Agenda

13 May - Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter)
Making the Renaissance Public: apps, digital reconstruction and issues of interpretation 

Abstract
Over the past few years I’ve experimented with various digital approaches in aspects of my research, including in work with PhD students. These all have in common that they are less focused on the technological tool, but rather are concerned with exploring the affordances of digital media in interpretation, mostly applied to early modern urban settings. Broadly speaking those affordances have to do with experiential, contextual and in some cases kinetic forms of interpretation, that perhaps give greater primacy to visual argumentation than is prevalent in our text-based humanistic disciplines.  Some, but by no means all, of the examples I’ll discuss are also developed with non-academic audiences in mind. In this talk I hope to draw out some overarching observations from a range of recent and ongoing case examples, and would very much welcome comments and critiques.

BIO: Fabrizio Nevola is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture and Co-director of Digital Humanities in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Exeter and is currently Visiting Professor at Venice International University and Visiting Scholar at Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH) at Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice. Recent publication include the edited book (with Nicholas Terpstra and David Rosenthal): Hidden Cities. Urban Space, Geolocated Apps and Public History in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2022), a special Issue of Urban History on ‘The Material Culture of Public Space’ (2023) and ‘Early Modern Italy’, in The Cambridge Urban History of Europe, Volume II: The Middle Ages and Early Modern (c700-1850), ed. Maarten Prak and Patrick Lantschner (Cambridge University Press, 2026). More at: https://experts.exeter.ac.uk/22922-fabrizio-nevola

Registration for online participation: link

The event is part of the seminar series organized by the Venice Centre for Digital and Public Humanities (VeDPH), Department of Humanities, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.