{"id":6911,"date":"2020-08-04T13:46:44","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T11:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/?p=6911"},"modified":"2020-08-04T13:46:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T11:46:44","slug":"michael-walsh-professor-of-art-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wdw\/icddcsh\/michael-walsh-professor-of-art-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Walsh, Professor of Art History"},"content":{"rendered":"

School Chair at NTU, Singapore<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Michael J K Walsh is Professor of Art History at Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He successfully nominated Famagusta twice for inclusion in the World Monuments Fund Watch List of endangered heritage sites, then went on to organise four international conferences on the history, art and architecture of the walled city. From these meetings in Paris, Budapest, Bern and Padua five edited collections on Famagusta have been published. They are: Walsh, M., N. Coureas, P. Edbury (eds.), Medieval and Renaissance Famagusta: Studies in Art, Architecture and History (Ashgate Press, 2012); Walsh, M, N. Coureas, and T. Kiss (eds.), Crusader to Venetian Famagusta: \u2018The Harbour of all this Sea and Realm\u2019 (Central European University Press, 2014); Walsh, M. (ed.),City of Empires: Ottoman and British Famagusta 1571 \u2013 1960 (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2015); Walsh, M. (ed.), The Armenian Church of Famagusta and the Complexity of Cypriot Heritage: Prayers Long Silent (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017); and most recently Walsh, M. (Ed), Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants and Mercenaries (Brill, 2019). His most recent work is concerned with the digital modelling of the city\u2019s extant ecclesiastical structures with particular attention to music.<\/span><\/p>\n

Session: Digital Heritage<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Digital Technologies for Heritage Protection: The Case of Famagusta\u2019<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Digital models can be built that are accurate to within a few millimetres. Interactive spaces can be navigated by learners in real time at any point on the planet. Heritage can come alive with the music and sounds of the era. Speculative reconstructions can be attempted and location within 4D curated spaces can be determined by the user (including flight). Such experiments have been conducted over the past decade in Famagusta, in particular in the Armenian Church, St. Anne\u2019s, and St. George of the Greeks. This paper shares the results of this research in the hope that digital modelling, harnessed to hastening developments in Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, might stimulate further research in and on the historic city of Famagusta.<\/span><\/p>\n

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