4:00 PM Private Tour led by Bill Michel, Executive Director of the Logan Center

North Entrance

4:30 PM Business Meeting and Lecture, Mapping the Soundscape of Renaissance Florence: New Technologies in Architectural History featuring Niall Atkinson, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor

Seminar Terrace Room 801

6:30 PM Cocktails and Dinner joined by members of the Art History faculty and select graduate students, with a presentation by current student, Maggie Taft

Performance Penthouse

About the Lecture Niall Atkinson explores the relationship between architecture and experience in the Italian Renaissance city.  He has recently embarked on a collaborative project which allows researchers to combine historical data with historical maps, enabling users to explore Florence’s urban history in a virtual environment.  Working with Peter Leonard, Associate Director of Humanities Computing, Atkinson experiments with digitally mapping the soundscape of Florence in the 13th to 16th centuries as a way of understanding how Florentines experienced the city as a multi-sensorial phenomenon.  Together they have discovered new ways that digital technology can greatly enrich our understanding of the relationship between the production of works of art, architecture, and the communities that producedthem.

From the exhibit "Playing with Pictures," currently at MoMA.

Current student Miranda Hofelt and alum Liz Siegel were recently featured in the New York Times for an exhibit they helped to put together at the Art Institute of Chicago. Miranda’s work on the exhibit was funded by gifts from Visiting Committee members.

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From Lakeshore Drive, exit at 47th Street. Proceed West along 47th Street until you come to Woodlawn Avenue. Turn left on Woodlawn Avenue. Proceed South on Woodlawn Avenue until you come to 57th Street. Turn right on 57th Street. The Regenstein Library will be on your right. Parking is available in the garage on Greenwood Avenue between 55th and 56th Streets.