Mark Olson
Assistant Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History & Visual Studies
Mark Olson is Assistant Professor of the Practice of Visual & Media Studies at Duke University. He teaches courses on media (new & old - theory, practice, & history) and medicine & visual culture. As a extension of his past work with the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media & Learning Initiative, he collaborates on the development of a new interdisciplinary project that connects the study of the material culture of art history, architecture and archaeology with new media modes of representation and visualization. Olson is the former Director of New Media & Information Technologies for HASTAC (Humanties, Arts, Sciences & Technology Advanced Collaboratory) and the John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary & International Studies.
Preferred pronouns: he, him, his
Preferred pronouns: he, him, his
Office Hours
Current Appointments & Affiliations
- Assistant Professor of the Practice of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018
- Director of Undergraduate Studies of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2019
- Associate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society, Duke Science & Society, Initiatives 2017
- Core Faculty in Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Initiatives 2018
- Core Graduate Faculty in Computational Media, Arts & Cultures, Computational Media Arts & Culture, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018
Contact Information
- 114 South Buchanan Blvd, A262a Smith Warehouse, Bay 10, Durham, NC 27708
- Box 90766, Durham, NC 27708-0766
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mark.olson@duke.edu
(919) 613-6726
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Professional Portfolio
- Background
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Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 2009
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Duke Appointment History
- Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2011 - 2018
- Assistant Professor in International Comparative Studies, International Comparative Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2013 - 2015
- Visiting Assistant Professor in Dept of Art,Art History & Visual Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2009 - 2011
- Recognition
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Awards & Honors
- Expertise
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Global Scholarship
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Expertise
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Research
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Teaching
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- Research
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Selected Grants
- Publications & Artistic Works
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Selected Publications
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Books
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Olson, M. J., E. Ennis, Z. M. Jones, P. Mangiafico, J. Rhee, M. Routh, J. Tarr, and B. Walters, eds. Electronic Techtonics: Thinking at the Interface. HASTAC, 2008.Open Access Copy Link to Item
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Academic Articles
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Lanzoni, K., M. Olson, and V. Szabo. “Wired! and Visualizing Venice: Scaling up Digital Art History.” Artl@S Bulletin 4, no. 1 (2015): 20–39.Link to Item
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Book Sections
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Olson, Mark, and Andrea Giordano. “Visualizing Venice: Developing a methodology for historical visualization.” In Visualizing Venice: Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City, edited by Kristin Huffman, Andrea Giordano, and Caroline Bruzelius, 20–25. London & New York: Routledge, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315100685.Full Text Link to Item
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Olson, M. J. V. “Hacking the humanities: Twenty-first-century literacies and the ‘becoming-other’ of the humanities.” In Humanities in the Twenty-First Century: Beyond Utility and Markets, 237–50, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137361356_13.Full Text
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Olson, M. “’Everybody Loves Our Town’: Scenes, Spatiality, Migrancy.” In Mapping the Beat: Popular Music and Contemporary Theory, edited by T. Swiss, J. Sloop, and A. Herman, 269–89. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998.
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Olson, M., and J. Sloop. “A Politics of Meaning in Rhetorical Studies.” In At the Intersection: Cultural Studies and Rhetorical Studies, edited by T. Rosteck, 248–65. New York: Guilford Press, 1998.
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“Visualizing Venice.” Routledge, n.d. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315100685.Full Text
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Digital Publications
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Jaskot, Paul, Hannah Jacobs, Victoria Szabo, Mark Olson, and Edward Triplett. “Shaping the Discipline of Digital Art History: A recap of an advanced summer institute on 3-D and (geo)spatial networks.” The Iris: Behind the Scenes at the Getty, December 19, 2018.Link to Item
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Exhibitions, Screenings, & Performances
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Artistic Works & Non-Print Media
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Installations
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Mixed Media
- Perjovschi's "Scan". Designer. Installation, Video Recording. 2007
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Theatrical Productions
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- Teaching & Mentoring
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Recent Courses
- ARTSVIS 242L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2021
- ARTSVIS 794L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2021
- CMAC 791: Individual Research Independent Study 2021
- ISS 294L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2021
- ISS 794L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2021
- VMS 397L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2021
- VMS 492: Independent Study 2021
- VMS 794L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2021
- AMI 323L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2020
- AMI 794L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2020
- ARTHIST 691: Independent Study 2020
