This afternoon, please join us for our last #HumForum of the spring semester with the annual Lipitz Lecture @ 4pm in PAHB 132 my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/dresher…
.@UMBC_CAHSS Dean Scott Casper is introducing our Lipitz Professor, Dan Bailey, a professor of animation. The Lipitz Lecture is conferred annually. #HumForum cahss.umbc.edu/lipitz/
The talk will feature two projects: Visualizing Early Baltimore and Slow Exposure. Bailey stresses that these projects would not be possible without a group effort.
“Slow Exposure” is about doing shutter speed photography that documents time over months and years.
Other artists using this technique include Michael Wesely, Alexey Titarenko, Chris McCaw, and Jonathan Keats.
Bailey: I had a 12 camera stations set up in Tasmania. All I had to work with was the ocean.
Bailey: By working with only analog cameras in the beginning, I was producing a bias version of the world. Analog requires light, but half the world exists in the dark.
Photography is about memory and Bailey hopes that his images are a memory of a species.
Bailey: I want to capture the mundane landscape and think about what the everyday is like and what can be brought to it. I also want to think about humans’ impact on the environment.
Threatening Rock (tse biyaa anii'ahi) was a 30,000 ton section of canyon wall. The indigenous community built their homes even in the face of the danger of the rock. It eventually fell in the 1960s
Visualizing Early Baltimore is a project through @ircumbc. This 3D map of Baltimore, which can incorporate terrain, buildings, and land use. This map provides a unique look into the past. earlybaltimore.org
Maps and paintings are not necessarily reliable as they are often incomplete or don’t show a realistic view of the city (elevation, etc)
The database for the project is really rich as over 100 maps of Baltimore have been geo-referenced.
City directories were also utilized in the development of the mapping tool.
An example of the use of this mapping tool is @AnneSarahRubin’s project to map where white and free and enslaved Black people lived in early Baltimore.
It can also show us how diverse the city was
Such tools can allow us to look beyond just the shapes on a map. These were people who walked with and lived around each other.
This research is the work of a village and NOT an individual
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