{"id":676,"date":"2004-12-08T14:31:34","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=676"},"modified":"2004-12-08T14:31:34","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T18:31:34","slug":"the-da-vinci-effect-carnegie-mellon-gift-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"The Da Vinci Effect: Carnegie Mellon Gift Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"The Da Vinci Effect\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davincieffect.com\/\">The Da Vinci Effect<\/a> is a fundraising campaign by Carnegie Mellon that is touring the US and which bills itself as a &#8220;multisensory theatrical event&#8221;. From the digital video is seems to involve an actor dressed up like Leonardo who coordinates a multimedia show.<br \/>\nWhat is interesting is how Carnegie Mellon is focusing on the intersection of arts and technology and using Leonardo as an iconic figure for that interesection. They aren&#8217;t promoting Italian studies or Renaissance studies, but the combination of entertainment and technology. I wonder what Leonardo would have pushed as a curriculum for effect?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFor a look at all the ways Leonardo da Vinci has been appropriated look at the <a title=\"leonardo.virtual.museum\" href=\"http:\/\/leonardo.virtual.museum\/\">leonardo.virtual.museum<\/a>. Just the section on the Mona Lisa is worth it. Here is a paper where Matthew Landrus writes about constructing the site, <a title=\"Appropriations of Leonardo da Vinci\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk\/~mhl\/chart2000.html\">Virtual Museums:  Appropriations of Leonardo da Vinci<\/a>. Alas the paper isn&#8217;t really that interesting &#8211; it is more a report on the site and copyright issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Da Vinci Effect is a fundraising campaign by Carnegie Mellon that is touring the US and which bills itself as a &#8220;multisensory theatrical event&#8221;. From the digital video is seems to involve an actor dressed up like Leonardo who coordinates a multimedia show. What is interesting is how Carnegie Mellon is focusing on the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=676\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Da Vinci Effect: Carnegie Mellon Gift Tour<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-and-administration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}