- ARTSVIS 242L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2020
- ARTSVIS 492: Independent Study 2020
- ARTSVIS 794L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2020
- CMAC 791: Individual Research Independent Study 2020
- ISS 291-1: Independent Study 2020
- ISS 294L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2020
- ISS 491: ISS Independent Study 2020
- ISS 794L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2020
- VMS 397L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2020
- VMS 492: Independent Study 2020
- VMS 794L: Interactive Graphics: Critical Code 2020
- AMI 325L: Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications 2019
- AMI 725L: Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications 2019
- ARTHIST 581S: Historical and Cultural Visualization Proseminar 2 2019
- CMAC 581S: Historical and Cultural Visualization Proseminar 2 2019
- CMAC 791: Individual Research Independent Study 2019
- CMAC 796L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum I 2019
- CMAC 797L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum II 2019
- CMAC 798L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum III 2019
- CMAC 799L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum IV 2019
- HCVIS 581S: Historical and Cultural Visualization Proseminar 2 2019
- HCVIS 796L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum I 2019
- HCVIS 797L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum II 2019
- HCVIS 798L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum III 2019
- HCVIS 799L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum IV 2019
- ISS 240L: Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications 2019
- ISS 279S: Visual Cultures of Medicine 2019
- ISS 491: ISS Independent Study 2019
- ISS 493: ISS Research Independent Study 2019
- ISS 581S: Historical and Cultural Visualization Proseminar 2 2019
- ISS 740L: Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications 2019
- ISS 796L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum I 2019
- ISS 797L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum II 2019
- ISS 798L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum III 2019
- ISS 799L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum IV 2019
- VMS 202D: Introduction to Visual Culture 2019
- VMS 288L: Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications 2019
- VMS 291: Independent Study 2019
- VMS 346S: Visual Cultures of Medicine 2019
- VMS 392: Independent Study 2019
- VMS 491: Independent Study 2019
- VMS 492: Independent Study 2019
- VMS 581S: Historical and Cultural Visualization Proseminar 2 2019
- VMS 788L: Fundamentals of Web-Based Multimedia Communications 2019
- VMS 793: Independent Study in Visual and Media Studies 2019
- VMS 796L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum I 2019
- VMS 797L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum II 2019
- VMS 798L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum III 2019
- VMS 799L: Media, Arts & Cultures Research Practicum IV 2019
- Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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Presentations & Appearances
- Anatomical Theater, and the Performance of Morality (Anatomy Day Presentation). November 18, 2013 2013
- Media & Medicine, Guest Lecture for CULANTH 424T (Medical Anthropology). October 1, 2013 2013
- Visualizing Venice: Teaching, Technology, Infrastructure. June 17, 2013 2013
- Roundtable Moderator & Respondent: "Mapping Space & Time - Configuring Connections, Trade & Travel, Past & Present". May 2, 2013 2013
- Learning by Making: Digital Methods and the Wired! Experiment at Duke University. March 6, 2013 2013
- Media & Medicine, Guest Lecture for CULANTH 424T (Medical Anthropology). February 8, 2013 2013
- Arduino & Processing 101: Physical Computing for Artists, Guest Lecture for MFAEDA 713 (Computational Media Studio). January 24, 2013 2013
- Anatomy, Anatomical Theater, and the Performance of Morality (Anatomy Day Presentation). November 19, 2012 2012
- Toward a Process Ontology for Digital Archives (Invited Keynote). November 2, 2012 2012
- The Rise of Robotics in Contemporary Medicine. October 24, 2012 2012
- Code in the Classroom: New Techniques in Pedagogy (Panel Discussion). October 4, 2012 2012
- What is the Wired Lab? - Opportunities for Undergraduates. September 18, 2012 2012
- Arduino & Processing 101: Physical Computing for Artists. April 12, 2012 2012
- Hacking the Humanities. March 2, 2012 2012
- Moderator & Respondent, "Digital Museums, Archives, and Publications" (panel). February 7, 2012 2012
- Invited Respondent, "Emergent Bodies and Embodiments" (panel). January 20, 2012 2012
- Media & Medicine. October 12, 2011 2011
- Circuits: Performance, Technology & New Media. November 12, 2010 2010
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Outreach & Engaged Scholarship
- Bass Connections Team Leader. Building Duke: The Architectural History of Duke Campus from 1924 to the Present. 2019 - 2020 2019 - 2020
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader. Building Duke: The Architectural History of Duke Campus from 1924 to the Present. 2018 - 2019 2018 - 2019
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Neuroplicity: Leveraging New Media and Digital Storytelling to Connect Society to Neuroscience. August 2016 - May 2017 2016 - 2017
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Neuroplicity: Leveraging New Media and Digital Storytelling to Connect Society to Neuroscience. August 2015 - May 2016 2015 - 2016
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. The Lives of Things. August 2015 - May 2016 2015 - 2016
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Neuroplicity: Leveraging New Media and Digital Storytelling to Connect Society to Neuroscience. August 2014 - May 2015 2014 - 2015
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. Visualizing Venice. August 2014 - May 2015 2014 - 2015
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. The Digital Landscape: New Technologies to Visualize Ancient Landscapes. August 2013 - May 2014 2013 - 2014
- Bass Connections Faculty Team Member. The Lives of Things. August 2013 - May 2014 2013 - 2014
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Service to the Profession
- Reviewer : Digital Humanities Quarterly (Journal). 2012 2012
- Tertiary Reviewer, Art Division : SIGGRAPH 2012. 2012 2012
- Conference Planning Committee & Webmaster : 2012 CHAT Festival. August 1, 2011 - March 1, 2012 2011 - 2012
- Visualizing Venice Steering Committee. 2011 2011
- Council of Advisors, Humanities, Humanities, Arts, Science & Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC). 2010 2010
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