A sampling of our past projects

• Artificial Eyes :: Investigating the relationship between natural science and art in the early modern period, reconstructing observational instruments and the skills required to use them. (2003)
• AsianAmericanArt :: A study and interpretation of visual art production by individuals of Asian ancestry in the United States from the mid-19th century to 1965.
• Before Recognition :: Draws on psychology, aesthetics, cognitive science, art history and art practice to elucidate the perception of artworks.
• Berlin - Temporal Topographies :: A multimedia, web-based research project that investigates the historical and cultural layers of a city space.
• Body Language :: A multimedia project that investigates body language in Russian and Soviet society through the 20th century.
• Court Records :: A web based research and teaching environment using court records about ordinary people and everyday disputes from Brazil and colonial Mali.
• Changing All :: A new 2004-05 project focusing on ongoing changes in the grammar and function of all in conversational American English, esp. its use as an intensifier, and its use to introduce quotations.
• dpResearch :: A digital performance journal. (2001)
• Historinet :: Developing a software system for intelligent search of a scholarly archive of digital data, representing the stream of recorded events of a personal scholarly life.
• Irish-American West :: This online collection of primary texts and scholarly articles focusing on Irish-Americans in the American West has been absorbed by the Western Institute for Irish Studies. The project continues apace in its new home. (2005)
• Medieval Spains :: A research- and curriculum-based website that presents scholarly materials on the various communities of medieval Spain.
• Pervasive Percussion Performance Space :: Exploring and synthesizing notions of movement, space, and sound through radical choreographies and new technical processes in a fundamentally redefined sound space.
• Philosophical Stages :: Experimental pedagogy at the intersection of philosophy and drama with both traditional and new media.
• R. Buckminster Fuller, Polymath :: A project exploring the R. Buckminster Fuller archive housed at Stanford.
• Revolutionary Tides :: Presents a collection of political posters as a distinctly modern medium of mass communication and persuasion.
• The Rosetta Screen :: A literary-themed artwork to be installed in the Martin Luther King, Jr., Public and University Library in San José, CA (2003)
• Shanghai/Paris: Urban Imaginaries 1880-1940 :: Tracing the development of the urban imaginary in two distant cities over the course of a century.
• Spatial History :: Constructing a computer model to bring dynamic conceptions of space into historical research and pedagogy, starting with railroads in the 19th century North American West.
• Thinking Aloud and Looking aHEAD at Museum Learning :: A project that seeks to develop a head camera and research protocol to study how people learn in humanities museums.
• Traumwerk :: A web-based collaborative authoring environment designed to explore, experimentally, some classic issues in the humanities.
• Virtual Mandala :: A project located at the confluence of the historical process in which a system of thought adapts itself to another culture and the development of new technology discourse.