu ... Cite

Wired! and Visualizing Venice: Scaling up Digital Art History

Journal article Artl@s Bulletin · 2015 This article focuses on Visualizing Venice, an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural collaboration that engages in mapping, 3-D modeling, and multimedia representations of historical change in Venice, Italy. Through a “laboratory” approach that integrates stud ... Link to item Cite

Hacking the humanities: Twenty-first-century literacies and the ‘becoming-other’ of the humanities

Book section · January 1, 2013 After a recent discussion with colleagues about the role of ‘practice’ in proposed revisions to our graduate curriculum, I sat down and listed all of the different practices that had consumed my time over the previous few days, focusing on those that I wou ... Full text Cite

How to Build a Forest

Artistic production · October 19, 2012 Cite

Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface

Book · 2008 This volume originated in HASTAC’s first international conference, “Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface,” held at Duke University during April 19-21, 2007. “Electronic Techtonics” was the site of truly unforgettable conversations and encounter ... Open Access Cite

Perjovschi's "Scan"

Fine art · August 23, 2007 Integrated hardware-based streaming video components into a servo-driven multimedia art installation. ... Link to item Cite

Mark J. V. Olson: a note of thanks

Journal article Cultural Studies · January 1999 Full text Cite