Bing Huang
Assistant Professor
Department of Art History
Education:
Ph.D.- Harvard University
2018 Recognition for Teaching Excellence: Innovation in Teaching
bhuang@providence.edu
401-865-2520
Room: Hunt-Cavanagh 202B
Area(s) of Expertise:
Chinese Painting, Han Dynasty Tomb and Architecture, Buddhist Art, Relations between Qing Dynasty China and Europe, Art and Technology, Digital Art History and Digital Heritage.
Courses taught:
- ARH 104: Asian Art
- ARH 218: Asian Art through VR Games
- HON 220: Liberal Arts Honors: The Dimensions of Art
- Special Topic: Art and Machine in Eighteenth-Century China
- Special Topic: Chinese Art
- Special Topic: Chinese Landscape Painting
- Special Topic: Han Dynasty Tomb and Architecture
Selected Publications:
* denotes peer-reviewed publications
*Huang, Bing. 2022. “The Religious and Technological History of the Tang Dynasty Spherical Incense Burner” Religions 13, no. 6: 482. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13060482
*Huang, Bing, Liam Bixby, Ryan Britt, and Nicholas Rich. 2022. “Playing in the Past: Digital Art History in the Age of VR Gaming.” The International Journal of Arts Theory and History 17 (1): 1-23. doi:10.18848/2326-9952/CGP/v17i01/1-23.
*Huang, Bing. 2021. “Deciphering the Shi Jun Sarcophagus Using Sogdian Religious Beliefs, Tales, and Hymns” Religions 12, no. 12: 1060. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12121060.
*Huang, Bing. 2021. “Seen from Afar: The Cultural Impact of Telescopes in Eighteenth-Century China.” The International Journal of Arts Theory and History 16 (2): 37-52. doi:10.18848/2326-9952/CGP/v16i02/37-52.
Huang, Bing. 2019. “Easy on Our Eyes, Easy on Our Brains: VR and the Future of Art History.” In Proceedings of the 34th World Congress of Art History, edited by Dazhen Shao, Di’an Fan, and Qingsheng Zhu, 3:1929–33. Shanghai: The Commercial Press.
Selected Presentations and Panels:
“The Famensi Xiangnang and Buddhist Worldmaking.” One Temple, One World. East Asian Buddhist Worldmaking Conference. Glorisun Buddhist Network and Harvard CamLab. Virtual. August 2021.
Panel discussant. Buddhist Worlds through Arts and Literature. East Asian Buddhist Worldmaking Conference. Glorisun Buddhist Network and Harvard CamLab. Virtual. August 2021.
“Bird’s-Eye Panoramic View without a Drone: Xu Yang’s ‘Syzygy of the Sun, Moon, and the Five Planets’ Scroll.” Visuality and Knowledge Creation of China’s Great Urban Centers. 2020 Association for Asian Studies Conference. Boston, MA & Virtual. March 2020.
“The Armillary in the Boudoir: What is it Doing There.” Chinese Optics: Artful Looking Workshop. Harvard History of Art and Architecture Department and Harvard CAMLab. Cambridge, MA. May 2019.
“The Demon’s Work: The Polyhedron and the Mechanized Worldview in Chinese Art.” Ivory All Tedesca: Circulation, Reception, and Knowledge. 2018 Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference. New Orleans, LA. March 2018
Organizer. Buddhist Art and the Use of Multimedia Technology Workshop. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. April 2017.
Junior Chair. Session18: Media and Visuality. The 34th Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA). Beijing, China. September 2016.
Organizer. Cave Visions and Deep Media Symposium. Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA. Jun 2016.
Organizer. Sha Fei: The Photographer Who Shaped Modern China. Harvard University. Cambridge, MA. Jun 2016.
“Bewitched and Bothered: Garden as Theatrical Space.” Space in Renaissance Italy Conference. Villa I Tatti and Harvard Center Shanghai. Shanghai, October 2014.
“The Posture of Lalitasana: A Case Study of a Buddhist Bronze of the Tang Dynasty”. The Contexts of Buddhist Art: A Graduate Student Workshop. Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. St. Louis, MO. 10–11 November 2011.
Academic Affiliations and Awards:
2021-2022: Research Associate, Harvard CAMLab
2021-2022: Associate in Research, Harvard Fairbank Center (deferred)
Summer 2020: Arts and Sciences Summer Scholars, Providence College
2017-2018: Innovation in Teaching Award, Providence College
2015-2018: Vice President, Harvard Visual China
2016-2017: Media, Literacy and Visualization Fellow, Harvard Derek Bok Center
2017–2018: Harvard Dissertation Completion Fellowship
2017–2018: Fairbank Center Graduate Associate, Harvard University
Summer 2017: Jens Aubrey Westengard Fund, Harvard University
2015–2016: Doctoral Research Fellowship, Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art Studies, Kyoto, Japan
Summer 2016: Harvard Graduate Student Council Summer Research Grant
Summer 2016: Asia Center Summer Research Grant, Harvard University
2015–2016: Harvard Term Time Merit Fellowship
2015-2016: Graduate Fellow, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies
2014–2015: Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship
Summer 2015: Lee and Juliette Folger Fund, Harvard University
Summer 2014: Fairbank Center Graduate Student Summer Research Grant, Harvard University
Summer 2013: Summer Language Study Grant (for Japanese language study), Reischauer Institute
2010: Shanghai Outstanding Graduates Award. Shanghai Municipal Education Commission.
2009: Charles B. Wang Oil Painting Award.
