ADHC Talks: A Conversation with Jennifer Feltman Online
ADHC Talks is a video podcast hosted by the Alabama Digital Humanities Center. It is livestreamed and recorded over Zoom, and then captioned and posted on YouTube and lives on the ADHC website. This semester, we will record on the second Friday of each month from 11 AM to 12PM on Zoom.
Join ADHC Talks: A Conversation with Jennifer Feltman (Zoom Link)
Today, we will be talking to Jennifer Feltman about her latest project, Notre Dame in Color. Notre-Dame in Color is an international collaborative research project that brings together scientists, artists, and art historians to enrich our understanding of the multi-chromatic environment of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. Feltman directs the project, working closely with Co-PIs: Alexandre Tokovinine, UA Associate Professor of Anthropology; Jeremiah Stager Cultural Resources Manager, UA Office of Archaeological Research; and Grégory Chaumet, Engineer, Centre Chastel, Paris-Sorbonne Université. Collaborators include musicologist and director of the UA Learning Commons Jennifer Roth-Burnette, chemist Stéphanie Duchêne of the LRMH, and art historians in France: Iliana Kasarska and Markus Schlicht. Together, we are documenting, analyzing, and developing new digital visualizations of the polychromed sculptures of Notre Dame in order to preserve the cathedral for future generations. Our project combines digital modeling using scanning and photogrammetry, photography, digital rendering, scientific analysis of pigments, and historical research on pigments and references to color, including color words found in liturgical chants.
For more information, check out Dr. Feltman's Notre Dame in Color website!
About Our Guest:
Dr. Feltman is associate professor of Medieval Art and architecture. Her research focuses on the design, interpretation, and preservation of Gothic sculpture. As a member of the Chantier scientifique de Notre-Dame, the team of researchers authorized by the French Ministry of Culture to study Notre-Dame as it is being restored, she is directing, “Notre-Dame in Color,” a project to investigate, document, and virtually recreate the vibrantly painted sculptures of the Gothic Cathedral of Paris. This project has received funding from the FACE Foundation – Transatlantic Research Partnership, a program of the French Embassy in the United States, the NEH, and the UA Collaborative Arts Initiative. Her books include: The North Transept of Reims Cathedral: Design, Construction, and Visual Programs (Routledge, 2016), The Long Lives of Medieval Art and Architecture (Routledge, 2019), co-edited with Sarah Thompson, and Moral Theology and the Cathedral: Sculptural Programs of the Last Judgment in France, c.1200-1240 (forthcoming from Brepols).
Dates for ADHC Talks in Spring 2024 are:
January 12
February 9
March 8
April 12
Related LibGuide: Digital Humanities @University of Alabama Libraries by Sara Whitver
- Date:
- Friday, January 12, 2024 Show more dates
- Time:
- 11:00am - 12:00pm
- Time Zone:
- Central Time - US & Canada (change)
- Event Type :
- Lecture
- Online:
- This is an online event.
- Event URL:
- https://ua-edu.zoom.us/j/89542151643
- Categories:
- Digital Humanities Research Data Services (Open Session)
Sara Maurice Whitver is the Digital Humanities Librarian at The University of Alabama Libraries and liaison librarian for the Departments of English and Philosophy. She joined the faculty at University of Alabama Libraries in 2012. Her academic background is in Digital Rhetoric and her research examines the ways in which people engage in posthuman worldbuilding and create space for their community on social media platforms. She is interested in reducing the barriers to digital humanities by exploring a combination of out of the box and minimal computing workflows that allow scholars to produce quality projects without having to become experts in computer programming. She leads the Alabama Digital Humanities Center at the University of Alabama Libraries.