Mark Olson is Cordelia and William Laverack Family Assistant Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. His research explores how emerging technologies transform a wide array of communities of practice, from the use of new visualization technologies in art history and archaeology to the adoption of robotics in contemporary medicine. He is particularly interested in 3‐D modeling techniques in the historical and cultural study of material culture. He endeavors to foster critical reflection on the epistemologies embedded in and promoted by emerging visualization practices.  Olson co-directs the S-1 Speculative Sensation Lab and is on the Steering Committee for Visualizing Venice and the Wired! Lab at Duke University.