The Lives of Things

The Lives of Things
2012-present

This team of Duke faculty, staff, and students collaborate to create new interactive displays and hybrid digital/physical exhibition platforms that reconstruct the location, color, and meaning of works of art in the collections of the Nasher Museum of Art. Most recently, the project produced an app that enables museum visitors to digitally recolor medieval statues in the Nasher's collection in order to see for themselves how the statues might have originally appeared. Watch the video below to learn more.

People Involved With The Project

  • Caroline Bruzelius, Anne Murnick Cogan Professor of Art and Art History (Co-Primary Investigator)
  • Mark J.V. Olson, The Cordelia and William Laverack Family Assistant Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies (Co-Primary Investigator; Developer; Project Manager)
  • Guillermo Sapiro, Edmund T. Pratt, Jr. School Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (Co-Primary Investigator)
  • Mariano Tepper, Postdoctoral Associate, Electrical and Computer Engineering (Developer)

Project Video