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Picture of Bernard Frischer and his wife, Jane Crawford, at Castel Gandolfo

Bernard Frischer and his wife, Jane Crawford, at Castel Gandolfo, Italy
 

 


NEWS
 

Interview for Bavarian TV by Elli Kriesch, May, 2003
New digital model of the English colony of Port Royal (Jamaica) is installed in the Ocean Institute (Dana Point, California), September, 2003
Interview for The Discovery Channel by James Younger, February, 2003

 

Public launching of the digital model of the Roman Forum to the media, January, 2003

Interview for RAI 1 by Cecilia Mastrantonio, December, 2003

   

 

   
   
Interview for Il Venerdi di Repubblica by Marco Merola, April, 2004 (photo courtesy of Pasquale Sorrentino)
   


Recent

Frischer appointed new Director of IATH, U. of Virginia (August 25, 2004)

Interview in Il Messaggero by Diana Letizia (December 4, 2003)

Newsweek (Feb. 3, 2003) reports on completion of CVRLab computer model of the Roman Forum

 

Archive

Sorbonne Professors Find Mosaic Confirming Frischer's Reconstruction of Epicurus' Portrait,1995

Excavations at Horace's Villa Reopened, 1997

Story in The Sunday Times (London), April19,1998 by Godfrey Smith

Il Messaggero covers the Excavations at Horace's Villa, September 17, 1999

Reuters writes about the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Lab, November 19, 1999

UCLA's Visualization Portal opens, heralding new era in use of Virtual Reality on campus, Jan. 25,2000

TV interview about the UCLA Cultural VR Lab on Discovery, March 6, 2000 (streaming video, 8 minutes)

Interview in Ottagono Design & Designers 142 (February-March 2001)
 
 "Italy Daily" of the International Herald Tribune covers Horace's Villa excavation, July 25, 2001 (Adobe Acrobat file)

International Herald Tribune, Italy Daily (June 6, 2002) covers the CVRLab model of the Colosseum

 


Positions

Director, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia (five-year appointment, starting August 25, 2004)

Director, Cultural VR Lab-East (University of Virginia)

Director Emeritus, Cultural VR Lab-West (UCLA)

 


Curriculum Vitae


Research Interests

Digital humanities, digital archaeology, virtual reality, urban simulation, visualization, stylometrics, Roman archaeology, urban history of Rome, Golden Latin literature.



Books

 Vergils 7. Ekloge

AT TU AUREUS ESTO: Eine Interpretation von Vergils 7. Ekloge (1975)

 The Sculpted Word

 

The Sculpted Word (1982)

 Shifting Paradigms

Shifting Paradigms (1991)

 

Allan Ramsay and the Search for Horace's Villa (2001)


Websites

Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (University of Virginia)

The Horace's Villa Project

The Cultural Virtual Reality Lab


Contact Information

Prof. Bernard Frischer, Director
Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400115
Charlottesville, VA, USA 22904-4115

Office Phone: (434) 924-4527
Cell/USA: (310) 266-6935
Cell/Europe: +39 349-473-6590
E-mail: bernard.frischer@gmail.com

Last updated: June 17, 2005.