BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
September 2, 2009
Bernard Frischer is a leading scholar in the application of digital technologies to humanities research and education. Frischer has overseen many significant projects, including virtual recreations of sites such as the city of Rome in the time of the emperor Constantine the Great. The works of Frischer and his institute have received international acclaim and have been featured on the Discovery Channel, the RAI, German Public Radio, the BBC, in Newsweek, Scientific American, Business Week, Computer Graphics World, Forbes, the New York Times and many other magazines and newspapers around the world (see www.frischerconsulting.com/rome_reborn/press.php#media_coverage). His Rome model was featured at SIGGRAPH 2008, held in August 2008 in the Los Angeles Convention Center. The booth, located at the entrance to the exhibition hall, was one of the largest in the history of the meeting: 110 feet long x 30 feet wide x 20 feet high.
Professor Frischer is the author or co-author of six printed books, three e-books and many articles on virtual heritage and on the Classical world and its survival. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Digital Roman Forum web site (http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum ), which was honored in 2008 by being included on the list of EDSITEMENT, the list of educationally-approved websites selected by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He taught Classics at UCLA from 1976 to 2004. Since then he has been Professor of Art History and Classics at the University of Virginia, where from 2004 to 2009 he also served as Director of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities. He has been a guest professor at the University of Pennsylvania (1993), the University of Bologna (1994), Beijing Normal University (2009), and held the post of Professor-in-Charge of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (2001-02). He has been named a Senior Fellow in the Zukunftskolleg of the University of Constance (Germany) for the 2010-11 academic year.
Frischer's research career reflects his interest in interdisciplinary approaches, and has included studies in the literature, philosophy, art history and archeology of Greece and Rome. He is the author of several books, including Shifting Paradigms: New Approaches to Horace's Ars Poetica, and The Sculpted Word: Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment. Frischer directed the excavations of Horace's Villa, a project sponsored by the American Academy in Rome and the Archeological Superintendency for Lazio of the Italian Ministry of Culture. The findings of this work were the subject of a two-volume report, Horace's Villa Project 1997-2003 (Oxford: 2007), of which Frischer was editor-in-chief. He is founder and director of the Rome Reborn Project, an international initiative based at the University of Virginia, UCLA, and the Politecnico di Milano (for details, see www.romereborn.virginia.edu). The goal of the project is to create 3D digital models illustrating the urban development of ancient Rome from the first settlements in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1,000 BCE) to the early Middle Ages (ca. 550 CE). Rome Reborn 1.0 was premiered by Rome’s Mayor Walter Veltroni at an international press conference Frischer organized in June, 2007. It was published in Google Earth in 2008. Rome Reborn 2.0 was the featured project at SIGGRAPH 2008, the leading industry and scientific conference held in the field of Computer Graphics. His current research includes a new 3D digital model of Hadrian's Villa (Tivoli, Italy). He is also principal investigator of SAVE (Serving and Archiving Virtual Environments), a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to create a database of 3D digital models of cultural heritage sites, monuments, and landscapes. Over the course of his career, Frischer has raised over $4 million in support of his various research projects.
Frischer received his B.A. (Wesleyan University, 1971) and Ph.D. (Heidelberg, 1975) degrees summa cum laude and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa (1970), a Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows, a Fellow (1974-76) and Resident (1996) of the American Academy in Rome, and he has won research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies (1981, 1996) and the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (1997). From 1996 to 2003 he directed the excavations of Horace's Villa sponsored by the American Academy in Rome, and from 1996 to 2004 he was founding director of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory. The lab was one of the first in the world to use 3D computer modeling to reconstruct cultural heritage sites. In 2005 Bernard Frischer was given the Pioneer Award of the International Society on Virtual Systems and Multimedia. In 2009, he was the recipient of the Tartessus Prize of the Spanish Society for Virtual Archaeology.
