Thursday, December 5, 2019

The Egyptian Sculpture Digitization Project

The Egyptian Sculpture Digitization Project
The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (NELC), based in the Indiana University Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, and the Virtual World Heritage Laboratory (VWHL), based in in the Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing, in collaboration with partners at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art, are digitizing in 3D important examples of ancient Egyptian sculpture. It is anticipated that this digital collection will be continually expanded as other museum partners are added.

Info

Stephen Vinson, Project Director
Mohamed Abdelaziz, Director of Data Processing

Cooperating Institutions

Brooklyn Museum of Art
Eskenazi Museum of Art
Members of the Scientific Advisory Committee include:
Bernie Frischer, Dept. of Informatics, Indiana University
Gabriele Guidi, Dipartimento di Meccanica, Politecnico di Milano
Melinda Hartwig, Carlos Museum, Emory University
Matthias Lang, Tübingen University
Jean Li, Ryerson University
Rita Lucarelli, University of California at Berkeley
Peter Manuelian, Harvard University
Joshua Roberson, University of Memphis
Elaine Sullivan, University of California at Santa Cruz
Willeke Wendrich, Univeristy of California at Los Angeles

The following students and scholars have contributed to the project:
Arin Anderson, Indiana University
Matthew R. Brennan, Indiana University​
Leif Christiansen, Indiana University
Gretchen Creekbaum, Indiana University
Christopher Davidson, Indiana University
Fenfang Dong, Indiana University
Justine Galambus, Indiana University
​​Emily Getz, Indiana University
​​Tassie Gniady, Cyberinfrastructure for Digital Humanities & Creative Activities, Indiana University
Gabriele Guidi, Dipartimento di Meccanica, Politecnico di Milano
Molly Isaacs, Indiana University
Amanda Ladd, Indiana University
Ling-Fei Lin, Indiana University
​Ryan Lipp, Indiana University
Maya Shen, Indiana University
Hilo Sugita, Indiana University and Harvard University
Kylie Thompson, Indiana University and the University of California at Los Angles
Mattei Tichindelean, Indiana University and the University of California at Los Angeles
Lingxin Zhang, Indiana University and Johns Hopkins University
Xiaofan Zhao, Indiana University and Brown University

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