I occupy the Pierotti Chair in Italian and Comparative
Literature at Stanford, where I founded the Stanford Humanities Lab in 2000 with the aim of creating a
transdisciplinary platform devoted to testing out future scenarios for
the arts and humanities in a post-print world.
SHL is a hybrid institution, a kind of Media/Tech Lab wedded to a
Humanities & Arts research center, devoted to thinking outside of the
box, to experimenting with public forms of scholarship and culture, to
exploring the interstices between research and art practice, to
developing models and tools for collaboration and teamwork, and to
providing the opportunity for students at all levels to learn through
making and doing.
My current research interests lie in the domain of mixed reality
approaches to scholarship, curatorship, and cultural programming and in
a broad range of challenges placed under the general banner of
"animating the archive." During the course of the 2009-2010 academic
year, with support from the Danish Ministry of Science, Technology, and
Innovation, and with museum partners on both sides of the Atlantic, my
research group is launching a new open source virtual world entitled
Sirikata.
Last updated August 26, 2009