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BERNARD FRISCHER: Curriculum Vitae
(September 2, 2009)
Home Address: 130 Terrell Road East, Charlottesville, Virginia 22901
Phone numbers: +1-434-971-1435 (home); +1-310-266-0183 (cell); +39-06-537-3951 (Rome apartment)
E-mail: bernard.d.frischer(at)gmail.com
Home page: http://www.frischerconsulting.com/frischer/
Media coverage: www.frischerconsulting.com/rome_reborn/press.php#media_coverage
EMPLOYMENT
DIRECTOR, Virtual World Heritage Laboratory, 2009—present
VISITING PROFESSOR, Computer Science, Beijing Normal University, September, 2009
PROFESSOR, History of Art, University of Virginia, 2004—present
PROFESSOR, Classics Department, University of Virginia, 2004—present
DIRECTOR, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, U. of Virginia, 2004—2009
PROFESSOR-IN-CHARGE, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome, 2001-02
DIRECTOR, UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Lab, 1998—2004
DIRECTOR, UCLA office of the University of California Education Abroad Program, 1992-1998
VISITING PROFESSOR, University of Pennsylvania, Fall Semester, 1994
VISITING PROFESSOR, University of Bologna, Fall Semester, 1993
DIRECTOR, Italy Study Center of the University of California Education Abroad Program, 1988-90
FACULTY DIRECTOR, UCLA Humanities Computing Facility, 1987-88
CHAIR, UCLA Department of Classics, 1984-1988
PROFESSOR, Classics UCLA, July, 1976—June, 2004
FELLOW, American Academy in Rome, 1974—76
JUNIOR FELLOW, Michigan Society of Fellows, 1971—74
EDUCATION/DEGREES
Fellow of the Academy in Rome, Classical Studies, 1976
Ph.D. in Classical Philology, Universität Heidelberg, (Supervisor: Prof. Viktor Pöschl), 1975
B.A. in Classics , Wesleyan University (CT), 1971
HONORS/AWARDS
Tartessus Prize, Spanish Society of Virtual Archaeology, 2009; Digital Forum Web site chosen for inclusion as a recommended web resource for education by EDSITEMENT, 2008; Pioneer Award, The International Society for Virtual Systems and Multimedia, 2005; Loeb Classical Research Fellow, 2003-04; Paul Mellon Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2 semesters, 1997); Resident in Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome, 1996; ACLS Fellowship, 1996-97; UCLA Classics Department Nominee for UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 1995; University of California Exchange Professor to the University of Bologna, Fall, 1993; ACLS Fellowship, 1981-82; Rome Prize Fellow in Classics, 1974-76; Ph.D. summa cum laude (1975); Junior Fellowship, Michigan Society of Fellows (1971-74); Woodrow Wilson Fellow (declined), 1971; B.A. summa cum laude, 1971; Phi Beta Kappa, 1970.
PUBLICATIONS
Frischer, B. “Concordia Discors and Characterization in Euripides’ Hippolytus,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 11 (1970) 85-100
Frischer, B. AT TU AUREUS ESTO: Eine Interpretation von Vergils 7. Ekloge (Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn, 1975), 280 pp.
Fototeca Unione Photographic Archive of Roman Topography on Microfiche, vol.1, co-author with K. Einaudi and I. Bragantini (Rome 1977, first edition; Munich 1979, second edition; Chicago 1982)
Frischer, B. Review of D. Lemke, Die Theologie Epikurs (Munich 1974) in Classical Philology 72 (1977) 356-60
Frischer, B. “On Reconstructing the Portrait of Epicurus and Identifying the Socrates of Lysippus,” California Studies in Classical Antiquity 12 (1979) 121-54
Frischer, B. The Sculpted Word. Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1982) 340 pp. + 15 plates. The second, revised edition was published in 2006 and is available at
http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90022.0001.001
Frischer, B. Review of R. D. Williams, Virgil, Eclogues and Georgics (New York 1979) in Classical Philology 78 (1983) 77-81
Frischer, B. “A Socio-Psychological and Semiotic Analysis of Epicurus’ Portrait,” Arethusa 16 (1983) 247-65
Frischer, B. “Burying Latin Cenotaphiolum,” American Journal of Philology 104 (1983) 444-45
Frischer, B. “Monumenta et Arae Honoris Virtutisque Causa: Evidence of Memorials for Roman Civic Heroes,” Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica di Roma 88 (1982-83) 51-86 + 7 plates
Frischer, B. “Inceptive Quoque and the Introduction Medias in Res,” Glotta 61 (1983) 236-51
Frischer, B. “Horace and the Monuments: A New Interpretation of the Archytas Ode (c.1.28),” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 88 (1984) 71-102
The UCLA Conference on Classics and Computing, Favonius Supplementary Volume 1, edited with contribution (1987) Frischer, B. “The Structure of Virgil’s Georgics,” in Enciclopedia Virgiliana, vol. 2 (Rome, 1988) 688-691
Frischer, B. “Project Cicero,” a chapter in the Microsoft CD-ROM Library, vol. 3, ed. S. Ambron (1988) 145-156 Frischer, B. “The UCLA Classicist's Workbench,” Computing and the Classics, 5.3 Supplement (1989) 1-4
Frischer, B. Shifting Paradigms. New Approaches to Horace’s Ars Poetica, American Philological Association Monograph Series 27 (1991) xiii + 158 pp. + 3 plates
Frischer, B. “Horace and the End of Renaissance Humanism in Italy: Quarrels, Religious Correctness, Nationalism and Academic Protectionism,” Arethusa 28 (1995) 265-288
Frischer, B. “La Villa dei Papiri: Modello per la Villa Sabina di Orazio?” Cronache Ercolanesi 25 (1995) 211-229.
