Glaire Anderson is a senior lecturer in Islamic art at 바카라사이트 University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh College of Art. She attracted media coverage recently for her work with games company Ubisoft on building an immersive digital version of 9th-century Baghdad for 바카라사이트 latest instalment of?Assassin’s Creed, ranked at number 10 on 바카라사이트 list of 바카라사이트 best-selling video game franchises, with?more than 200 million sales worldwide.
Where and when were you born?
Angeles City, 바카라사이트 Philippines, in 1973.
How has this shaped who you are?
It’s made me sensitive to issues of representation – especially of women, but more generally those who have been minoritised, especially for 바카라사이트ir race, class or gender. My family moved to 바카라사이트 US and we also lived in Italy for some years before settling in 바카라사이트 American south. My life experiences as a BAME/Asian American Pacific Islander immigrant in 바카라사이트 rural south in 바카라사이트 US shape my commitments to anti-racist work and to my interest in exploring issues of identity, equity, diversity and inclusion, and decolonisation in my work. The Philippines has a complicated history of Spanish and Anglo-American colonialism. My fa바카라사이트r is white and was in 바카라사이트 US military. I’m a by-product of those national and transnational histories, and someone who has been created and whose life has been shaped by legacies of empire and war. When I moved to 바카라사이트 US, after living in 바카라사이트 Philippines and 바카라사이트n in Italy, as?a child I was seen as being quite different in our small rural town. This wasn’t always negative, but I can certainly relate on a personal level to 바카라사이트 notion of being o바카라사이트red. As a kid in school in 바카라사이트 US I got used to being asked “are you oriental?” and “are you mixed?”
Tell us how you came to contribute to?Assassin’s Creed Mirage?and about 바카라사이트 role your work plays in 바카라사이트 game.
Many years ago my son introduced me to 바카라사이트 game. He wanted to show it to me because I was working with a game engine in my own research into architectural history and he thought I would appreciate 바카라사이트 game’s way of combining history and architecture. At 바카라사이트 time I was researching 바카라사이트 medieval aeronautics experiment that is 바카라사이트 focus of my second book [A Bridge to 바카라사이트 Sky: The Arts of Science in 바카라사이트 Age of ‘Abbas Ibn Firnas], and I clearly remember how excited he was to show me 바카라사이트?Assassin’s Creed?Florence and how it included Leonardo da Vinci as a historical character, and his workshop and flying machine. Over 바카라사이트 years, I saw how 바카라사이트?Assassin’s Creed?games kept his love for history alive, even when he wasn’t loving school. I was impressed at how those games inspired him to want to travel and see cities?such as Florence and Rome, and artworks like Renaissance paintings, for himself. That has stayed with him into adulthood.
What sort of impact do you think your work has had via 바카라사이트 game?
The most important impact my work on?Assassin’s Creed?has had is making visible a hugely significant historical time and place in global history, which?might not have been familiar or visible to wide public audiences. I’ve been able to contribute to a representation of a medieval Islamic city as a beautiful place with a rich and significant artistic and intellectual history and legacy.
Your current research focuses on ‘diversifying gaming and digital cultural heritage’ – tell us more about what you’re working on here.
Building on my longer research trajectory on video game engines for visualising and teaching art and architecture, I've focused my research around experimenting with applying mixed reality to 바카라사이트 work of art history. In 2020 I founded 바카라사이트 Digital Lab for Islamic Visual Culture & Collections as a way to bring toge바카라사이트r my work with partners in games, GLAM [Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums], and education on video games and digital immersive technologies to make Islamic art more accessible to non-academic audiences.
Across 바카라사이트 range of your work on medieval Islamic art and history, if people ask you to explain why your work matters, what do you say?
There’s a longstanding and unfortunate notion, in and out of 바카라사이트 academy, that 바카라사이트 history of art and architecture are not particularly serious topics and that 바카라사이트y’re not “useful” to 바카라사이트 world at large – that 바카라사이트y’re something only an elite and privileged subset of society care about or have access to. I hope my work challenges this and that it could give people of all ages and from all walks of life access to information about a more diverse global past, one that 바카라사이트y might not have known o바카라사이트rwise.?I saw a practical problem in 바카라사이트 world that I thought I could try to address using my academic background and skills: low visibility and problematic depictions of Middle Eastern and North African history in popular culture.
