Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities

Professor Bernard Frischer

 

PUBLICATIONS Continued

(*=refereed; †=invited conference paper)

*†B. Frischer, D. Favro, P. Liverani, S. De Blaauw, “Virtual Reality and Ancient Rome: The UCLA Cultural VR Lab’s Santa Maria Maggiore Project,” Virtual Reality in Archaeology, British Archaeological Reports International Series S 843, ed. J. A. Barcelo, M. Forte, and D. H. Sanders (ArcheoPress, London 2000), 155-162; available online at: www.cvrlab.org/research/research.html#publications

*†B. Frischer, F. Niccolucci, N. Ryan, "From CVR to CVRO: The Past, Present, and Future of Cultural Virtual Reality," forthcoming in British Archaeological Reports special volume on the Arezzo, Italy conference on "Virtual Reality and Archaeology" (November, 2000), British Archaeological Reports 834 (ArcheoPress, Oxford 2002) 7-18; available online at: www.cvrlab.org/research/research.html#publications

*B. Frischer, et al. The Horace’s Villa Project, 1997-2003. Report on New Fieldwork and Research Sponsored by the American Academy in Rome, the Soprintendenza Archeologica per il Lazio, and UCLA, forthcoming, edited by B. Frischer, J. Crawford, M. DeSimone, 1303 pages in ms. I am Editor-in-Chief and am author of reports totaling over 300 pages. There are 24 co-authors. The volume is expected to be published in 2004.

*†B. Frischer, et al., “The Digital Roman Forum Project of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory, International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Sptial Information Sciences, 5 pp. in ms. available online at: www.cvrlab.org/research/research.html#publications

†B. Frischer and P. Stinson, “Scientific Verification and Model-making Methodology: Case Studies of the Virtual Reality Models of the House of Augustus (Rome) and the Villa of the Mysteries (Pompeii),” forthcoming in the Conference Papers of Heritage, New Technologies & Local Development, The Ename Center, Ghent 11-13 September 2002, 20 pp. in ms. available online at: www.cvrlab.org/research/research.html#publications

*†”The Ultimate Internet Café. Reflections of a Practicing Digital Humanist about Designing a Future for the Research Library in the Digital Age,” in press for publication by the Council on Library and Information Resources, 28 pp. in ms.; available online at: www.cvrlab.org/research/research.html#publications

WORK IN PROGRESS

Horace’s Sabine Villa, a book ca. 300 pp. long under contract to Yale University Press

VIRTUAL REALITY EXHIBITIONS/DEMONSTRATIONS

Trajan's Forum, American Academy in Rome, March 16, 1997
"Beyond Beauty Show," J. Paul Getty Museum, December 1997-January 1999
"Virtual Reality Show" at the international conference "Computer Applications in Archaeology," Barcelona, Spain, April, 1998
"Archeo Virtua, 1er festival international du multimedia pour l'archéologie," 25-26 March 1999, Archéodrome de Bourgogne, France
"Rome Reborn," lecture and CAVE demonstration at Virginia Tech, October 26-27, 1998
"Image|architettura in movimenti," Florence, Italy, November, 1998
"Recent Work of the UCLA Cultural VR Lab," Entertech, San Diego, CA, April l 20, 1999
"A Virtual Tour of the Roman Forum," (segment of video), London Millennium Dome, 2000-2001
"A Virtual Tour of the Roman Forum," (segment of video) London Science Museum, 2000.
"The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore: A Gem of Early Christian Art and Architecture," in AUREA ROMA, a 9-minute video documentary shown in Italian and English in the Palace of Exhibitions, Rome, December 17, 2000-April 20, 2001
“New Projects of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory,” in the Visualization Portal, UCLA Academic Technology Services, Nov. 22, 2002; Nov. 25, 2002; Dec. 5, 2002; Jan. 15, 2003; April 2, 3003; April 17, 2003; April 23, 2003; April 30, 2003; May 1, 2003; May 2, 2003; May 5, 2003; May 6, 2003; May 10, 2003; May 16, 2003; August 25, 2003; August 27, 2003
“A Virtual Tour of the Roman Forum,” New York Public Library, sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, June 12, 2003

WEB SITES

In 1994-95, I created the first Web sites for: The American Academy in Rome, the Academic Senate of UCLA, the UCLA Department of Classics.
Horace’s Villa Web Site, Bernard Frischer Webmaster (created September 1997; last updated October, 1999); URL: horaces-villa
Rome Reborn Web Site, Bernard Frischer Webmaster (created April, 1998; archived in December, 2000)
UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Lab Web Site, Bernard Frischer, Webmaster (created January, 2000); URL: http://www.cvrlab.org

ARCHAEOLOGY

Photographer, Cosa Excavations, 1974-75
Photographer, Fototeca Unione, 1974-1976
Assistant Professor, Summer School in Roman Topography of the American Academy in Rome, 1975-1976
Member, Advisory Committee, Interdepartmental Program in Archaeology, UCLA, 1985-1991
Professor, Graduate Seminar in Roman Topography at UCLA, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001