Frischer, B. “Horazens Sabinum: Dichtung und Wahrheit,” in Römische Lebenskunst, the acts of a conference in honor of the 85th birthday of Prof. Viktor Pöschl (Heidelberg, 1996) 31-46
Frischer, B. “Rezeptionsgeschichte and Interpretation: The Quarrel of Antonio Riccoboni and Nicolò Cologno about the Structure of Horace’s Ars Poetica,” in Helmut Krasser and Ernst A. Schmit (editors), Zeitgenosse Horaz. Der Dichter und seine Leser seit zwei Jahrtausenden (Tübingen 1996) 68-116
Frischer, B., Guthrie, D., Tweedie, F., Tse, E. “‘Sentence’ Length and Word-type at ‘Sentence’ Beginning and End: Reliable Authorship Discriminators for Latin Prose? New Studies on the Authorship of the Historia Augusta,” Research in Humanities Computing 5 (Oxford University Press 1996) 110-142
Frischer, B., “How To Do Things With Words/Stop: Two Studies on the Historia Augusta and Cicero’s Orations,” Papers from the Seventh International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Jerusalem, April 19-23, 1993, in the Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft. ed. H. Rosén (Innsbruck 1996) 585-599
Frischer, B. “Notes on the First Excavation of Horace’s Villa near Licenza (Roma) by the Baron de Saint’Odile,” in Roma, Magistra Mundi. Itineraria culturae medievalis. Mélanges offerts au Père L. E. Boyle à l’occasion de son 75e anniversaire. Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études du Moyen Âge, ed. J. Hamesse (Louvain L-Neuve 1998) 265-289
Tse, E., Tweedie, F. J., Frischer, B. “Unravelling the Purple Thread: Function Word Variability and the Scriptores Historiae Augustae,” Literary and Linguistic Computing 13 (1998) 141-149
Frischer, B., Andersen, R., Burstein, S., Crawford, J., Gallucci, R., Gowing, A., Guthrie, D., Haslam, M., Holmes, D., Rudich, V., Sherk, R., Taylor, A., Tweedie, F., Vine, B. “Word-Order Transference between Latin and Greek: The Relative Position of the Accusative Direct Object and the Governing Verb in Cassius Dio and Other Greek and Roman Prose Authors,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 1999, 373-406
Tweedie, F. J., Frischer, B. “The Analysis of Classical Greek and Latin Compositional Word-Order Data, The Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 1999, 1-13
Frischer, B., Gleason, K., et al. “Notes on the New Excavations at Horace’s Villa near Licenza (Roma), Italy,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 45 (2000) 247-276
Frischer, B., Favro, D., Liverani, P., De Blaauw, S., Abernathy, D. “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 (Oxford, 2000) 155-162
Frischer, B., Brown, I. G., editors. Allan Ramsay and the Search for Horace’s Villa (Ashgate, London: 2001) 183 pp.
Frischer, B., Niccolucci, F., Ryan, N., Barcelò, J. "From CVR to CVRO. The Past, Present, and Future of Cultural Virtual Reality," by B. Frischer, Proceedings of VAST 2000, ed. F. Niccolucci, British Archaeological Reports 834 (Oxford 2002) 7-18. Available online at: http://www.frischerconsulting.com/bf3e/revision/pdf/CVRtoCVRO.pdf
Frischer, B. "Mission and Recent Projects of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory," in Proceedings of the Conference Virtual Retrospect 2003, 6-7 November 2003, ed. by R. Vergnieux, C. Delevoie (Bordeaux, 2004) 65-76. Available online at: www.frischerconsulting.com/bf3e/revision/pdf/FrischerVirtRetro2003.pdf
Frischer, B. “The Digital Roman Forum Project: Remediating the Traditions of Roman Topography,” in Acts of the 2nd Italy-United States Workshop, Rome, Italy, November, 2003, edited by M. Forte, BAR International Series 1379 (Oxford 2005) 9-21
Frischer, B. “The Ultimate Internet Cafe. Reflections of a Practicing Digital Humanist about Designing a Future for the Research Library in the Digital Age,” Council on Library and Information Resources, publication nr. 129 (Washington, DC, 2005) 41-55. Available online at: http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub129/frischer.html.
