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ASHES2ART
Ashes2Art is an innovative
program created by Dr. Arne
Flaten (Assistant Professor, Art History) and
Paul Olsen (Professor,
Graphic Design) at Coastal Carolina University. During the first year of the
program Coastal Carolina students worked on three areas in Florence,
stitching panoramic images to create 360 degree views, writing detailed
essays about the monuments, works, and artists, as well as creating
extensive bibliographies for each site studied. The results of this project
can be seen at
http://visualart.coastal.edu/ashes2art/.
During the Spring of 2007 Coastal Carolina students will be turning their
attention to Delphi, and this time ASU students will be joining them as
part of a collaborative effort. The 3D reconstruction of an archaeological
site in which many of the monuments are poorly preserved has different
challenges than those faced by the students working on the Florence project.
Students will be working with archaeological plans and excavation reports to
recreate the buildings as accurately as possible, incorporating background
about the sanctuary and the critical role that Delphi played in antiquity.
Click
here for a recent Sun News article (2-7-07) about this collaboration.
A recent Jonesboro Sun article (9-24-06) about this collaboration is posted
here.
A radio interview featured on "Spotlight on the Arts" on KASU (91.9
FM) from October 3, 2006 can be accessed here.
Coastal Carolina students at
Knossos with Paul Olsen (summer 2006) taking photographs to use in Ashes2Art
in Spring 2007.
 
The tholos of Athena Pronaia
in the current state of preservation (left) with a reconstruction by Greg
Schultz (Coastal Carolina) on the right.
Resources for Ashes2Art (Spring 2007)
Core software (download links)
The software that we will be using for the course is:
RealViz Stitcher 5.5
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Acrobat
Flash
Dreamweaver
3ds Max
Cinema 4D
Vectorworks
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