Agenda

Speakers:

Sophia Mirashrafi, Historic Environment Scotland; James Cook, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland 

Abstract: The Digital Documentation and Digital Innovation teams at Historic Environment Scotland (HES) work to capture and utilize 3D data for storytelling, accessibility, and interpretation. Starting from detailed laser scans and photogrammetry, the teams at HES can create everything from 3D models, animated fly-throughs, scientific investigation, virtual tours, and more, using innovative digital methods to tell new stories about our past. A key case study of this kind of work is highlighted at Linlithgow Palace, the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots. The Edinburgh College of Art, in collaboration with HES and the universities of Birmingham and Melbourne, conducted a cutting-edge project utilizing HES’ 3D scan of the chapel, pushing the boundaries of virtual reconstruction: recreating a sixteen-century concert, with the historic instruments, acoustic, and sound of 1512.

Biography: 

– Sophia Mirashrafi is the Digital Project Officer on the Digital Innovation and Digital Documentation team at Historic Environment Scotland, based at the Engine Shed in Stirling, Scotland. She holds an MSc in Digital Heritage from the University of York and an MA in Medieval History and Archaeology from the University of St. Andrews. Currently she is working with the National Trust for Scotland on the digital documentation and investigation of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House in Helensburgh, Scotland.

– James Cook is a lecturer in Early Music at Edinburgh College of Art. After completing his doctorate on Fifteenth-Century English Mass Cycles, James held a number of short-term post-doctoral fellowships followed by a Postdoctoral Fellowship of the Society for Renaissance Studies, during which he worked on the apparent decline in interest in English music in the later fifteenth century. He works mainly on early music and is especially interested in music of the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries –the period that falls neatly between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

The seminars are part of the Technical Art History Series in Advanced Imaging Technologies for Cultural Heritage organized by the Rijksmuseum, the Computational Imaging group at CWI  Amsterdam, and the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities. 

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