Director, The Horace’s Villa Excavation, 1997-2001, sponsored by the American Academy in Rome, the Archaeological Superintendency for Lazio, the Vincenzo Romagnoli Group, the Kress Foundation, and the Steinmetz Family of Los Angeles. I defined the research goals, successfully solicited the institutional sponsorships, recruited over 100 volunteers and a team of 29 scholars, and raised over $400,000 to cover the costs of the project. I am now editing and contributing to the final report, which will be published in 2002 in the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Lectures at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1977, 1980, 1999 (for details, see below under LECTURES)

EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS & CD-ROMs

“A Roman Villa in Malibu: A Tour With Prof. Bernard Frischer,” 30 minutes, produced by the UCLA Department of Classics and the Donn Sigerson Foundation (1988)
“Perspectives on ‘I, Claudius,’” a 45-minute video produced by the UCLA Department of Classics in 1994
“S.P.Q.R.” an educational CD-ROM published in 1996 by GTI and Time-Warner (I was the historical consultant)
“Horace’s Villa near Licenza. A Guided Tour by Dr. Bernard Frischer” (1997), 20 minutes
“The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Roman Forum. A Virtual Tour by Prof. Bernard Frischer” (1998), 9 minutes
“The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome: A Virtual Tour by Prof. Bernard Frischer” (1998), 12 minutes
“The Roman Forum: A Virtual Tour with Prof. Bernard Frischer,” (1999), 17:30 minutes
"The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore: A Gem of Early Christian Art and Architecture," produced by Bernard Frischer (2000), 9:00 minutes (versions in Italian and English)

TV APPEARANCES

Discovery Channel, interview about the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory, March 6, 2000; available online at: www.cvrlab.org/news/news.html
Discovery Channel, “Unsolved History: The Colosseum,” March 15, 2003. Available on DVD from The Discovery Channel, DVD 684209

MEDIA COVERAGE

The UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality : major stories available online at: www.cvrlab.org/news/news.html

The Horace’s Villa Project: clippings file from Italian newspapers includes over 15 stories; major article in International Herald Tribune, July 25, 2001; available online at: horaces-villa/Resources/HoraceIHT.pdf

LECTURES

“On Reconstructing the Statue of Epicurus,” Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Atlanta, Ga., December, 1977
“Epicurus and Megalopsychia,” Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, La., December, 1980
“The Romans and the Civic Pride Movement in the Greek East during the Second Century A.D.,” Annual Meeting of the American Classical League, San Marino, Ca., October, 1981
“Epicureanism and Stoicism in the Roman Empire,” University of Judaism (Los Angeles, Ca.), November, 1981
“A New Interpretation of Horace, Odes 1.28,” APA, San Francisco, Ca., December, 1981. Expanded version given at: (1) University of Cincinnati in October, 1982; (2) the Johns Hopkins University in February, 1983; (3) Brown University in April, 1983; and (4) Harvard University in April, 1983
“Horace’s Ars Poetica as a Parody of the Poetics of Neoptolemus of Parium,” Pacific Coast Philological Assoc., Santa Barbara, Ca., November, 1983
“Horace’s Ars Poetica and the Traditions of Roman Grammatical Parody,” Cornell University in January, 1984
“Recent Work on Horace’s Ars Poetica,” USC, February, 1987; Stanford University, May, 1987
“The UCLA Classicist’s Workbench,” University of Michigan, March, 1988; Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Baltimore, 1989.
“Roman Writers and Their Villas: The Case of Horace,” J. Paul Getty Museum, May 11, 1991; Annual Meeting of the California Classics Association—Southern Section, November 9, 1991.
“Statistical Tests and the Question of Single or Multiple Authorship of the Historia Augusta,” USC-UCLA Latin Seminar, March 4, 1992
“Getting to the Bottom of the Lapis Niger in the Roman Forum,” American Academy in Rome, June 24, 1992.
“Does the Ars Poetica Have a Structure? The Riccoboni-Cologno Quarrel of 1591 and Its Aftermath,” Arethusa Conference on Horace, State University of New York at Buffalo, November 12, 1992; Universität Tübingen, October, 1993 (in German); Università di Bologna, December, 1993 (in Italian); Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo, December, 1993 (in Italian)
“Horace’s Villa: Image vs. Reality,” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, New Orleans, December 30, 1992; Yale University, March 24, 1993; Università di Firenze, December, 1993 (in Italian); Università di Bologna, December, 1993 (in Italian); Scuola Normale Superiore, December 1993 (in Italian); University of Pennsylvania, October 20, 1994; Loyola University of Chicago, October 21, 1994; Swarthmore College, November 16, 1994; Rutgers University, November 30

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