Victoria Szabo

Duke professor Victoria Szabo will take your questions on the direction of new media art and social interaction during a live, online "Office Hours" session Friday, Oct. 30, at noon on the Duke University Ustream channel.

Szabo will discuss phenomena such as visual artists working directly in digital media and social relationships in the Second Life virtual world.

Szabo studies both Victorian literature and digital media. She is an assistant research professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies and program director for Duke's Information Science + Information Studies program (ISIS). She is also an adjunct assistant professor of English. In the Second Life virtual world, her avatar is Ouida Basevi.

To ask Szabo a question, in advance or during the session, send an email to live@duke.edu, post a comment on the Duke University Live Ustream page on Facebook or tweet with the tag #dukelive.

Recent projects at Duke to which Szabo has contributed include: the Duke ISIS Oasis and Duke Metaverse islands in Second Life; the Virtual Crystal Palace Project in the Virtual Realities Focus Cluster; and the ISIS Mapping Project to develop layered, geo-located representations of a rural region in Kenya for research and discovery.