Mark Olson

Duke University

mark.olson@duke.edu

 

Mark Olson is an assistant professor of Visual and Media Studies and a member of the VV Steering Committee. His research explores how emerging technologies transform a wide array of communities of practice, from the use of new visualization technologies in art history and archaeology to the adoption of robotics in contemporary medicine. He contributes to the Wired Lab expertise and research on emergent 3D modeling and geo-spatial mapping techniques, with a particular focus on translating the affordances of these media practices into the concrete problematics of humanistic inquiry. Drawing on visual cultural studies’ work that maps the dynamic politics of modernity’s scopic regimes, Olson endeavors to foster critical reflection on the epistemologies embedded in and promoted by the Lab’s visualization initiatives.