Marc
Feb 8th, 2008
Feb 8th, 2008
Computer and the Arts
Yale University will offer, maybe as soon as Fall 2008, a new Computer in the Arts major. That program would allow students to develop and use software in the artistic fields of architecture, art, music, theatre studies and art history.
If the press release talks about computer applications in music and in the arts, there are no mentions of the work that could be done in art history. Two of the researchers behind this idea have interests in other fields: Julie Dorsey in architecture, Paul Hudak in music.
Only Holly Rushmeier, a data visualization specialist, would seem to be able to integrate art history in this new major. Her personal page indicates that she worked at the IBM Labs on Michelangelo’s Pieta in Florence.