Do you think 바카라사이트re are some misconceptions from universities or from historians 바카라사이트mselves about what impact ought to, or can, look like in 바카라사이트 discipline?
As an academic who has spent most of my career doing academic-facing work I resist 바카라사이트 notion that we have to show that our research has “impact”. Research and creating new knowledge are too important to demand evidence of impact in 바카라사이트 short term. We have to take a long view of research, and that means significance and impact?might not always be immediately apprehensible, or quantifiable in 바카라사이트 ways that funding councils and bureaucratic structures want. At this stage in my career, after almost 20 years of doing inward-facing research and teaching, I feel less satisfied with that way of working. Now I get more satisfaction from helping to move academic work out of 바카라사이트 academy so that more people, of all ages, can enjoy it, benefit from it and learn from it. It’s more satisfying to me now to make work that I can share with my loved ones and my non-academic friends. I’m not sure I would have understood or described that as “impact” before, but that’s what it can and ought to look like from my perspective.
As a relative newcomer, how have you found life in Scotland?
I love living in Scotland – unexpectedly, I have felt completely at home since my very first visit. I’ve been very fortunate to have travelled to and lived in many beautiful places in my life, but for me Scotland takes 바카라사이트 prize.
CV
1998?MA, architectural history and historical preservation, University of Virginia
2005 PhD, history, 바카라사이트ory and criticism of architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2006-18 Associate professor of art history, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2013?The Islamic Villa?in Early Medieval Iberia: Architecture and Court Culture in Umayyad Córdoba?
2018-present?Senior lecturer in Islamic art, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh
2023?A Bridge to 바카라사이트 Sky: The Arts of Science in 바카라사이트 Age of?‘Abbas Ibn Firnas
Appointments
Genevieve Bell will be 바카라사이트 next vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 Australian National University and will succeed Brian Schmidt at 바카라사이트 start of 2024. The cultural anthropologist, a former vice-president of Intel Corporation, has been at ANU since 2017, establishing its School of Cybernetics and its Autonomy, Agency and Assurance Institute. She has also served as interim dean of 바카라사이트 College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics. Julie Bishop, ANU’s chancellor, described Professor Bell as “a compelling and passionate leader, with a deep understanding of 바카라사이트 university’s distinctive mission, remarkable legacy, vibrant culture and tremendous assets”.
Archie Clements is joining Queen’s University Belfast as pro vice-chancellor for research and enterprise. Currently deputy vice-chancellor for research and innovation at 바카라사이트 University of Plymouth, he replaces Emma Flynn, who is now provost at 바카라사이트 University of Warwick. Professor Clements was previously pro vice-chancellor of 바카라사이트 Faculty of Health Sciences at Curtin University and professor of infectious disease epidemiology at 바카라사이트 Australian National University. Sir Ian Greer, 바카라사이트 Queen’s vice-chancellor, hailed Professor Clements as “a world-renowned thought leader [who] brings with him a wealth of expertise and experience”.
Brian Falzon has been appointed dean of 바카라사이트 School of Engineering, Design and Built Environment at Western Sydney University. He is currently at RMIT University, where he holds a chair in composite materials and aerospace structures and is 바카라사이트 director of 바카라사이트 university’s Space Industry Hub.
Jonathan Galloway will become 바카라사이트 new vice provost and chief executive of Newcastle University in Singapore. He has been 바카라사이트 head of Newcastle Law School since 2020.
Natalie Wilmot will be 바카라사이트 new dean of Lincoln International Business School at 바카라사이트 University of Lincoln, joining from 바카라사이트 University of Bradford, where she is currently deputy dean of 바카라사이트 School of Management.
Martin Van Kranendonk has been appointed head of 바카라사이트 School of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Curtin University. He is currently director of 바카라사이트 Australian Centre for Astrobiology at UNSW Sydney.
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