Guidi, G., Frischer, B., et al. “Virtualizing Ancient Rome: 3D Acquisition and Modeling of a Large Plaster-of-Paris Model of Imperial Rome,” Videometrics VIII, edited by J.- Angelo Beraldin, Sabry F. El-Hakim, Armin Gruen, James S. Walton, 18-20 January 2005, San Jose, California, USA, SPIE, vol. 5665 (2005), 119-133. Available online at: www.frischerconsulting.com/bf3e/revision/pdf/Plastico.pdf
Frischer, B., Abernathy, D., Giuliani, F. C., Scott, R., Ziemssen, H. “A New Digital Model of the Roman Forum,” in Imaging Ancient Rome.Documentation--Visualization--Imagination, edited by Lothar Haselberger and John Humphrey, Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series 61 (2006), 163-182
Frischer, B. “New Directions for Cultural Virtual Reality. A Global Strategy for Archiving, Serving and Exhibiting 3D Computer Models of Cultural Heritage Sites,” Virtual Retrospect 2005 (Biarritz, 2006) 168-175. Available online at: www.frischerconsulting.com/bf3e/revision/pdf/VR_Frischer2005.pdf .
Frischer, B., Crawford, J., De Simone, M., editors. 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, two volumes (Oxford 2007) 1100 pp. I was Editor-in-Chief and author of reports totaling over 400 pages. There are 24 co-authors. Available online at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90044.
Frischer, B. and Stinson, P. “The Importance of Scientific Authentication and a Formal Visual Language in Virtual Models of Archaeological Sites: The Case of the House of Augustus and Villa of the Mysteries,” in Interpreting The Past: Heritage, New Technologies & Local Development, The Ename Center, Ghent 11-13 September 2002 International Conference (Brussels, 2007) 49-83. Available online at: www.frischerconsulting.com/bf3e/revision/pdf/Frischer_Stinson.pdf
Gutierrez, D., Frischer, B., Cerezo, E., Serón, F. “AI and Virtual Crowds: Populating the Colosseum,” Journal of Cultural Heritage 8 (2007). Available online at: www.frischerconsulting.com/bf3e/revision/pdf/coliseo_JCH_envio_completo.pdf
Frischer, B., Dakouri-Hild, A., editors. Beyond Illustration. 2D and 3D Digital Technologies as Tools for Discovery in Archaeology, BAR International Series 1805 (Oxford, 2008) 168 pp. I also wrote the introduction (“From Digital Illustration to Digital Heuristics,” pp. v-xxiv). This book is also available as an e-book at http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90045.
Helling, H., Steinmetz, C., Solomon, E., and Frischer, B. (forthcoming), “The Port Royal Project. A Case Study in the Use of VR Technology for the Recontextualization of Archaeological Artifacts and Building Remains in a Museum Setting,” in Acts of CAA 2004, Prato, Italy, April 13-16, 2004, edited by F. Niccolucci, 10 pp. Available online at: www.frischerconsulting.com/bf3e/revision/pdf/FrischerFinalCAA2004Color.pdf
WEB SITES
Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore Restoration Project ( http://www.cvrlab.org/humnet/index.html )
Best Practice Guide to Digital Panoramic Photography (http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/panorama/TOC.html)
The Digital Roman Forum ( http://dlib.etc.ucla.edu/projects/Forum)
The Horace's Villa Project (http://www.frischerconsulting.com/bf3e/horaces-villa/ )
Rome Reborn (http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu)
Ancient Rome 3D (http://earth.google.com/rome)
St. Gall Monastery Plan ( www.stgallplan.org/en/)
Virtual World Heritage Laboratory (vwhl.clas.virginia.edu)
E-BOOKS
Frischer, B. The Sculpted Word, second edition (Berkeley, Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2007). Available online through the Humanities E-Book Project of the American Council of Learned Societies at: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90022.0001.001.
Frischer, B., Crawford, J., and De Simone, M., editors. The Horace’s Villa Project, 1996-2003, 2 volumes (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2007). Available online through the Humanities E-Book Project of the American Council of Learned Societies at: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90044.
Frischer, B. and Dakouri-Hild, A. Beyond Illustration. 2D and 3D Technologies as Tools of Discovery in Archaeology (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 2008). Available online through the Humanities E-Book Project of the American Council of Learned Societies at: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.90045.
CONFERENCES CO-ORGANIZED
Digital Tools for the Humanities Summit, September 28-30, 2005
U21 Workshop on Digital Humanities, September 24-26, 2008
Computer Applications to Archaeology 2009, March 22-26, 2009
PUBLIC SERVICE
- Trustee, Franklin Israel Living Trust, 1996—present. Franklin Israel was a well-known young, LA-based architect who died in 1996. For a commemoration of Frank on the Charlie Rose TV show, see www.charlierose.com/guest/view/4537 .
- Trustee, American Institute of Roman Culture, 2005—present (www.romanculture.org/)
- Trustee, American Academy in Rome, 2008—present (www.aarome.org).